ASCOT RACING CARNIVAL FEATURE RACE PROGRAM DATE PRIZEMONEY RACE STATUS DISTANCE AGE SEX CONDITIONS Saturday 20 October $150,000 Northerly Stakes G3 1,400m 4UP O SWP $100,000 RS Crawford Stakes LR 1,000m 4UP O SWP Saturday 27 October $100,000 Belgravia Stakes LR 1,200m 3YO O SWP Saturday 3 November $150,000 Asian Beau Stakes G3 1,400m 3UP O HCP $150,000 Prince of Wales Stakes G3 1,000m 3UP O SWFA Tuesday 6 November $100,000 Burgess Queen Stakes LR 1,400m 3YO F SWP Saturday 10 November $250,000 Lee Steere Stakes G2 1,400m 3UP O SWFA $100,000 Ascot Gold Cup LR 1,800m 3UP O HCP $100,000 Fairetha Stakes LR 1,400m 3YO C&G SWP Saturday 17 November $150,000 Colonel Reeves Stakes G3 1,100m 3UP O SWP $150,000 RJ Peters Stakes G3 1,500m 3UP O HCP $200,000 WA Champion Fillies Stakes G3 1,600m 3YO F SW Saturday 24 November $1,000,000 Kirin-Railway Stakes G1 1,600m 3UP O HCP The TABtouch Masters $500,000 Sky Racing-WA Guineas G2 1,600m 3YO O SW $100,000 Carbine Club of WA Stakes LR 1,400m 4UP O SWP $100,000 Jungle Mist Classic LR 1,200m 3UP F&M SWP $100,000 Placid Ark Stakes LR 1,200m 3YO O SWP $100,000 Tattersall’s Cup LR 2,100m 3UP O HCP Saturday 1 December $1,000,000 Crown Perth-Winterbottom Stakes G1 1,200m 3UP O SWFA The TABtouch Masters $100,000 Crystal Slipper Stakes N/A 1,100m 2YO O SW $100,000 Regional Championship: The Road to Ascot N/A 1,200m 3UP O HCP Saturday 8 December $1,000,000 Magic Millions-Kingston Town Classic G1 1,800m 3UP O SWFA The TABtouch Masters $100,000 GA Towton Cup LR 2,200m 3UP O HCP $100,000 Jungle Dawn Classic LR 1,400m 3UP F&M SWP $100,000 Sir Ernest Lee-Steere Classic LR 1,400m 3YO O SWP Saturday 15 December $250,000 AJ Scahill Stakes G3 1,400m 3UP O SWFA Saturday 22 December $400,000 Ted van Heemst Stakes G2 2,100m 3UP O SWFA $100,000 Starstruck Classic LR 1,600m 3UP F&M SWP Saturday 29 December $100,000 ATA Stakes LR 2,200m 3UP O HCP Saturday 5 January $500,000 TABtouch-Perth Cup G2 2,400m 3UP O HCP $150,000 La Trice Classic G3 1,800m 3UP F&M SWP $100,000 Summer Scorcher LR 1,000m 3UP O HCP • KEY G1 Group One 2YO Two-year-olds only O Open HCP Handicap G2 Group Two 3YO Three-year-olds only C&G Colts and geldings SWFA Standard weight for age G3 Group Three 3UP Three-year-olds and upwards F Fillies SW Set weights LR Listed 4UP Four-year-olds and upwards F&M Fillies and mares SWP Set weights and penalties 2 THE TABTOUCH MASTERS SERIOUSLY GOOD TIMES Perth Racing invites you and your horses to enjoy seriously good times at The 2018 TABtouch Masters, the third edition of the world’s only single-track racing festival featuring a Group One race worth at least $1,000,000 on three consecutive Saturdays. The Kirin-Railway Stakes, Perth’s oldest Group One race, will get The TABtouch Masters under starter’s orders on Saturday 24 November; it is Ascot Racecourse’s classiest day of the year featuring six black type contests, including the Sky Racing-WA Guineas at Group Two level. Rhys Radford-trained gelding Great Shot led all the way to secure the 2017 Railway Stakes. The Crown Perth-Winterbottom Stakes, Australia’s last Group One sprint of the year, will be the second-up feature of The TABtouch Masters on Saturday 1 December. Mighty mare Viddora, the pride RAILWAY STAKES of South Australia, pulled off an interstate raid in 2017 for her Western Australia-born trainer, Lloyd Kennewell, and her large travelling band of owners who celebrated long into the night. And the Magic Millions-Kingston Town Classic, the southern hemisphere’s richest Group One 1,800 metres event, will wrap up The TABtouch Masters on Saturday 8 December; it honours one of the sport’s all-time greats, which made his final appearance in 1982 when he took out what was then known as the Western Mail Classic in front of a massive crowd. Alan Mathews-prepared gelding Pounamu claimed the 2017 Kingston Town Classic. Perth Racing’s invitation to The TABtouch Masters is a sincere one; its revised Equine All Stars Incentive Scheme continues to subsidise the travel costs of Railway Stakes, WA Guineas, Winterbottom Stakes and/or Kingston Town Classic runners from outside Western Australia and now assists visiting horses in other races. You can read all about the scheme on pages four and five. The TABtouch Masters is part of Perth Racing’s commitment to WINTERBOTTOM STAKES iconic events that bring people together to share unique racing and non-racing experiences. Each day of The TABtouch Masters boasts a unique theme – racing purists on Railway Stakes Day, life of the country on Winterbottom Stakes Day – it also features the finals of the Regional Championship: The Road to Ascot and the WA Country Cups Fashions on the Field – and families and friends on Kingston Town Classic Day. Nearly 50,000 people enjoyed seriously good times during the first two editions of The TABtouch Masters so check out this year’s travel and hospitality packages on pages 10 and 11 because you do not have to be connected to a competing horse to experience extraordinary in Western Australia. Nominations for the Railway Stakes, the WA Guineas, the Winterbottom Stakes and the Kingston Town Classic will close at 12:00 Australian Western Standard Time on Monday 15 October. Perth Racing looks forward to seeing you at Ascot Racecourse for The TABtouch Masters in which the best of the west will take on the best of the rest across 27 races - 11 of them with black type KINGSTON TOWN CLASSIC status - worth a total exceeding $5,000,000 in prizemoney. 