Australian Spring Racing Carnival

Over a 200 year period, this carnival has grown from a few races, to a three day event to now two whole months. Following closely in stature to Melbourne, the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival features the following high value races (in order): 

Yes, you read correctly, a race with $15m in prize money, really put Sydney on the map. The Everest which started in 2017 is Australia´s richest race and the world´s richest turf race.
Royal Randwick and Rosehill Gardens are the primary hosts for the Sydney Spring Carnival. The timing allows for racers to come to the NSW events before heading down to Victoria for the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. However, some of the races including the $2m Five Diamonds have been put on the card to detract trainers from sending their horses to Victoria.
The George Main Stakes and the Golden Stakes races are typically events for dual carnival hopefuls. 
The addition of the Everest and the Gold Eagle have really allowed The Sydney Spring Racing Carnival to rival the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.

The Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival contains racing from not just Melbourne´s racetracks but also Bendigo and Geelong, both holding Group 3 races. However here, we will just focus on the Melbourne meetings. The Spring Racing Carnival officially starts with the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes Day at Flemington, one week after the AFL Grand Final and ends in mid-November at Sandown.

One race technically outside the Spring Racing Carnival taking place in the September/October timeframe is:

Turnbull Stakes                                 2,000m                 G1          4yrs and up                         $500k    

This race can give some guidance for horses thinking of the Caulfield Stakes or Caulfield Cup.

The Melbourne Racing Club holds racing at the Caulfield Carnival, the Moonee Valley Carnival and the (Flemington) Melbourne Cup Carnival which of course attracts the most punters’ attention.

There are 3 race meetings at Caulfield:

3 weeks before the Victoria Derby, at Flemington, there is a meeting within which are:

On the weekend after the Caulfield Guineas, to complete the Caulfield program, there is the financially inviting:

The Moonee Valley Spring Carnival, starts on the Friday evening after the Caulfield Cup with:

The Flemington Spring Carnival starts on the week after the Moonee Valley Spring Carnival finishes, with a week of outstanding racing, those races of note are:

You may think that with the Melbourne Cup over, a fantastic racing week comes to an end for another year, but this is not true, read on for further racing in the rest of the year.