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Held during the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival in March, the Magic Night Stakes is a Group 3 sprint for two year old fillies. As a set weights race, the fillies are required to carry 55.5kg over the 1200m distance at Rosehill Racecourse. Worth $175,000 in prize money, the event is run on Coolmore Classic Day.

The meeting is headlined by the Group 1 $600,000 Coolmore Classic (1500m) for fillies and mares. Other support races held on the card include the Group 2 Phar Lap Stakes (1500m), the Group 2 Ajax Stakes (1500m) and the Group 3 Pago Pago Stakes (1200m) which is the colts & gelding’s equivalent to the Magic Night Stakes.

The Magic Night Stakes winner is exempt from ballot for the Group 1 $3.5 million Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m) that is held in one week’s time. It is a final chance for fillies to make the field for the world’s richest two-years-old race. The last Golden Slipper winner to back-up off a Magic Night Stakes run was Kiamichi (2019) who did the double, and a number of Magic Night Stakes graduates have also placed in the Golden Slipper in recent years. In 2017 the Magic Night Stakes winner Tulip went on to run third in the Golden Slipper trifecta, as did Sunlight in 2018. Sunlight would also continue on to win three Group 1 races over the next 12 months with victories in the Coolmore Stud Stakes (2018), Newmarket Handicap (2019) and William Reid Stakes (2019).

The Magic Night Stakes 2020 ran on Saturday March 14, 2020 and was won in an upset by last year’s winning stable Godolphin with Thermosphere. 

2020 Magic Night Stakes
Date:	Saturday March 14, 2020
Track:	Rosehill Racecourse, Sydney
Distance:	1200m
Race Type:	2YO Fillies Set Weights 55.5kg
Status:	Group 3
Prize money:	$175,000

2020 Magic Night Stakes Results

• 1st: #6 Thermosphere
• 2nd: #3 Time Is Precious
• 3rd: #10 Jemss

Godolphin trainer James Cummings is in with a shot at back-to-back Golden Slipper wins after the upset 2020 Magic Night Stakes win by his in-form filly Thermosphere  ($19) who is now out to emulate stablemate Kiamichi who did the Magic Night – Golden Slipper double in the wet at odds last autumn.

Click here to read more on the upset Magic Night Stakes 2020 results led by Thermosphere.

Place	#	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Br.	Wgt.	SP
1	6	THERMOSPHERE	James Cummings	James McDonald	–	5	55.5kg	$19
2	3	TIME IS PRECIOUS	Gerald Ryan	Brenton Avdulla	0.4L	2	55.5kg	$8
3	10	JEMSS	David Payne	Glyn Schofield	0.6L	11	55.5kg	$91
4	2	PHILIZZY	Anthony Cummings	Andrew Adkins	1.1L	6	55.5kg	$12
5	1	STELLAR PAULINE	Peter & Paul Snowden	Kerrin McEvoy	1.6L	3	55.5kg	$3F
6	13	FALL ON A STAR	Kris Lees	Michael Walker	2L	1	55.5kg	$61
7	7	DISMISSAL	Gary Portelli	Ms Rachel King	3.5L	12	55.5kg	$31
8	5	DUBAI STAR	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Tim Clark	4.8L	13	55.5kg	$8
9	12	HYBRID THEORY	Bjorn Baker	Jason Collett	5.9L	9	55.5kg	$61
10	15	ONLY MINE	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Adam Hyeronimus	6.6L	4	55.5kg	$21
11	8	KAAKIT AKIT	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Nash Rawiller	8.1L	10	55.5kg	$7.50
12	9	DOTTIE DEE (NZ)	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Tom Marquand	9L	7	55.5kg	$15
13	4	SANCY	Peter & Paul Snowden	Tommy Berry	10.7L	15	55.5kg	$9.50
14	11	HEMBROW	Michael Costa	Jean Van Overmeire (a)	12.3L	14	55.5kg	$61
15	14	EMBELLER	John Thompson	Jye McNeil	22.4L	8	55.5kg	$31

2020 Magic Night Stakes Odds

The updated Magic Night Stakes 2020 betting odds on the Golden Slipper Stakes-bound fillies will be listed below with market links to Ladbrokes.com.au the week of the race.

2020 Magic Night Stakes Field

The Magic Night Stakes field features a host of smart young fillies eyeing a run in the following weekend’s Golden Slipper field.

The 2020 Magic Night Stakes field and barriers will be released by Racing NSW on Wednesday March 11, 2020 and published in full below.

The Magic Night Stakes 2020 field features 15 young fillies chasing a ballot free ride into the Golden Slipper field including Team Snowden’s perennial runner-up Stellar Pauline who has had four career starts for four second place finishes.

