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Plenty of good staying form comes from the Champagne Stakes run at Randwick on Saturday.

Militarize gave Chris Waller the Triple Crown last year. What does the 2024 Champagne Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday have in store?

2024 CHAMPAGNE STAKES - RACE HISTORY AND BACKGROUND

The Champagne Stakes is a Group 1 race for Two Year Olds conducted by the Australian Turf Club at Randwick.

The Champagne Stakes was first run in 1861 and was won by Exeter.

The Champagne Stakes is run over 1600m under Set Weight conditions. It has had many distance changes and was a sprint race until the early 70s. (1000m (1861), 1600m (1862-1864), 1400m (1865-1866), 1000m (1867-1880), 1200m (1881), 1000m (1882), 1200m (1883-1971), 1600m (1972-onwards)).

In the last 20 years, 7 Fillies have won the Champagne Stakes with the previous filly winner – She's Extreme (2022).

Three people share the most wins as a trainer at six being Tom Lamond, Maurice McCarten and Tommy Smith. Peter Snowden (now with Paul) has five.

Shane Dye, with six of his own, has most titles for the jockeys ahead of Tom Hales with five.

The ATC Sires is the obvious lead up run two weeks earlier with the Champagne winner running in it 25 times in 29 years. The Fernhill Hcp is the other race to look to.

Six times the Triple Crown was completed in the Champagne Stakes – Baguette (1970), Luskin Star (1977), Tierce (1991), Burst (1992), Dance Hero (2004), Pierro (2012).

AJC Sires-Champagne Stakes double – 42 times with the most recent winner being Militarize (2023).

Golden Slipper-Champagne Stakes double – Todman (1957), Sky High (1960), Storm Queen (1966), Baguette (1970), Vivarchi (1976), Luskin Star (1977), Tierce (1991), Burst (1992), Dance Hero (2004), Pierro (2012).

1957 saw Todman defeat Tulloch reversing the result from the Sires. A 'good' crop of 2yos you'd say.

Helmet ducked off the track in the straight and almost threw the 2011 race away. Viscount did the same thing 10 years earlier when he shied at a flock of seagulls.

Castelvecchio would end up running a top second in the Cox Plate later in the year.

Chris Waller had never trained a Sydney G1 2yo winner in his career prior to 2023. The win of Militarize secured him the Triple Crown.

The 2024 Champagne Stakes was worth $1,000,000.

Notables winners of the Champagne Stakes include Hyperion (1875), Robinson Crusoe (1876), Malt King (1909), Furious (1921), Heroic (1924), Manfred (1925), Hall Mark (1933), Ajax (1937), Flight (1943), Todman (1957), Wiggle (1958), Noholme (1959), Sky High (1960), Storm Queen (1966), Vain (1969), Baguette (1970), Luskin Star (1977), Red Anchor (1984), Bounding Away (1986), Tierce (1991), Burst (1992), Dance Hero (2004), Samantha Miss (2008), Helmet (2011), Pierro (2012), Prized Icon (2016), Castelvecchio (2019), King's Legacy (2020), She's Extreme (2022) and Militarize (2023).

The 2023 Champagne Stakes was won by Militarize from Bases Loaded and Townsend.