The Gloaming Stakes is a Group 3 set weights event for three-year-olds held each year at Rosehill racecourse during the Sydney spring racing carnival in September. The race is run over a distance of 1800 metres and worth $200,000 in prizemoney. The 2011 Gloaming Stakes was won by Strike The Stars from Doctor Doom with King's Pact third.
Held on the same day as the Group 1 George Main Stakes at weight-for-age, the Gloaming Stakes is an able support act to the main race, alongside the Group 2 The Shorts. The race was held at Rosehill racecourse for the 2011/2012 racing season.
The Gloaming Stakes is a good race for three-year-olds and it attracts staying type horses who generally head on to the Gr1 Spring Champion Stakes over 2000m on the final day of the carnival at Randwick. The race is usually taken out by a more than handy type and some good horses to win the race include Arena (1998), Tie the Knot (1997), and Brave Warrior (1994).
In recent years the Gloaming Stakes has proven a good guide to some of the better 3yo staying races ahead in both Sydney and Melbourne during the Spring carnival. So You Think (2009) went on score a successive victories in the time honoured WS Cox Plate in Melbourne after winning this race as a three-year-old.
Retrieve (2010) and Pendragon (2005) both managed to win the Gr2 Norman Robinson Stakes over 2000m at Caulfield on Caulfield Cup day after winning this race, while Retrieve and Praecido (3rd in 2010) both placed in the Gr1 Victoria Derby over 2500m at Flemington later in the spring.
Gathering (2nd in 2009) and All Black Gold (2006) ran second in the Spring Champion Stakes while Tuesday Joy (2nd in 2006) went to Flemington in the Melbourne spring to win the Gr2 Wakeful Stakes before running a top second in the Gr1 Crown Oaks.
Duelled (3rd in 2005) ran 3rd in the Spring Champion Stakes before taking out the Gr2 AAMI Vase over 2040m at Moonee Valley in Melbourne and then ran a great race to finish runner-up behind Benfico in the Victoria Derby.
The 2010 Gloaming Stakes placegetters all went on to fill the placings again in the Spring Champion Stakes but Erewhon (2nd in 2010) managed to turn the tables on Retrieve who finished runner-up, while Praecido dead-heated with Shootoff (8th in 2010) for third.
Strike The Stars (2011) ran third in the Gr2 Chelmsofrd Stakes over 1600m at Rosehill prior to winning this event and recent Gloaming Stakes winners have been Retrieve (2010) and So You Think (2009).
2011 Gloaming Stakes result
1. $2.00 Strike The Stars 56.5 H Bowman
2. $6.50 Doctor Doom 56.5 R Quinn
3. $26.00 King’s Pact 56.5 C Reith
then followed
4. $201.00 All Serene 56.5 B Pengelly
5. $20.00 Tunes 56.5 K McEvoy
6. $7.00 Cocky Raider 56.5 C Brown
7. $31.00 Denwood 56.5 C Munce
8. $4.60 Sangster 56.5 G Schofield
9. $19.00 Win For Wilson 56.5 J Moreira
10. $101.00 Lieutenant Colonel 56.5 N Rawiller
11. $151.00 Lake Lynette 54.5 B Avdulla
Margins: 3/4 len, 3 1/2 len Time: 1:49.07
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