Top three-year-old colt Sepoy is well on his way to the 2011 Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington on October 29, 2011, after posting a dominant Caulfield Sprint 2011 win today.
The Elusive Quality gelding quickly recovered from a poor start to settle perfectly in second…
The Group 2 Caulfield Sprint is held at Melbourne’s Caulfield Racecourse on the same day as the $2.5 million Caulfield Cup. The 1100m open handicap offers $200,000 in prize money and is regarded as having the most competitive field of sprinters in all 1000m to 1200m races in the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.
The Caulfield Cup Day also features the 1400m Tristarc Stakes, 2000m Norman Robinson Stakes, 2000m David Jones Cup and the 1400m Moonga Stakes.
The 2010 Caulfield Sprint will be part of Caulfield Cup Day on Saturday October 16 2010.
| Caulfield Sprint | |
|---|---|
| Date: | October |
| Track: | Caulfield Racecourse |
| Distance: | 1100m |
| Race Type: | Open Handicap |
| Status: | Group 2 |
| Prize Money: | $200,000 |
First raced in 1983 and won by Bow Mistress, the Caulfield Sprint has undergone plenty of name changes since it was first recognized as the Racing Museum Sprint. Over the years the race has been known as the Brylcream Sprint, National Sprint Championship, Caulfield Sprint, Jupiter’s Casino Sprint, Conrad Jupiter’s Sprint, Schillaci Stakes, Mercedes-Benz Sprint, National Telecoms Group Sprint, Dodo Internet Sprint and now it is known as the Thai Airways International Sprint.
First recognised as a Listed race, the Caulfield Sprint then became a Group 3 event in 1993 and finally advanced to Group 2 status in 1999. The race has only had one double winner which was Toledo in 1997-98 and was won with the fastest recorded time by Jet Spur in 2005 with 1 minute 2.1 seconds. The slowest winning time was recorded by 1992 winner Tanjian Prince with 1 minute 6.2 seconds.
| Year | Place | Horse | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 Caulfield Sprint |
1st | Set For Fame | 1 minute 5.42 seconds |
| 2nd | Doubleanny | ||
| 3rd | Soul | ||
| 2009 Caulfield Sprint |
1st | First Command | 1 minute 4.2 seconds |
| 2nd | Turffontein | ||
| 3rd | Happy Glen | ||
| 2008 Caulfield Sprint |
1st | Sunburnt Land | 1 minute 3.6 seconds |
| 2nd | Aichi | ||
| 3rd | Biscayne Bay | ||
| 2007 Caulfield Sprint |
1st | Tesbury Jack | 1 minute 2.5 seconds |
| 2nd | Typhoon Zed | ||
| 3rd | Let Go Thommo | ||
| 2006 Caulfield Sprint |
1st | Biscayne Bay | 1 minute 2.4 seconds |
| 2nd | Magnus | ||
| 3rd | Rightson | ||
| 2005 Caulfield Sprint |
1st | Jet Spur | 1 minute 2.1 seconds |
| 2nd | Dance The Waves | ||
| 3rd | Mustard | ||
| 2004 Caulfield Sprint |
1st | Leilando | 1 minute 4 seconds |
| 2nd | Dilly Dally | ||
| 3rd | Strikeline | ||
| 2003 Caulfield Sprint |
1st | Blur | 1 minute 3.5 seconds |
| 2nd | Ancient Song | ||
| 3rd | Suit | ||
| 2002 Caulfield Sprint |
1st | Rubitano | 1 minute 3 seconds |
| 2nd | Intelligent Star | ||
| 3rd | Pembleton | ||
| 2001 Caulfield Sprint |
1st | Windigo | 1 minute 4 seconds |
| 2nd | Crystal Finale | ||
| 3rd | Point Danger | ||
| 2000 Caulfield Sprint |
1st | Camena | 1 minute 2.4 seconds |
| 2nd | Easy Rocking | ||
| 3rd | Paint | ||
