The Concorde Stakes fires up the Sydney spring with one of the fastest 1000m sprints of the year, and Ladbrokes is the place punters turn to when the early market starts to move. This high‑intensity Group 2 sets the tone for the short‑course stars heading toward The Shorts, the Premiere Stakes and The Everest, making it a key betting race for anyone chasing early value, sharp form reads and confident spring betting plays. With elite sprinters resuming, trial rockets stepping out fresh and major stables launching their first big runners of the carnival, Concorde Stakes betting at Ladbrokes gives punters the odds, insights and momentum they need to strike early and stay ahead of the pack.
The next edition of the Concorde Stakes takes place on Saturday, September 5, 2026 offering $1 million in prize money as a potential The Everest race lead-up.
2026 Concorde Stakes Odds
The season’s top Concorde Stakes odds will be available right here as soon as betting on the Group 2 The Shorts and The Everest lead-up opens followed by the official finishing order after the event.
| 4. Tempted (7) J: Chad Schofield 58kg x111xT: Ciaron Maher | ||
| 1. Headwall (5) J: Zac Lloyd 58.5kg 32x1xT: Matthew Smith | ||
| 3. Beadman (11) J: Tim Clark 58.5kg 8150xT: Peter Snowden | ||
| 8. King’s Secret (2) J: Andrew Adkins 57kg x382xT: Joseph Pride | ||
| 5. Roselyn’s Star (6) J: Regan Bayliss 58kg 231×1T: John O’shea & Tom Charlton | ||
| 2. Marhoona (4) J: Rachel King 58.5kg 6214xT: Michael Freedman | ||
| 12. Mal Coupe (3) J: Tyler Schiller 56kg 1246xT: Stephen O’halloran | ||
| 7. Beskar (1) J: James McDonald 57.5kg 3118xT: Anthony & Sam Freedman | ||
| 10. Steady Ready (9) J: Tommy Berry 56kg x321xT: Tony & Maddysen Sears | ||
| 13. Signor Tortoni (10) J: Jason Collett 56kg 1531xT: Ron Quinton | ||
| 6. Way To The Stars (8) J: Ashley Morgan 57.5kg 83×47T: Matthew Smith | ||
| 9. Wanaruah (12) J: Kerrin Mcevoy 57kg x211xT: Brett & Georgie Cavanough |
Concorde Stakes Tips
Looking for short-distance stars that have winning form over the 1000m distance, first-up runners with a strong record fresh and Group 1 winners kicking off their spring campaigns make the best Concorde Stakes tips.
Backing runners under $10 in the markets, horses that ran in the previous season’s The Everest and returning Concorde Stakes performers are also worth including in your best bets.
Ladbrokes Tip: The Concorde Stakes is a good early lead-up into the $20 million The Everest!
2026 Concorde Stakes Predictions & Best Bets
Our Ladbrokes’ exclusive Concorde Stakes betting tips for 2026 will be detailed below listing the three-year-olds to back and sack in the Group 2 event this season so stay tuned.
| 4. Tempted (7) J: Chad Schofield 58kg x111xT: Ciaron Maher |
| 1. Headwall (5) J: Zac Lloyd 58.5kg 32x1xT: Matthew Smith |
| 3. Beadman (11) J: Tim Clark 58.5kg 8150xT: Peter Snowden |
The Concorde Stakes is a popular Group 2 short-distance sprint, upgraded ahead of the 2026 edition, contested at Royal Randwick on Chelmsford Stakes Day in early September each Sydney Spring Racing Carnival. The set weights plus penalties showdown now offers $1 million in prize money having had a major boost ahead of the 2023 edition, and it has been run and won since 1990.
The Concorde Stakes now serves as a potential lead-up into the world’s richest turf race, the Group 1 $20 million The Everest (1200m) taking place at the same track in October. In 2017 and 2018 the champion Redzel completed the Concorde Stakes – The Everest double twice on the trot and returned in 2019 to become a three-time Concorde Stakes hero.
