Blue Diamond Stakes
The Blue Diamond Stakes is a Group 1 race for two-year-olds that takes place in February each year at Caulfield racecourse in Melbourne during the Melbourne autumn racing carnival. The race is run under set weight conditions over a distance of 1200 metres and is worth $1,500,000 in prize money. The 2020 Blue Diamond Stakes was won by Tagaloa from Hanseatic with Personal third.
Blue Diamond Stakes day is the Melbourne Racing Club's premier race day of the autumn, highlighted by the running of the Blue Diamond Stakes, along with the Group 1 Futurity Stakes & Group 1 Oakleigh Plate.
Blue Diamond Stakes info
| Date: | Saturday 20th February 2021 |
| Track: | Caulfield racecourse, Melbourne |
| Distance: | 1200 metres |
| Race Type: | 2yo - Set Weights |
| Status: | Group 1 |
| Prize Money: | $1,500,000 |
| 2020 Winner: | Tagaloa |
 2022 Blue Diamond Stakes odds |
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The Blue Diamond Stakes is the premier two-year-old sprint event of the autumn carnival in Melbourne and the race itself has produced many a fine horse over the years. Top class gallopers such as Sepoy (2011), Alinghi (2004), Bel Esprit (2002), Redoutes Choice (1999) Courtza (1989) and Zeditave (1988) have all won this race since its inception.
First run in 1971, the Blue Diamond Stakes is now a $1,000,000 race for the state's best two-year-olds and Blue Diamond Day has grown to become the biggest race day of the autumn for the Melbourne Racing Club at Caulfield.
The Group 3 Blue Diamond Prelude C&G and Group 3 Blue Diamond Prelude Fillies, both held at Caulfield a couple of weeks earlier, are the traditional lead up races to this classic event. Lyre (2019), Catchy (2017) and Earthquake (2014) have taken out the Fillies Prelude and Blue Diamond Stakes double of late.
Brilliant two-year-old Sepoy (2011) was the most recent galloper to win the Blue Diamond Stakes and then go on to victory in Australia's richest two-year-old sprint, the Group 1 Golden Slipper Stakes, held at Rosehill during the Sydney autumn racing carnival.
Tagaloa (2020) ran fourth in the Group 3 Blue Diamond Prelude for colts & geldings before scoring a classy on pace victory in this event for the Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young stable.
Recent Blue Diamond Stakes winners include Lyre (2020) and Written By (2018).
2020 Blue Diamond Stakes result
1. $26.00 Tagaloa 56.5 Michael Walker
2. $2.60 Hanseatic 56.5 Tim Clark
3. $26.00 Personal 54.5 Craig Williams
then followed
4. $10.00 Away Game 54.5 Jye McNeil
5. $9.50 Muntaseera 54.5 Damien Oliver
6. $5.50 Letzbeglam 54.5 Brett Prebble
7. $21.00 Rathlin 56.5 Ben Melham
8. $6.50 Rulership 56.5 Mark Zahra
9. $61.00 A Beautiful Night 54.5 Ms Linda Meech
10. $61.00 Riverina Storm 54.5 Dwayne Dunn
11. $26.00 Aryaaf 54.5 Luke Nolen
12. $91.00 Ideas Man 56.5 Damian Lane
13. $91.00 Tanker 56.5 John Allen
14. $81.00 Glenfiddich 56.5 Glen Boss
15. $301.00 Difficult 54.5 Jordan Childs
Margins: 0.2 len, 0.75 len
Time: 1:08.56
Other Blue Diamond Day group races at Caulfield include the Group 2 St George Stakes, Group 2 Autumn Classic, Group 2 Angus Armanasco Stakes & Group 3 Mannerism Stakes.
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Blue Diamond Stakes winners & placegetters
| Year | Winner | 2nd | 3rd | Time |
| 2020 | Tagaloa | Hanseatic | Personal | 1:08.5 |
| 2019 | Lyre | Lankan Star | Free Of Debt | 1:09.3 |
| 2018 | Written By | Enbihaar | Oohood | 1:09.8 |
| 2017 | Catchy | Pariah | Formality | 1:09.3 |
| 2016 | Extreme Choice | Flying Artie | Zamzam | 1:08.9 |
| 2015 | Pride Of Dubai | Reemah | Lake Geneva | 1:10.5 |
| 2014 | Earthquake | Jabali | Cornrow | 1:09.8 |
| 2013 | Miracles Of Life | Fast 'N' Rocking | Godiva Rock | 1:09.7 |
| 2012 | Samaready | No Looking Back | Armed For Action | 1:10.4 |
| 2011 | Sepoy | Hallowell Belle | Masthead | 1:08.5 |
| 2010 | Star Witness | Shaaheq | Beneteau | 1:10.4 |
| 2009 | Reward For Effort | Real Saga | Maka Ena | 1:09.8 |
| 2008 | Reaan | All American | Burgeis | 1.11.4 |
| 2007 | Sleek Chassis | Zizou | Shrewd Rhythm | 1:09.8 |
| 2006 | Nadeem | Miss Finland | Wonderful World | 1:12.0 |
| 2005 | Undoubtedly | Seidnazar | Perectly Ready | 1:08.9 |
| 2004 | Alinghi | Wager | World Peace | 1:09.8 |
| 2003 | Kusi | Halibery | Divine Secret | 1:11.0 |
| 2002 | Bel Esprit | Brief Embrace | Pillaging | 1:09.2 |
| 2001 | True Jewels | La Lagune | Spectatorial | 1:09.0 |
| 2000 | Road To Success | Ponton Flyer | Mannington | 1:09.8 |
| 1999 | Redoutes Choice | Testa Rossa | Dangerous | 1:08.7 |
| 1998 | Danelagh | Danari | Piccadilly Circus | 1:10.1 |
| 1997 | Knowledge | Rose Of Danehill | Sports | 1:10.2 |
| 1996 | Paint | Flavour | Our Cashel | 1:10.2 |
| 1995 | Principality | Flying Spur | Tuscany Flyer | 1:09.4 |
| 1994 | Hurricane Sky | Mr Vitality | Renarchi | 1:08.1 |
| 1993 | Lady Jakeo | Keltrice | Justice Prevails | 1:11.1 |
| 1992 | Riva Diva | Yachtie | Chingquillo | 1:11.4 |
| 1991 | Canonise | Umatilla | Chief Headhunter | 1:10.1 |
| 1990 | Mahaasin | Canny Lad | Triscay | 1:09.9 |
| 1989 | Courtza | Sculptured Arch | Dancers Choice | 1:10.3 |
| 1988 | Zeditave | Vitalic | Starting Lass | 1:09.8 |
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