Blue Sapphire Stakes

The Blue Sapphire Stakes is a group 3 race for three-year-olds at Caulfield Racecourse and is run under set weights conditions, boasting a prize pool of $200,000.

The inaugural running of the Blue Sapphire Stakes in 2005 was for two-year-olds, but after seven editions of the event, the race was changed to be run for three-year-olds from 2012 onwards.

In 2023, the Blue Sapphire Stakes distance was changed from 1200m to 1400m, after the race was moved to the end of the Melbourne Spring Carnival.

Grand Impact is the last winner of the Blue Sapphire Stakes, having taken it out for Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr.

The Blue Sapphire Stakes will next be run on Saturday, November 18, 2023.

Notable winners of the Blue Sapphire Stakes include: Grand Impact (2022), Extreme Warrior (2021), Ranting (2020), Written By (2018), Flying Artie (2016), Eloping (2014), Smokin’ Joey (2010), Black Caviar (2009) and Gold In Dubai (2008).

2023 Blue Sapphire Stakes Betting Odds

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Blue Sapphire Stakes 2023 Final Field

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Previous Blue Sapphire Stakes Field

• 2022 Blue Sapphire Stakes field

  No.	Silks	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight
  1		Daumier	Anthony & Sam Freedman	Mark Zahra	7	57kg
  2		El Padrino	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Ethan Brown	9	57kg
  3		Lofty Strike	Julius Sandhu	Jamie Mott	8	57kg
  4		Lascars	James Cummings	Blake Shinn	14	57kg
  5		Economics	Annabel Neasham	Chad Schofield	2	57kg
  6		Shalailed	John O’Shea	Jye McNeil	5	57kg
  7		Eponymous	Chris Waller	N/A	11	57kg
  8		Grand Impact	Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr	Ben Melham	10	57kg
  9		Great Barrier Reef	Chris Waller	James McDonald	6	57kg
  10		Redzoust	Tony & Calvin McEvoy	Damien Oliver	13	57kg
  11		Masked Crusader	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	Tim Clark	1	57kg
  12		Bews	Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr	Damian Lane	3	57kg
  13		Shipstern	Leon & Troy Corstens	Craig Williams	12	57kg
  14		Greece	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Jamie Kah	4	55kg

2023 Blue Sapphire Stakes result

Recent Blue Sapphire Stakes results

• 2022: Grand Impact cruises to victory in Blue Sapphire
  The Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr-trained Grand Impact (+380) has taken out the Blue Sapphire Stakes over 1200m at Caulfield. Grand Impact crossed from barrier eight to sit outside Daumier (+750), who lead the nine horse field up to the turn, but when Daumier started to give ground as they rounded the turn it left Grand Impact in front a long way from home. However, it didn’t matter as this son of Saltono Aladdin took off and kicked clear to record an easy 1.75-length victory over Shalailed (+2500), with Lofty Strike (+650) running home strongly to claim third.
• 2021: Extreme Warrior blows his rivals away in Blue Sapphire
  Extreme Warrior (+380) upstaged his more-fancied stablemate Profiteer (+220) to bolt away with the Group 3 Blue Sapphire Stakes at Caulfield. After the race favourite led the race, Zac Spain pushed the button on his colt and he raced straight past the leader to put the race away by the 150m mark. On the line, Extreme Warrior held a 3.5-length margin over Profiteer, who himself held a 3.25-length advantage over third horse Minsk Moment (+280).
• 2020: Ranting causes boilover in tiny Blue Sapphire field
  The 2020 Blue Sapphire Stakes featured the smallest field in the history of the race, where three runners competed in the $400,000 feature. The Leon & Troy Corstens-trained Ranting (+1000) went into the race as the outsider of the small field; however, after travelling three-wide outside his two rivals, he was the strongest at the end of the race. Anders (-285.71) led the trio for most of the contest, with Hanseatic (+290) settling in the middle, but it would be the roughie Ranting who would finish over the top of the favoured runners late and win.
• 2019: Anaheed proves too classy in Blue Sapphire Stakes victory
  A peach of a ride from Damian Lane has seen the Peter & Paul Snowden-trained Anaheed (+650) claim the Group 3 Blue Sapphire Stakes at Caulfield. After settling behind the leaders, Lane waited for them to leave the rail so that he could save all the ground along the inside. When he went for his filly, she took off and found the lead over Lil Kontra (+1300) and Brooklyn Hustle (+700) and kept them at bay in the final 200m to record an easy one-length victory.

Blue Sapphire Stakes winners