Ladbrokes Tip: Runners drawn in barriers 3 – 7 have a strong record in the Ladbrokes Stakes

The Ladbrokes Stakes is one of four Group 1 features on the Ladbrokes Caulfield Guineas Day card in Melbourne each October during the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. It is the Caulfield Racecourse meeting’s staying feature run over 2000m under weight-for-age conditions, open to horses aged three and over. Worth $1 million in prize money the race makes a nice lead-up into the Ladbrokes Cox Plate and was first run in 1886 and won by Isonomy. Since then there has been many notable Caulfield Stakes winners including Wakeful (1901 & 1902), triple champ Eurythmic (1920-22), Ajax (1938), Comic Court (195), Sky High (1961 & 1962), Kingston Town (1981 & 1982), Rough Habit (1994), Lonhro (2002 & 2003), So You Think (2010), Atlantic Jewel (2013) and of course Winx (2016).

This year the Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes 2019 ran on Saturday October 12, 2019 and saw Lindsay Park’s valuable import Cape Of Good Hope win in an upset. 

2019 Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes Results

The full Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes 2019 Results & Finishing Order will be available here once the Group 1 takes place on Saturday October 12, 2019.

• 1st: #11 Cape Of Good Hope
• 2nd: #1 Black Heart Bart
• 3rd: #6 Harlem

There was a notable upset in the Ladbrokes Stakes 2019 results with a brilliant Australian debut from the high-priced Lindsay Park import Cape Of Good Hope ($21). He defeated the flying Black Heart Bart ($21) who nearly scored another victory off his 100/1 upset in the Underwood, while Cape Of Good Hope’s stablemate Harlem ($26) ran third.

Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes Race Info

• Date: Saturday October 12, 2019
• Track: Caulfield Racecourse
• Distance: 2000m
• Conditions: Weight-for-age
• Status: Group 1
• Prize Money: $1 million
• First Run: 1886

Caulfield Stakes Odds

Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes betting is at its peak the week of the race with punters looking towards the favourite as they have saluted in the race five times from 2009 – 2019 most recently with Winx (2016).

Usually sitting top of the Ladbrokes Stakes odds are horses that ran well in their latest Group lead-up with six of the Caulfield Stakes winners from 2009-18 having finished top two in their lead-up runs including Winx (2016) who won Sydney’s Group 1 George Main Stakes (1600m).

Four and five year old horses also dominate the betting with just two horses since 2009 winning from outside this age group – Fawkner taking it out as a seven-year-old followed by Gailo Chop (7YO in 2017).

2019 Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes Betting

The season’s updated Ladbrokes Caulfield Sakes 2019 odds and betting market links to the Ladbrokes Cox Plate lead-up will be available below once open so stay tuned for the best Caulfield Group 1 racing odds this spring.

Caulfield Stakes Tips

Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes tips include selecting a horse that ran first or second last time out off a Group 1 lead-up, and to look for graduates of the Underwood Stakes that has produced seven winners since 2006 – the last to complete the double being the Kiwi Ocean Park (2012).

Also, looking for runners drawn in barrier five is a good tip as this gate has produced four winners since 2009 including Atlantic Jewel (2013) who beat home the boys in the classic on the back of an Underwood Stakes second and Gailo Chop (2017) who improved on a lead-up third in the Underwood Stakes.

2019 Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes Tips

Our insider Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes 2019 betting tips and exotic selections will be detailed below the week of the race so stay tuned to see our tips on the horse to make the Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes honour roll.

Caulfield Stakes Field

The Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes field features a host of the season’s premier weight-for-age hopefuls but isn’t known for attracting bumper final acceptances. The event ran with under 10 starters every year from 2001 – 2013 before a dozen lined-up in the 2014 field when Fawkner won. Just eight gallopers ran in the 2015 edition with Criterion got the job done first-up off a UK race, but the smallest Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes field was the three-starters that took to the track when Winx won in 2016.

The Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes field traditionally features staying types heading into another spring WFA classic – the Group 1 Ladbrokes Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley Racecourse and recent winners of the Ladbrokes Stakes – Cox Plate double include Northerly (2001), So You Think (2010), Ocean Park (2012) and Winx (2016) who won the latter for the second time be a historic margin of eight lengths.

2019 Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes Field

The official Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes 2019 Final Field & Barriers are announced by Racing Victoria the Wednesday of race week and will be listed in full below so bookmark this page to see what weight-for-age spring hopefuls make the starting line-up.

Winx (2016) is one of the most famous Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes winners. Photo Credit: Ultimate Racing Photos.

There are 11 hopefuls in the 2019 Ladbrokes Stakes field including the 2017 champion Gailo Chop, shock 100/1 Underwood Stakes winner last start Black Heart Bart and the George Main Stakes champ Avilius who is tipped to win.

Scratchings: #10 Danceteria (8) is out of the Ladbrokes Stakes field after a scope showed the horse to have mucus. The international raider will now go into the Ladbrokes Cox Plate on October 26 without the benefit of a lead-up run in Australia.

Caulfield Stakes Form Guide

The Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes form guide has all the details punters need to place a well-informed wager on the weight-for-age feature with information including the saddlecloth numbers, trainers, jockeys and barriers of all the starters. Many punters will be keen to find a Mark Kavanagh-trained runner in the mix as he’s trained three winners since 2007 with Maldivian (2007), Whobegotyou (2009) and Atlantic Jewel (2013). Winx (2016) joined Atlantic Jewel as the only mares to win the Caulfield Stakes since Tristarc (1985), so punters are keen to look for the male gallopers on the form guide as well as graduates out of the Underwood Stakes.

Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes Form Facts

• The Underwood Stakes has produced more Caulfield Stakes winners than any other lead-up including Ocean Park (2014) who did the double
• Four and five-year-old horses have dominated the Caulfield Stakes results from the past 30 years
• Only three mares in the past 30 years have saluted in the Caulfield Stakes

2019 Ladbrokes Stakes Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Ladbrokes Stakes 2019 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Caulfield Stakes Results

The Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes results and finishing order are known when the Ladbrokes Caulfield Guineas Day showdown runs on the early October program and shows exactly where your selection ran, the winning time / margin as well as the starting price of all the horses and any official scratchings.

Caulfield Stakes results over the past decade have been dominated by single-figure fancies, but upsets have also occurred including Douro Valley ($41 in 2008), Descarado ($13 in 2011) and more recently Cape Of Good Hope ($21 in 2019).

Caulfield Stakes Winners