Crown Oaks Day

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The Crown Oaks Day is the third day of the Melbourne Cup Spring Racing Carnival at Flemington. Oaks Day is held on the Thursday directly following Melbourne Cup Day (the first Tuesday in November). The Oaks were first run in 1861.

Aside from the exciting racing that takes place on the track, Oaks day has long been renowned as Ladies Day. The Fashions on the Field competition that takes place each year is now extremely popular with racegoers and brings out the best in Ladies fashion.

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The feature race of the day is the Group 1 Crown Oaks for three year old fillies. The race is run over 2500m and now offers over $750,000 in prize money.

Popularly known as Ladies Day (but in recent times also colloquially called Blokes Day), Crown Oaks Day has been an extraordinary phenomenon of racing. Despite being held on a work day (Melbourne Cup Day is the only public holiday during the racing carnival), Oaks Day boasts the fastest growing crowd records of any day in the Carnival, with over 100,000 punters attending the track each year.

While the main drawcard of the day is undoubtedly 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 all over the world.

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