The Gimcrack Stakes is a Perth Racing Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-old fillies, run at set weights with penalties, over a distance of 1100 metres at Ascot Racecourse, Perth, Western Australia in March.
[1] The event is named after Gimcrack, a successful English racehorse in the 18th century.
Gimcrack won twenty-seven times in a career of thirty-six races.
The race is a preparatory race for the highly regarded Karrakatta Plate held a couple of weeks later.
¶ The event was run in divisions ‡ Race moved in the WATC racing calendar forward from late spring (November) to autumn (March) of 1998