Queensland Guineas

Queensland Guineas
Group 2 race
Aboukir, 1955 winner
LocationEagle Farm Racecourse
Brisbane, Australia
Inaugurated1896
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
SponsorTreasury Brisbane (2022)
Race information
Distance1,600 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
QualificationThree year old
WeightSet Weights
Colts and geldings – 57 kg
Fillies – 55 kg
PurseA$350,000 (2022)

The Queensland Guineas is a Brisbane Racing Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race held over 1600 metres, at set weights, for three-year-old horses held at Eagle Farm Racecourse in Brisbane, Australia in June during the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival.[1] Total prizemoney is A$350,000.

Due to track reconstruction of Eagle Farm Racecourse for the 2014–15 racing season the event was transferred to Doomben Racecourse.[2]

Lough Neagh, 1931 winner
  1. ^ "Winners and Past Results for the Queensland Guineas". Progroup Racing (Australia). 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  2. ^ Exelby, Nathan (18 January 2015). "Frustration as fears Eagle Farm's re-opening could be pushed back as late as October". The Courier Mail. Retrieved 24 May 2015.