3 EQUINE ALL STARS INCENTIVE SCHEME Perth Racing’s revised Equine All Stars Incentive Scheme continues to subsidise the travel costs of Group One and Group Two runners from outside Western Australia and now assists visiting horses in other races. The new and improved scheme still provides connections of Kirin-Railway Stakes, Sky Racing-WA Guineas, Crown Perth-Winterbottom Stakes and/or Magic Millions- Kingston Town Classic runners with effectively risk-free shots at glory in those four highly prized contests and its 2018 version also slashes the expenses associated with travelling a horse to compete in one or more of the 14 other black type events - four of which are restricted to fillies and mares - during BLACK HEART BART The TABtouch Masters and the final four Saturdays of the Ascot Racing Carnival. perthracing.com.au Participation in the scheme is not compulsory but, to access its many benefits, a representative of the incentivised horse must enter into an agreement with Perth Racing and Racing and Wagering Western Australia. The agreement empowers RWWA to rebate agreed monies if the incentivised horse places first to 10th in the Railway Stakes, the WA Guineas, the Winterbottom Stakes and/or the Kingston Town Classic. Rebates do not apply to other races but the scheme delivers fewer benefits to incentivised horses which do not run in the Railway Stakes, the WA Guineas, the Winterbottom Stakes and/or the Kingston Town Classic. BENEFITS TO RUNNERS IN RAILWAY STAKES, WA GUINEAS, WINTERBOTTOM STAKES AND/OR KINGSTON TOWN CLASSIC HORSE INTERSTATE- NEW ZEALAND- HONG KONG-, JAPAN- OR BASED HORSE BASED HORSE SINGAPORE-BASED HORSE Flight from country of origin to Melbourne N/A Yes Yes Post-arrival quarantine in Australia * N/A N/A Yes Charter flight from Melbourne to Perth ** Yes Yes Yes Quarantine inspection at Perth Airport Yes Yes Yes Transport from Perth Airport to stabling *** Yes Yes Yes Transport from stabling to Perth Airport Yes Yes Yes Flight from Perth to Melbourne Yes Yes Yes Flight from Melbourne to country of origin N/A Yes Yes HUMAN $5,000 travel/accommodation allowance (GST inclusive) Yes Yes Yes per incentivised horse in the Railway Stakes final field **** $5,000 travel/accommodation allowance (GST inclusive) Yes Yes Yes per incentivised horse in the WA Guineas final field **** $6,000 travel/accommodation allowance (GST inclusive) Yes Yes Yes per incentivised horse in the Winterbottom Stakes final field **** $7,000 travel/accommodation allowance (GST inclusive) Yes Yes Yes per incentivised horse in the Kingston Town Classic final field **** * Subject to Perth Racing sourcing access to a quarantine facility; ** Perth Racing will organise a charter flight from Melbourne to Perth (likely to be on Sunday 18 November); *** Perth Racing will assist with meeting stabling requests but its Equine All Stars Incentive Scheme does not cover any stabling costs; **** Perth Racing will assist with travel bookings, particularly those pertaining to hotel accommodation; only one travel/accommodation allowance per incentivised horse will apply in 4 the event of that galloper making the final field of more than one of the Railway Stakes, the WA Guineas, the Winterbottom Stakes and/or the Kingston Town Classic EQUINE ALL STARS INCENTIVE SCHEME REBATES FROM RUNNERS IN RAILWAY STAKES, WA GUINEAS, WINTERBOTTOM STAKES AND/OR KINGSTON TOWN CLASSIC PLACE INTERSTATE-BASED HORSE NEW ZEALAND- HONG KONG-, JAPAN- OR BASED HORSE SINGAPORE-BASED HORSE First $25,000 $35,000 $45,000 Second $20,000 $28,000 $36,000 Third $15,000 $21,000 $27,000 Fourth $10,000 $14,000 $18,000 Fifth $5,000 $7,000 $9,000 Sixth to 10th $2,500 $3,500 $4,500 RWWA will deduct the agreed rebate(s) from the ownership group’s share of the prizemoney; multiple rebates will apply in the event of an incentivised horse placing first to 10th inclusive in more than one of the Railway Stakes, the WA Guineas, the Winterbottom Stakes and/or the Kingston Town Classic BENEFITS TO RUNNERS IN RACES OTHER THAN RAILWAY STAKES, WA GUINEAS, WINTERBOTTOM STAKES AND/OR KINGSTON TOWN CLASSIC HORSE INTERSTATE- NEW ZEALAND-