Junior Kids

Junior Kids' Fashions on the Field

how to enter

  1. You must pre-register. Call the Flemington Service Centre on 1300 727 575 from 8 October 2008.

the competition

  • To streamline the competition and reduce waiting times for contestants, friends and parents, a new system of registration that rolls immediately into Heats is being introduced this year.
  • As each group of approximately 20 entrants of the same sex receive their contestant cards, they will be formed into a group and move almost immediately onstage for their heat.

10.30am - Heats

  • A Specialist Judging Panel will select their top one or two contestants from each heat. The criteria for judging is based on "Fun and Fashionable Racewear". Click here for the criteria.
  • While the group is still onstage, the MC will announce the contestant/s who will progress to the appropriate Junior Final and then the group will file off stage
  • Contestants not selected to progress in the competition will be given a gift bag on departing the Emirates Kids' Fashions on the Field Enclosure
  • Contestants selected to progress in the competition will be asked to wait until the conclusion of the heats, when they will be briefed as a group about their requirements for the Junior Finals later the same day.
  • Following this briefing (at approx 11.15am), the Junior Finalists will be free to leave.

12.40pm - Junior Finals Registration

  • All boy and girl Junior Finalists will be asked to return to the Emirates Kids' Fashions on the Field Enclosure at 1pm sharp. If a finalist has not presented themselves to event staff by 1.05pm they will be disqualified from the competition.

12.50pm - Junior Final - Boys

  • An expanded panel of judges will select their top three contestants in priority order, awarding 5, 3 or 1 point/s
  • The contestant with the highest score at the end of the Junior Boys Final, will be named the "Junior Boys Winner of Emirates Kids' Fashions on the Field for 2008" and will receive the major prize for this category.
  • Prizes will also be awarded to second and third placegetters.

1.00pm - Junior Final - Girls

  • An expanded panel of judges will select their top three contestants in priority order, awarding 5, 3 or 1 point/s
  • The contestant with the highest score at the end of the Junior Girls Final, will be named the "Junior Girls Wwinner of Emirates Kids' Fashions on the Field for 2008" and will receive the major prize for this category.
  • Prizes will also be awarded to second and third placegetters.