This is the only G1 race for fillies and mares in an Australian season and is a highly sought after set weights 1500m.

Some female folklore of the turf have taken out this prestigious event, which was first run in 1973 and won by Miss Personality, a bay mare by Vibrant (GB).

The grey mare Favoured would win the second running of the race, which was simply called the STC Classic for the first two runnings.

The next two years it had the name of NSW Thoroughbred Breeder's Stakes then was known as the Marlboro Classic over 1977-78, with Princess Talaria taking out the first running.

1980 saw the race gain G2 status and become known as the Rosemount Wines Classic, with the tidy bay filly Stage Hit, who would leave Encores among her progeny, taking out the race for trainer Bart Cummings.

1982 saw the filly Sheraco prevail, also trained by Bart Cummings and the chestnut daughter of Lord Dudley would win the G1 AJC Oaks too.

A grey filly called Emanicpation won the Rosemount Classic in 1984 for trainer Neville Begg and rider Ron Quinton, which was the first year the race gained G1 status and what a turf legend she proved to be.

The daughter of Bletchingly from Ammo Girl certainly had plenty of shots to fire on the track and ended up a six-time G1 winner and a darling of the Australian racing public and press.

She would win nineteen of her twenty eight starts and scored on every type of track condition, a factor often unheralded in the really great gallopers.

Quinton was on board for eighteen of those wins in the magical partnership.

Emancipation would win at G1, apart from the Rosemount Classic, a pair of George Ryder Stakes, an All-Aged Stakes, a George Main Stakes and of course a Doncaster Handicap.

The following year saw Avon Angel take out what would be the last running under the name of the Rosemount Classic and this daughter of Avon Valley (GB), trained by Bob Thomsen and ridden by Peter Cook, would turn out an important broodmare too.

1986 saw the race become known as the Orlando Classic, a name it would hold for the next six runnings and Satin Sand won the first of them.

Another grey star in Bounding Away would win the Orlando Classic in 1986, with this daughter of Biscay having won the feature G1 juvenile treble the season before of the STC Golden Slipper, AJC Champagne Stakes and VATC Blue Diamond Stakes.

Mick "the enforcer" Dittman rode her for legendary trainer Tommy Smith to win the Orlando Classic and Bounding Away would also win at G1 level, as a three-year-old filly, the AJC Flight Stakes and AJC Oaks.

A daughter of Sovereign Red would win in 1989 for trainer Bart Cummings and turn out a broodmare gem, with Red Express leaving the four-time G1 winner Dane Ripper (by Danehill (USA)).

1992 saw another racename change to the Winfield Classic and Acushla Marie would take out the event, in an era when cigarette sponsorship was welcomed.

The grey theme continued in 1993 with Skating for trainer Graeme Rogerson and this daughter of At Talaq (USA) would take out the G1 Doncaster Handicap in the same year.

Flitter would win the last running of the Winfield Classic for the now late Max Lees and was ridden by Jim Cassidy.

The daughter of Bluebird (USA) had won the G1 Doomben 10,000 the year before.

1996 saw the first running of the name Coolmore Classic and Lees produced the winner too, a daughter of Zeditave called Chlorophyll.

Gai Waterhouse, the daughter of Tommy Smith, would produce her first winner of the Coolmore Classic named Assertive Lass in 1997, which was ridden by Shane Dye.

Assertive Lass had won the G1 AJC Flight Stakes the previous year.

The fifth win in the race over a thirteen year period for Max Lees came with Shindig in 1998, with Len Beasley the rider.

The year 2000 saw the wonder mare from New Zealand in Sunline prevail for trainers Trevor and Stephen McKee and was ridden by Greg Childs under 60kg, with the exactly the same combination and weight winning the race again in 2002.

The daughter of Desert Sun (GB) started a G1 winning rampage in the autumn as a three-year-old filly and would end up retiring as a seven-year-old mare that won thirteen times at the ultimate level.

Sunline is the still the leading Australasian money winner of all time, with over $11 million in stakes and the mare retired with thirty two wins from her forty eight starts.

She only missed a top three finish four times in her career, with two fourths, a fifth and a seventh.

The only winners of the Coolmore Classic to carry 60kg to victory have been Emancipation and Sunline.

Last year saw the second win in the race for trainer Gai Waterhouse, with the Dehere (USA) three-year-old filly Bollinger proving too swift in the hands of Chris Munce.

Quality befittingly wins this G1 race for fillies and mares, on the track and later in the broodmare arena.