Sydney Stakes

The Sydney Stakes is a Group 3 race that is run under weight for age conditions for open class sprinters over 1200m at Randwick Racecourse, boasting a prize pool of $2 million.

Since the inaugural running of the Sydney Stakes in 1968, it has been classified as a Principal race between 1968 and 1977, before it was upgraded to Listed in 1978 until 2017. However, since 2018 the Sydney Stakes has been run as a Group 3 contest.

After being run over 1000m for most of its history, the Sydney Stakes has been run over 1200m, since the Australian Turf Club set it up to be the consolation race for runners that did not receive a slot in The Everest.

Notable winners of the Sydney Stakes include Deprive (2019), Pierata (2018), In Her Time (2017), Deep Field (2014), Famous Seamus (2012 & 2013), Shogun Lodge (2003) and Diamond Benny (1988 & 1989).

2023 Sydney Stakes Betting Odds

Odds for the 2023 Sydney Stakes are currently unavailable.

Best Sydney Stakes betting sites

The Sydney Stakes is one race during the Sydney spring carnival that is attracting plenty of early betting interest, so online bookmakers tend to open early all-in markets. Bookmakers will have markets for Sydney Stakes throughout the week of the race, with these increasing as the date draws closer.

All of our recommended horse betting sites offer betting on the Sydney Stakes and promotions surrounding racing at Randwick. These horse racing betting sites generally have apps available for iOS and Android smartphones, with these the two most common operating systems on smartphones in Australia.

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2023 Sydney Stakes Final Field

HorseBetting will update this page when the 2023 Sydney Stakes Final Field is released.

Previous Sydney Stakes Field

• 2022 Sydney Stakes field

  No.	Silks	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight
  1		Apache Chase	Desleigh Forster	Jim Byrne	5	58.5kg
  2		Kementari	James Cummings	Nash Rawiller	11	58.5kg
  3		Gem Song	Kris Lees	Chad Schofield	9	58.5kg
  4		In The Congo	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	James McDonald	13	58.5kg
  5		The Astrologist	Leon & Troy Corstens	William Pike	23	58.5kg
  6		Bandipur	Kelly Purdy	Glyn Schofield	10	58.5kg
  7		Remarque	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	Hugh Bowman	8	58.5kg
  8		Tycoonist	Chris Waller	Craig Williams	4	58.5kg
  9		Brutality	Joseph Pride	Kathy O’Hara	21	58.5kg
  10		Prime Candidate	Bjorn Baker	Dylan Gibbons	6	58.5kg
  11		Shelby Sixtysix	Danny Williams	Robbie Dolan	20	58.5kg
  12		Blondeau	Chris Waller	Jay Ford	16	58.5kg
  13		Riodini	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Sam Clipperton	19	58.5kg
  14		Rocketing By	David Pfieffer	Rachel King	7	58.5kg
  15		Weona Smartone	David Vandkye	Kyle Wilson-Taylor	1	58.5kg
  16		Soldier Of Love	Bjorn Baker	James Orman	12	58.5kg
  17		Forbidden Love	Michael Freedman	Kerrin McEvoy	22	58.5kg
  18		Swats That	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Damian Lane	15	58.5kg
  19		Wisdom Of Water(1E)	Annabel Neasham	N/A	17	58.5kg
  20		Waihaha Falls (2E)	John O’Shea	Brenton Avdulla	18	58.5kg
  21		Irish Songs (3E)	Kurt Goldman	Keagan Latham	3	58.5kg
  22		Battleton (4E)	Bjorn Baker	N/A	<2/strike>	58.5kg
  23		Tristate (5E)	Anthony Cummings	N/A	14	58.5kg

2022 Sydney Stakes result

Recent Sydney Stakes winners

• 2022: Rocketing By causes massive boilover
  David Pfieffer and Rachel King have combined with Rocketing By (+6000) to cause a massive boilover in the Group 3 Sydney Stakes at Randwick. After getting a great run along the rail throughout the race, the son of So You Think flew up the inside running rail to nab In The Congo (+500) in the final strides of the race. The David Vandyke-trained Weona Smartone (+1800) finished off nicely on the outside to run into third.
• 2021: Big Parade proves too good in Sydney Stakes
  The heavily-backed favourite Big Parade (+140) has claimed the Group 3 Sydney Stakes at his first weight-for-age race of his career. After settling on-speed, Joshua Parr pushed the button on the son of Deep Field and he took the lead with 200m to go. Standout (+1000) and Prime Candidate (+2500) tried to stay with the winner, but Big Parade proved too tough at the end of the 1200m contest.
• 2020: Trumbull just hangs on
  Trumbull (+1300) went into Saturday’s Group 3 Sydney Stakes first-up for his preparation, but it didn’t matter as he went onto win the 1200m contest. This son of Darci Brahma ran home over the top of the slowing leader in Signore Fox (+4000) to take the lead. Standout (+320) burst out of the pack late to challenge the winner late, but couldn’t get past Trumbull in the final strides.
• 2019: Deprive mows them down in Sydney Stakes victory
  Deprive (+800) has kept his unbeaten record intact after taking out the Group 3 Sydney Stakes at Randwick. The James Cummings-trained galloper settled near last before getting to the very outside and letting down with a blistering turn of foot. In the final 200m this son of Denman flew home to run over the top of the Champagne Cuddles (+600) and the race favourite Brutal (-105.26), who finished in second and third, respectively.

Sydney Stakes winners

Sydney Stakes winners pre-2000