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The Birthday Card Stakes is a Group 3 race held at Rosehill Racecourse each March on Golden Slipper Day during the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.

The meeting is headlined by five Group 1 races including the $3.5 million Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m) for two-year-olds and is also supported by Group 3 events including the Birthday Card Stakes.

Run over 1200m by a field of fillies and mares under quality handicap conditions, it offers $150,000 in total prize money and is often contested by graduates from the previous month’s Group 3 Triscay Stakes (1200m) at Randwick. The Group 3 Wenona Girl Handicap (1200m) run in early March is another good lead-up into the Birthday Card Stakes.

The best out of the Birthday Card Stakes field may back-up during April’s ‘The Championships’ in a race like the Group 2 Sapphire Stakes (1200m) or for the three-year-old fillies the $500,000 Group 2 Arrowfield 3YO Sprint (1200m) at the same meeting is a lucrative option.

The Birthday Card Stakes 2018 ran on Saturday March 24, 2018 and was won by the Darren Weir-trained Quilista (2017).

2018 Birthday Card Stakes
Date:	Saturday March 24, 2018
Track:	Rosehill Racecourse
Distance:	1200m
Race Type:	Fillies & Mares | Qlty Hcp.
Status:	Group 3
Prize Money:	$150,000

2018 Birthday Card Stakes Results

• 1st: #6 Quilista
• 2nd: #3 Sugar Bella
• 3rd: #9 Hetty Heights

Check out the full Birthday Card Stakes 2018 Results & Finishing Order below, the race won by the Darren Weir-trained Quilista who beat home the favourite Sugar Bella in the last on Golden Slipper Day.

Place	#	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Br.	Weight	SP
1	6	QUILISTA	Darren Weir	Tommy Berry	–	5	53kg (cd 54kg)	$4.20
2	3	SUGAR BELLA	Kris Lees	Jason Collett	1.3L	2	55kg	$3.10F
3	9	HETTY HEIGHTS	Kim Waugh	Andrew Adkins	3.8L	11	53kg	$31
4	13	STAR REFLECTION	Kris Lees	Ms Kathy O’Hara	4.2L	9	53kg	$71
5	1	NANCY	Peter & Paul Snowden	Blake Shinn	4.5L	6	58kg	$51
6	10	MISS QUE	Joseph Pride	Brenton Avdulla	5.1L	10	53kg	$7.50
7	11	SLOW BURN	Les Bridge	Tim Clark	5.4L	1	53kg	$9
8	2	FARAWAY TOWN	Matthew Smith	Hugh Bowman	6.6L	8	56.5kg	$20
9	14	MISSILE CODA	Peter & Paul Snowden	Kerrin McEvoy	7L	3	53kg	$20
10	18	WITCHES	Brad Widdup	Blake Spriggs	7.6L	13	53kg	$151
11	5	INSENSATA	Jason Coyle	Jay Ford	8.6L	4	53kg	$31
12	4	TULIP	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	Michael Walker	8.8L	12	53kg	$5.50
13	17	CONCHITA	Paul Perry	Dwayne Dunn	10.4L	7	53kg (cd 53.5kg)	$151
–	16	MARIQUITA	Gerald Ryan	–	–	0	–	–
–	19e	ZA ZI BA	Brad Widdup	–	–	0	–	–
–	12	ACQUME	Brad Widdup	–	–	0	–	–
–	8	FRAGONARD	James Cummings	Craig Williams	–	0	–	–
–	15	NO INTEREST	Jason Coyle	Ms Rachel King (a)	–	0	–	–
–	7	SPRIGHT	Garry Frazer	Josh Adams	–	0	–	–

2018 Birthday Card Stakes Betting Odds

The latest Birthday Card Stakes 2018 odds are provided below sees the betting market link to Ladbrokes.com.au on the hopeful fillies & mares in the mix.

2018 Birthday Card Stakes Field

The Birthday Card Stakes field attracts a quality line-up of fillies and mares coming to the end of their autumn campaigns and is released by Racing NSW on the Wednesday before Golden Slipper Day.

The official 2018 Birthday Card Stakes field & barrier draw will be published below when released the Wednesday of race week.  

The Birthday Card Stakes 2018 Final Field originally drew a capacity line-up but three early scratchings, including the sole emergency, leaves a 16 starter field where the Kris Lees-trained Sugar Bella will be hard to beat chasing her fifth win on the trot after a narrow lead-up victory in Randwick’s Group 3 Wenona Girl Handicap (1200m).

