Horse Racing

The Group 2 Dane Ripper Quality, now known as the Dane Ripper Stakes, is one of the feature races traditionally held on Stradbroke Handicap Day at Eagle Farm Racecourse during the annual Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival.

Conducted on a Saturday in early-mid June, the 1400mset weights plus penalties showdown for fillies and mares is worth $200,000 in prize money and is one of a host of Group support acts on the richest race day of the carnival.

The meeting is headlined by the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap, Queensland Derby and JJ Atkins. The Dane Ripper Stakes meanwhile is one of three Group 2 races on the program along with the Brisbane Cup for the stayers and Queensland Guineas for the three-year-old milers.

A nice lead-up race to the Dane Ripper Stakes is the Group 3 Glenlogan Park Stakes (1300m) at Eagle Farm a fortnight earlier, while contenders may also come out of races like the Group 3 Proud Miss Stakes (1200m) in Adelaide.

Fillies & mares that run well in the Dane Ripper Stakes usually back-up at the end of the month in the Group 1 Tattersall’s Tiara (1400m) over the same track and distance, which is the last major race of the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival. The Dane Ripper Stakes – Tattersall’s Tiara has been achieved in recent years by Red Tracer (2013) and Cosmic Endeavour (2014).

The 2017 Dane Ripper Stakes ran on Stradbroke Handicap Day, Saturday June 10, 2017 at Doomben Racecourse over 1350m with Eagle Farm out of action.

2017 Dane Ripper Stakes Results

• 1st: #12 Prompt Response
• 2nd: #16 My True Love
• 3rd: #9 Bonny O’Reilly

Check out the full Dane Ripper Stakes 2017 results & finishing order below, the race won by the Gai Waterhouse-trained filly Prompt Response who beat home stablemate My True Love in a Tulloch Lodge quinella on way to the Tattersall’s Tiara.

2017 Dane Ripper Stakes Odds

The winter’s top Dane Ripper Stakes 2017 betting odds on the Tattersall’s Tiara lead-up will be available below complete with market links to Ladbrokes.com.au the week of the race.

2017 Dane Ripper Stakes Field

The Dane Ripper Stakes field attracts a strong line-up of the season’s top middle-distance fillies and mares that are traditionally eyeing a Group 1 run in the Tattersall’s Tiara field later in the month.

The official Dane Ripper Stakes 2017 Final Field & Barriers will be available below on the Wednesday of Stradbroke Handicap Day week.

The 2017 Dane Ripper Stakes field draw the full 16 starters plus an emergency including Bonny O’Reilly who suffered a blow out in gate 16 (into 15). Bjorn Baker’s black-type winner at the track last weekend is also the second emergency for Saturday’s Stradbroke Handicap field. Stablemate Egyptian Symbol is also a dual acceptor for both races over the 1350m at Doomben, but is assured of a run in the $1.5 million Stradbroke in Group 1 company.

2017 Dane Ripper Stakes Nominations

The Dane Ripper Stakes 2017 Nominations close the Monday of race week and will be published in full below once released by Racing Queensland.

The 2017 Dane Ripper Stakes Nominations attracted 21 fillies and mares including the flying Bonny O’Reilly who won a black-type at Doomben last weekend and who is also nominated for the Stradbroke Handicap, as well as Kurt Goldman’s Glenlogan Park Stakes winning filly Eckstein.

Dane Ripper Stakes History

Inaugurated in 2003, the Dane Ripper Stakes was originally a Listed race.

The high class of mainly locally-trained fillies and mares attracted to the winter feature however saw it gain Group 3 status in 2006.

Three years later in 2009 the event, named in honour of champion 1997 Cox Plate winner Dane Ripper who was prepared by Bart Cummings, became a Group 2 feature and since then has continued to draw quality fields. In 2017 the race took place over 1350m at Doomben with Eagle Farm not declared fit for racing.

Dane Ripper Stakes Results