All Aged Stakes 2024

Ladbrokes Tip: The TJ Smith Stakes serves as a good All Aged Stakes form race to follow.

The All Aged Stakes is one of two top level Group 1 races run on a Saturday towards the end of April at Randwick Racecourse during the annual Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.

2022 All Aged Stakes winner Cascadian. Photo: Steve Hart.

After the two The Championships meetings that proceed it, All Aged Stakes Day is headlined by the namesake race and the Group 1 Champagne Stakes (1600m) for two-year-olds.

Other races of note on the card include the Group 3 Hall Mark Stakes (1200m), Group 3 JRA Plate (2000m), and the Group 3 Frank Packer Plate (2000m).

Offering $1.5 million in total prize money as of 2023 the All Aged Stakes winner takes out $870,000 for connections. For 2020 the All Aged Stakes prize money was cut to $480,000 to help cope with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic before being elevated back to $600,000 in 2021 and then increased to $1.5 million ahead of the 2023 edition.

The weight-for-age classic is a middle distance sprint contested over 1400m and a key lead-up into the race is the Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes (1200m) run at the Randwick track a fortnight earlier.

Trapeze Artist (2018) became the first horse since Bentley Biscuit (2007) to win the TJ Smith Stakes – All Aged Stakes double.

In 2023 Giga Kick became the first three-year-old All Aged Stakes winner since Trapeze Artist (2018) to win his first race since the previous spring’s $15 million The Everest event – a race now worth $20 million in prize money.

The latest edition of the All Aged Stakes took place on Saturday April 20, 2024 on a Heavy (10) Randwick track and was won in a big late charge by Grahame Begg’s now two-time Group 1 winning mare Magic Time ($6.50).

2024 All Aged Stakes Results

The 2024 All Aged Stakes results and finishing order will be known on Saturday April 20, 2024 and published below once the race is run and won.

2024 All Aged Stakes winner Magic Time best handled a Heavy (10) track to win another Group 1. Photo: Steve Hart.

• 1st: #11 Magic Time
• 2nd: #7 Amenable
• 3rd: #1 Private Eye

Grahame Begg’s smart Hellbent mare Magic Time ($6.50) came with a big late run wide out over the final few hundred metres to charge over the top of the front runners late and claim her second Group 1 success in the All Aged Stakes 2024 results on a bottomless Heavy (10) Randwick track.

2024 All Aged Stakes Odds

The All Aged Stakes 2024 betting odds will be listed below as soon as markets on the mid-April Group 1 event are released.

All Aged Stakes Race Info

• Date: Saturday April 20, 2024
• Track: Royal Randwick Racecourse
• Distance: 1400m
• Conditions: Weight-for-age
• Status: Group 1
• Prize Money: $1,500,000
• First Run: 1865

All Aged Stakes Betting

All Aged Stakes betting markets are usually led by horses coming off a top two finish in a Group 1 Sydney lead-up earlier in the autumn.

From 2004 – 2024 just nine All Aged Stakes winners ran worse than second in their lead-up runs most recently Magic Time (2024) who improved on a 7th in the TJ Smith Stakes.

The Futurity Stakes – All Aged Stakes double was achieved just a couple of years earlier by three-year-old All Too Hard (2013).

Favourites have an excellent recent record in the race with eight of the 18 winners from 2006 – 2024 jumping as the punters’ pick, most recently Trapeze Artist (2018) and fellow three-year-old Giga Kick ($2.90 in 2023).

Prior to the 2020 success of Tofane ($12), the last double figure winner was back in 2001 when El Mirada ($31) scored an upset over third placed favourite Sunline, who won the editions either side in 2000 and 2002.

Three-year-olds have a recent good strike rate with four of the eight winners from 2012 – 2024 with Giga Kick (2023) the last.

2023 All Aged Stakes winner Giga Kick was strong through the line in his first 1400m assignment. Photo: Steve Hart.

Mares have also more than held their own with eight wins since 2000 (most recently Magic Time in 2024) plus the filly Atlantic Jewel getting the job done of the boys in 2012 and English saluting as a three-year-old filly in 2016.

All Aged Stakes Field

The All Aged Stakes race field features a collection of the season’s best weight-for-age performers however the race hasn’t attracted capacity line-ups in recent years. The largest All Aged Stakes field since 1983, when 15 starters took to the stalls, is 14 in both 1999 and 2009.

Under 10 starters gathered for nine of the 12 editions from 2005 – 2016. The smallest All Aged Stakes field in the past 30 years or so was just five in 1984 when Emancipation won.

The filly English (2016) became the third three-year-old All Aged Stakes winner in five years to take out the Randwick Group 1 autumn feature. Photo Credit: Steve Hart.

Horses come into the event via a number of different lead-ups including the Group 1 Doncaster Mile (1600m), the Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes (1200m) and Melbourne’s Group 1 Futurity Stakes (1400m).

Giga Kick (2nd in 2023) and Magic time (7th in 2024) are the latest All Aged Stakes winners to come via a run in the TJ Smith Stakes.

All Aged Stakes nominations close on the Monday before the race with final acceptances taken on the Wednesday.

