North Island Challenge Stakes
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North Island Challenge Stakes is a thoroughbred horse race in New Zealand. It is run at Trentham Racecourse, Wellington, New Zealand over a sprint distance of 7 furlongs (1400m).
The race is not currently a group or listed race but is notable as historically being won by many great New Zealand racehorses of the time, including Gloaming and Desert Gold, considered along with Phar Lap as the country's three greats.[1] New Zealand hall of famers Gloaming and Kindergarten each won the race three times.[2]
Other winners were Grey Way, Show Gate, Panzer Chief, Star Belle, Yahabeebe, Coleridge, Defaaulter and Somerset Fair.
Selected winners
- 1899 Screw Gun
- 1900 Formosan
- 1901 Menschikoff
- 1902 Porirua
- 1914 Desert Gold
- 1919 Warplane
- 1922 Gloaming
- 1924 Gloaming
- 1925 Gloaming
- 1939 Beau Vite
- 1940 Kindergarten
- 1941 Kindergarten
- 1942 Kindergarten
- 1951 Mainbrace
- 1955 Coleridge
- 2010 Yanna Marie[3]
- 2011 I Am Sam[4]
- 2015 Marotiri Miss[5]
- 2019 Comeback
References
- ^ New Zealand's three greatest thoroughbred racehorses
- ^ Kindergarten wins the North Island Challenge States as a 3yo
- ^ https://www.racingandsports.com/horse-racing-results/new-zealand/trentham/2010-05-29/R8
- ^ https://www.loveracing.nz/RaceInfo/38468/3/Race-Detail.aspx
- ^ https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/racing/68798797/another-challenge-for-marotiri-miss-after-trentham-success
http://www.wellingtonracing.co.nz/north-island-challenge-stakes-winners.aspx
See also
- Thoroughbred racing in New Zealand
- List of notable Thoroughbred racehorses
- New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame
- Repeat winners of horse races
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