Queen Elizabeth Stakes (VRC)
Image:Rogilla 1932 VATC Caulfield Cup Return to Scale Jockey George Robinson Trainer Les Haigh.jpg|thumb|260px|Rogilla, 1933 winner George Robinson up
Image:Amounis 1930 VATC Futurity Stakes Jockey Harold Jones Trainer Frank McGrath.jpg|thumb|260px|Amounis, 1929 jockey Harold Jones up
The Queen Elizabeth Stakes, first known as Queen's Plate, and then by various other names at different times in its history, is an Australian horse race run in Melbourne, Victoria.
It is a registered Victoria Racing Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged three years old and over, under quality handicap conditions, over a distance of at Flemington Racecourse on the last day of the VRC Spring Carnival in early November. Total prize money is A$300,000.
History
Distance
- 1854–1874 – 3 miles
- 1875–1876 – 2 miles
- 1877–1878 - 2 miles
- 1879 – 2 miles
- 1880 - 2 miles
- 1881–1884 – 2 miles
- 1885 - 2 miles
- 1886–1887 – 2 miles
- 1888 – 3 miles
- 1889 - 2 miles
- 1890–1894 – 2 miles
- 1895–1971 - 1 miles
- 1972 – 2400 metres
- 1973–1993 – 2500 metres
- 1994 – 2530 metres
- 1995 – 2500 metres
- 1996 – 2531 metres
- 1997–2005 – 2500 metres
- 2006–2007 – 2520 metres
- 2008–2009 – 2500 metres
- 2010 onwards – 2600 metres
Grade
- 1854–1978 - Principal Race
- 1979–2004 - Group 2
- 2005 onwards - Group 3
Name
- 1854-1872 - Queen's Plate
- 1873-1874 - Flemington Plate
- 1875-1894 - Canterbury Plate
- 1895–1968 - C.B. Fisher Plate
- 1969 - Queen's Cup
- 1970–1973 - C.B. Fisher Plate
- 1974 - Queen's Cup
- 1975–1978 - C.B. Fisher Plate
- 1979–1984 - Queen Elizabeth Stakes
- 1985 - Queen's Cup
- 1986–2009 - Queen Elizabeth Stakes
- 2010 - Queen's Cup
- 2011–2014 - Queen Elizabeth Stakes
- 2015 - Queen's Cup
- 2016 - 2021 - Queen Elizabeth Stakes
- 2022 - Queen's Cup
- 2023 - present - Queen Elizabeth Stakes
Winners since 1999
Source:Earlier winners
- 1998 - Might And Power
- 1997 - †Bright Spot / Vita Man
- 1996 - Valance
- 1995 - Pindi
- 1994 - Bullwinkle
- 1993 - Hear That Bell
- 1992 - Kawtuban
- 1991 - Frontier Ban
- 1990 - Savage Toss
- 1989 - Our Shannon Lad
- 1988 - Zamakima
- 1987 - Globetrotter
- 1986 - Colour Page
- 1985 - Chelaware
- 1984 - Irish Lord
- 1983 - Fountaincourt
- 1982 - My Sir Avon
- 1981 - Kip
- 1980 - Hyperno
- 1979 - Hyperno
- 1978 - Salamander
- 1977 - Tom's Mate
- 1976 - Perhaps
- 1975 - Four Leaf
- 1974 - Leilani
- 1973 - Director
- 1972 - Scotch And Dry
- 1971 - Classic Mission
- 1970 - Big Philou
- 1969 - Lochcourt
- 1968 - Rain Lover
- 1967 - General Command
- 1966 - Galilee
- 1965 - Craftsman
- 1964 - Piper's Son
- 1963 - Summer Fair
- 1962 - Even Stevens
- 1961 - Dhaulagiri
- 1960 - Nilarco
- 1959 - Webster
- 1958 - Sailor's Guide
- 1957 - Redcraze
- 1956 - Sailor's Guide
- 1955 - Rising Fast
- 1954 - Rising Fast
- 1953 - Hydrogen
- 1952 - Hydrogen
- 1951 - Bronton
- 1950 - Playboy
- 1949 - Dickens
- 1948 - Phoibos
- 1947 - Columnist
- 1946 - Leonard
- 1945 - Don Pedro
- 1944 - Race Not Held
- 1943 - Race Not Held
- 1942 - Race Not Held
- 1941 - High Caste
- 1940 - High Caste
- 1939 - High Caste
- 1938 - Ajax
- 1937 - Black Mac
- 1936 - Queen Of Song
- 1935 - Hall Mark
- 1934 - Nightly
- 1933 - Rogilla
- 1932 - Kuvera
- 1931 - Veilmond
- 1930 - Phar Lap
- 1929 - Amounis
- 1928 - Gothic
- 1927 - Silvius
- 1926 - Pantheon
- 1925 - Pilliewinkie
- 1924 - Lilypond
- 1923 - Rivoli
- 1922 - Violoncello
- 1921 - Tangalooma
- 1920 - Eurythmic
- 1919 - Artilleryman
- 1918 - Kennaquhair
- 1917 - Wallace Isinglass
- 1916 - Lavendo
- 1915 - Carlita
- 1914 - Mountain Knight
- 1913 - Radnor
- 1912 - Cider
- 1911 - Trafalgar
- 1910 - Alawa
- 1909 - Alawa
- 1908 - Alawa
- 1907 - Mountain King
- 1906 - Dividend
- 1905 - Tartan
- 1904 - Sweet Nell
- 1903 - Combat
- 1902 - Wakeful
- 1901 - Rock Gun
- 1900 - Maltster
- 1899 - Merriwee
- 1898 - The Grafter
- 1897 - Aurum
- 1896 - Bloodshot
- 1895 - †Auraria / Wallace
- 1894 - The Harvester
- 1893 - Patron
- 1892 - The Admiral
- 1891 - Steadfast
- 1890 - Megaphone
- 1889 - Abercorn
- 1888 - Mentor
- 1887 - The Australian Peer
- 1886 - Trident
- 1885 - Trenton
- 1884 - Commotion
- 1883 - Off Colour
- 1882 - Commotion
- 1881 - Wellington
- 1880 - Progress
- 1879 - Suwarrow
- 1878 - Warlock
- 1877 - Pluto
- 1876 - Calamia
- 1875 - Richmond
- 1874 - Melbourne
- 1873 - Don Juan
- 1872 - King Of The Ring
- 1871 - Warrior
- 1870 - Tim Whiffler
- 1869 - Charon
- 1868 - Glencoe
- 1867 - Tim Whiffler
- 1866 - Race Not Held
- 1865 - Volunteer
- 1864 - Race Not Held
- 1863 - Musidora
- 1862 - Race Not Held
- 1861 - Race Not Held
- 1860 - Race Not Held
- 1859 - The Moor
- 1858 - Green Linnet
- 1857 - Crockford
- 1856 - Tomboy
- 1855 - I Want It
- 1854 - Shadow