Windsor Park Plate


The Windsor Park Plate is a New Zealand Thoroughbred horse race run at Hastings Racecourse in Hawke's Bay. The race is registered as the Horlicks Plate. It is run over a distance of 1600m in late September.
It is the second of the Hawkes Bay Triple Crown of the three Group 1 weight-for-age races. The others are:
A major supporting race run on the same day is the Gold Trail Stakes for three-year-old fillies at Group 3 level. This race marks the beginning of the New Zealand Filly of the Year series.
The race was previously named the Stoney Bridge Stakes from 2004 to 2008. In 2004 it was a Group 2 race, but from 2005 a Group 1 race. In 2003, when it was raced at Otaki, the race had been called the Glenmorgan Generous Stakes and prior to that the Hawkes Bay Challenge Stakes for Group 3 until 2002 when it was changed to Group 2.

Recent Winners of the Windsor Park Plate and its predecessors

Year
GroupWinner
20191Melody Belle
20181Melody Belle
20171 Gingernuts
20161Kawi
20151Julinsky Prince
20141Pure Champion
20131Xanadu
20121Mufhasa
20111Jimmy Choux
20101Wall Street
20091Daffodil
20081Princess Coup
20071Seachange
20061Seachange
20051Miss Potential
20042Starcraft
20032Irish Rover
20022Hello Dolly
20013Hello Dolly
20003The Message