Australia Stakes
The Australia Stakes known formerly as the Norman Carlyon Stakes is a MRC Group 2 Australian Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged three years old and over under weight for age conditions, over a distance of 1200 metres. It is held annually at Moonee Valley Racecourse in Melbourne in January.
Race history
1989 onwards held over 1200 metres
1989 was a Listed Race
1990 – 1993 was a Group 3
1994 onwards Group 2
1989 - 1997 the race was known as the Stanley Wootton Stakes
1998 - 2009 the race was called the Norman Carlyon Stakes
2010 onwards the race has been called Australia Stakes
The winners
- 2012 - Black Caviar
- 2011 - Whitefriars [1]
- 2010 - Black Caviar [2]
- 2009 - Lucky Secret [3]
- 2008 - Let Go Thommo [4]
- 2007 - El Segundo
- 2006 - California Dane
- 2005 - Super Elegant
- 2004 - Vocabulary
- 2003 - Yell
- 2002 - Royal Code
- 2001 - Piavonic
- 2000 - Slavonic
- 1999 - Sports
- 1998 - Flavour
- 1997 - Clang
- 1996 - All Our Mob
- 1995 - Hareeba
- 1994 - Kenvain
- 1993 - Schillaci
- 1992 - Dapper’s Hope
- 1991 - Dark Beau
- 1990 - Redelva
- 1989 - Jet Fighter