THE QUEENSLAND RACING CARNIVAL IS WHERE CHAMPIONS EMERGE.
Last year, it was Apache Chase and Alligator Blood that shone brightest, and this year the tradition continues.
Staged over 10 action-packed weeks, more than $25 million in prize money will go on the line, including eight Group 1s – seven of which surpassing $1 million.
For the first time, the Stradbroke Handicap will be run for a mammoth $3 million, doubling in prize money from 2022.
Stradbroke Day will once again act as the crowning jewel of the Carnival, with the $3 million Group 1 sitting alongside the $1 million Group 1 JJ Atkins and the $1.2 million Group 2 Q22 on a day that will now boast more than $6.5 million in total prize money.
In 2022, former Queensland Horse of the Year completed a fairy tale comeback to racing by claiming the famous Stradbroke, before going on to assert himself in the Melbourne Spring Carnival.