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:
“The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The fifth day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Five gold rings,”
—Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 19–21)
“This man was very clever and quick to learn anything in his line. Our tent was of a kind new to him; but when he had once seen it pitched, it was surprising how quickly he would find and prepare the pole and forked stakes to pitch it with, cutting and placing them right the first time, though I am sure that the majority of white men would have blundered several times.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)