In 2020 the Concorde Stakes winner Gytrash ran a next-up third in that year’s The Everest results before taking out Rosehill’s Winners Stakes – race renamed after the previous season’s The Everest winner each year. The 2021 Concorde Stakes winner Nature Strip finally saluted as the odds-on favourite in the event at his third attempt before going on to win that year’s The Everest for Chris Waller.
A new race record time was set in 2024 with Ciaron Maher’s mare I Am Me flying home in a slick 55.97 seconds.
The 2024 Concorde Stakes also produced that year’s The Everest winner with Bella Nipotina improving on her second in the then Group 3 event to win the first Group 1 edition of the richest turf race in the world.
Concorde Stakes Race Info
- Date: Saturday, September 5, 2026
- Track: Royal Randwick Racecourse
- Distance: 1000m
- Conditions: 3YO Fillies – Set Weights
- Status: Group 2
- Prize Money: $1,000,000
- First Run: 1990
2026 Concorde Stakes Results
The official Concorde Stakes 2026 results and full finishing order of The Everest lead-up will be updated below once the race takes place on 2026 at Randwick.
- #4 Tempted
- #1 Headwall
- #3 Beadman
Concorde Stakes Betting
Concorde Stakes betting markets are dominated by short-distance specialists with strong form over the 1000 – 1100m distance range.
Previous Group 1 winners or graduates from the previous season’s The Everest race also sit high up the Concorde Stakes odds, as do in-form sprinters with a good strike-rate at Randwick.
Horses that ran well in the previous year’s Concorde Stakes are also usually kept safe in betting with returning runners boasting a strong record in the race in the past few years including the three-peat of Redzel (2017-19).
In 2021 Nature Strip ($1.50) finally saluted as the favourite having twice been beaten in the race.
Eduardo ($2.70 in 2022) is the latest favourite in Concorde Stakes betting to win.
2026 Concorde Stakes Big Bets Tracker
Track the big money Concorde Stakes bets on this weekend’s early The Everest lead-up right here!
Concorde Stakes Field
The Concorde Stakes race field attracts a class line-up of sprint stars, many of which will have past form in tougher races.
Group 1 performers heading towards the bigger spring sprints including the $20 million The Everest in October often kick off their campaigns in the Concorde Stakes field.
The $1 million Group 2 The Shorts (1100m) is also a key next-up option for Concorde Stakes graduates.
I Am Me (2024) was the last to complete the Concorde Stakes – The Shorts race double.
Concorde Stakes nominations close on the Monday before the race with the field and barrier draw out on the Wednesday.
2026 Concorde Stakes Field
The official Concorde Stakes 2026 Final Field & Barriers are released by Racing NSW the Wednesday leading-up to Chelmsford Stakes Day, the full line-up to be published below.
The Concorde Stakes 2026 final field features 13 class sprinters with an eye on the Group 1 spring majors including the Ciaron Maher-trained Group 1 Surround Stakes champ Tempted resuming in gate seven and chasing her fourth win on the trot.
| Entrant | Last 6 | Sex | Barrier | Weight | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1. Headwall
J: Zac Lloyd
T: Matthew Smith |
232x1x | G | 5 | 58.5kg | |
|
2. Marhoona
J: Rachel King
T: Michael Freedman |
x6214x | M | 4 | 58.5kg | |
|
3. Beadman
J: Tim Clark
T: Peter Snowden |
68150x | H | 11 | 58.5kg | |
|
4. Tempted
J: Chad Schofield
T: Ciaron Maher |
2x111x | M | 7 | 58kg | |
|
5. Roselyn's Star
J: Regan Bayliss
T: John O'shea & Tom Charlton |
2231x1 | G | 6 | 58kg | |
|
6. Way To The Stars
J: Ashley Morgan
T: Matthew Smith |
683x47 | G | 8 | 57.5kg | |
|
7. Beskar
J: James McDonald
T: Anthony & Sam Freedman |
x3118x | G | 1 | 57.5kg | |
|
8. King's Secret
J: Andrew Adkins
T: Joseph Pride |
1x382x | G | 2 | 57kg | |
|
9. Wanaruah
J: Kerrin Mcevoy
T: Brett & Georgie Cavanough |
8x211x | H | 12 | 57kg | |
|
10. Steady Ready
J: Tommy Berry
T: Tony & Maddysen Sears |
6x321x | G | 9 | 56kg | |
| 11. Chidiac (13) Scratched: | |||||
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12. Mal Coupe
J: Tyler Schiller
T: Stephen O'halloran |
11246x | G | 3 | 56kg | |
|
13. Signor Tortoni
J: Jason Collett
T: Ron Quinton |
11531x | G | 10 | 56kg | |
2026 Concorde Stakes Nominations
The early Concorde Stakes 2026 Nominations close the Monday of race week.
