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The Group 2 Sweet Embrace Stakes is a 1200m sprint for 2YO fillies held on Chipping Norton Stakes Day leading up to the Golden Slipper Stakes.
The Sweet Embrace Stakes is a Group 2 sprint for two-year-old fillies run over 1200m at Royal Randwick Racecourse on Chipping Norton Stakes Day in late February or early March during the autumn.
The Sydney meeting is headlined by the weight-for-age Group 1 Chipping Norton Stakes (1600m) and the recently upgraded Group 1 Surround Stakes (1400m) for three-year-old fillies. Chipping Norton Stakes Day also features a number of other Group status support races including the Sweet Embrace Stakes and the colts & geldings equivalent – the Group 2 Skyline Stakes (1200m).
Both the Skyline Stakes and the Sweet Embrace Stakes offer $200,000 in prize money and a ballot exemption to the winner into the Group 1 $3.5 million Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m). The last filly to win the Sweet Embrace Stakes – Golden Slipper double was Crystal Lily (2010).
Fillies may come into the Sweet Embrace Stakes field via other two-year-old autumn races including the Group 2 Silver Slipper Stakes (1100m) run at Rosehill the Saturday before or the Group 3 Canonbury Stakes (1100m) also held at Rosehill but in late January.
After the Sweet Embrace Stakes Stakes the two-year-old fillies may have another Golden Slipper Stakes lead-up in the following Saturday’s Group 2 Reisling Stakes (1200m) run at Royal Randwick.
In 2018 the Sweet Embrace Stakes winner Seabrook went on to win the Group 1 Champagne Stakes (1600m) later that autumn.
The 2020 Sweet Embrace Stakes ran on Saturday February 29, 2020 and was won in an upset by the Chris Waller-trained Hungry Heart.
Sweet Embrace Stakes 2020 | |
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Date: | Saturday February 29, 2020 |
Track: | Royal Randwick Racecourse |
Distance: | 1200m |
Race Type: | Set Weights / 2YO Fillies |
Status: | Group 2 |
Prize Money: | $200,000 |
Chris Waller is in with a shot at his first Golden Slipper win with the trainer’s well-bred Frankel filly Hungry Heart ($9.50) rounding up the field late to score an upset three-quarter length victory over the beaten favourite Stellar Pauline ($2.30) in this year’s 2020 Sweet Embrace Stakes results.
Click here to read more on the impressive Sweet Embrace Stakes 2020 winner Hungry Heart.
Place | # | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Margin | Br. | Wgt. | SP |
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1 | 7 | HUNGRY HEART | Chris Waller | James McDonald | – | 7 | 55.5kg | $9.50 |
2 | 2 | STELLAR PAULINE | Peter & Paul Snowden | Brenton Avdulla | 0.8L | 5 | 55.5kg | $2.30F |
3 | 10 | DISMISSAL | Gary Portelli | Ms Rachel King | 3.1L | 2 | 55.5kg | $41 |
4 | 1 | BELLA NIPOTINA | David & B Hayes & T Dabernig | Jye McNeil | 3.4L | 1 | 55.5kg | $11 |
5 | 8 | HARMONIUM | Richard & Michael Freedman | Tim Clark | 3.6L | 4 | 55.5kg | $3.80 |
6 | 5 | TILIA ROSE | Peter & Paul Snowden | Tommy Berry | 5L | 3 | 55.5kg | $5.50 |
7 | 3 | QUEEN KAY | Toby & Trent Edmonds | Jason Collett | 8.3L | 6 | 55.5kg | $17 |
– | 4 | SUPREME IDEA | Anthony Freedman | Ben Melham | – | 0 | – | – |
– | 9 | CLOSE TO ME | Peter & Paul Snowden | Kerrin McEvoy | – | 0 | – | – |
– | 6 | DUBAI STAR | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | Adam Hyeronimus | – | 0 | – | – |
The current season’s Sweet Embrace Stakes 2020 betting odds on the fillies heading towards the Golden Slipper Stakes field will be available below as soon as released.
Each autumn the Sweet Embrace Stakes field attracts a line-up of promising two-year-old fillies eyeing a run in the Golden Slipper Stakes field in a fortnight’s time.
The official 2020 Sweet Embrace Stakes field and barriers are set for release by Racing NSW on Wednesday February 26, 2020 and will be published in full below.
The Sweet Embrace Stakes 2020 field is down to nine fillies after the early withdrawal of Anthony Freedman’s last start Lonhro Plate winner Supreme Idea. The Peter & Paul Snowden-trained Stellar Pauline is hot favourite tipped to break her maiden status after three second place efforts including behind Away Game in the $2 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic last month.
Click here to read more on the 2020 Sweet Embrace Stakes field led by Stellar Pauline.
