Caloundra Cup 2021

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

The Caloundra Cup is held at the tail-end of the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival the Saturday after Brisbane’s Tattersall’s Tiara Day and takes place at the Corbould Park Racecourse at Caloundra in late June or early July.

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 $175,000 in prize money 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 $200,000 Listed Grafton Cup (2350m) and Supply And Demand (2017) was the last horse to do the Caloundra Cup – Grafton Cup winter double.

The latest edition of the Caloundra Cup ran on Sunday July 11th, 2021 after being postponed eight days following the original abandoned meeting, and was won by the odds-on favourite Stockman.

2021 Caloundra Cup Results

The official Caloundra Cup 2021 Results & Finishing Order will be available below once the postponed edition of the Listed Sunshine Coast race is run and won on Sunday July 11th, 2021.

• 1st: #3 Stockman
• 2nd: #6 Cellarmaid
• 3rd: #2 Happy Go Plucky

The Joe Pride-trained WJ McKell Cup winner Stockman ($1.45) added another winter cup success to his record with a tough late victory holding off the challengers by a half-length in the 2021 Caloundra Cup results.

Caloundra Cup Race Info

• Date: Saturday July 3rd, 2021 – Rescheduled for Sunday July 11th, 2021
• Track: Sunshine Coast Racecourse, Caloundra
• Distance: 2400m
• Conditions: Quality Handicap
• Status: Listed
• Prize Money: $175,000
• First Run: 1985

CALOUNDRA CUP PREVIEW

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) and Stockman ($1.45 in 2021) the latest to salute for the punters.

2021 Caloundra Cup Odds

The latest Caloundra Cup 2021 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 Field

The Caloundra Cup 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.

2021 Caloundra Cup Field

The official Caloundra Cup 2021 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.

The updated 2021 Caloundra Cup final field will be released on Thursday July 8th, 2021.

There are just seven final acceptors in the updated Caloundra Cup 2021 field with the Joe Pride-trained Stockman the clear favourite in gate three.

2021 Caloundra Cup Nominations

Early Caloundra Cup 2021 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.

Sydney’s WJ McKell Cup winner Stockman and Ipswich Cup champion Happy Go Plucky (an unlikely final acceptor instead contesting Thursday’s Grafton Cup) headline the updated fifteen 2021 Caloundra Cup nominations in Queensland this Sunday.

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

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 – 2021.

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) the last to do the Caloundra Cup – Grafton Cup double.

2021 Caloundra Cup Form

A link to our comprehensive Caloundra Cup 2021 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.

2021 Caloundra Cup Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ exclusive Caloundra Cup 2021 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 Happy Go Plucky ($8.50 at time of publish)

The bookies are tipping the Sydney form to hold, but happy to go with the Queensland form and give the evergreen veteran Happy Go Plucky the chance at back-to-back Cup wins off his good effort at Ipswich. Was at big odds that day and has a few things against him (going up in weight, distance and yet to place at the track), but he and his hoop are in good form and this is an open and winnable edition of the Caloundra Cup.

Caloundra Cup Results

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

Caloundra Cup Winners