The Colonel Reeves Stakes is a Group 3 quality handicap race held each November at Ascot racecourse in Perth, Western Australia during the Perth summer racing carnival. The race is run over a distance of 1100 metres and worth $125,000 in prizemoney. The 2011 Colonel Reeves Stakes was won by Avante from Werd with All Friared Up third.
The Colonel Reeves Stakes is a quality handicap that suits horses coming from the Gr3 Asian Beau Stakes earlier in the carnival and might be heading towards races such as the Gr1 Railway Stakes or Gr1 Winterbottom Stakes on the Festival of Perth Racing's Super Saturday at Ascot.
A field of predominantly local sprinters generally assembles for the Colonel Reeves Stakes and horses who are fit & in-form typically come to the fore. Interestingly enough, outstanding galloper Hay List ran unplaced in this race in 2009 as an odds-on favourite.
Ma Ma Machine (2010) ran fourth in a BM74+ handicap event over 1200m at Belmont before winning this race and recent Colonel Reeves Stakes winners have been Ma Ma Machine (2010) and Revolition (2009).
2011 Colonel Reeves Stakes result
1. $10.00 Avante 53.0 Ms Kyra Yuill (a)
2. $5.50 Werd 55.0 Craig Staples
3. $5.50 All Friared Up 54.0 Jason Whiting
then followed
4. $3.20 Morant 53.0 William Pike
5. $16.00 For Your Eyes Only 55.0 Troy Turner
6. $8.00 The Entourage 53.0 Campbell Mc Callum
7. $4.40 Shock Value 56.5 Jason Brown
8. $21.00 Ma Ma Machine 55.0 Marco Chui
9. $31.00 Hadabeclorka 60.0 Shaun O’Donnell
Margins: 1/2 len, 1/2 len Time: 1:03.66
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