Aspiration Quality 2024

Ladbrokes Tip: The Aspiration Quality serves as a potential autumn lead-up into the Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes.

The Aspiration Quality is a Group 3 mile race run and won over the 1600m at Royal Randwick on Randwick Guineas Day in late February or early March each Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.

2022 Aspiration Quality Winner Le Lude
2022 Aspiration Quality winner Le Lude. Photo: Steve Hart.

The event offers $250,000 in prize money and is a key support act on the card headlined by the Group 1 Randwick Guineas (1600m) and Group 1 Canterbury Stakes (1300m).

A quality handicap race, the Aspiration Quality is open to fillies and mares aged three and above and has held Group 3 status since 2014.

It is one of the younger races on the autumn program first run in 2006 and the better female gallopers out of the event may be eyeing a run in the Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m) – run in recent years as the Coolmore Legacy Stakes – in April’s ‘The Championships’.

Diamond Drille (2014) is the last mare to complete the Aspiration Quality – Queen Of The Turf Stakes double.

The latest edition of the Aspiration Quality ran on Saturday March 9, 2024 as part of the Randwick Guineas Day card and was won by Joe Pride’s second-up favourite Lekvarte ($4.20F).

2024 Aspiration Quality Results

The full Aspiration Quality 2024 results & finishing order revealing the winner of the Randwick Guineas Day event will be available below after the race takes place on Saturday March 9, 2024.

2024 Aspiration Quality winner Lekvarte

2024 Aspiration Quality winner Lekvarte saluted for the punters second-up. Photo: Steve Hart.

  • 1st: #4 Lekvarte
  • 2nd: #3 Osmose
  • 3rd: #8 Rebel Rama

The Millie Fox Stakes form continued to be franked on Randwick Guineas Day with Joe Pride’s fifth place-getter Lekvarte ($4.20F) relishing a drop in grade fitter second-up to salute for the punters in the 2024 Aspiration Quality results. 

2024 Aspiration Quality Odds

The updated Aspiration Quality 2024 betting odds will be made available below once markets open following final acceptances. 

Early market betting odds on the 2024 Aspiration Quality 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.

Aspiration Quality Race Info

  • Date: Saturday March 9, 2024
  • Track: Royal Randwick Racecourse
  • Distance: 1600m
  • Conditions: Quality Handicap – Fillies & Mares – 3YOs & Upwards
  • Status: Group 3
  • Prize Money: $250,000
  • First Run: 2006

Aspiration Quality Betting

Aspiration Quality odds favour in-form fillies and mares with previous winning form at the Randwick mile and those coming off a good lead-up run in similar grade in Sydney. 

Mares drawn in barriers 1 – 8 head the Aspiration Quality betting markets as no winner has jumped from wider than gate eight in the race’s history. 

There have been plenty of upsets in recent years including the 2021 success of Missybeel at Aspiration Quality odds of $61! 

Lekvarte ($4.20 in 2024) was the last Aspiration Quality favourite to win. 

Aspiration Quality Field

The Aspiration Quality race field attracts a strong line-up of fillies and mares, many of which are eyeing bigger targets over the coming weeks in Sydney. 

Nice lead-up races into the Aspiration Quality field include the Group 2 Guy Walter Stakes (1400m) at Randwick on Verry Elleegant Stakes Day (Chipping Norton Stakes Day) and the Group 2 Millie Fox Stakes (1300m) in mid-March at Rosehill.

Le Lude (3rd in 2022) and Lekvarte (5th in 2024) are the latest Millie Fox Stakes graduates to back-up and win the Aspiration Quality. 

Aspiration Quality Winners (Nettoyer) | Photo: Steve Hart | Ladbrokes

Dual Aspiration Quality winner Nettoyer. Photo: Steve Hart.

Following a run in the Aspiration Quality field mares may head to the Group 3 Epona Stakes (1900m) a fortnight later at Rosehill Gardens.

Fibrillation (2012) was the last to complete the Aspiration Quality – Epona Stakes double in the same year, while Missybeel won the 2020 Epona Stakes and the following year’s Aspiration. 

