The Eskimo Prince Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race, for three-year-olds, with set weights with penalties conditions, over a distance of 1200 metres at Warwick Farm Racecourse in Sydney, Australia in February.
[1] Total prize money for the race is A$160,000.
The race is named after Eskimo Prince, who was the champion two-year-old in 1964, winning the Golden Slipper Stakes[2] and continuing later in the year won the Canterbury Stakes and Rosehill Guineas.The horse was sold and stood at stud in the US and died in 1979 in Oklahoma.
The race was renamed to the Strada Stakes in honour of the winner of this race in 2006 who also stood as a sire at Widden Stud.
[5] In 2003 Dehero broke the course record for 1100 metres at Canterbury with a time of 1:03.05[6] which stood for eleven years and was broken in 2014.