The Crown Oaks Day (VRC Oaks) is the third day of the Melbourne Cup Spring Racing Carnival at Flemington. Aside from the exciting racing that takes place on the track, Oaks day has long been renowned as Ladies Day. The Fashions on the Field competition that takes place each year is now extremely popular with racegoers and brings out the best in Ladies fashion.
Race Type: Group 1
Distance: 2500m
Track: Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Victoria
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The ‘Oaks’ were first run in 1861 and despite being held on a work day, Crown Oaks Day has become one of the more popular crowd events on the Australian Horse Racing Calendar.
The feature race of the day is the Group 1 Crown Oaks for three year old fillies. The race is run over 2500m and now offers over $750,000 in prize money.
Past Crown Oaks Winners:
| 2009 – Faint Perfume 2008 – Samantha Miss 2007 – Arapaho Miss 2006 – Miss Finland 2005 – Serenade Rose 2004 – Hollow Bullet 2003 – Special Harmony 2002 – Bulla Borghese |
2001 – Magical Miss
2000 – Lovelorn 1999 – Tributes 1998 – Grand Archway 1997 – Kensington Palace 1996 – My Brightia 1995 – Saleous 1994 – Northwood Plume |
