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!
2015 Crown Perth-Winterbottom Stakes
Buffering’s second Winterbottom Stakes success – the fifth time that a thoroughbred had won multiple editions of the race – did not require the judge to pore over the photo-finish image because Robert Heathcote’s war horse crossed the line one length ahead of Watermans Bay.
2012 Crown Perth-Winterbottom Stakes
Lucky legs 11, he has run them off theirs. That is how Darren McAullay summed up the Winterbottom Stakes-winning performance of Barakey, which extended his then unbeaten record to 11 races after Jason Brown released the brakes on Jim Taylor’s beloved sprinter.