Without Fear Stakes

See the 2024 Without Fear Stakes Preview and results.

See the 2023 Without Fear Stakes Preview and results.

See the 2022 Without Fear Stakes Preview and results.

2021 was the first time this race was run as the Without Fear Stakes as it was previously called the Queen Adelaide Stakes. It was first held over 1050m at Morphettville in 1982 when it was won by a horse called Lemon Sorbet trained by Cliff Fahler and ridden by Mark Withers. In 1985 the distance was increased to 1100m then from 2001 to 2005 it was held over 1000m at Victoria Park (apart from 2002 when it was run over 1000m at Cheltenham. In 2006 to 2008 it returned to 1100m at Morphetville then went back to 1000m for two years – at Cheltenham in 2009 and Morphettville Parks in 2010. It 2011 it became the current 1050m distance at Morphettville. It has been a Listed race for over twenty years.

In July 2020, Thoroughbred Racing South Australia (TRSA) and the South Australian Jockey Club (SAJC) unveiled the new race names of six black-type South Australian races following a joint decision to honour some of South Australian racings greatest icons. The change of race name requests were voted on by the pattern committee and presented to Racing Australia for approval. Stallion Without Fear, former jockeys Clara Lindop and John Letts, trainer Leon Macdonald, industry figure the late David Coles and galloper Tobin Bronze now all have races named in their honour.

Without Fear was a famous stallion in South Australia that was imported by trainer Colin Hayes in 1972. He set many milestones for the local breeding industry including setting a world record for the number of individual winners from a single crop.