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The Percy Sykes Stakes is a lucrative Group 2 sprint for two-year-old fillies run on Day 2 of The Championships at Royal Randwick in April.
The Percy Sykes Stakes – formerly the Keith Mackay Handicap – is a lucrative Group 2 race for two-year-old fillies run on Day 2 of Sydney’s ‘The Championships’ on the second Saturday of April annually.
The meeting is also known as Queen Elizabeth Stakes Day and features four Group 1 races including the $4 million Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) and $2 million Sydney Cup (3200m) for stayers.
Contested over 1200m at Royal Randwick Racecourse the Percy Sykes Stakes is run under set weights plus penalties and is now worth $600,000 in total prize money after being upgraded to Group 2 status for the first time in 2017.
Fillies may come into the Percy Sykes Stakes field via a run in the world’s richest race for juveniles – the Group 1 Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m) – or the Group 2 Magic Night Stakes (1200m) earlier during the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.
The 2018 Percy Sykes Stakes took place on Saturday April 14, 2018 and was won by the Peter & Paul Snowden-trained favourite Pure Elation.
Percy Sykes Stakes 2018 | |
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Date: | Saturday April 14, 2018 |
Track: | Randwick Racecourse |
Distance: | 1200m |
Race Type: | 2YO Fillies – SW+P |
Status: | Group 2 |
Prize Money: | $600,000 |
See below for the full Percy Sykes Stakes 2018 Results & Finishing Order, following the link to read more on the win by the favourite Pure Elation who had form around the Golden Slipper winner and who co-trainer Peter Snowden was spruiking post-win as a potential runner in the $13 million The Everest this October.
Place | # | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Margin | Br. | Weight | SP |
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1 | 6 | PURE ELATION | Peter & Paul Snowden | Michael Walker | – | 3 | 53kg | $4F |
2 | 2 | FIESTA | Chris Waller | Kerrin McEvoy | 1.3L | 2 | 55kg | $6.50 |
3 | 4 | OUTBACK BARBIE | Tony Gollan | Joao Moreira | 1.5L | 1 | 54kg | $5 |
4 | 5 | GONGS | James Cummings | Corey Brown | 1.6L | 5 | 53kg | $8.50 |
5 | 7 | CRISTOBAL | James Cummings | Brenton Avdulla | 2.3L | 4 | 53kg | $10 |
6 | 8 | SWEET AVA | Gerald Ryan | Michael Dee | 3.6L | 7 | 53kg | $20 |
7 | 1 | SETSUNA | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | Ben Melham | 5.1L | 6 | 55kg | $21 |
8 | 3 | KHULAASA | David & B Hayes & T Dabernig | Damien Oliver | 5.2L | 9 | 55kg | $12 |
9 | 10 | SISTER SLEDGE | Anthony & Edward Cummings | Glyn Schofield | 7.4L | 10 | 53kg | $7 |
10 | 13 | KARA’S HOPE | Tim Martin | Adam Hyeronimus | 10.6L | 8 | 53kg (cd 53.5kg) | $31 |
– | 9 | FISH ’N’ SNITZ | Stuart Kendrick | – | – | 0 | – | – |
– | 12 | MADAM ROUGE | Chris Waller | Craig Williams | – | 0 | – | – |
– | 11 | BOLD ARIAL | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | Tim Clark | – | 0 | – | – |
Read our insider Percy Sykes Stakes 2018 Tips & Betting Preview now.
The latest odds on the fillies in the Percy Sykes Stakes 2018 field will be available below the week of the race complete with Percy Sykes Stakes betting markets links to Ladbrokes.com.au.
The Percy Sykes Stakes field attracts a smart field of young fillies usually dropping down in grade off a run in the Golden Slipper field. The race has a capacity of fourteen starters plus four emergencies, but rarely does the Percy Sykes Stakes field run at capacity.
The official 2018 Percy Sykes Stakes field is out the Tuesday leading-up to the race following the early Percy Sykes Stakes Nominations taken in February and the Percy Sykes Stakes First Acceptances in March about four weeks out from the April event.
