- Gai Waterhouse-trained Pierro, ridden by jockey Nash Rawiller, won the 2012 Golden Slipper after overtaking race leader Snitzerland in the last 100 metres of the 1200m race on April 7 local time. Melbourne filly Samaready, who started favorite, ran third. It was the fourth Golden Slipper for Sydney trainer Waterhouse who predicted in October that Pierro would take out the world's richest race for two-year-olds.
- Short-priced favorite Sepoy, trained by Peter Snowden, won the 2011 Golden Slipper run on April 2, Australian eastern daylight saving time, at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse. Coming second was Mosheen, with Elite Falls third. Late scratchings were second favorite Smart Missile and long-priced Fast and Sexy.
- The 2010 Golden Slipper was won by two-year-old filly Crystal Lily on April 3 at Rosehill Gardens, with Decision Time and More Strawberries finising second and third. Crystal Lily was trained by Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra and ridden by jockey Brett Prebble.
The Golden Slipper is the world's richest horse race for two-year-olds held during the Autumn Racing Carnival in Sydney.
It was first run in 1957 and won by celebrated racehorse Todman who went on to sire many champions and was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2005.
The Golden Slipper is run over 1200m at Rosehill Gardens, close to Parramatta, in western Sydney.
Sixteen horses who qualify for the race line up for the Golden Slipper.
How it all began
The Golden Slipper, now part of the triad of Australia's greatest horse races with the Melbourne Cup and Cox Plate, came about when George Edward Ryder, picked by then NSW Premier Sir William McKell to head the newly created Sydney Turf Club, thought of having a race event that could compete with the Australian Jockey Club's Doncaster Handicap, Champagne Stakes and Sires Produce Stakes.
- February 7, 2011, the Australian Jockey Club and the Sydney Turf Club merged under the name of Australian Turf Club.
Deciding on a race for two-year-olds, Ryder was stumped for a name and the following conversation is now part of racing folklore:
- George Ryder: What would be a special gift for a newly-born baby?
Ryder's wife Dot: A slipper.
George: What sort of slipper?
Dot: A golden slipper.
So was born the world's richest race for two-year-olds: the Golden Slipper.
