Vintage Tipple Stakes
Appearance
Listed race | |
Location | Gowran Park County Kilkenny, Ireland |
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Race type | Flat / Thoroughbred |
Sponsor | Irish Stallion Farms |
Website | Gowran Park |
Race information | |
Distance | 1m 6f (2,816 metres) |
Surface | Turf |
Track | Right-handed |
Qualification | Four-years-old and up fillies and mares |
Weight | 9 st 2 lb Penalties 7 lb for G1 / G2 winners 5 lb for G3 winners 3 lb for Listed winners in races of 11 furlongs or longer since 1 June last year |
Purse | €47,000 (2023) 1st: €29,500 |
2024 | ||
Enfranchise | Countess Of Tyrone | Joupe |
Previous years | ||
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2023 | ||
Final Gesture | Joupe | White Caviar |
2022 | ||
Yaxeni | Pita Pinta | Mighty Blue |
2021 | ||
Mighty Blue | Lismore | Yaxeni |
2020-2018 | ||
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2020 | ||
Kastasa | Nan Yehi | Traisha |
2019 | ||
True Self | Jaega | Bongiorno |
2018 | ||
Bloomfield | Glamorous Approach | Remarkable Lady |
The Vintage Tipple Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Ireland open to thoroughbred fillies and mares aged four years or older. It is run at Gowran Park over a distance of 1 mile and 6 furlongs (2,816 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in May.
The race was introduced as a new Listed race in 2018.[1] It is named after Vintage Tipple, an Irish-trained filly who won the 2003 Irish St. Leger.[2]
Records
[edit]Leading jockey (2 wins):
- Colin Keane – True Self (2019), Yaxeni (2022)
- Billy Lee – Bloomfield (2018), Final Gesture (2023)
Leading trainer (no trainer has won this race more than once):
Winners
[edit]Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Time |
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2018 | Bloomfield | 4 | Billy Lee | Willie McCreery | 3:21.47 |
2019 | True Self | 6 | Colin Keane | Willie Mullins | 3:07.13 |
2020 | Kastasa[a] | 4 | Oisin Orr | Dermot Weld | 3:04.79 |
2021 | Mighty Blue | 5 | Dylan Browne McMonagle | Joseph O'Brien | 3:07.14 |
2022 | Yaxeni | 5 | Colin Keane | Ger Lyons | 3:02.59 |
2023 | Final Gesture | 4 | Billy Lee | Paddy Twomey | 3:05.16 |
2024 | Enfranchise | 6 | Gavin Ryan | Shark Hanlon | 3:24.12 |
- ^ The 2020 race was run in July due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Flat Season Launched At Historic Ballydoyle". Horse Racing Ireland. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
- ^ O'Hehir, Tony. "All the hot views as Bloomfield bids to prove the toast in the Vintage Tipple". Racing Post. Retrieved 9 May 2018.