Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes Preview

The Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes is a Group 2 race run under weight-for-age conditions each September at Moonee Valley racecourse during the Melbourne spring racing carnival. The race is run over a distance of 1600 metres and worth $300,000 in prizemoney. The 2011 Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes was won by Rekindled Interest from Alcopop with Whobegotyou third.

From 1984 to 2004 the race was known as the ‘John F. Feehan Stakes’ and from 2005 onwards the race has been run as the ‘Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes’.

Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes info
Date:	Saturday 15th September 2012
Track:	Moonee Valley racecourse, Melbourne
Distance:	1600 metres
Race Type:	Weight-for-age
Status:	Group 2
Prizemoney:	$300,000
2011 Winner:	Rekindled Interest

The Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes takes place at the tight Moonee Valley race track over 1600 metres early in the spring and generally attracts quality milers and often some top class horses on the way to bigger and better things. The race has grown in stature in recent times and many of our best horses now compete in this race and have then gone on to victory in some of our biggest feature races of the spring.

The Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes has been a great guide to spring feature races over the past few years with winners and placegetters providing Melbourne Cup and Caulfield Cup winners and a high percentage of WS Cox Plate winners.

The race has been won by many of Australia's best gallopers including El Segundo (2007), Fields Of Omagh (2002), Northerly (2001), mighty mare Sunline (2000), Better Loosen Up (1990) and takes place on the same day as the Gr2 WH Stocks Stakes and Gr3 McEwen Stakes.

Rekindled Interest (2011) ran fourth in the Gr2 Memsie Stakes at Caulfield prior to winning this event and recent Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes winners include Whobegotyou (2009-10) and Guillotine (2008).

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Whobegotyou (2009) went on to run second in the Gr1 Underwood Stakes before scoring a top win in the Gr1 Yalumba Stakes and he came back the following year to win this race for the second year in a row, before going on to run placings in the Yalumba Stakes and WS Cox Plate later that spring.

Mic Mac (2nd in 2009) ran second in the Gr2 Schweppes Stakes on Cox Plate day later in the spring while El Segundo (2007) managed to win WS Cox Plate later that same spring.

Lad of the Manor (2005-06) won the 2005 Mackinnon Stakes and champion mare Makybe Diva (2nd in 2004-05) won the 2005 WS Cox Plate before going on to greatness winning three Melbourne Cups from 2003 through 2005.

Fields Of Omagh (2002) won the 2003 and 2006 WS Cox Plate and Northerly (2001) won the 2001-02 WS Cox Plate double and 2002 Caulfield Cup. The brilliant mare Sunline (2000) won this race between winning the 1999-2000 WS Cox Plate double.

The Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes has been a pivotal race of the spring in the past few years and it may pay to keep a close eye on horses who perform well in this year's event.

2011 Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes result
1. $7.00 Rekindled Interest 58.5 D Dunn
2. $15.00 Alcopop 59.0 D Tourneur
3. $1.65 Whobegotyou 59.0 D Oliver

then followed
4. $71.00 Unusual Suspect 59.0 L Nolen
5. $14.00 Red Colossus 59.0 C Symons
6. $9.50 Linton 59.0 N Hall
7. $51.00 Domesky 58.5 C Williams
8. $26.00 Spacecraft 59.0 S Arnold
9. $31.00 Cabeza 59.0 M Rodd
10. $71.00 Magical Pearl 59.0 D Nikolic

Margins: Len, 3/4 len
Time: 1:37.67

Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes recent winners & placegetters
Year	Winner	2nd	3rd	Time
2011	Rekindled Interest	Alcopop	Whobegotyou	1:37.6
2010	Whobegotyou	Typhoon Tracy	Shoot Out	1:39.6
2009	Whobegotyou	Mic Mac	Jolie's Shinju	1:37.3
2008	Guillotine	Casual Pass	Tears I Cry	1:35.9
2007	El Segundo	Haradasun	Cinque Cento	1:36.2
2006	Lad Of The Manor	Apache Cat	Spinney	1:35.8
2005	Lad Of The Manor	Makybe Diva	Fields of Omagh	1:37.6
2004	Delzao	Makybe Diva	Studebaker	1:42.5
2003	Natural Blitz	Vocabulary	De Gaulle Lane	1:36.7
2002	Fields Of Omagh	Magical Miss	Le Zagaletta	1:40.4
2001	Northerly	Sunline	Sir Clive	1:37.1
2000	Sunline	Le Zagaletta	Citra's Prince	1:37.9
1999	Inaflury	Londolozi	Streak	1:40.0
1998	Aerosmith	Willoughby	Doriemus	1:37.4
1997	Arctic Scent	Derobe	Sir Boom	1:40.0
1996	Toil	Poetic King	Cheviot	1:39.3
1995	Beaux Art	Sharscay	Count Chivas	1:35.9
1994	Tristalove	Redding	Primacy	1:34.3
1993	Palace Reign	Pearl Prince	Kiwi Golfer	1:39.9
1992	Naturalism	My Brilliant Star	Ramyah	1:40.8
1991	Mannerism	Redelva	Ivory Way	1:40.7
1990	Better Loosen Up	Stylish Century	Our Westminster	1:35.5
1989	Our Westminster	Vo Rogue	King's High	1:33.1
1988	Our Poetic Prince	Flotilla	Vo Rogue	1:33.1