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!
2008 SGIO-Winterbottom Stakes
A nose was all that separated Takeover Target and Apache Cat at the end of the best known edition of the Winterbottom Stakes, Joe Janiak’s rags-to-riches sprinter getting the better of Greg Eurell’s galloper in a heart-stopping, head-bobbing finish featuring two greats.
2009 Carlton Draught-Railway Stakes
The silver and bronze medallist in the previous year’s Railway Stakes and Kingston Town Classic respectively, Sniper’s Bullet’s second Ascot Racecourse campaign got under way with a Railway Stakes victory in which Nash Rawiller rode him prominently throughout the race.