For the 2020 edition, the TJ Smith Stakes prizemoney was reduced to $1.25 million to help reduce the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, but was back up to $2.5 million again in 2021 before ...

The event is conducted on Day 2 of the major Perth Summer Racing Carnival in Western Australia, which also features the Group 1 Railway Stakes (1600m) the weekend before and the Group 1 Kingston Town ...

The Thousand Guineas (1600m) for the fillies was previously held on the same day but since 2023 runs in mid to late November on its own end-of-spring feature race meeting. In 2024 Caulfield Guineas ...