Cork Stakes
Appearance
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Easy | Yosemite Valley | The Highway Rat |
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Tenebrism | Wodao | Pretty Rebel |
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Power Under Me | Mooneista | Twilight Spinner |
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Laugh A Minute | Fiscal Rules | Make A Challenge |
The Cork Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Ireland open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Cork over a distance of 6 furlongs (1,206 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late March or early April.
The race was first run in 2001.
Records
[edit]Most successful horse (2 wins):
- Downforce – 2017, 2018
Leading jockey (4 wins):
- Billy Lee – Bold Thady Quill (2013), An Saighdiur (2014), Downforce (2017, 2018)
Leading trainer (3 wins):
- Ger Lyons – Rain Delayed (2010), The Reaper (2012), Power Under Me (2022)
Winners
[edit]Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Time |
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2001 | Anna Elise | 5 | Tom Queally | John Flynn | 1:10.40 |
2002 | Minashki | 3 | Pat Shanahan | Harry Rogers | 1:12.40 |
2003 | Repertory | 10 | T G McLaughlin | M S Saunders | 0:57.50 |
2004 | Moon Unit | 3 | D M Grant | Harry Rogers | 1:01.10 |
2005 | Osterhase | 6 | Fran Berry | John Mulhern | 1:14.30 |
2006 | Miss Sally | 4 | Johnny Murtagh | Michael Halford | 1:16.20 |
2007 | Absolutelyfabulous | 4 | Wayne Lordan | David Wachman | 1:10.50 |
2008 | Contest | 4 | Johnny Murtagh | David Wachman | 1:15.32 |
2010 | Rain Delayed | 4 | Keegan Latham | Ger Lyons | 1:09.75 |
2011 | Inxile | 6 | Adrian Nicholls | David Nicholls | 1:10.69 |
2012 | The Reaper | 4 | Johnny Murtagh | Ger Lyons | 1:10.38 |
2013 | Bold Thady Quill | 6 | Billy Lee | Ken Condon | 1:19.75 |
2014 | An Saighdiur | 7 | Billy Lee | Andrew Slattery | 1:22.69 |
2015 | Great Minds | 5 | Wayne Lordan | Tommy Stack | 1:15.94 |
2016 | Bobby's Kitten | 5 | Pat Smullen | Dermot Weld | 1:18.54 |
2017 | Downforce | 5 | Billy Lee | Willie McCreery | 1:20.82 |
2018 | Downforce[a] | 6 | Billy Lee | Willie McCreery | 1:21.13 |
2019 | Sergei Prokofiev[a] | 3 | Donnacha O'Brien | Aidan O'Brien | 1:12.35 |
2020 | Make A Challenge[b][1] | 5 | James J Doyle | Denis Gerard Hogan | 1:15.58 |
2021 | Laugh A Minute | 6 | Gavin Ryan | Adrian McGuinness | 1:13.68 |
2022 | Power Under Me | 4 | Colin Keane | Ger Lyons | 1:11.92 |
2023 | Tenebrism | 4 | Ryan Moore | Aidan O'Brien | 1:17.77 |
2024 | Easy | 4 | Andrew Slattery | Andrew Slattery | 1:19.54 |
- ^ The 2020 race was run at Curragh in August due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Revised Group Race Programme in Ireland for 2020 Announced" (PDF). Horse Racing Ireland. 19 May 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2021.