The 2026 Concorde Stakes nominations attracted 20 short distance specialists on a potential path to The Everest led in all-in betting by Ciaron Maher’s resuming Group 1 Surround Stakes winning filly Tempted.
Concorde Stakes Form Guide
For all the information needed to place a bet on the Concorde Stakes, the form guide is what to consult as it lists everything from the jockeys and trainers to the lead-up form of the sprinters in the race.
Checking the Concorde Stakes form guide for runners proven at the short 1000m distance, past Randwick winners and first-up runners are all important factors.
The 2021 Concorde Stakes form was franked with the winner Nature Strip going on to win that year’s The Everest – VRC Sprint Classic double. He also travelled to Royal Ascot the following year and won the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes in the UK.
Bella Nipotina franked the 2023 Concorde Stakes form improving on her fourth to win that year’s Winners Stakes (now Russell Balding Stakes) before a 2024 return that included a sensational winter in Brisbane headlined by her Group 1 wins in the Doomben 10,000 and Tatt’s Tiara.
Bella Nipotina went on to improve on her Concorde Stakes second to win the 2024 The Everest race when it took place as a Group 1 event for the first time. She further franked the form with success in the $3 million Winners Stakes and finishing third in Melbourne’s Gorup 1 Champions Sprint over the Melbourne Cup Carnival.
2026 Concorde Stakes Form Guide
A link to our insider Concorde Stakes 2026 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.
Past Concorde Stakes Results
The Concorde Stakes race results have been dominated by classy Group 1 horses including Nature Strip (2021), Gytrash (2020), three-time hero Redzel (2017-19), Tiger Tees (2012), and Reward For Effort (2010).
I Am Me (2024) was the last Concorde Stakes winning mare when defeating her stablemate, the fellow Ciaron Maher-trained mare Bella Nipotina, home by a neck.
I Am Me holds the current Concorde Stakes race record winning in 2024 in a time of 55:97 seconds.
Recent Concorde Stakes Winners
Recent Concorde Stakes winners and placegetters dating back to the year 1999 are detailed in the below table.
