Ladbrokes Tip: Single-figure fancies have dominated the AJ Moir Stakes in recent history.
The AJ Moir Stakes is the feature race of one of Moonee Valley’s spring meetings now held in early September each season.
It is a 1000m sprint run under weight-for-age conditions that moved forward a month ahead of the 2024 edition and now takes place on a Saturday instead of its previous Friday night time slot.

2023 Moir Stakes winner Imperatriz. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.
Currently worth $750,000 in prize money, the race is a nice lead-up for sprinters looking for a Melbourne Cup Carnival win in something like the VRC Champions Sprint at Flemington in November.
Imperatriz (2023) was the last horse to complete the Moir Stakes – VRC Champions Sprint double. She also won the Manikato Stakes during a hot spring sprinting streak.
First run in 1976 it is one of the season’s younger features and has only held Group 1 status since 2013. The Moir is named in honour of former Moonee Valley Racing Club chairman AJ Moir.
Many top sprinters feature in the Moir Stakes honours list including Manikato (1982), Placid Ark (1987), Schillaci (1992), Apache Cat (2009), dual winner Black Caviar (2010 & 2011), and classy Kiwi mare Imperatriz (2023).
Another notable Moir Stakes winner is triple champion Buffering who won in 2012 before going back-to-back in 2014-15, while in 2017 returning Golden Slipper winning filly She Will Reign stole the show.
The AJ Moir Stakes also now serves as a lead-up into Sydney’s $20 million The Everest – the richest turf race in the world!
The latest edition of the AJ Moir Stakes ran on Saturday, September 7, 2024 at Moonee Valley Racecourse having been moved forward a month ahead of the 2024 edition and was won in an eye-catching upset by the front-running Valley specialist Mornington Glory ($9).
2024 AJ Moir Stakes Results
The official Moir Stakes 2024 Results & Finishing Order will be available below once the race runs at Moonee Valley Racecourse on Saturday, September 7, 2024.
- 1st: #2 Mornington Glory
- 2nd: #9 Hayasugi
- 3rd: #8 Lady Of Camelot
Gavin Bedggood’s flying Moonee Valley specialist Mornington Glory ($9) handed his trainer a maiden Group 1 win when leading all-the-way to make it a hat-trick of 1000m The Valley wins in an upset Moir Stakes 2024 result defeating Group 1 winning fillies from the autumn Hayasugi (Blue Diamond) and Lady Of Camelot (Golden Slipper).
2024 Moir Stakes Odds
The season’s best AJ Moir Stakes 2024 betting odds will be available below complete with links for you to back your sprint selections at the right price once markets open.
Early market betting odds on the 2025 Moir Stakes will be displayed below once available. Odds are subject to fluctuation. For current odds on all of our live markets, please visit ladbrokes.com.au.
AJ Moir Stakes Race Facts
- Date: Saturday, September 7, 2024
- Track: Moonee Valley Racecourse
- Distance: 1000m
- Conditions: Weight-for-age
- Status: Group 1
- Prize Money: $750,000
- First Run: 1976
AJ Moir Stakes Betting
AJ Moir Stakes betting favours sprinters coming off a good lead-up run with six winners since 2010 having won their previous starts including She Will Reign (2017), classy Kiwi mare Imperatriz (2023), and the upset winner the following year Mornington Glory (2024) who made it three straight victories at the track / trip.
Inside alleys are favourable and those drawn in barriers two or three are usually short in the markets with these two gates producing four winners between 2010 and 2014. The 2019 Moir Stakes winner Nature Strip won from barrier one as did the filly Coolangatta in 2022.
Mornington Glory won the 2024 Moir Stakes from barrier one.
Plenty of horses run first-up in the race, so the Moir Stakes betting odds often favour resuming sprinters with good first-up form and previous Melbourne racing experience.
Previous Group 1 winners dominate the Moir Stakes odds each year as 11 of the winners from 2011-24 had won at elite level before. The only winners in that time not to have won a Group 1 before were Wild Ruler in 2021, Coolangatta in 2022, and Mornington Glory in 2024.
Favourites in Moir Stakes markets have a dominant recent record in the race with Nature Strip ($3.30 in 2019) and the odds-on mare Imperatriz ($1.65 in 2023) the latest Moir Stakes favourite to salute.
