The AJC Sires Produce Stakes is a Gr 1 Australian horse race
contested over 1400m by two-year-olds carrying set weights at
Randwick Racecourse in Sydney in mid-April each year. The race
offers a purse of AUD$450,000 and is the middle leg of the coveted
Australian 'Triple Crown' of races.
The first leg of the Triple Crown is the 1200m Golden Slipper Stakes
(Gr 1), contested in early April at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse. The
third and final leg of the Triple Crown is the 1600m Champagne
Stakes (Gr 1), contested in late April at Randwick Racecourse as
part of the New Autumn Carnival.
The AJC Sires Produce Stakes was inaugurated in 1877 and since then
has been run every year without exception. As such, it must rank as
one of Australia's oldest and most uninterrupted races, and one
which annually attracts many of the nation's most talented
thoroughbreds, jockeys and trainers.
One such trainer who has enjoyed a fair amount of success in the AJC
Sires Produce Stakes is Australian racing legend, Bart Cummings.
Cummings, whose career has spanned over 50 years, won this race in
1972 with Tontonan and in 1988 with Reganza.
One of the more recent winners who went on to have a great career is
Octagonal, winner of this race in 1995. Octagonal won the W S Cox
Plate in 1995, the Rosehill Guineas in 1996, the Australian Derby in
1996 and the Australian Cup in 1997, and was named Australian Horse
of the Year in 1996. |