#	Form (Last 10)	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight
1	2×222	STELLAR PAULINE	Peter & Paul Snowden	Kerrin McEvoy	3	55.5kg
2	13	PHILIZZY	Anthony Cummings	Andrew Adkins	6	55.5kg
3	1×3	TIME IS PRECIOUS	Gerald Ryan	Brenton Avdulla	2	55.5kg
4	1x	SANCY	Peter & Paul Snowden	Tommy Berry	15	55.5kg
5	26×1	DUBAI STAR	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Tim Clark	13	55.5kg
6	421	THERMOSPHERE	James Cummings	James McDonald	5	55.5kg
7	843	DISMISSAL	Gary Portelli	Ms Rachel King	12	55.5kg
8	1	KAAKIT AKIT	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Nash Rawiller	10	55.5kg
9	2	DOTTIE DEE (NZ)	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Tom Marquand	7	55.5kg
10	43x	JEMSS	David Payne	Glyn Schofield	11	55.5kg
11	53	HEMBROW	Michael Costa	Jean Van Overmeire (a)	14	55.5kg
12	1	HYBRID THEORY	Bjorn Baker	Jason Collett	9	55.5kg
13	6×8	FALL ON A STAR	Kris Lees	Michael Walker	1	55.5kg
14	3	EMBELLER	John Thompson	Jye McNeil	8	55.5kg
15	1	ONLY MINE	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Adam Hyeronimus	4	55.5kg

Magic Night Stakes History

First held in 1978, the Magic Night Stakes was won by Jubilee Walk under M. Johnston.

Notable recent Magic Night Stakes winners include next-up Golden Slipper winner Kiamichi (2019), subsequent three-time Group 1 winning sprinter Sunlight (2018), Tulip (2017) who went on to run third next-up in the Golden Slipper Stakes, Speak Fondly (2015), Gold Edition (2006) and Victory Vein (2002).

The full Magic Night Stakes results going back to 2000 are listed in the table below.

Magic Night Stakes Winners

Year	Place	Horse	Time
2020 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Thermosphere	1 minute 13.62 seconds
	2nd	Time Is Precious
	3rd	Jemss
2019 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Kiamichi	1 minute 13.24 seconds
	2nd	Crystal Falls
	3rd	Athiri
2018 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Sunlight	1 minute 10.74 seconds
	2nd	Cristobal
	3rd	Sweet Ava
2017 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Tulip	1 minute 12.01 seconds
	2nd	Alizee
	3rd	Memento
2016 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Calliope	1 minute 9.78 seconds
	2nd	Omei Sword
	3rd	Twist Tops
2015 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Speak Fondly	1 minute 11.8 seconds
	2nd	Perignon
	3rd	Italy
2014 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Bring Me The Maid	1 minute 12.7 seconds
	2nd	Peggy Jean
	3rd	Sultry Feeling
2013 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Scandiva	1 minute 11.2 seconds
	2nd	Shahad
	3rd	Major Conquest
2012 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Ichihara	1 minute 10.7 seconds
	2nd	Cavalry Rose
	3rd	Flying Schnitzel
2011 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Altar	1 minute 11.8 seconds
	2nd	Pane In The Glass
	3rd	Aerobatics
2010 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Willow Creek	1 minute 11.1 seconds
	2nd	More Strawberries
	3rd	Celts
2009 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Indian Ocean	1 minute 10.76 seconds
	2nd	Marquardt
	3rd	Shawnee Girl
2008 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Portillo	1 minute 11.91 seconds
	2nd	Sugar Babe
	3rd	Delta Girl
2007 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Downhill Racer	1 minute 10.75 seconds
	2nd	Camarilla
	3rd	Gamble Me
2006 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Gold Edition	1 minute 11.56 seconds
	2nd	Nediym’s Glow
	3rd	Catechuchu
2005 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Media	1 minute 9.38 seconds
	2nd	Carry On Cutie
	3rd	Blizzardly
2004 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Alizes	1 minute 9.46 seconds
	2nd	Tahni Girl
	3rd	Monsoon Wedding
2003 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Shamekha	1 minute 10.57 seconds
	2nd	Bella Corona
	3rd	Soak Up The Sun
2002 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Victory Vein	1 minute 9.96 seconds
	2nd	Calaway Gal
	3rd	Stratica
2001 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Hosannah	1 minute 10.28 seconds
	2nd	Hanky Panky
	3rd	Breezer
2000 Magic Night Stakes	1st	Preserve	1 minute 11.43 seconds
	2nd	Blab
	3rd	Ateates