AJ Moir Stakes Field
The AJ Moir Stakes race field hardly ever runs at capacity and in recent years has attracted under 10 starters more often than not. In 2014 Buffering beat home just four rivals, while Black Caviar scared off her rivals in the 2011 edition with a final field of just four facing off in the sprint showdown. Despite the diminutive numbers the Moir Stakes acceptances always feature a high class of competitors usually with a short-price favourite dominating the line-up.
The 2019 AJ Moir Stakes field drew one of the largest line-ups in recent times with Nature Strip defeating 14 rivals.

Three-year-old filly Coolangatta lead all-the-way to win the 2022 Moir Stakes. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.
Sprinters often kick off their spring racing campaigns first-up in the Moir Stakes field on the back of an earlier autumn – winter start.
Caulfield’s Group 3 The Heath 1100 Stakes (1100m) run at Caulfield in August is also a nice Moir Stakes lead-up race and Samaready (2013) was the last to do the double.
2024 Moir Stakes Field
The official A.J. Moir Stakes 2024 Final Field & Barriers will be released by the Moonee Valley Racing Club on the Tuesday of race week and published in full below so stay tuned to see what sprinters are heading to the short distanced feature.
The returning Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott-trained Golden Slipper winner Lady Of Camelot leads betting first-up on the 2024 Moir Stakes at Moonee Valley on Saturday.
2024 Moir Stakes Nominations
The Moir Stakes 2024 nominations are drawn on the Monday of race week with the full list of early entries to be listed below as soon as released.
AJ Moir Stakes Tips
AJ Moir Stakes tips are commonly led by the favourite with the short-priced runners boasting a strong record in the race. Since 2007, seven favourites have saluted for the punters, most recently Imperatriz ($1.65 in 2023).
Proven short-distance specialists, previous Moonee Valley performers, resuming runners with solid form first-up and those horses drawn in barriers two – four also make good Moir Stakes betting tips each spring.
2024 Moir Stakes Tips
Our Ladbrokes’ exclusive AJ Moir Stakes 2024 betting tips will be detailed below the week of the race so stay tuned for the sprint sprinters to get behind in the Moonee Valley Group 1 this season.
- To Win: #2 Mornington Glory ($18 at time of publish) – BET NOW
Group 1 spring racing hits The Valley on Saturday and tipping a notable upset in the Moir with the in-form track specialist, Mornington Glory, at $18 at time of publish to give the big gun players a shake-up. I Wish I Win and resuming Golden Slipper winning filly Lady Of Camelot head the markets, but with a three-from-four record at the cauldron – a tricky track to master if you’ve not raced there before – think that this roughie-priced six-year-old has genuine claims to become a Group 1 champion. Gavin Bedggood’s short-distance star is undefeated at the Moir distance having won all four of his 1000m runs. He has class shown with a Group 1 Oakleigh Plate third last time in and is rock hard fit coming off back-to-back Moonee Valley wins in easier grade. Black-Type winner at the track and trip last time out who can keep the wins coming here at a big price.
AJ Moir Stakes Form Guide
The AJ Moir Stakes form guide details all the basic information like barriers, jockeys and trainers as well as track statistics and win / place rates on the starting line-up.
Going over the form guide before placing a bet is a must and things to look out for are classy mares with an inside alley who ran well last time out as well as horses with previous winning form at the tight Moonee Valley circuit.
The 2022 AJ Moir Stakes form was franked with the winner Coolangatta returning the following autumn to win Flemington’s 2023 Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning, while her second placed stablemate in the Moir Bella Nipotina won the Manikato at her next start.
The Moir Stakes 2023 form was franked with the winner Imperatriz going on to claim the Manikato Stakes – Champions Sprint double that spring before returning for her final race campaign in the autumn of 2024 and adding a further two Group 1s to her CV.
Moir Stakes Form Facts
- Favourites in Moir Stakes betting won four editions on the trot from 2009 – 2012, before the 2019 success of Nature Strip and Imperatriz saluting as the odds-on favourite in 2023.
- The latest Moir Stakes winners to jump at double-figures are Viddora ($12 in 2018) and Wild Ruler ($10 in 2021).
