Australasian Oaks 2024

Ladbrokes Tip: The Auraria Stakes held at the same track earlier in the autumn is the key lead-up to the Australasian Oaks.

The Australasian Oaks – formerly known as the Schweppes Oaks due to sponsorship – runs as one of two Group 1 races held at Morphettville Racecourse on Robert Sangster Stakes Day during the Adelaide Autumn Racing Carnival in late April or early May along with the Robert Sangster Stakes.

2022 Australasian Oaks Winner Glint Of Hope

2022 Australasian Oaks winner Glint Of Hope. Photo: Jenny Barnes.

Open to three-year-old fillies the set weights race is conducted over 2000m and attracts a field of both local and interstate talent each season.

Offering $1 million in total prize money as of 2024, the Australasian Oaks has been dominated by favourites in recent years and has a capacity of 16 starters.

The Group 3 Auraria Stakes (1800m) held over 200m shorter a fortnight earlier also at Adelaide’s premier track is the key lead-up providing a host of recent Australasian Stakes winners. Sopressa (2018) was the last filly to complete the double.

The latest edition of the $1 million Australasian Oaks ran on Saturday April 27, 2024 at Morphettville Racecourse and was won in a stunning all-the-way success by the Mark Zahra-ridden Vibrant Sun ($6). 

2024 Australasian Oaks Results

The official Australasian Oaks 2024 Results & Finishing Order will be available below once the race is run and won on Saturday April 27, 2024.

  • 1st: #6 Vibrant Sun
  • 2nd: #12 Private Legacy
  • 3rd: #8 Coco Sun

The Autumn Sun filly Vibrant Sun ($6) beat home two fellow fillies by the same sire – Private Legacy (2nd) and Coco Sun (3rd) – showing true grit to hold off the challengers and lead all-the-way in the Australasian Oaks 2024 results at Morphettville.

2024 Australasian Oaks Odds

The season’s top Australasian Oaks odds online will be available here as soon as Australasian Oaks betting 2024 is open so stay tuned to see the price on your selections for the Group 1 in Adelaide.

Early market betting odds on the 2025 Australasian Oaks 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.

Australasian Oaks Race Info

  • Date: Saturday April 27, 2024
  • Track: Morphettville Racecourse
  • Distance: 2000m
  • Conditions: 3YO Fillies – Set Weights
  • Status: Group 1
  • Prize Money: $1,000,000
  • First Run: 1982

Australasian Oaks Betting

Favourites have a strong recent record with the shortest-priced in Australasian Oaks betting saluting seven times from 2006 – 2024 most recently Toffee Tongue ($5 in 2020) and Princess Jenni ($3.30 in 2019).

There was a huge upset in 2021 however with Media Award ($61) becoming the first double-figure winner in the race since 2010, while in 2022 Glint Of Hope won at 12/1 while the favourite My Whisper ($2.70) ran third.

Australasian Oaks odds are traditionally dominated by fillies coming off a top four run in the lead-up with the last winner to run worse than fourth in her final start being Anamato (2007) who improve on a 12th in Sydney’s Group 1 Doncaster Mile (1600m).

Interstate visitors have a strong record against the locals and often feature highly in Australasian Oaks betting markets, including in 2018 when the Darren Weir-trained Sopressa led an all-Victorian Australasian Oaks trifecta and in 2020 with Chris Waller enjoying his second victory with Toffee Tongue.

The Victorians were on top again in 2024 with the Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr-trained Vibrant Sun saluting on the back of a lead-up Group 3 victory at Moonee Valley.

Australasian Oaks Field

Schweppes Oaks odds online at Ladbrokes.com.au

Australasian Oaks winner Delicacy (2015) went on to beat the boys in that year’s SA Derby. Photo Credit: Jenny Barnes.

The Australasian Oaks race field has a capacity of 16 starters and from 2003 – 2024 was run under capacity just four times.

The only time the Australasian Oaks field was run with under 10 starters in the past 30 years was when Episode defeated just eight rivals back in 1999.

Australasian Oaks nominations close the week prior, with the final field of acceptances and barrier draw released on the Tuesday of race week.

Plenty of interstate talent features in the Australasian Oaks field each year and visiting mares from outside of Adelaide boast an excellent record in the race including the 2017 win by the Sydney-trained Egg Tart for trainer Chris Waller, the 2018 victory of the Darren Weir-trained Sopressa who backed-up from a lead-up win in Adelaide’s Group 3 Auraria Stakes (1800m), Waller posting his second success in 2020 with Toffee Tongue, the upset 2021 Australasian Oaks winner Media Award hailing from Geelong in Victoria, and the 2022 victory by the Cranbourne-trained Glint Of Hope from the Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young stable

In 2023 another interstate-trained filly saluted in the Australasian Oaks results with the Ciaron Maher & David Eustace-trained Affaire A Suivre making it two-from-two at the track on the back of her lead-up success in the Listed Port Adelaide Guineas.

