The Royal Sovereign Stakes is a Group 2 Australian Thoroughbred horse race, for three year-old colts and geldings, over a distance of 1200 metres. It is held annually at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia in February.
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“a highly respectable gondolier,
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And teach him the trade of a timoneer
With his own beloved brattling.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
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“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)