| Year | Horse | Trainer/s | Jockey | Weight | Distance | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 2025 | HEADWALL | Matthew Smith | Zac Lloyd | 58kg | 1000m | 0:56.80 |
| 2024 | I AM ME | Ciaron Maher | Nash Rawiller | 57kg | 1000m | 0:55.97 (R) |
| 2023 | REMARQUE | Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes | Tyler Schiller | 56kg | 1000m | 0:56.57 |
| 2022 | EDUARDO | Joseph Pride | Nash Rawiller | 60.5kg | 1000m | 0:59.55 |
| 2021 | NATURE STRIP | Chris Waller | James McDonald | 60.5kg | 1000m | 0:56.66 |
| 2020 | GYTRASH | Gordon Richards | Jason Collett | 60kg | 1000m | 0:55.81 |
| 2019 | REDZEL | Peter & Paul Snowden | Kerrin McEvoy | 60kg | 1000 m | 0:56.28 |
| 2018 | REDZEL | Peter & Paul Snowden | Kerrin McEvoy | 60.5kg | 1000 m | 0:56.19 |
| 2017 | REDZEL | Peter & Paul Snowden | Kerrin McEvoy | 60kg | 1000 m | 0:56.23 |
| 2016 | FELINES | Kris Lees | Jason Collett | 54kg | 1000 m | 0:59.33 |
| 2015 | SHIRAZ | Tony McEvoy | Hugh Bowman | 58kg | 1000 m | 0:57.72 |
| 2014 | WOULDNT IT BE NICE | Paul Perry | Sam Clipperton | 56kg | 1000 m | 0:59.43 |
| 2013 | DECISION TIME | Clarry Conners | Blake Shinn | 59kg | 1000 m | 0:56.09 |
| 2012 | TIGER TEES(NZ) | Joseph Pride | Peter Robl | 58kg | 1100 m | 1:04.13 |
| 2011 | DECISION TIME | Clarry Conners | Corey Brown | 58kg | 1100 m | 1:02.80 |
| 2010 | REWARD FOR EFFORT | Peter G Moody | Nash Rawiller | 56.5kg | 1100 m | 1:03.38 |
| 2009 | FRIDAY CREEK | Anne-Maree Robinson | Peter Robl | 53kg | 1100 m | 1:03.82 |
| 2008 | TYPHOON ZED | Tim Martin | Corey Brown | 58kg | 1100 m | 1:03.45 |
| 2007 | RACE NOT HELD | |||||
| 2006 | MUSTARD | John McNair | Darren Beadman | 54.5kg | 1100 m | 1:03.53 |
| 2005 | RED OOG | Joseph Pride | Hugh Bowman | 57.5kg | 1100 m | 1:03.96 |
| 2004 | TAIKUN | Bart Cummings | Darren Beadman | 56.5kg | 1100 m | 1:02.76 |
| 2003 | PRIVATE STEER | John O’Shea | Glen Boss | 57kg | 1100 m | 1:04.19 |
| 2002 | FOUARDEE | Jim Lee | Chris Munce | 56kg | 1100 m | 1:02.76 |
| 2001 | PHOENIX PARK | Gai Waterhouse | Brian York | 54.5kg | 1100 m | 1:03.21 |
| 2000 | CONDOTTI | Gai Waterhouse | Brian York | 52kg | 1100 m | 1:04.08 |
| 1999 | GUINEAS | John Hawkes | John Marshall | 57.5kg | 1100 m | 1:03.85 |
FAQs
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Which horse will win the 2026 Concorde Stakes?
The best way to pick which horse will win the Concorde Stakes is to take into account the form, assess the barriers, and consider the weight the horse will carry (among other factors).
Check out Ladbrokes in the lead up to the race for full form information.
When is the Concorde Stakes 2026?
The 2026 Concorde Stakes is set to run in Sydney on Saturday September 5 as the richest race on the Chelmsford Stakes Day card. It is scheduled as Randwick Race 8 at 3:55pm (AEST) on the 10-race card.
What is the prize money for the Concorde Stakes 2026?
The 2026 Concorde Stakes prize money is set at $1 million which is paid from 1st to 10th place including $580,000 going to the Concorde Stakes winner.
Where is the Concorde Stakes 2026?
The Concorde Stakes 2026 will be run at Royal Randwick, the home of Sydney’s premier short‑course sprinting features and the traditional starting point for many Everest‑bound sprinters.
What distance is the Concorde Stakes run over?
The Concorde Stakes is run over a sharp, high‑pressure 1000 metres, making it one of Sydney’s purest early‑spring speed tests and a key race for assessing short‑course sprinters heading toward The Everest path.
How many horses run in the Concorde Stakes?
The Concorde Stakes generally attracts a compact field of around 8–12 runners, typical of early‑spring 1000m sprints where stables kick off their short‑course campaigns with select, high‑quality sprinters.
Who won the 2025 Concorde Stakes?
The 2025 Concorde Stakes was won by six-year-old Dream Ahead gelding Headwall at $4.20 for trainer Matthew Smith with jockey Zac Lloyd aboard on 58kg from barrier 4 to win by 0.1 lengths on a Good (4) track in a time of 56.80 seconds.