Caloundra Cup 2024

Ladbrokes Tip: The Caloundra Cup makes a nice final lead-up into the Grafton Cup.

It is not to be confused with the Listed Sunshine Coast Cup (1400m) run by the Sunshine Coast Turf Club in summer.

2023 Caloundra Cup- Grafton Cup double winner Zoumon. Photo: Steve Hart.

A quality handicap race contested over 2400m, the race has been run and won since 1985 and won by a number of nice stayers over the years including Henderson Bay (2001), dual champion Empyreal (2005, 2006) and Index Linked (2015).

The Caloundra Cup currently offers a total of $300,000 in prize money as of 2022 and attracts a strong line-up of winter stayers each year. It takes place on the same day as the Group 3 Winx Guineas (1600m) for three-year-olds.

A good lead-up race is the Listed Ipswich Cup run the week prior or Brisbane’s Group 3 Tattersall’s Cup contested on Tiara Day.

The Caloundra Cup winner is also exempt from ballot for the following Thursday’s Listed Grafton Cup (2350m) and Supply And Demand (2017) followed by Zoumon (2023) are the latest horses to do the Caloundra Cup – Grafton Cup winter double.

The rescheduled edition of the 2024 Caloundra Cup ran on Sunday, July 14, 2024 at the Sunshine Coast and was won in a narrow upset by The Mission mare Mission Of Love ($12) who was given a peach of a ride by Ms. Angela Jones.

2024 Caloundra Cup Results

The official Caloundra Cup 2024 Results & Finishing Order will be available below once the race is run and won on Sunday, July 14, 2024 .

• 1st: #14 Mission Of Love
• 2nd: #1 Alegron
• 3rd: #9 Warp Speed

John Symons & Sheila Laxon’s $120k buy, The Mission mare Mission Of Love ($12), was brave when given a gem of a ride by Angela Jones to cut the corner and hit the front at the top of the straight before holding off all the challengers and saluting at double-figures in the Caloundra Cup 2024 results. 

2024 Caloundra Cup Odds

The latest Caloundra Cup 2024 betting odds will be provided below as soon as markets on the end-of-carnival event on Winx Guineas Day over the winter are announced.

Caloundra Cup Race Info

• Date: Sunday, July 14, 2024
• Track: Sunshine Coast Racecourse, Caloundra
• Distance: 2400m
• Conditions: Quality Handicap
• Status: Listed
• Prize Money: $300,000
• First Run: 1985

Caloundra Cup Betting

The Caloundra Cup betting markets are dominated by in-form staying types coming off good lead-up runs in events during the lead-up Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival races.

Favourites have a solid strike-rate in the race with Index Linked ($3.40 in 2015), Stockman ($1.45 in 2021) and Le Don De Vie ($4.40 in 2022) the latest to salute for the punters.

Caloundra Cup Field

The Caloundra Cup race field draws a quality line-up of winter stayers from both local and interstate stables.

Runners may come via a number of different lead-up races including the Group 3 Tattersall’s Cup (2400m) at Eagle Farm on Tatt’s Tiara Day a fortnight earlier.

Caloundra Cup nominations close the Monday of race week with final acceptances revealing the field released on the Wednesday before the race runs on the Saturday.

2024 Caloundra Cup Field

The official Caloundra Cup 2024 field of final acceptors is announced by the Sunshine Coast Turf Club on the Wednesday of race week and will be published below along with the confirmed jockeys and barriers.

*Rescheduled 2024 Caloundra Cup final acceptances close at 10:00am on Thursday, July 11th, 2024. 

Recent Group 3 Premier’s Cup winner in Brisbane, Hezashocka, heads betting on the rescheduled Caloundra Cup 2024 field this weekend at the Sunshine Coast.

2024 Caloundra Cup Nominations

Early Caloundra Cup 2024 Nominations close the Monday leading-up to Caloundra Cup Day, which is one of the very last events of the wider Queensland Winter Racing Carnival, and will be provided in full below.

*Rescheduled 2024 Caloundra Cup nominations close at 11:00am on Tuesday, July 9th, 2024. 

Caloundra Cup Form Guide

The Caloundra Cup form guide lists for punters all the crucial pre-betting information like the jockeys, trainers, barriers and lead-up runs of the female sprinters in the field.

Runners trained out of Brisbane have a credible recent record the race, so looking at the local Queensland runners with a lead-up run in a Brisbane event is essential when doing the Caloundra Cup form.

Local Queensland hoop Damian Brown has a strong record in the race riding three Caloundra Cup winners between 2013 – 2023.

The Caloundra Cup form has held-up in future races in recent years including the upcoming Listed Grafton Cup held the following Thursday for any stayers on the quick back-up with Supply And Demand (2017) and Zoumon (2023) the latest to do the Caloundra Cup – Grafton Cup double.

The 2021 Caloundra Cup winner Stockman went on to frank the form the following autumn running second in Sydney’s Group 1 Tancred Stakes (2400m) in 2022.

The 2022 Caloundra Cup form was franked with the winner Le Don De Vie heading to Randwick that October to run second in Sydney’s Group 1 The Metropolitan (2400m).

The 2023 Caloundra Cup form was franked with the second placed Bois D’Argent returning the following winter to win the 2024 Group 1 Doomben Cup (2000m) in Brisbane.

2024 Caloundra Cup Form

A link to our comprehensive Caloundra Cup 2024 form guide and race betting preview will be provided for punters below the week of the event.

Caloundra Cup Tips

Caloundra Cup tips include looking for in-form winter gallopers coming off a win in a Brisbane race, graduates that finished in the money in their lead-up assignment and tipping single-figure fancies.

2024 Caloundra Cup Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ exclusive Caloundra Cup 2024 betting tips on the Listed race at the end of the Queensland winter racing season will be detailed below the week of the race so, stay tuned for those to back and sack this season.

• To Win: #2 Hezashocka ($3.70 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Think it will be a good day for the favourites and happy to stick with proven wet tracker Hezashocka in the rescheduled Caloundra Cup. The Shocking six-year-old has previous winning form over the 2400m and is down notably in grade here after a decent run in the Group 2 The Q22 against a talented field in Brisbane. He does need to lump the 60kg equal top-weight, no easy task on a likely bottomless track, but his form all campaign suggest he has the class to do so. He handled a Heavy (9) to win the Gosford Cup earlier this prep, was under three lengths beaten in the Group 1 Doomben Cup and beat Alegron home in the Group 3 Premier’s Cup over this distance at Eagle Farm. Good form and right race to win again.

Caloundra Cup Results

Recent Caloundra Cup race results show a mix of both local Queensland-trained winners and interstate raiders with notable champions of the event including Stockman (2021), Supply And Demand (2017), Index Linked (2015), and Ironstein (2010).

Mission Of Love (2024) was the last Caloundra Cup winning mare.

Empyreal (2005 & 2006) is the only multiple Caloundra Cup winner to date.

In 2024 all three horses in the Caloundra Cup trifecta were ridden by female hoops with Mission Of Love (1st – Angela Jones), Alegron (2nd – Rachel King), and Warp Speed (3rd – Cejay Graham).

Past Caloundra Cup Winners

Recent Caloundra Cup winning horses, jockeys and trainers dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.

FAQ

When is the Caloundra Cup 2024?

What is the prize money for the Caloundra Cup 2024?

$300,000

Where is the Caloundra Cup 2024?

Sunshine Coast Racecourse, 170 Pierce Avenue, Caloundra QLD 4551.