Races: The Masters of WA Racing is a celebration of the last 10 years of the Railway Stakes, the Kingston Town Classic and the Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot Racecourse.
From Friday 1 December to Friday 8 December – the day before the final Saturday of The TABtouch Masters – Perth Racing invites you to participate in a dynamic online poll to rank the 30 races featured on the Races: The Masters of WA Racing. Inspired by Facebook’s predecessor, the Mark Zuckerberg-developed Facemash, it is easy, fun and addictive.
Below you see images and synopses pertaining to two of the 30 races featured on the Races: The Masters of WA Racing. Click the image of the race you think was the better of the two. The system will serve you with random head-to-head battles on which you can vote until you choose to stop voting. Behind the scenes, the system will rank the races based on the results of the head-to-head battles on which you and your fellow fans vote.
Which was the better of these two races? Click the relevant image to cast your vote!
2011 Burswood-Winterbottom Stakes
Ortensia won the Winterbottom Stakes both before and after its elevation to Group One status and her victory in the 2011 edition was the first of her three triumphs at the highest level, successes that she achieved on three different continents over three different distances.
2008 Carlton Draught-Railway Stakes
Two months before he lost his life to a knee infection, Gilded Venom won the Railway Stakes for his soon-to-be heartbroken connections, the half brother of Scenic Blast responding to Patrick Carbery’s urgings to edge out Sniper’s Bullet in the Group One race.