The Vibrant Sun from Victoria also won the 2024 race.

Following a run in the Australasian Oaks field, many fillies may look to step-up in distance for a shot at the Group 3 SA Fillies Classic (2500m) on The Goodwood Day. Irish Darling (2005) was the last filly to complete the Australasian Oaks – SA Fillies Classic double in the same year.

2024 Australasian Oaks Field

The official Australasian Oaks 2024 field of fillies is set for release the Tuesday leading-up to Australasian Oaks Day and will be available below so stay tuned.

The 2024 Australasian Oaks attracted a capacity final field of fillies with the in-form Wings Of Song chasing her seventh win on the trot leading the markets.

2024 Australasian Oaks Nominations

The early Australasian Oaks 2024 nominations are taken on a Thursday two weeks out from the event and will be listed below once closed.

Group 3 Auraria Stakes winning filly Wings Of Songs heads all-in betting on the Australasian Oaks 2024 nominations for this autumn.

Last 10 Horse Sex Age Trainer Hcp Rating
1 238×6128 AHURIRI (NZ) F 3 Chris Waller 63
2 5x4160x729 BON MISTRESS F 3 Ken & Kasey Keys 64
3 4861×2 BURLINGTON GATE F 3 Michael Moroney 62
4 1x96055x11 COCO SUN F 3 Tony & Calvin McEvoy 78
5 613×513 CONCELLO F 3 Chris Waller 72
6 13x000x178 DOLPHIN SKIN (NZ) F 3 Leon & Troy Corstens 75
7 20×1611 ETARA F 3 Symon Wilde 70
8 4309×23 EVERLASTING KISS F 3 Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young 58
9 6x60586x14 FIRESTORM (NZ) F 3 Chris Waller 77
10 218×374 HARVEST MOON F 3 Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott 61
11 821 INFINITY IMPERIAL F 3 Liam Howley 62
12 311672 INTO YOU F 3 Shay Keating 68
13 12×864 KENYADA F 3 Chris Waller 70
14 16×145 LIVELY F 3 Ciaron Maher 73
15 x1144x3353 MOLLYNICKERS F 3 Peter G Moody & Katherine Coleman 79
16 417812 POSITIVITY (NZ) F 3 Andrew Forsman 84
17 28067×2146 PRIVATE LEGACY F 3 Gregory Hickman 70
18 517×0311 PULCHRITUDINOUS (NZ) F 3 Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott 98
19 4×223123 QALI AL FARRASHA (NZ) F 3 Mark Walker 76
20 x51972x614 QUEEN OF DRAGONS F 3 Peter & Paul Snowden 80
21 247×2112 QUICKSTER F 3 Peter G Moody & Katherine Coleman 75
22 006×92816 SEEKING STARDOM F 3 Andrew Gluyas 60
23 1x2132x658 SENTIMENTAL FLAME F 3 Travis Doudle 65
24 4x3841x385 SERASANA F 3 Robbie Griffiths & Mathew de Kock 80
25 85×2 SHUT THAT D’OR F 3 Garret Lynch 56
26 52×51 STYLISH F 3 Michael Moroney 62
27 3×311227 THE AUTUMN BELLE F 3 Henry Dwyer 67
28 0x21 UNDAUNTING (NZ) F 3 Mark & Levi Kavanagh 62
29 272×52 USK VALLEY (NZ) F 3 Liam Howley 58
30 6210×41 VIBRANT SUN F 3 Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr) 80
31 1292111111 WINGS OF SONG F 3 Patrick Payne 86
32 5x57128x83 ZAMBEZI KHAN (NZ) F 3 Patrick Payne 65

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Australasian Oaks Form Guide

All of the essential information including jockeys, trainers and barriers are listed in the Australasian Oaks form guide each year. Looking for fillies coming off nice lead-up form at the track with the potential to run out a strong 2000m is important.

From 2009 – 2024 eight of the 16 winners jumped from a double digit Australasian Oaks barrier including Affaire A Suivre (16 of 16 in 2023) and Vibrant Sun (11 of 16 in 2024), and since 1983 the most successful gate producing six winners is eight.

Damien Oliver has ridden three previous Australasian Oaks winners, but none since Tully Thunder (2002), while Lee Freedman has trained four winners with Grand Eschezeaux (2000) the most recent.

