Adrian Knox Stakes

The Adrian Knox Stakes is a Group 3 race for three-year-old fillies, run over 2000m at Royal Randwick by the Australian Turf Club.

Originally known as the Princess Handicap when first run in 1948, it was renamed in 1987 in honour of Adrian Knox, a former AJC chairman and Chief Justice of the High Court.

The Adrian Knox Stakes was run over 7 furlongs until 1959, then a mile until 1972, and has been contested over 2000m since 1973, making it a key lead-up to the Group 1 ATC Oaks (2400m).

The Adrian Knox Stakes has held Group 3 status since 1986 and is run under quality handicap conditions, offering ballot exemption for the Oaks.

The 2024 Adrian Knox Stakes, worth $250,000, was won by Good Banter, defeating Autumn Angel and Concello.

Sixteen fillies have completed the Adrian Knox–Oaks double, including Light Fingers, Leilani, Royal Descent, and Colette. Other notable winners include Circles Of Gold, Wild Iris, Duais, and Arabian Gold.

2025 Adrian Knox Stakes betting odds

Odds for the Adrian Know Stakes as of March 31 – Courtesy of Neds

• Polymnia Win $4.00 Place $1.75
• Inevitable Truth Win $5.00 Place $2.00
• Treasurethe Moment Win $6.00 Place $2.25
• Dominetta Win $9.00 Place $3.00
• Exclusive Artist Win $11.00 Place $3.50
• You Wahng Win $11.00 Place $3.50
• Canny Queen Win $15.00 Place $4.50
• Sun ’N’ Sand Win $15.00 Place $4.50
• All Kinds Of Folk Win $21.00 Place $6.00
• Amplify Win $21.00 Place $6.00
• Belle Detelle Win $21.00 Place $6.00
• Ella Hazel Win $21.00 Place $6.00
• Jayashree Win $21.00 Place $6.00
• Swelter Win $21.00 Place $6.00
• Geemes Win $26.00 Place $7.25
• Miss Alexis Win $34.00 Place $9.25
• Flaming Moon Win $51.00 Place $13.50
• Kaffir Lily Win $51.00 Place $13.50
• Atomic Clock Win $61.00 Place $16.00
• O Cara Mia Win $101 Place $26.00

How to bet on the Adrian Knox Stakes

Ordinarily a Group 3 race would be a big deal, but given the TJ Smith Stakes and the Doncaster Mile are run on day one of the Championships, the Adrian Knox Stakes takes a backseat to those races.

However, that does not mean it does not draw plenty of attention.

Given what is at stake for the winner there is always buzz around the Adrian Knox Stakes, which means fixed odds markets tend to emerge around a week before the race jumps.



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Adrian Knox Stakes News

2025 Adrian Knox Stakes Final Field

HorseBetting will update this page when the 2025 Adrian Knox Stakes final field is released on Wednesday, April 2, 2025.

Previous Adrian Knox Stakes Fields

• 2024 Adrian Knox Stakes field

  No.	Silks	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight
  1		Autumn Angel	Peter Moody & Katherine Coleman	Mark Zahra	7	61kg
  2		Harlow Mist	John Sargent	Reece Jones	21	55.5kg
  3		Waikato Girl	Michael Freedman	Tommy Berry	4	54kg
  4		Noble Tess	Brad Widdup	Ron Stewart	5	54kg
  5		Heaven Bound	Joseph Pride	Blake Shinn	6	54kg
  6		Concello	Chris Waller	Jason Collett	15	53.5kg
  7		Private Legacy	Gregory Hickman	Ms Rachel King	18	53kg
  8		Kind Words	Kris Lees	Regan Bayliss	3	53kg
  9		Last Straw	John Sargent	Tom Sherry	11	53kg
  10		Global Pivot	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Tim Clark	13	53kg
  11		Ahuriri	Chris Waller	Craig Williams	22	53kg
  12		Good Banter	John O’Shea	Jamie Kah	14	53kg
  13		Kenyada	Chris Waller	Zac Lloyd	1	53kg
  14		Hippy Dreams	Edward Cummings	Michael Dee	2	53kg
  15		Bush Girl	Kerry Parker	Jay Ford	8	53kg
  16		Ocean Diva	John Sargent	Andrew Adkins	20	53kg
  17e		Seafall	Chris Waller	Dylan Gibbons	10	53kg
  18e		Bright Red	Chris Waller	Zac Purton	9	54kg
  19e		Miss Ghent	Norm Gardner	—	12	54kg
  20e		Dances With Hooves	Cameron Crockett	—	19	54kg
  21e		She’s Got Veuve	Chris Waller	—	16	53kg
  22e		Halkis	Robert & Luke Price	–	17	53kg

2024 Adrian Knox Stakes result

Recent runnings of the Adrian Knox Stakes:

• 2024: Good Banter finishes best
  Jamie Kah and Mark Zahra battled it out down the length of the Randwick straight in the Group 3 Adrian Knox Stakes, with Kah getting the better of her Victorian counterpart as Good Banter ($4.40) edged out Autumn Angel ($5.00) in the final strides of the 2000m contest. Zahra and Kah made their runs together as the field rounded the home turn and their mounts quickly ranged up to the leaders and started to kick clear from the rest of the field at the 200m mark to fight out the finish. However, with Autumn Angel giving Good Banter 8kg in weight, the smaller filly was able to get her nose in front with 50m to go and held out the tough Peter Moody & Katherine Coleman-trained filly in a driving finish, with Concello ($13.00) running home nicely into third place.
• 2023: Arts comes from nowhere to claim Group 2 glory
  Edward Cummings continued the Cummings family dominance in the Adrian Knox Stakes, as he won the race for the second time in three years with Arts, and made it four straight wins for the family, with his brother James winning the other two. The race favourite and James Cummings-trained Sequestered looked to have the race on her terms as she settled behind the leader and peeled of its back with 250m to go, however, Arts for Anthony Cummings exploded on the outside with a blistering turn of foot to power over the top of her and record a dominant 4.2 length victory. Arts was only at her third race start in the Group 3 Adrian Knox Stakes, after winning on debut at Kembla Grange in a maiden, before going to the Group 3 Kembla Grange Classic where she finished 12th of 12. After that performance in the Kembla Grange Classic, Arts wasn’t fancied by many, as she went around at massive odds ($26) with online bookmakers. Although Arts had never seen a Heavy track, she powered through the wet track, and she has put her name up in lights going into the Australian Oaks.
• 2022: Honeycreeper a class above
  Honeycreeper raced away from the field to claim the 2022 Group 3 Adrian Knox Stakes (2000m) at Randwick in dominant fashion under Hugh Bowman. Trained by James Cummings, the filly by Teofilo settled towards the rear of the big field after jumping from barrier 15, but she proved classes above her rivals, pulling clear to win by over three lengths. Charity Spirit from Gary Portelli and Alysha Collett made steady ground late to run second, with a further three lengths back to the fancied Mamounia. After Prophet’s Pride and Taizai led the field of 15 at a solid clip, it set the race up nicely for fillies from the back to finish the race off the better, and that is how the race played out with Honeycreeper reigning supreme.

Previous winners of the Adrian Knox Stakes

Adrian Knox Stakes winners pre-2000

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