Hawkesbury Guineas
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History
The Hawkesbury Guineas is a Group 3 race for three-year-old conducted by the Hawkesbury race Club at Clarendon racecourse, located 50km west of Sydney between Windsor and Richmond.
The Hawkesbury Race Club dates from the late 1800s. There have been numerous runnings of the Hawkesbury Guineas in various forms over a range of distances since 1871.
The modern day Hawkesbury Guineas for three-year-olds dates from 2000.
The Hawkesbury Guineas was run over 1200m under handicap conditions from 2000 until 2004.
There was no race in 2005 and since 2006 it has been run under set weights and penalty conditions over 1400m.
The Hawkesbury Guineas was a Listed Race from 2000 until 2013 and has been Group 3 since 2014 when it became a feature of Hawkesbury Race Club's stand alone Saturday race meeting in April.
It was run at Rosehill in 2020 due to the restrictions after the coronavirus outbreak.
The 2026 Hawkesbury Guineas was run for prizemoney of $250,000.
Notable winners of the Hawkesbury Guineas since 2000 include Hire, Alverta, Royal Discretion, Neeson, Pimpala Secret, Free Wheeling, Chautauqua, Najoom, Sambro, Mr Mozart, Hawaii Five Oh, Schwarz, Skyhook.
In 2015 the Hawkesbury stand alone meeting was abandoned after the first race due to track conditions. The Hawkesbury Guineas was run the following week at Rosehill when the winner was Najoom.
The 2026 Hawkesbury Guineas was won by Skyhook from Burma Star and Wootton Lass.
Previous Hawkesbury Guineas Winners
| Date | Horse | Jockey | WT | Trainer | BP |
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SKYHOOK
(AUS)
3C WRITTEN TYCOON (AUS) - MADAME PAULINE (AUS) REDOUTE'S CHOICE (AUS) |
J PARR | 58.0 | G RYAN & S ALEXIOU | 9 |
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MEDIA WORLD
(AUS)
3C WRITTEN TYCOON (AUS) - MERYL (AUS) EPAULETTE (AUS) |
TYLER SCHILLER | 56.0 | PETER SNOWDEN | 11 |
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SCHWARZ
(AUS)
3C ZOUSTAR (AUS) - SUMMER SHAM (AUS) NOT A SINGLE DOUBT (AUS) |
JAMES MCDONALD | 57.0 | JOHN O'SHEA | 1 |
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HAWAII FIVE OH
(AUS)
3C I AM INVINCIBLE (AUS) - ALOHA (AUS) ENCOSTA DE LAGO (AUS) |
N RAWILLER | 57.0 | G WATERHOUSE & A BOTT | 3 |
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MR MOZART
(AUS)
3C SNITZEL (AUS) - EURO ANGEL (NZ) RIP VAN WINKLE (IRE) |
WILLIAM PIKE | 59.0 | MICHAEL & WAYNE & JOHN HAWKES | 3 |
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EXOBOOM
(AUS)
3G EXOSPHERE (AUS) - FIRST BLOOM (AUS) DYLAN THOMAS (IRE) |
SAM CLIPPERTON | 56.0 | P & P SNOWDEN | 9 |
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DAWN PASSAGE
(AUS)
3C DAWN APPROACH (IRE) - RAJA LANE (AUS) DEVARAJA (NZ) |
ADAM HYERONIMUS | 57.0 | G WATERHOUSE & A BOTT | 10 |
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MILITARY ZONE
(AUS)
3G EPAULETTE (AUS) - LOADING ZONE (AUS) STREET SENSE (USA) |
JAMES MCDONALD | 57.0 | P & P SNOWDEN | 6 |
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SAMBRO
(AUS)
3G FASTNET ROCK (AUS) - EAU DE JOIE (AUS) ENCOSTA DE LAGO (AUS) |
J PARR | 56.0 | CHRIS WALLER | 9 |
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SHAZEE LEE
(AUS)
3F READY'S IMAGE (USA) - SHAZEE (AUS) DANEWIN (AUS) |
J FORD | 54.0 | SCOTT SINGLETON | 3 |
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SPILL THE BEANS
(AUS)
3C SNITZEL (AUS) - MISS DODWELL (AUS) FALBRAV (IRE) |
TIM CLARK | 58.0 | GERALD RYAN | 9 |
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NAJOOM
(AUS)
3F NORTHERN METEOR (AUS) - CHARLETY STAR (AUS) ARENA (AUS) |
TIM CLARK | 54.0 | MS G WATERHOUSE | 4 |
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CHAUTAUQUA
(AUS)
3G ENCOSTA DE LAGO (AUS) - LOVELY JUBLY (AUS) LION HUNTER (AUS) |
JAMES MCDONALD | 56.0 | MICHAEL & WAYNE & JOHN HAWKES | 14 |
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LIMES
(AUS)
3G COMMANDS (AUS) - RUM CRUISE (AUS) CANNY LAD (AUS) |
C REITH | 56.0 | PETER SNOWDEN | 2 |
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FREE WHEELING
(AUS)
3G AD VALOREM (USA) - MISS CAREFREE (AUS) LAST TYCOON (IRE) |
HUGH BOWMAN | 59.0 | PETER SNOWDEN | 5 |
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PIMPALA SECRET
(AUS)
3G MONASHEE MOUNTAIN (USA) - SECRET DANCER (AUS) GENERAL NEDIYM (AUS) |
G RYAN | 55.0 | MARC CONNERS | 1 |
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NEESON
(AUS)
3G MOSSMAN (AUS) - FAVORITE ACTRESS (NZ) DON'T FORGET ME (IRE) |
P ROBL | 56.0 | JOSEPH PRIDE | 8 |
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