Doomben 10,000
The Doomben 10,000 is a Brisbane Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred Weight for Age horse race, run over a distance of 1200 metres at Doomben Racecourse, Brisbane, Australia during the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival.[1] Total prize money is A$1,000,000. The race is considered one of the premier sprint races in Queensland racing.
Group 1 race | |
Location | Doomben Racecourse Brisbane, Australia |
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Inaugurated | 1933 (as Doomben Newmarket Handicap) |
Race type | Thoroughbred - Flat racing |
Sponsor | TAB (2022) |
Race information | |
Distance | 1,200 metres |
Surface | Turf |
Track | Right-handed |
Qualification | Horses three years old and older |
Weight | Weight for Age |
Purse | A$1,000,000 (2022) |
History
The race was changed to the Doomben 10,000 after the £10,000 prize money on offer, which at the time was the richest sprint in Australia.
Notable sprinters to win the race are Chief De Beers (1995, 1998), Falvelon (2001-02), Prince Trialia in 1990–91, and Black Onyx in 1969–70.[1] Included in the list are former greats Bernborough in 1946 and Manikato in 1979.[1]
In July 1951, then apprentice Aboriginal jockey Merv Maynard (whose career spanned nearly five decades, in which he rode over 1,500 winners[2]) was heading for a win on Waratah King when the horse came down, and he was thrown. Coniston went on to win the race.[3][4]
Recently, champion sprinters Apache Cat and Takeover Target captured this race.[1] Sea Siren was the first three-year-old filly to win the race in 2012.[1]
1954 racebook
- Front cover of the 1954 BATC Doomben 10,000 racebook
- 1954 BATC Doomben 10,000 showing raceday officials
- Starters and results showing the winner, Nagpuni
- Starters and results of the 1954 BATC Doomben 10,000
- Back cover showing admission charges
Name
- 1933–1945 - Doomben Newmarket Handicap
- 1946–1979 - Doomben 10,000
- 1980–1989 - Rothmans 100,000
- 1990–1992 - Castlemaine 10,000
- 1993 onwards - Doomben 10,000
Distance
- 1933-1941 - 6 furlongs (~1200 metres) run at Doomben straight 6 furlongs.
- 1942-1945 - run over 7 furlongs at Albion Park
- 1942–1972 - 7 furlongs (~1400 metres)
- 1973–2016 – 1350 metres
- 2017 onwards - 1,200 metres
Grade
- 1933–1979 - Principal Race
- 1980 onwards - Group 1
Records
Jockey George Moore won the race five times:[5]
- (1940, 1953, 1957, 1969, 1971)
Trainer T J Smith won the race six times:[5]
- (1955, 1964, 1969, 1970, 1982, 1985)
The race record for the 1350 metre distance was set by Falvelon in 2001 with a time of 1:17.21 and Tipperary Star in 1963 in 1:17+1⁄5.[5]
Winners
- 2023 - Giga Kick[6]
- 2022 - Mazu[7]
- 2021 - Eduardo[8]
- 2020 - ‡race not held[9]
- 2019 - The Bostonian[10]
- 2018 - English[11]
- 2017 - Redzel[12]
- 2016 - Music Magnate[13]
- 2015 - Boban[14]
- 2014 - Spirit of Boom[15]
- 2013 - Epaulette[16]
- 2012 - Sea Siren[17]
- 2011 - Beaded[18]
- 2010 - Hot Danish[19]
- 2009 - Apache Cat[20]
- 2008 - Apache Cat[21]
- 2007 - Takeover Target[22]
- 2006 - Undue[23]
- 2005 - Red Oog[24]
- 2004 - Super Elegant[25]
- 2003 - Bel Esprit[26]
- 2002 - Falvelon[27]
- 2001 - Falvelon[28]
- 2000 - Mr. Innocent[29]
- 1999 - Laurie's Lottery[30]
- 1998 - Chief De Beers[31]
- 1997 - Accomplice[32]
- 1996 - Suntain[33]
- 1995 - Chief De Beers[34]
- 1994 - Flitter[35]
- 1993 - Unequalled[36]
- 1992 - Barrosa Boy[37]
- 1991 - Prince Trialia[38]
- 1990 - Prince Trialia[39]
- 1989 - Potrero[40]
- 1988 - Campaign King[41]
- 1987 - Broad Reach[42]
- 1986 - Between Ourselves[43]
- 1985 - Lord Ballina[44]
- 1984 - Getting Closer[45]
- 1983 - My Axeman[46]
- 1982 - Ideal Planet
- 1981 - Sovereign Red
- 1980 - Hit It Benny
- 1979 - Manikato
- 1978 - Blue's Finito
- 1977 - Maybe Mahal
- 1976 - Burwana
- 1975 - Spedito
- 1974 - Charlton Boy
- 1973 - Craigola
- 1972 - Bengalla Lad
- 1971 - Baguette
- 1970 - Black Onyx
- 1969 - Black Onyx
- 1968 - Gay Gauntlet
- 1967 - Bourbon Beau
- 1966 - Pterylaw
- 1965 - Winfreux
- 1964 - The Tempest
- 1963 - Tipperary Star
- 1962 - Red Smoke
- 1961 - Aquanita
- 1960 - In Love
- 1959 - Second Earl
- 1958 - Grey Ghost
- 1957 - Teranyan
- 1956 - El Khobar
- 1955 - Apple Bay
- 1954 - Nagpuni
- 1953 - True Leader
- 1952 - Highlea
- 1951 - Coniston
- 1950 - Rim Boy
- 1949 - Ungar
- 1948 - Murray Stream
- 1947 - Highstrung
- 1946 - Bernborough
- 1945 - Port Raider
- 1944 - Gold Force
- 1943 - The Image
- 1942 - Auction
- 1941 - High Rank
- 1940 - Expressman
- 1939 - Micawber
- 1938 - Hamurah
- 1937 - Gay Chou
- 1936 - High Benia
- 1935 - Pamelus
- 1934 - Lough Neagh
- 1933 - Wallen
‡ Not held because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
References
- "Winners and Past Results for the Doomben 10,000". Progroup Racing (Australia). 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- Goodall, Heather; Maynard, John (15 March 2021). "Maynard, Charles Frederick (Fred) (1879–1946)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
This article replaces the original Volume 15 ADB biography, authored by Heather Goodall.
- "Rider Claims Fall Robbed Him of Win". The Age. No. 30, 013. Victoria, Australia. 9 July 1951. p. 14. Retrieved 17 October 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- "Fall cost visitor sprint". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 32, 713. Victoria, Australia. 9 July 1951. p. 12. Retrieved 17 October 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- "Doomben 10,000". Queensland History of Racing (Australia). 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
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- Decision looming on interstate horses in Queensland mini-carnival
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- "1991 Result – Castlemaine 10,000 (held 18 May 1991)". breednet.com. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
- "1990 Result – Castlemaine 10,000 (held 19 May 1990)". breednet.com. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
- "1989 Result – Rothmans 100,000 (held 13 May 1989)". breednet.com. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
- "1988 Result – Rothmans 100,000 (held 30 April 1988)". breednet.com. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
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- "1983 Result – Rothmans 100,000 (held 2 July 1983)". breednet.com. Retrieved 17 May 2015.