Easter Handicap

The Easter Handicap or Easter Stakes is a major horse race held at Ellerslie Racecourse in Auckland, New Zealand. It is raced over a distance of 1,600 metres (approximately 1 mile) by three-year-old and upwards thoroughbreds.

Race history
Although previously a Group 1 race, from 2017 it was reclassified to Group 2 and from 2022 to Group 3 level.

In 2016, the conditions of the race changed from a handicap to set weight and penalties, but reverted back to handicap conditions in 2018.

The race has been won by many of New Zealand's greatest milers, including Kindergarten (twice), Sleepy Fox (four times) and Grey Way.

The Easter Handicap is now raced in late April on the same date as the Championship Stakes.

Previous winners

 * 1964 - Tasman Sea
 * 1963 - Final Command
 * 1962 - Otematata
 * 1961 - Waipari
 * 1960 - Waipari
 * 1959 - Marie Brizard
 * 1958 - Japonica
 * 1957 - Solepic
 * 1956 - Coleridge
 * 1955 - Fair Chance
 * 1954 - Tesla
 * 1953 - Misprint
 * 1952 - Peter Boy
 * 1951 - Wandering Ways
 * 1950 - Lord Revel
 * 1949 - Rosslare
 * 1948 - Iwo Jima
 * 1947 - Sleepy Fox
 * 1946 - Sleepy Fox
 * 1945 - Sleepy Fox
 * 1944 - Sleepy Fox
 * 1943 - Landveyor
 * 1942 - Kindergarten
 * 1941 - Kindergarten
 * 1940 - Black Thread
 * 1939 - Beaupartir
 * 1938 - Francis Drake
 * 1937 - Tooley Street
 * 1936 - Royal Appellant
 * 1935 - Red Manfred
 * 1934 - Jonathan
 * 1933 - Golden Wings
 * 1932 - Great Star
 * 1931 - Hunting Cry
 * 1930 - Pegaway
 * 1929 - Bright Glow
 * 1928 - In The Shade
 * 1927 - Civility
 * 1926 - Reremoana
 * 1925 - Reremoana
 * 1924 - Hipo
 * 1923 - Roseday
 * 1922 - Grotesque
 * 1921 - Silver Link
 * 1920 - Gazique
 * 1919 - Uncle Ned
 * 1918 - Parisian Diamond
 * 1917 - Menelaus
 * 1916 - Chortle
 * 1915 - Merry Roe
 * 1914 - Ventura
 * 1913 - Jack Delaval
 * 1912 - Kakama
 * 1911 - Antoinette
 * 1910 - Waiari
 * 1909 - Aborigine
 * 1908 - Gold Crest
 * 1907 - Waipuna
 * 1906 - Mobility
 * 1905 - Scotty
 * 1904 - Regulation
 * 1903 - Golden Rose
 * 1902 - Nonette
 * 1901 - Rosella
 * 1900 - Advance
 * 1899 - Rex
 * 1898 - Rex
 * 1897 - Day Star
 * 1896 - Acone
 * 1895 - Folly
 * 1894 - Lottie
 * 1893 - Impulse
 * 1892 - Cynisca
 * 1891 - Impulse
 * 1890 - Hilda
 * 1889 - Leorina
 * 1888 - Friendship
 * 1887 - Spade Guinea
 * 1886 - Clogs
 * 1885 - Turquoise
 * 1884 - Radames/The Administrator
 * 1883 - Leonora
 * 1882 - Louie
 * 1881 - King Quail
 * 1880 - Yatapa
 * 1879 - Yatapa
 * 1878 - Elsa
 * 1877 - Bide A Wee
 * 1876 - Parawhenua
 * 1875 - Yatterina
 * 1874 - Batter