The Black Opal Stakes is a Canberra Racing Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race, for two-year-olds, at set weights, over a distance of 1200 metres, held annually at Canberra Racecourse in Canberra, Australia in March.
[1] Total prize money for the race is A$200,000.
Catbird (1999) is the only two-year-old to have taken out the Black Opal Stakes & Golden Slipper Stakes double since its inception.
[1] Race record is held by St Covet in 1994 with the time of 1.09.6.
[2] † Canberra's racetrack, Thoroughbred Park was under redevelopment.