The Percy Sykes Stakes 2018 Final Field is now out with 11 of the original 13 acceptors still in the mix after the early scratchings of #9 Fish ‘N’ Snitz (12) and Bold Atrial (8). Leading the line-up are the likes of Peter & Paul Snowden’s last start Warwick Farm winning filly Pure Elation and the Chris Waller-trained Fiesta down in grade after a seventh in the Golden Slipper.
Update: The 2018 Percy Sykes Stakes Field is down to 10 with a third scratching, Chris Waller withdrawing the lightly-raced Madam Rouge (13) who had the outside barrier.
Read more on the 2018 Percy Sykes Stakes Field & Odds now.
# | Form (Last 10) | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Barrier | Weight |
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1 | 211×40 | SETSUNA | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | Ben Melham | 6 | 55kg |
2 | 32×127 | FIESTA | Chris Waller | Kerrin McEvoy | 2 | 55kg |
3 | 221 | KHULAASA | David & B Hayes & T Dabernig | Damien Oliver | 10 | 55kg |
4 | 135 | OUTBACK BARBIE | Tony Gollan | Joao Moreira | 1 | 54kg |
5 | 11×34 | GONGS | James Cummings | Corey Brown | 5 | 53kg |
6 | 5721 | PURE ELATION | Peter & Paul Snowden | Michael Walker | 3 | 53kg |
7 | 12 | CRISTOBAL | James Cummings | Brenton Avdulla | 4 | 53kg |
8 | 1×530 | SWEET AVA | Gerald Ryan | Michael Dee | 7 | 53kg |
9 | 544×3332 | FISH ’N’ SNITZ | Stuart Kendrick | – | 12 | 53kg |
10 | 3 | SISTER SLEDGE | Anthony & Edward Cummings | Glyn Schofield | 11 | 53kg |
11 | 0x422 | BOLD ARIAL | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | Tim Clark | 8 | 53kg |
12 | 5×1 | MADAM ROUGE | Chris Waller | Craig Williams | 13 | 53kg |
13 | 8×55 | KARA’S HOPE | Tim Martin | Adam Hyeronimus | 9 | 53kg |
The official 2018 Percy Sykes Stakes First Acceptances are taken in mid-March along with all the other The Championships races narrowing down the list of potential runners in the lucrative Group 2 race.
The Percy Sykes Stakes 2018 First Acceptances are now out with 70 remaining hopefuls in the race for two-year-old fillies. Heading the early Percy Sykes Stakes betting is Golden Slipper-bound Estijaab who won the Reisling Stakes on March 10 followed by the likes of Pure Elation who was runner-up in the same Group 2 on Randwick Guineas Day and the Chris Waller-trained Sweet Embrace Stakes second placed I Am Invincible filly Fiesta.
The Percy Sykes Stakes 2018 Nominations are taken by Racing NSW on a Monday in early-mid February and attract in excess of 100 juveniles, many of which are unraced at the time of entry.
The 2018 Percy Sykes Stakes Nominations attracted a bumper 168 two-year-olds including the Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott-trained Terminology who has form around Magic Millions Classic winner Sunlight, her Group 3 winning stablemate from the Melbourne Cup Carnival Setsuna, the highly-spruiked Tony McEvoy-trained Kinky Boom and Peter & Paul Snowden’s well-bred daughter of Pierro Satin Slipper.
The Percy Sykes Stakes was first run back in 1960 as the Keith Mackay Handicap and was won by Primrose Lane. It started out as a non-black type race and gained its now Group 2 race status for the first time in 2017. The event is still officially registered as the Keith Mackay Handicap despite it not being raced under handicap conditions, in honour of the former AJC Chairman Keith Mackay.
For one year in 2014 the race was known as the Royal Randwick Stakes and added to the ATC Championships series of races enjoying a notable boost in prize money. The current race name – Percy Sykes Stakes – is in honour of esteemed veterinarian Percy Sykes who passed away in 2014. He is best known for his work with legendary trainers including Bart Cummings, Gai Waterhouse and her father TJ Smith – whom the TJ Smith Stakes is named after.
