Emancipation Stakes
The Emancipation Stakes is a Group 2 race for fiiles & mares that takes place each April at Rosehill racecourse in Sydney, New South Wales. The race is run over a distance of 1600 metres under set weight & penalty conditions with $200,000 in prize money. The 2020 Emancipation Stakes was won by Positive Peace from Noire with Amangiri third.
Held on the final day of the three-day Golden Slipper Festival during the Sydney autumn racing carnival, the Emancipation Stakes takes place alongside the Group 1 Tancred Stakes.
Emancipation Stakes info
| Date: | Saturday 27th March 2021 |
| Track: | Rosehill racecourse, Sydney |
| Distance: | 1600 metres |
| Race Type: | Fillies & Mares - Set Weights + Penalty |
| Status: | Group 2 |
| Prize Money: | $200,000 |
| 2020 Winner: | Positive Peace |
The Emancipation Stakes is a race for fillies & mares only over a mile that usually sees more than handy females going around for the spoils on offer. The set weight & penalty conditions of the race gives an advantage to the better performed fillies & mares and the winner is usually an above average galloper who can hold their own in stronger races.
A mares only race such as the Group 1 Coolmore Classic held earlier in the carnival at Rosehill is a possible lead up race for females contesting this event and generally the winner is a well performed mare just below the upper echelon of females.
The better class mares contesting this race will more than likely go on to the upcoming Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes at Randwick which is a females only race. In recent times Amanpour (2nd in 2015) and Diamond Drille (4th in 2014) went on to victory in the Queen Of The Turf Stakes after performing admirably in the Emancipation Stakes.
Occasionally a high class mare such as the ill-fated Hot Danish (2007) will tackle this race and prove too good on the day due to the weighted conditions of the race.
Invincible Gem (2019) finished unplaced in the Coolmore Classic over 1500m at Rosehill before scoring a narrow victory in this event for Newcastle trainer Kris Lees.
Recent Emancipation Stakes winners include Prompt Response (2018) and Zanbagh (2016-2017).
2020 Emancipation Stakes result
1. $7.50 Positive Peace 54.0 Tim Clark
2. $10.00 Noire 56.0 Ms Kathy O'Hara
3. $7.50 Amangiri 55.0 Tommy Berry
then followed
4. $26.00 Miss Fabulass 56.0 Glen Boss
5. $3.10 Sweet Deal 56.0 Nash Rawiller
6. $41.00 Delectation Girl 54.0 Jason Collett
7. $51.00 Oceanex 56.0 Tom Marquand
8. $11.00 Invincible Gem 56.0 Joshua Parr
9. $7.50 Pohutukawa 55.0 James McDonald
10. $16.00 Girl Tuesday 54.0 Kerrin McEvoy
11. $26.00 Unforgotten 58.0 Hugh Bowman
12. $201.00 Our Abbadean 57.0 Jay Ford
13. $26.00 Dawn Dawn 56.0 Brenton Avdulla
14. $26.00 Sweet Scandal 54.0 Robbie Dolan
Margins: 1.3 len, 0.5 len
Time: 1:31.67
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Emancipation Stakes winners & placegetters
| Year | Winner | 2nd | 3rd | Time |
| 2020 | Positive Peace | Noire | Amangiri | 1:31.6 |
| 2019 | Invincible Gem | Daysee Doom | Noire | 1:33.4 |
| 2018 | Prompt Response | Oregon's Day | Dixie Blossoms | 1:31.1 |
| 2017 | Zanbagh | Daysee Doom | Dixie Blossoms | 1:34.5 |
| 2016 | Zanbagh | Supara | Amicus | 1:28.4 |
| 2015 | Catkins | Amanpour | Gypsy Diamond | 1:29.2 |
| 2014 | Catkins | Sharnee Rose | Angel Of Mercy | 1:31.9 |
| 2013 | Skyerush | Floria | Cathay Lady | 1:35.4 |
| 2012 | Skyerush | Fibrillation | Divorces | 1:35.3 |
| 2011 | Sworn To Secrecy | Skyerush | Shannara | 1:39.4 |
| 2010 | Sacred Choice | Gold Water | Strawberry Field | 1:35.1 |
| 2009 | Amberino | Bernicia | Reggie | 1:38.3 |
| 2008 | Kosi Bay | Translate | Camarilla | 1:37.4 |
| 2007 | Hot Danish | Kosi Bay | More Than Lucky | 1:37.1 |
| 2006 | Fantasia | Octapussy | Villa Bled | 1:34.5 |
| 2005 | Perfect Promise | Uprize | Tui Song | 1:37.0 |
| 2004 | Hec of a Party | Zanna | In a Bound | 1:35.9 |
| 2003 | Faith Hill | Moon Dragon | Barawin | 1:38.2 |
| 2002 | Miss Zoe | Sibyl | Call Me Lily | 1:36.0 |
| 2001 | Heather | Poppett | More Haste | 1:37.1 |
| 2000 | Beat The Fade | Mary Machree | Camena | 1:39.3 |
| 1999 | Staging | Come On Grace | Zastov | 1:38.4 |
| 1998 | Palia | Amber | Shindig | 1:40.2 |
| 1997 | Almazyoon | Admiring Glances | Kenbelle | 1:35.9 |
| 1996 | Star County | Money Thinks | Nobellotto | 1:36.3 |
| 1995 | Vital Consent | Futile | Centisle | 1:35.5 |
| 1994 | Ausmart | Lady's Way | Balmeressa | 1:39.0 |
| 1993 | Hysterical | Tarare | Beachside | 1:36.4 |
| 1992 | Romanee Conti | Hysterical | Grillita | 1:35.0 |
| 1991 | Ice Cream Sundae | Princess Pushy | Mammy | 1:38.1 |
| 1990 | Top Dance | Richochet Rosie | Pagan Dance | 1:45.0 |
| 1989 | Twining | Sharmeen | Jacobite Queen | 1:41.5 |
| 1988 | Balmoral | Careless Love | Shinakima | 1:44.8 |
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