- Extreme Choice (2016) was the first three-year-old to win the Moir Stakes since 2005.
- The fillies She Will Reign (2017) and Coolangatta (2022) are the latest three-year-old Moir Stakes winners.
- Buffering (2015) for his third win in the race became the first eight-year-old winner in the past 30 plus years.
- Wild Ruler (2021), Coolangatta (2022), and Mornington Glory (2024) are the only non-previous Group 1 winners to take out the Moir from 2011-2024.
2024 AJ Moir Stakes Form Guide
A link to our comprehensive AJ Moir Stakes 2024 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.
AJ Moir Stakes Results
The AJ Moir Stakes race results reveal the winner and finishing order of the other horses in the field as well as the margin between each place, the winning time and sometimes the pay-outs for the successful quinella, trifecta and first four in the race.
Moir Stakes race results from the past two decades have been dominated by single-figure hopes in betting. Plenty of trainers have enjoyed recent back-to-back Moir Stakes victories including Robert Heathcote with Buffering (2014-15) and Peter Moody with Black Caviar (2010-11).
Other notable Moir Stakes winners include Miss Andretti (2007), Apache Cat (2009), Nature Strip (2019), and Imperatriz (2023).
Imperatriz (2023) was the last Moir Stakes winning mare.
Imperatriz holds the current 1000m Moir Stakes race record winning in 2023 in a time of 56.47 seconds.
Past AJ Moir Stakes Winners
Recent AJ Moir Stakes winners and placegetters dating back to the year 2001 are detailed in the below table.
Year |
Winner |
2nd |
3rd |
Time |
2024 |
Mornington Glory |
Hayasugi |
Lady Of Camelot |
0:57.78 |
2023 |
Imperatriz |
Asfoora |
Uncommon James |
0:56.47 (R) |
2022 |
Coolangatta |
Bella Nipotina |
Zoustyle |
0:59.1 |
2021 |
Wild Ruler |
The Inferno |
Trekking |
0:57.0 |
2020 |
Pippie |
Trekking |
Bella Vella |
0.58.3 |
2019 |
Nature Strip |
Miss Leonidas |
Sunlight |
0:57.7 |
2018 |
Viddora |
Brave Smash |
Spright |
0:57.7 |
2017 |
She Will Reign |
Viddora |
Sheidel |
0:58.3 |
2016 |
Extreme Choice |
Heatherly |
Wild Rain |
0:58.7 |
2015 |
Buffering |
Ball Of Muscle |
Angelic Light |
0:57.2 |
2014 |
Buffering |
Lankan Rupee |
Rebel Dane |
1:10.9 |
2013 |
Samaready |
Buffering |
Le Bonsir |
1:11.2 |
2012 |
Buffering |
Ready To Rip |
Thankgodyou’rehere |
1:10.9 |
2011 |
Black Caviar |
Doubtful Jack |
Here De Angels |
1:10.1 |
2010 |
Black Caviar |
Hot Danish |
True Persuasion |
1:11.0 |
2009 |
Apache Cat |
Mic Mac |
Bank Robber |
1:10.0 |
2008 |
Lucky Secret |
Bel Mer |
Mr Baritone |
1:09.9 |
2007 |
Miss Andretti |
Gold Edition |
Let Go Thommo |
1:10.6 |
2006 |
California Dane |
Let Go Thommo |
Poets Voice |
0:58.4 |
2005 |
Virage De Fortune |
Miss Mooney Mooney |
Imprisoned |
0:59.1 |
2004 |
Bomber Bill |
Regimental Gal |
Dance The Waves |
0:58.4 |
2003 |
Our Egyptian Raine |
Spinning Hill |
Dantana |
0:57.7 |
2002 |
Spinning Hill |
Bomber Bill |
Mistegic |
0:57.7 |
2001 |
Mistegic |
Regal Shot |
Appoint |
0:58.7 |
FAQ
When is the Moir Stakes 2024?
Saturday, September 7, 2024
What is the prize money for the Moir Stakes 2024?
$750,000
Where is the Moir Stakes 2024?
Moonee Valley Racecourse, Feehan Ave, Moonee Ponds VIC 3039.