During the early stages of Percy Sykes Stakes history the race didn’t hold a huge amount of prestige and attracted a mediocre class of fillies. As it increased in status and prize money the Percy Sykes Stakes winners have also improved with notable champions of the event including Streama (2011), Eloping (2014), Missrock (2016) and Shoals (2017) who went on to defeat the older mares during Melbourne Cup Carnival in the Group 1 Myer Classic (1600m).
See below for the list of Percy Sykes Stakes winners and placegetters going back to 2000.
Year | Place | Horse | Time |
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2019 Percy Sykes Stakes |
1st | TBD | TBD |
2nd | TBD | ||
3rd | TBD | ||
2018 Percy Sykes Stakes |
1st | Pure Elation | 1 minute 10.08 seconds |
2nd | Fiesta | ||
3rd | Outback Barbie | ||
2017 Percy Sykes Stakes |
1st | Shoals | 1 minute 13.7 seconds |
2nd | Formality | ||
3rd | Serena Bay | ||
2016 Percy Sykes Stakes |
1st | Missrock | 1 minute 11 seconds |
2nd | Prompt Response | ||
3rd | Spright | ||
2015 Percy Sykes Stakes |
1st | Ottoman | 1 minute 12.4 seconds |
2nd | Calaverite | ||
3rd | Lake Geneva | ||
2014 Royal Randwick Stakes |
1st | Eloping | 1 minute 10.8 seconds |
2nd | Ygritte | ||
3rd | Shaumari | ||
2013 Keith Mackay Handicap |
1st | Everage | 1 minute 13.4 seconds |
2nd | Little Miss Smiley | ||
3rd | Major Conquest | ||
2012 Keith Mackay Handicap |
1st | Single Style | 1 minute 10.5 seconds |
2nd | Driefontein | ||
3rd | Meidung | ||
2011 Keith Mackay Handicap |
1st | Streama | 1 minute 8.5 seconds |
2nd | Charm’s Honour | ||
3rd | Houston Benefactor | ||
2010 Keith Mackay Handicap |
1st | Golden Millennium | 1 minute 10.2 seconds |
2nd | Boto Vermelho | ||
3rd | Parables | ||
2009 Keith Mackay Handicap |
1st | Readyor | 1 minute 13.1 seconds |
2nd | Amarantha | ||
3rd | Tallow | ||
2008 Keith Mackay Handicap |
1st | Shoboard | 1 minute 12.6 seconds |
2nd | Strawberry Field | ||
3rd | Silent But Deadly | ||
2007 Keith Mackay Handicap |
1st | Sliding Cube | 1 minute 11.1 seconds |
2nd | Gamble Me | ||
3rd | Mega Lass | ||
2006 Keith Mackay Handicap |
1st | Catechuchu | 1 minute 10.6 seconds |
2nd | Heart Of The Fire | ||
3rd | Admirelle | ||
2005 Keith Mackay Handicap |
1st | Blizzardly | 1 minute 12.3 seconds |
2nd | Regal Cheer | ||
3rd | Heart Strings | ||
2004 Keith Mackay Handicap |
1st | Strawberry Storm | 1 minute 11.5 seconds |
2nd | Sweet Ransom | ||
3rd | Monsoon Wedding | ||
2003 Keith Mackay Handicap |
1st | Bella Corona | 1 minute 12.0 seconds |
2nd | Shamekha | ||
3rd | Danish Magic | ||
2002 Keith Mackay Handicap |
1st | Before Too Long | 1 minute 10.2 seconds |
2nd | Verstak | ||
3rd | Cirque du Soleil | ||
2001 Keith Mackay Handicap |
1st | Allez France | 1 minute 10.8 seconds |
2nd | Miss Bussell | ||
3rd | Breezer | ||
2000 Keith Mackay Handicap |
1st | Actress | 1 minute 9.7 seconds |
2nd | She’s A Pretender | ||
3rd | Mielleuse |