The Victoria Racing Club Oaks (known as the Crown Oaks for sponsorship reasons), is a Victoria Racing Club (VRC) Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies, run under set weights conditions, over 2,500 metres at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia on the third day of the VRC Spring Carnival, the Thursday after the Melbourne Cup in early November.

[1] Total prize money for the race is A$1,000,000 Record attendance for the race day was set in 2004 with 110,677 in attendance.

[2] Popularly known as Ladies Day or just Oaks Day (but in recent times also colloquially called Blokes Day[4]), Kennedy Oaks Day has been an extraordinary phenomenon[peacock prose] of racing[citation needed].

[5] While the main draw card of the race day are the stars of the track, the other popular event on Crown Oaks Day is the annual "Fashions on the Field" celebrations.

Introduced by the Victoria Racing Club in 1962 in an effort to woo more women to the track, Ladies day and the Fashions on the Field concept has grown considerably with each year and is now adopted at racetracks and smaller events all over the world.