Challenge Stakes (Ireland)

The Challenge Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in Ireland open to fillies and mares aged three years or older. It is run at Leopardstown over a distance of 1 mile and 6 furlongs (2,816 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in July.

Challenge Stakes
2020
Passion Traisha Kastasa

The race was first run in 1991 and was restricted to fillies and mares from 2016.[1] Since 2016 the race has been run as the Stanerra Stakes. In 2018 it was upgraded from Listed to Group 3 status as part of changes to enhance the European programme of stayer's races.[2]

Winners

Year Winner Age Jockey Trainer Time
2000 Pairumani Star 5 Pat Shanahan John Dunlop 3:0.60
2001 Vinnie Roe 3 Pat Smullen Dermot Weld 3:2.20
2002 Queens Wharf 4 Jerry O'Dwyer Michael Halford 3:43.90
2003 Blue Corrig 3 Declan McDonogh Joseph Crowley 3:00.70
2004 Barolo 5 Johnny Murtagh Peter Harris 3:03.70
2005 Orpington 4 Pat Smullen Dermot Weld 2:56.20
2006 Foreign Affairs 8 Declan McDonogh Sir Mark Prescott 2:57.60
2007 Galistic 4 Danny Grant Patrick J. Flynn 3:09.01
2008 Profound Beauty 4 Pat Smullen Dermot Weld 2:55.00
2009 Profound Beauty 5 Pat Smullen Dermot Weld 2:59.30
2010 Profound Beauty 6 Pat Smullen Dermot Weld 3:04.82
2011 Sense Of Purpose 4 Pat Smullen Dermot Weld 3:01.82
2012 Galileo's Choice 6 Pat Smullen Dermot Weld 3:09.13
2013 Royal Diamond 7 Johnny Murtagh Johnny Murtagh 2:59.65
2014 Pale Mimosa 5 Pat Smullen Dermot Weld 2:59.63
2015 Fields Of Athenry 3 Seamie Heffernan Aidan O'Brien 3:09.77
2016 Arya Tara 3 Anastasia O'Brien Joseph O'Brien 3:09.35
2017 Wild Irish Rose 3 Seamie Heffernan Aidan O'Brien 3:03.65
2018 Cimeara 3 Kevin Manning Jim Bolger 3:08.44
2019 Peach Tree 3 Wayne Lordan Aidan O'Brien 3:02.08
2020 Passion[lower-alpha 1] 3 Seamie Heffernan Aidan O'Brien 3:18.85
  1. The 2020 running took place at Naas in August due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland

See also

References

  1. "Curragh races upgraded by European Pattern Committee". The Curragh racecourse. Archived from the original on 1 October 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  2. "European Pattern Committee announces changes to the 2018 European Programme of Black Type Races". British Horseracing Authority. 26 January 2018.


  • ifhaonline.orgInternational Federation of Horseracing Authorities – Stannera Stakes (2019).
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