#	Form (Last 10)	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Hcp. Rating
1	3279x0981x	NANCY	Peter & Paul Snowden	Blake Shinn	8	58kg	100
2	523x444x11	FARAWAY TOWN	Matthew Smith	Hugh Bowman	11	56.5kg	97
3	117×1111	SUGAR BELLA	Kris Lees	Jason Collett	3	55kg	94
4	5x2450x415	TULIP	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	Michael Walker	18	53kg	90
5	72117×3250	INSENSATA	Jason Coyle	Jay Ford	6	53kg	86
6	x13347x281	QUILISTA	Darren Weir	TBA	7	53kg	86
7	x38483x90x	SPRIGHT	Garry Frazer	Josh Adams	16	53kg	86
8	65512x1x42	FRAGONARD	James Cummings	Craig Williams	2	53kg	84
9	x38355330x	HETTY HEIGHTS	Kim Waugh	Andrew Adkins	15	53kg	84
10	16×132	MISS QUE	Joseph Pride	Brenton Avdulla	14	53kg	82
11	136x1312x7	SLOW BURN	Les Bridge	Tim Clark	1	53kg	82
12	x31105x252	ACQUME	Brad Widdup	–	5	53kg	80
13	3325×21023	STAR REFLECTION	Kris Lees	Ms Kathy O’Hara	13	53kg	79
14	x14104x251	MISSILE CODA	Peter & Paul Snowden	Kerrin McEvoy	4	53kg	78
15	24316×5525	NO INTEREST	Jason Coyle	Ms Rachel King (a)	12	53kg	76
16	4341280×01	MARIQUITA	Gerald Ryan	TBA	9	53kg	75
17	05x2468x49	CONCHITA	Paul Perry	Dwayne Dunn	10	53kg	73
18	3323×13423	WITCHES	Brad Widdup	Blake Spriggs	19	53kg	72
19e	x14611x434	ZA ZI BA	Brad Widdup	–	17	53kg	72

2018 Birthday Card Stakes Nominations

The Birthday Card Stakes 2018 nominations close on the Monday leading-up to Golden Slipper Day and will be released in full right here as soon as available.

A bumper 26 fillies and mares make-up the official 2018 Birthday Card Stakes nominations. Among the standout entries are Matthew Smith’s Triscay Stakes winner Faraway Town and the flying Kris Lees-trained Sugar Bella who has won her past four starts most recently in the Wenona Girl Handicap on March 10. Sugar Bella also holds a nomination for the Group 1 The Galaxy (1100m) on the same day.

Birthday Card Stakes History

The Birthday Card Stakes has been run and won since 1986 and the inaugural winner was Kisim Hiat. Since then some nice types have won the event including Toorak (1999), Spinning Hill (2001), Avoid Lightning (2014) and Sultry Feeling (2016). The race started out as a Listed event before gaining its Group 3 status from 2006 onwards. It ran at Canterbury from 1986-1996 and again from 2000-2002 and has gone via a number of different race names including the Clyde Kennedy Quality (1992) and the Allied Express Stakes (2006).

Recent Birthday Card Stakes Winners

See below for a complete listing of the Birthday Card Stakes results & winners going back to 2000.

Year	Place	Horse	Time
2019 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	TBD	TBD
	2nd	TBD
	3rd	TBD
2018 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Quilista	1 minute 12.24 seconds
	2nd	Sugar Bella
	3rd	Hetty Heights
2017 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Raiment	1 minute 14.12 seconds
	2nd	Samantha
	3rd	Nancy
2016 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Sultry Feeling	1 minute 10.9 seconds
	2nd	Lucky Can Be
	3rd	Perignon
2015 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Shamalia	1 minute 9.7 seconds
	2nd	Mossfun
	3rd	Ygritte
2014 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Avoid Lightning	1 minute 11.8 seconds
	2nd	Plucky Belle
	3rd	Aerobatics
2013 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Arinosa	1 minute 9.6 seconds
	2nd	Shamal Wind
	3rd	Miss Stellabelle
2012 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Celts	1 minute 10.6 seconds
	2nd	Next The Universe
	3rd	Divorces
2011 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Zingaling	1 minute 10.6 seconds
	2nd	Ladys Angel
	3rd	Flying Success
2010 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Patronyme	1 minute 10.3 seconds
	2nd	Beaded
	3rd	Melito
2009 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Gamble Me	1 minute 10.4 seconds
	2nd	Belong To Many
	3rd	Court
2008 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Throne Inn	1 minute 10.9 seconds
	2nd	Karalee
	3rd	Allaboutus
2007 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Aunty Betty	1 minute 11.1 seconds
	2nd	Absolutelyfabulous
	3rd	Martiniforus
2006 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Imana	1 minute 10.5 seconds
	2nd	Freeroller
	3rd	Tactfully
2005 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Tui Song	1 minute 9.0 seconds
	2nd	World Peace
	3rd	Shannon Bank
2004 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Paraca	1 minute 9.5 seconds
	2nd	Cataclysm
	3rd	Recurring
2003 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Toast Of The Coast	1 minute 9.1 seconds
	2nd	Fatoon
	3rd	Blue Suttarb
2002 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Hot Riff	1 minute 9.8 seconds
	2nd	Omens
	3rd	Palais
2001 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Spinning Hill	1 minute 10.2 seconds
	2nd	Call Me Lily
	3rd	Crestfallen
2000 Birthday Card Stakes	1st	Verdict Declared	1 minute 11.4 seconds
	2nd	Another Misty
	3rd	Flickering Fire