Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude 2024

Ladbrokes Tip: The Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude form has held up in the Group 1 Blue Diamond plenty in recent years.

The Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude is one of three Group 2 support races one of the Melbourne Autumn Racing Carnival’s earliest and biggest meetings – C.F. Orr Stakes Day. The meeting runs at Caulfield Racecourse* on a Saturday in mid-February each year and is headlined by the Group 1 C.F. Orr Stakes (1400m).

*In 2023 the 2023 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude and C.F. Orr Stakes Day card ran at Ladbrokes Park Hillside, Sandown. 

2022 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude winner Revolutionary Miss. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

Recently upgraded from a Group 3 to a Group 2 event, the Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude is also a highlight on the bill and offers $300,000 in total prize money. A set weights race open only to two-year-old fillies, the Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude is run over 1100m on the same day as the Group 3 Blue Diamond Colts & Geldings Prelude for the boys.

It is obviously a traditional lead-up to the classic Group 1 $2 million  Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) back at the track a fortnight later and the double was recently completed by Lyre (2019), Catchy (2017), Earthquake (2014), and Samaready (2012).

Just one filly has managed to win the Blue Diamond Preview – Blue Diamond Prelude – Blue Diamond Stakes treble with Midnight Fever (1987) claiming all three events in her two-year-old season.

The latest edition of the Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude took place on Saturday February 10, 2024 as part of CF Orr Stakes Day at Caulfield Racecourse and saw the Clinton McDonald-trained Hayasugi ($8.50) salute again off her Preview victory. 

2024 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Results

The official Blue Diamond Prelude Results for the fillies’ race will be known on Saturday February 10, 2024 and published in full below.

2024 Blue Diamond Prelude (Fillies) winner Hayasugi completed the Preview – Prelude double. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

• 1st: #2 Hayasugi
• 2nd: #6 Kuroyanagi
• 3rd: #8 Matisse

It was a thrilling photo-finish in the Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude 2024 results with Clinton McDonald’s Preview winner Hayasugi ($8.50) completing the double after getting her nose down right on the line from a run out wide. She now gets her chance to become just the second filly in history to win all three Blue Diamond events when she backs-up against the boys in the Group 1 in a fortnight.

2024 Blue Diamond Prelude (Fillies) Odds

The updated Blue Diamond Prelude 2024 odds for the Group 2 fillies’ edition will be available below once markets are released.

Blue Diamond Prelude (Fillies) Race Info

• Date: Saturday February 10, 2024
• Track: Caulfield Racecourse
• Distance: 1100m
• Conditions: Set Weights – 2YO Fillies
• Status: Group 2
• Prize Money: $300,000
• First Run: 1982

2024 BLUE DIAMOND PRELUDE (F) PREVIEW

2024 BLUE DIAMOND PRELUDE (F) ODDS

Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Betting

Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude betting markets open after the final acceptances are out on the Wednesday before the race runs on CF Orr Stakes Day, the opening Group 1 race meeting of the Melbourne Festival of Racing each autumn.

The fillies that ran well in the Blue Diamond Fillies Preview the month before over 100m less in Melbourne usually dominated the Blue Diamond Prelude (Fillies) odds. The Blue Diamond Fillies Preview – Prelude double was most recently achieved by Fontiton (2015) followed by Hayasugi (2024).

Exploring (4th in 2023) meanwhile was the last Prelude winning filly to come out of the Preview before Hayasugi did the double the next year.

2023 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude winner Exploring was good leading all-the-way for her upset win. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

The results of the Prelude always have an impact on the upcoming Blue Diamond Stakes odds as well and the double is a popular one with punters each year.

Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Field

The Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude race field attracts the best young female sprinters getting about for the season.

The majority of the two-year-old fillies in the mix are looking to back-up two weeks later in the Blue Diamond Stakes over 100m further, and most come off an earlier autumn run in the Group 3 Blue Diamond Fillies Preview (1000m) in late January.

If not the Blue Diamond Preview, the fillies lining-up in the Blue Diamond Prelude (Fillies) field are first-up for the season or perhaps are even on debut.

The Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude nominations are taken the Monday before the race runs on the Saturday with the final field and barrier draw out on the Wednesday.

2024 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Field

The Blue Diamond Prelude (Fillies) final field and barrier draw for 2024 will be released on the Wednesday before CF Orr Stakes Day and published below.

A class line-up of untapped two-year-old fillies will face off in the 2024 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude field on Saturday with markets led by resuming Inglis Banner winner by three lengths last October, Bold Bastille.

2024 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Nominations

The early 2024 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Nominations close the Monday of race week and will be published in full below once announced by Racing Victoria.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Tips

Looking for the fillies that ran well in the BD Preview earlier in the autumn or that come off a good trial ahead of a new season return are good Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude tips.

Favourites also have a strong strike-rate in the race so looking for fillies at single figures in the markets that are proven in Melbourne are other Blue Diamond Prelude betting tips to take.

That said, upsets are not uncommon either with Letzbeglam ($31 in 2020) the longest-priced winner in recent years followed by the 2023 upset by Exploring ($15).

Arcaded ($2.70 in 2021) meanwhile was the most recent favourite to get the job done for the punters.

2024 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Tips

Our insider Blue Diamond Prelude Tips for Fillies in 2024 will be published below the week of the race so stay tuned.

• To Win: #1 Bold Bastille ($2.30 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Happy to stick with the top elect in the Fillies’ Prelude with Bold Bastille racing first-up and looking to remain unbeaten. Team Hayes’ nicely-bred daughter of Brazen Beau was excellent on debut winning Moonee Valley’s Inglis Banner over 1000m by a runaway three lengths in October. Should have no issues over the 1100m then, is proven fresh, and Mark Zahra is aboard again. Drawn a touch wide (barrier 10) but looks every hope if she gets into the right spot.

Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Form Guide

The Blue Diamond Prelude Fillies form guide features all the must-know information for punters including the jockeys, trainers, barriers and lead-up runs of all the juveniles in the field.

Looking for the fillies dominant in betting, drawn an inside alley and coming off a nice lead-up in a race like the Blue Diamond Preview are all important form-wise.

The Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude form has also stacked up plenty of times in the subsequent Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) in recent years. In 2014 Earthquake wont he BD Prelude – BD Stakes double before a second to Mossfun two runs later in the Group 1 Golden Slipper (1200m) in Sydney. The latest fillies to do the Blue Diamond Prelude – Blue Diamond Stakes double are Catchy for the David Hayes-led Lindsay Park stable in 2017 followed two years later by the Anthony Freedman-trained Lyre (2019) who also finished third in that season’s Golden Slipper results.

Earthquake (2014) took out the Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude – Blue Diamond Stakes double. Photo Credit: Race Horse Photos Australia.

Earlier Guelph (2013) also won the Blue Diamond Prelude and later in the season won the Group 1 ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) – Group 1 Champagne Stakes (1600m) double at Royal Randwick Racecourse further franking the form.

The 2022 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude winner Revolutionary Miss franked the form with a second next start in that autumn’s Blue Diamond Stakes results. She was also good in the spring finishing runner-up in the Thousand Guineas (1600m).

2024 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Blue Diamond Prelude (Fillies) 2024 Form Guide will be available below the week of the race.

Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Results

The Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude race results have been dominated by single-figure hopes in recent years.

Notable Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude winners over the past decade include Lyre (2019), Catchy (2017), Earthquake (2014), Guelph (2013), and Samaready (2012).

Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Winners

Past Blue Diamond Prelude winning fillies and place-getters going back to 2000 are detailed in the below table.