Eagle Farm Cup

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Eagle Farm Cup
Group 2 race
Location Doomben Racecourse
Brisbane, Australia (2015)
Inaugurated 1947 (P.J.O'Shea Stakes)
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Sponsor Pages Event (2015)
Race information
Distance 2,200 metres
Surface Turf
Track Right-handed
Qualification Three year old and older
Weight weight for age
Purse A$250,000 (2015)

The Eagle Farm Cup is a Brisbane Racing Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race held under weight for age conditions, for horses aged three years old and upwards, over a distance of 2,200 metres at Eagle Farm Racecourse, Brisbane, Australia during the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival.[1] Total prizemoney is A$250,000.

Due to track reconstruction of Eagle Farm Racecourse for the 2014–15 racing season the event is transferred to Doomben Racecourse.[2]

Race history

The inaugural running of the race as the P.J. O'Shea Stakes was in 1947.[3] The race was named after Patrick O'Shea, the Queensland Turf Club's treasurer in the early 1900s and raced horses in Brisbane for 35 years.[4]

The race is considered a major prep leadup race to the Brisbane Cup.[1]
Horse that have won the P.J. O'Shea Stakes–Brisbane Cup double: Hydrogen (1953), Redcraze (1956), Tulloch (1961), Fair Patton (1965), Balmerino (1976), Four Crowns (1981), Lord Hybrow (1988), Shuzohra (1990), Scenic Shot (2009), Lights Of Heaven (2012)

Race name

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  • 1947–1971 - P. J. O'Shea Stakes
  • 1972 - Sir Winston Churchill Stakes[5]
  • 1973–2009 - P. J. O'Shea Stakes
  • 2010 onwards - Eagle Farm Cup

Race grade

  • 1947–1978 - Principal race
  • 1979 onwards - Group 2 race

Race distance

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  • 1947–1956 - ​1 1⁄4 miles
  • 1957 - ​1 1⁄2 miles
  • 1958–1968 - 1 mile ​2 1⁄2 furlongs[6]
  • 1969–1972 - ​1 3⁄8 miles
  • 1973–1982 - 2200 metres
  • 1983 - 2232 metres[7]
  • 1984 - 2200 metres
  • 1985–2006 - 2400 metres
  • 2007 onwards - 2200 metres

Race venue

The winners

  • 2015 - Werther [8]
  • 2014 - Moriarty [9]
  • 2013 - Quintessential [10]
  • 2012 - Lights Of Heaven [11]
  • 2011 - Glass Harmonium [12]
  • 2010 - Triple Honour [13]
  • 2009 - Scenic Shot [14]
  • 2008 - Scenic Shot [15]
  • 2007 - Pentathon [16]
  • 2006 - Mahtoum [17]
  • 2005 - Natural Blitz [18]
  • 2004 - Pentastic [19]
  • 2003 - Maguire [20]
  • 2002 - Hey Pronto [21]
  • 2001 - Yippyio [22]
  • 2000 - Ken's Joy [23]
  • 1999 - Sharscay [24]
  • 1998 - Intergaze [25]
  • 1997 - Pakaraka Star [26]
  • 1996 - The Phantom Chance [27]
  • 1995 - Rough Habit [28]
  • 1994 - Full Suit [29]
  • 1993 - Dark Ksar [30]
  • 1992 - Mountain Rule [31]
  • 1991 - †Magnolia Hall/Spring Thaw [32]
  • 1990 - Shuzohra [33]
  • 1989 - Card Shark [34]
  • 1988 - Lord Hybrow [35]
  • 1987 - Our Silver Elm [36]
  • 1986 - Rising Fear [37]
  • 1985 - Our Boyfriend [38]
  • 1984 - Godarchi [39]
  • 1983 - Prince Majestic[7]
  • 1982 - Shamrock[40]
  • 1981 - Four Crowns
  • 1980 - Iko[41]
  • 1979 - Belmura Lad[42]
  • 1978 - Tod Bay
  • 1977 - Ngawyni[43]
  • 1976 - Balmerino
  • 1975 - Nourishing
  • 1974 - Passetreul
  • 1973 - Baghdad Note[44]
  • 1972 - Tails[5]
  • 1971 - Bluelough
  • 1970 - Roman Consul
  • 1969 - Roman Consul
  • 1968 - Swift Peter
  • 1967 - Striking Force
  • 1966 - Striking Force
  • 1965 - Fair Patton
  • 1964 - Count Radiant
  • 1963 - Oakland
  • 1962 - Rural Loch
  • 1961 - Tulloch[6]
  • 1960 - Tulloch
  • 1959 - Caesar
  • 1958 - Sailor's Guide
  • 1957 - Redcraze
  • 1956 - Redcraze
  • 1955 - Surprise Ending
  • 1954 - Gallant Archer
  • 1953 - Hydrogen[45]
  • 1952 - Spellman
  • 1951 - Voussoir
  • 1950 - Persist
  • 1949 - Dark Marne
  • 1948 - On Cor
  • 1947 - Russia[3]

† Deadheat

See also

References

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