Northerly Stakes Northerly Stakes The Northerly Stakes is a Perth Racing Group 3 Thoroughbred handicap horse race for horses aged four years old and upwards, over a distance of 1400 metres at Ascot Racecourse, Perth, Australia in October. Prize money is A$150,000. The race was renamed in 2010 after the champion Western Australian thoroughbred Northerly, winner of two W S Cox Plates (2001 & 2002), two Australian Cups (2001 & 2003) and a Caulfield Cup (2002). The race is run on Caulfield Cup day. † Originally the race was scheduled on 18 October 2015 but the race meeting was abandoned after the
Northerly Island called for the creation of Northerly Island as a lakefront park at the northern end of a five-island chain between Jackson Park and 12th Street. It was the only lakefront structure to be built based on Burnham's 1909 Plan. Northerly Island forms the southern end of Chicago Harbor (now Monroe Harbor), and the eastern boundary of Burnham Harbor. As indicated by the color green on the original plan, the island was to be populated by trees and grass for the public enjoyment. Daniel Burnham died in 1912. By 1916, Edward H. Bennett, co-author of the Plan of Chicago, wrote that