Crown Oaks

Crown Oaks
registered as VRC Oaks
Group 1 race
Chicquita, 1949 winner
LocationFlemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia
Inaugurated1861; 163 years ago (1861)
Race typeThoroughbred
SponsorCrown (2024)
Race information
Distance2,500 metres
SurfaceTurf
QualificationThree year old fillies
WeightSet weights – 55½ kilograms
Purse$1,000,000 (2022)

The Victoria Racing Club Oaks (known as the Crown Oaks for sponsorship reasons), is a Victoria Racing Club (VRC) Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies, run under set weights conditions, over 2,500 metres at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia on the third day of the VRC Spring Carnival, the Thursday after the Melbourne Cup in early November.[1] Total prize money for the race is A$1,000,000

  1. ^ "Winners and Past Results for the Crown Oaks". Pro Group Racing Australia. 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2014.