The Sir Byrne Hart Stakes is a Group 2 weight-for-age race held late April or early May at Eagle Farm racecourse in Brisbane, Queensland. The race is the first group event of the Brisbane winter carnival and is race is run over a distance of 1200 metres and worth $175,000 in prizemoney. The 2011 Sir Byrne Hart Stakes was won by Buffering from Atomic Force with Azzaland third.
The race was run as the 'Victory Stakes' for the 2010/2011 racing season.
The Sir Byrne Hart Stakes is a weight-for-age sprint race that usually assembles a field of predominantly local gallopers with differing ability. Every now and then a top class galloper will tackle the race and some more than handy horses have saluted over the years, including Summer Beau (1998), Rough Habit (1991) and Groucho (1989).
The natural progression from this race is the upcoming Gr1 BTC Cup over 1200m at Doomben and in recent times both Swiss Ace (2008) and Mitanni (2007) went on to run third in the BTC Cup after winning this race.
Albert The Fat (3rd in 2010) went on to score a narrow victory in the BTC Cup at his next start after running a first-up third in this event.
Buffering (2011) resumed from a spell to win this race and recent Sir Byrne Hart Stakes winners have been Ghetto Blaster (2010) and Swiss Ace in consecutive years (2008-09).
2011 Sir Byrne Hart Stakes result
1. $3.00 Buffering 56.5 L V Cassidy
2. $3.90 Atomic Force 58.5 G Colless
3. $7.50 Azzaland 58.5 S Scriven
Then followed
4. $5.00 Albert The Fat 58.5 E A Wilkinson
5. $11.00 Woorim 58.5 D J Browne
6. $6.00 Zero Rock 56.5 C Munce
7. $151.00 My First Affair 56.5 Michael Palmer
Margins: 1 1/4 len, 1 1/2 len Time: 1:13.05
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