Barb Raider franked the 2022 Australasian Oaks form that winter in Brisbane with the runner-up winning the Group 2 The Roses and finishing second in the Group 1 Queensland Oaks results.

Australasian Oaks Form Facts

  • Last-start winners have dominated the Australasian Oaks results in the past decade including most recently Sopressa (2018), Princess Jenni (2019), Media Award (2021), Affaire A Suivre (2023), and Vibrant Sun (2024).
  • The Auraria Stakes is the key lead-up to the Group 1 including producing four of the nine winners from 2012 – 2024 with Sopressa (2018) the latest to do the double.
  • Single-figure hopes in Australasian Oakes betting make the best bet with double-figure upsets very uncommon.

2024 Australasian Oaks Form Guide

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

Australasian Oaks Tips

Taking a filly coming off a top three run at the track is a top Australasian Oaks tip and from 2008 – 2024 12 of the 17 winners came off a win including Abbey Marie (2016), Egg Tart (2017), Sopressa (2018),  Princess Jenni (2019), upset 60/1 winner Media Award (2021), Affaire A Suivre (2023), and Vibrant Sun (2024).

Some of the top lead-up races to consider when doing the Australasian Oaks tips in Adelaide include the Group 3 Auraria Stakes and Group 2 SA Fillies Classic both held at the same track earlier in the season.

Melbourne’s Group 2 Kewney Stakes (1400m) has also provided two Australasian Oaks winners in the past 10 years with Zarita (2008) and Gallica (2009) both completing the double.

2024 Australasian Oaks Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ exclusive Australasian Oaks tips 2024 and best bets on the fillies to back and sack in the Morphettville staying showdown will be detailed right here the week of the race.

  • To Win: #2 Wings Of Song ($5.50 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Wings Of Song is favourite and market mover, but only narrowly! Cannot see a reason to get off her after her flawless lead-up. This Patrick Payne-trained filly has won her past six straight and ticks plenty of boxes looking to make it seven on the trot. Dominant in Tasmania over the summer winning everything there including the Tasmanian Oaks (2100m). Travelled to SA last time out and won again taking out the traditional lead-up, the Auraria Stakes. The double hasn’t been done in a while, but she was a two length winner in the Group 3 over 1800m from a super wide alley. Proven at the distance, gets those extra metres to eat up again now, better barrier (9) and deserves the accolades. Wins.

Australasian Oaks Results

Favourites have a good recent strike rate in the Australasian Oaks race results however some upsets have occurred. The longest priced winners in the past 10 years are Irish Darling (2005) and Small Minds (2010) who both jumped at a $26 starting price.

Some of the most notable Australasian Oaks winners include Egg Tart (2017), Delicacy (2015), May’s Dream (2014), Lights Of Heaven (2011), and Zarita (2008).

Australasian Oaks Winners

Past Australasian Oaks winners and place-getters going back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.

Year Winner 2nd 3rd Time
2024 Vibrant Sun Private Legacy Coco Sun 2:04.28
2023 Affaire A Suivre She’s Fit Jennilala 2:05.0
2022 Glint Of Hope Barb Raider My Whisper 2:04.8
2021 Media Award Personal Ripper Rita 2:03.8
2020 Toffee Tongue Moonlight Maid Affair To Remember 2:07.1
2019 Princess Jenni Mirette House Of Cartier 2:02.7
2018 Sopressa Sheezdashing Miss Admiration 2:04.3
2017 Egg Tart Kenedna Ana Royale 2:04.3
2016 Abbey Marie Silent Sedition C’est Beau La Vie 2:04.1
2015 Delicacy Fenway Bahamas 2:04.8
2014 May’s Dream Star Fashion Scratchy Bottom 2:04.8
2013 Maybe Discreet Grand Daughter La Zuma 2:07.0
2012 Invest Our Miss Jones Essence 2:06.9
2011 Lights Of Heaven Absolutely Southern Speed 2:05.3
2010 Small Minds No Evidence Needed Ipioga 2:06.4
2009 Gallica Estee Miss Lily Rose 2:03.8
2008 Zarita Moment In Time Queen Of Queens 2:04.3
2007 Anamato Cancanelle Devil Moon 2:02.2
2006 Marju Snip Zenarta Fanciful Bella 2:04.4
2005 Irish Darling Kylikwong Hveger 2:04.4
2004 Rinky Dink Star Of Grechen Dane Belltar 2:04.3
2003 Sound Action Milanova Great Anna 2:05.1
2002 Tully Thunder Shes Archie Arboretum 2:03.3
2001 Tempest Morn South Sea Pearl Glitzy Guru 2:07.1
2000 Grand Echezeaux Umaline Porto Roca 2:04.3