2024 All Aged Stakes Field

The official All Aged Stakes 2024 field is announced by Racing NSW the Wednesday leading-up to the race and the full line-up will be announced below once released.

An open 14-horse 2024 All Aged Stakes field is confirmed with Chris Waller’s mare Espiona favourite to return to winning form.

2024 All Aged Stakes Nominations

The early All Aged Stakes 2024 nominations close the Monday of race week and will be published here once confirmed.

Ciaron Maher’s Australian Guineas winning colt Southport Tycoon and the surprise TJ Smith Stakes winning mare Chain Of Lightning are among the standout 2024 All Aged Stakes nominees for this weekend in Sydney.

All Aged Stakes Tips

All Aged Stakes tips favour proven Group 1 performers in Sydney coming off Autumn features like the Doncaster Mile a fortnight earlier at the track over 200m further or Melbourne’s Group 1 Futurity Stakes (1400m) held in February.

The Doncaster Mile – All Aged Stakes double hasn’t been achieved however since Sunline (2002). In 2021 the Doncaster Mile winner Cascadian ran a brave third in the All Aged Stakes results before returning in 2022 to atone for his Doncaster ninth to win the All Aged in an upset at 10/1.

Cascadian also ran in the 2023 All Aged Stakes as an eight-year-old trying to defend his title and was far from disgraced finishing third.

Sprinters stepping up from the 1200m of the TJ Smith Stakes during The Championships have a good recent record and make a nice All Aged Stakes tip.

2024 All Aged Stakes Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider All Aged Stakes 2024 betting tips and exotic selections on one of the last autumn Group 1 races will be detailed below the week of the race so bookmark this page to see the weight-for-age horses to back and sack in your Sydney Saturday racing tips.

• To Win: #10 Sunshine In Paris ($4.80 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Open edition of the All Aged Stakes, but going with the gun mare Sunshine In Paris who presents fit third-up and ready to fire. The four-year-old daughter of Invader boasts a 50% winning strike rate at the Randwick track (4:2-1-0) and has won her only other 1400m assignment to date. That was here in last year’s Group 1 Surround Stakes, so she’s got class. Good lead-up runs narrowly denied when runner-up by a nostril flare in the Group 1 The Galaxy (1100m) and then fifth under a length off the winner Chain Of Lightning in a blanket TJ Smith Stakes (1200m) finish on April 6. Right credentials, form lines, and time in her campaign to get behind her with confidence now.

All Aged Stakes Form Guide

The All Aged Stakes form guide is a must to look over before betting as it gives punters all the essential information like the jockeys, trainers and barriers of the gallopers in the field.

Although barriers aren’t of all that much important at Randwick over 1400m the most successful All Aged Stakes barrier since 1983 producing 12 winners is gate seven,  Trapeze Artist (7 of 10 in 2018) the most recent champ from the barrier.

That is followed closely by barrier one with seven winners, the latest to jump from the inside alley being Atlantic Jewel (2012) who is one of two fillies to win the race in the past 30 years along with English (2016) and Cascadian (2022).

Gai Waterhouse is the dominant All Aged Stakes winning trainer with five winners since 1997, the latest being Bentley Biscuit (2007) and English (2016).

Jim Cassidy is the most successful All Aged Stakes jockey in the past 30 years with four winners including dual champion Rough Habit (1992 – 1993). He also rode Waterhouse’s 2003 winner Arlington Road and the 2015 champion Dissident.

The 2022 All Aged Stakes third place-getter Ellsberg franked the form returning that spring to win the Group 1 Epsom Handicap (1600m), the $1 million Five Diamond Prelude (1500m) and the inaugural $2 million The Five Diamonds (1800m).

The All Aged Stakes 2023 winner Giga Kick franked the form winning Brisbane’s Group 1 Doomben 10,000 (1200m) at his next start.

All Aged Stakes Form Facts

• Barrier 7 has produced 12 All Aged Stakes winners since 1983 including English (2016), Tivaci (2017) and Trapeze Artist (2018).
• Three-year-olds won five editions of the All Aged Stakes between 2012 and 2023.
• Trainer Gai Waterhouse has a dominant All Aged Stakes record with five winners since 1997.
• Only seven horses ran worse than third in their final All Aged Stakes lead-up since 2003.

2024 All Aged Stakes Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive All Aged Stakes 2024 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

All Aged Stakes Results

Favourites have dominated recent All Aged Stakes race results however there has been a number of double figure winners in the past 30 years including Prince Of Praise ($51 in 1994) and El Mirada ($31 in 2001).

Notable recent All Aged Stakes winners include Giga Kick (2023), Trapeze Artist (2018) who set a new track record, All Too Hard (2013), Hay List (2011), Racing To Win (2008), and Sunline (2000 & 2002).

Magic Time (2024) was the last All Aged Stakes winning mare.

Giga Kick (2023) was the last three-year-old All Aged Stakes winner.

Trapeze Artist holds the current 1400m All Aged Stakes race record winning in 2018 in a time of 1 minute 20:33 seconds.

Past All Aged Stakes Winners

Recent All Aged Stakes winners and place-getters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.