George Main Stakes Colgate Optic White Stakes
The George Main Stakes on Colgate Optic White Stakes Day heralds the arrival of the Sydney Spring Racing Tips “The Everest” 6 week Sydney Racing Carnival. The George Main Stakes will be the feature of our Sydney Racing Tips with our Expert Sydney Racing Tips analyst Blaazing Ben Perkins.
This race day features a Group 1 2 Group 2s and 2 Group 3s, the Colgate Optic White Stakes is the renamed Group 1 George Main Stakes named after the former Chairman of the Australian Jockey Club.
George Main Stakes and Winx
The George Main Colgate Optic White Stakes is a Group 1 Weight For Age event run over the 1600m mile. The race has been won the last 3 years in a row by the champion mare Winx! 2016, 2017 and 2018 were the mighty mare’s years as she dominated the Sydney Racing Tips landscape, especially this event.
Sydney Racing Tips – Group 2 and Group 3 races
This day also sees the running of the Group 2 The Shorts which is a set weights and penalties for 3YO and upwards run over the 1100m. The Group 2 Darley Tea Rose Stakes is also decided as it’s the third leg of the 4 part “Princess Series” for 3 year old Fillies and is run at set weights over 1400m. The Group 3 Bill Ritchie Handicap is run over 1400m and some horses utilise this race on the way to the Sydney Racing Tips Epsom Handicap. The final feature on the day is the Group 3 Kingston Town Stakes named after the might namesake Kingston Town. It is run over 2000m at set weights and penalties for 3YO and older horses. The race was won last year by the very smart Avilius.
Sydney Racing Tips George Main Stakes
The Sydney Spring Racing Tips Group 1 Colgate Optic White Stakes run over 1600m (formerly the George Main Stakes) is most definitely the major pointer from a weight for age perspective to the Group 1 Epsom Handicap run at the same track a fortnight later. There are 3 main races that feed into horses contesting this race the Group 1 Winx stakes the Sydney racing tips Group 2 Chelmsford stakes a fortnight earlier and some horses have come through the set weights Sydney Racing Tips Tramway Stakes. Not often do the Victorians head north for this race as it’s very much a Sydney dominated affair. With the marvellous Winx winning the last 3 editions, in recent years this has very much been a favourites race with 11 of the last 16 favourites saluting.
Sydney Racing Tips The Shorts
The Group 2 The Shorts run over 1100m is contested by both inform sprinters and those resuming for a Spring tilt. Generally horses have come through the Group 3 Sydney Racing Tips Concorde Stakes run earlier in the month. Any Melbourne visitors such as last years winners Ball Of Muscle generally contest the Melbourne Racing Tips The Heath over 1100m.
Sydney Racing Tips Darley Tea Rose Stakes
The Group 2 Darley Tea Rose Stakes run over 1400m is Leg 3 of the “Princess series” which includes 4 races. The Group 2 Sydney Racing Tips Silver Shadow, the Group 2 Furious Stakes this race and then culminating in the Sydney Spring Racing Tips Group 1 Flight Stakes over 1600m at Royal Randwick. With the way the Princess series is set up generally horses are feeding into this race via the Furious stakes and then go on to contest the Flight Stakes.
Sydney Racing Tips Group 3 Bill Ritchie
The Group 3 Bill Ritchie run over 1400m contains ballot exemption from the Group 1 Epsom Handicap so many trainers use this to guarantee entry into the Group 1 Epsom run a fortnight later. As a result it becomes a very strong Group 3 event. Horses tend to come into this race via the Sydney Racing Tips Theo Marks Stakes or the Group 2 Tramway Stakes.
Sydney Racing Tips Kingston Town Stakes
The Group 3 Kingston Town Stakes is run under set weights and penalties over 2000m horses out of this race have gone on to contest the Group 1 Sydney Racing Tips Metropolitan and it can also be a stepping stone for some horses on the Melbourne Racing Tips Caulfield Cup trail.
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