Update: Just seven fillies remain in the mix following the scratchings of #4 Supreme Idea (5), #6 Dubai Star (6) and #9 Close To Me (8)
# | Form (Last 10) | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Barrier | Weight |
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1 | 42×42 | BELLA NIPOTINA | David & B Hayes & T Dabernig | Jye McNeil | 1 | 55.5kg |
2 | 2×22 | STELLAR PAULINE | Peter & Paul Snowden | Brenton Avdulla | 6 | 55.5kg |
3 | 12 | QUEEN KAY | Toby & Trent Edmonds | Jason Collett | 7 | 55.5kg |
4 | 171 | SUPREME IDEA | Anthony Freedman | Ben Melham | 5 | 55.5kg |
5 | 1x | TILIA ROSE | Peter & Paul Snowden | Tommy Berry | 3 | 55.5kg |
6 | 26x | DUBAI STAR | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | Adam Hyeronimus | 9 | 55.5kg |
7 | 2 | HUNGRY HEART | Chris Waller | James McDonald | 10 | 55.5kg |
8 | 1 | HARMONIUM | Richard & Michael Freedman | Tim Clark | 4 | 55.5kg |
9 | 50x | CLOSE TO ME | Peter & Paul Snowden | Kerrin McEvoy | 8 | 55.5kg |
10 | 84 | DISMISSAL | Gary Portelli | Ms Rachel King | 2 | 55.5kg |
The Sweet Embrace Stakes is named in honour of the 1967 Golden Slipper Stakes winner Sweet Embrace who scored an upset breaking her maiden status in the classic at odds of 40/1. The race was first run in 1979 as a Listed event. It gained Group 3 status in 1987 before being elevated to its current Group 2 status from 2013 onwards.
The event has taken place at a number of different race tracks around Sydney including Canterbury Park, Rosehill Gardens and Royal Randwick.
Notable Sweet Embrace Stakes winners include subsequent Golden Slipper winners Dark Eclipse (1980), Ha Ha (2001), Crystal Lily (2010) and Seabrook (2018).
See below for a list of Sweet Embrace Stakes winners and placegetters dating back to 2000.
Year | Place | Horse | Time |
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2020 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Hungry Heart | 1 minute 9.64 seconds |
2nd | Stellar Pauline | ||
3rd | Dismissal | ||
2019 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Anaheed | 1 minute 9.72 seconds |
2nd | Still Single | ||
3rd | Let It Pour | ||
2018 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Seabrook | 1 minute 10.96 seconds |
2nd | Fiesta | ||
3rd | Into The Abyss | ||
2017 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | One More Honey | 1 minute 12.28 seconds |
2nd | Arctic Angel | ||
3rd | Teaspoon | ||
2016 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Scarlet Rain | 1 minute 9.5 seconds |
2nd | In The Vanguard | ||
3rd | Tale Of Choice | ||
2015 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Always Allison | 1 minute 10.7 seconds |
2nd | Speak Fondly | ||
3rd | Tibrogargan Miss | ||
2014 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Believe Yourself | 1 minute 11.2 seconds |
2nd | Twirl | ||
3rd | Tetsuko | ||
2013 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Romantic Moon | 1 minute 10.0 seconds |
2nd | Thump | ||
3rd | Greytfilly | ||
2012 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Jade Marauder | 1 minute 11.2 seconds |
2nd | Valerio | ||
3rd | Kyria | ||
2011 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Shared Reflections | 1 minute 9.5 seconds |
2nd | Streama | ||
3rd | Pane In The Glass | ||
2010 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Crystal Lily | 1 minute 9.0 seconds |
2nd | Ambers Waltz | ||
3rd | Zutara | ||
2009 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Headway | 1 minute 11.1 seconds |
2nd | Lovemelikearock | ||
3rd | Horizons | ||
2008 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Stripper | 1 minute 11.0 seconds |
2nd | Glowlamp | ||
3rd | Samantha Miss | ||
2007 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Chinchilla Rose | 1 minute 10.1 seconds |
2nd | Vecchia Roma | ||
3rd | Moonboat | ||
2006 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Universal Queen | 1 minute 11.4 seconds |
2nd | Tuesday Joy | ||
3rd | Pure Energy | ||
2005 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Carry On Cutie | 1 minute 10.5 seconds |
2nd | Media | ||
3rd | Flion Fenea | ||
2004 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Burning Sands | 1 minute 11.9 seconds |
2nd | All Knowledge | ||
3rd | Written By Xaar | ||
2003 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Legally Bay | 1 minute 10.0 seconds |
2nd | How Funny | ||
3rd | Bella Corona | ||
2002 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Victory Vein | 1 minute 9.9 seconds |
2nd | Chuckle | ||
3rd | Calaway Gal | ||
2001 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Ha Ha | 1 minute 11.0 seconds |
2nd | Moonflute | ||
3rd | Palais | ||
2000 Sweet Embrace Stakes |
1st | Dynamic Love | 1 minute 11.7 seconds |
2nd | Tyrolean | ||
3rd | Ateates |