George Main Stakes


The Colgate Optic White Stakes, registered as the George Main Stakes, is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race run under Weight for Age conditions, over a distance of 1600 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia in September. Total prize money for the race is A$500,000.

History

The race is named after George Main, a former chairman of the Australian Jockey Club. Main lived with his wife Mary on Retreat, a grazing property at Illabo, west of Cootamundra on the southwest slopes of New South Wales. He bred racehorses and ran sheep.

The winner of the George Main is exempt from a ballot on the Epsom Handicap, and horses who run well often head for the Epsom.

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† Not held because of outbreak of equine influenza