The Desert Gold Stakes is a horse race held at Trentham Racecourse in Trentham near Wellington, New Zealand named in honor of the great filly, Desert Gold.
The horses taking part are 3 year-old fillies which race over 1600 metres. It is held on Wellington Cup day in late January.
Famous quotes containing the words desert, gold and/or stakes:
“That undefined and mingled hum,
Voice of the desert never dumb!”
—James Hogg (1770–1835)
“Don different from those regal Dons!
With hearts of gold and lungs of bronze,
Who shout and bang and roar and brawl
The Absolute across the hall,”
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)
“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)