In 2021, She’s Ideel ran placings in the Millie Fox (3rd), Aspiration (2nd) and Epona (3rd) before her Group 1 Tancred Stakes (2400m) second and subsequent fourth over the two miles in the Group 1 Sydney Cup (3200m) that autumn. 

Aspiration Quality nominations close on the Monday before the race followed by the final field of acceptances and barrier draw on the Wednesday.

2024 Aspiration Quality Field

The official Aspiration Quality 2024 Field of fillies and mares will be published below the Wednesday leading-up to Randwick Guineas Day. 

The consistent Joe Pride-trained Group 3 winner Lekvarte heads betting on the 2024 Aspiration Quality final field in Sydney on Saturday. 

2024 Aspiration Quality Nominations

The early Aspiration Quality 2024 Nominations close the Monday ahead of the event and will be provided below once announced by Racing NSW.

Aspiration Quality Tips

Aspiration Quality tips include backing any proven Group 2 mares down in grade, looking for those with previous winning form over the mile and getting behind graduates of the Millie Fox Stakes. 

Another good Aspiration Quality betting tips is to back mares that have contested the race in the past with many returning to run in the money more than once, and backing the runners drawn in single-digits. 

2024 Aspiration Quality Tips

Our insider Aspiration Quality betting tips for 2024 will be available below leading-up to the Group 3 mile showdown so stay tuned for the fillies and mares to back and sack this season.

  • To Win: #3 Osmose ($6.50 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Interesting edition of the Aspiration with plenty of form line to consider, but have landed on the returning Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott-trained daughter of Zoffany, Osmose, who was doing some eye-catching things in the spring. She isn’t the most noted first-up runner (5:1-0-0), but on class alone think she can surprise here. Last start in November was runner-up at Flemington in the Group 2 Matriarch Stakes (2000m) beaten a nostril flare. She is yet to win over further than 1300m, but that run suggests a mile first-up will suit and Waterhouse & Bott are masters of placing their mares in the right races at the right time. Slick second in a recent Randwick trial, gets things her way from gate four, and Tim Clark has plenty of experience on her. 

Aspiration Quality Form Guide

The Aspiration Quality form guide lists all of the essential information needed before placing a bet including lead-up runs, jockeys, trainers and barriers.

The Aspiration Quality form has gone on to stack-up in tougher races many times over the years including when dual winner Nettoyer went on to win the Group 1 Doncaster Mile (1600m) after her second success in 2020. 

Nettoyer has a long history of runs in the Aspiration Quality having contested four editions running 3rd in 2018, 1st in 2019, 1st in 2020 and 8th in 2021. She further franked the form of the race off her unplaced 2021 run when winning the Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes three runs later in an upset. 

2024 Aspiration Quality Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Aspiration Quality 2024 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Aspiration Quality Results

Notable mares to dominate the Aspiration Quality race results include Sacred Choice (2010), Fibrillation (2012), Fibrillation (2016), and dual champ Nettoyer (2019-20). 

Aspiration Quality Winners

Past Aspiration Quality winners and place-getters going back to the year 2006 are detailed in the below table. 

Year Winner Second Third
2024 Lekvarte Osmose Rebel Rama
2023 Thalassophile Pink Ivory Cliff’s Art
2022 Le Lude Polly Grey Divine Diosa
2021 Missybeel She’s Ideel Rocha Clock
2020 Nettoyer Irithea Savacool
2019 Nettoyer Luvaluva Luskintyre Lass
2018 Karavali The Pinnacle Nettoyer
2017 Elle Lou Alegria Vandancer
2016 Heavens Above All Cerise Alegria
2015 Adorabeel Entertains Intimate Moment
2014 Diamond Drille Danesiri Mahara
2013 Thy Crafty Ima Aliyana Tilde
2012 Fibrillation Cabernet Older Than Time
2011 Warpath Miss Keepsake Shadow Minister
2010 Sacred Choice Pagan Princess Jessicabeel
2009 Illuminates Imananabaa Beaucoup
2008 Pravana Fancyfree Grey Stream
2007 Banc De Fortune Gawne Viva Caro
2006 Lord Of The Land Evasion Daniel’s The Man