COX PLATE PREVIEW

COX PLATE BETTING

Ladbrokes Cox Plate Tips

Cox Plate tips flood in during October every year and usually the pro punters and tipsters put three and four-year-olds on top of their selections as this age group won every Cox Plate from 2009 – 2015, the weight-for-age conditions suiting the younger horses.

Tipping a Cox Plate winner also involves looking at the lead-up form with gallopers coming off a top three run the best performed in this spring classic.

A key lead-up races into the Cox Plate is the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes (2000m) at Flemington earlier in the month with Winx (2017 and 2018) completing the Turnbull Stakes – Cox Plate double twice in recent history.

2020 Cox Plate Tips

Our exclusive Ladbrokes Cox Plate 2020 betting tips will be detailed in full below the week of the race so stay tuned to see the horses to back and sack in your exotic Cox Plate selections this season.

• To Win: #1 Kolding ($15 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Going for an upset in an intriguing edition of the Cox Plate and putting Kolding at $15 on top for four-time winning trainer Chris Waller of Winx fame. This horse looks overs after his gun lead-up in Sydney winning the George Main and then the Hill Stakes, the latter over 2000m by two lengths. Needs to handle The Valley circuit, but happy to suggest he can and take them on at this price. 

Cox Plate Field

The Cox Plate field is released on the Tuesday before the race runs on a Saturday in late October each year as part of the two meeting Cox Plate Carnival that kicks off on the Friday night with Ladbrokes Manikato Stakes Night. The race has a capacity of 14 starters plus four emergencies and is open to horses aged three years and older. Many horses come into the race via earlier spring features including the Caulfield Stakes and Turnbull Stakes. Cox Plate nominations, which typically feature over 200 early entries, are taken in August before a number of declaration stages whittle down the line-up to the confirmed final acceptors.

Typical lead-up races into the Cox Plate field including the Group 1 Caulfield Ladbrokes Stakes, a double recently achieved by Winx (2016) and Ocean Park (2012).

2020 Cox Plate Acceptance Dates

• 2020 Cox Plate Nominations: Closed on August 4, 2020 and drew 182 hopefuls
• 2020 Cox Plate First Acceptances: Closed on September 8, 2020 attracting 109 entries including 17 internationals
• 2020 Cox Plate Second Acceptances: Closed on September 22, 2020 leaving 66 hopefuls including 4 internationals
• 2020 Cox Plate Third Acceptances: Closed on October 6, 2020 with 27 left in the mix
• 2020 Cox Plate Final Acceptances: Closed on October 20, 2020 final field featuring 14 starers plus an emergency 

2020 Cox Plate Field

The 2020 Ladbrokes Cox Plate Field of weight-for-age contenders to take each other on in one of the best races on the Australian Racing calendar will be announced and published below the week of the race.

The official Cox Plate 2020 final field features 14 confirmed starters, including controversially the Caulfield Guineas third placegetter Grandslam. 

The Danny O’Brien-trained Russian Camelot sits top of the markets despite drawing the outside Cox Plate barrier, while his last start conqueror in the Caulfield Stakes Arcadia Queen is drawn in gate eight. 

2020 Cox Plate Third Acceptances

The Ladbrokes Cox Plate 2020 Third Acceptances are announced in early October as the final stage of acceptances before the field is confirmed the week of the race. 

The 2020 Cox Plate third acceptances were taken on Tuesday October 6 leaving 27 chances to line-up in the 100th edition of the weight-for-age classic including the clear favourite Russian Camelot and five three-year-old hopefuls. 

2020 Cox Plate Second Acceptances

The make-up of the Ladbrokes Cox Plate 2020 Field further takes shape with the 2020 Cox Plate Second Acceptances closing in early September. 

The 2020 Cox Plate First Acceptances closed on September, 2020 featuring 66 hopefuls including: 

• 4 Internationals
• 2 for Irish Horseman Aidan O’Brien
• 26 Group 1 Winners
• 9 Previous Moonee Valley Winners
• 21 Three-Year-Olds
• 32 Trainers
• 9 Previous Cox Plate Performers
• 5 for Danny O’Brien Led By Favourite Russian Camelot

2020 Cox Plate First Acceptances

The make-up of the Ladbrokes Cox Plate 2020 Field further takes shape with the 2020 Cox Plate First Acceptances closing in early September. 

The 2020 Cox Plate First Acceptances closed on September 8, 2020 featuring 109 hopefuls including: 

• 17 Internationals
• 12 for Irish Horseman Aidan O’Brien
• 37 Group 1 Winners
• 13 Previous Moonee Valley Winners
• 33 Three-Year-Olds
• 44 Trainers
• 9 Previous Cox Plate Performers
• 6 for Danny O’Brien Led By Favourite Russian Camelot 

2020 Cox Plate Nominations

The first hint at the likely Ladbrokes Cox Plate Horses for 2020 are revealed when Racing Victoria take 2020 Cox Plate Nominations in early August, the early entries often attracting in excess of 150 hopefuls.

The 2020 Cox Plate Nominations closed on August 4, 2020 featuring 182 hopefuls including:

• 51 Group 1 winners
• 42 Southern Hemisphere three-year-olds
• 14 Northern Hemisphere three-year-olds
• Reigning Melbourne Cup winner Vow And Declare (2019)
• The Danny O’Brien-trained SA Derby winner Russian Camelot
• Star Queenslander Alligator Blood
• The inaugural two All-Star Mile champions Mystic Journey (2019) and Regal Power (2020)
• 28 Internationally-trained raider

Cox Plate Form Guide

The Cox Plate form guide is a key reference for any smart punter wanting to place the winning bet on the race and features all the information you need to determine the chances of the horses in the field. The best form guides feature basic information like saddlecloth numbers, barriers and jockeys as well as more detailed statistics like lead-up form, win / place percentages and records at the track / distance.

The Caulfield Stakes – now known as the Ladbrokes Stakes – is one of the best lead-up races into the Cox Plate with the double most recently achieved by Winx (2016). The Caulfield Guineas is also a key lead-up race producing the likes of Shamus Award (2013) and So You Think (2009) in recent years, while the Turnbull Stakes has also produced two Cox Plate winners in the past decade with El Segundo (2007) and Makybe Diva (2005).

In 2017 and 2018 the champion mare continued to frank the Turnbull Stakes form winning that Group 1 race before her last two Cox Plate triumphs.

Cox Plate Form Facts

• Winx (2016, 2017, 2018) became the first Cox Plate winner older than four to salute since 2008 taking out the race as a 5YO in 2016, 6YO in 2017 and 7YO in 2018; Winx also won the 2015 Cox Plate as a 4YO
• No horse has finished worse than third in the lead-up to a Cox Plate win since So You Think (Caulfield Guineas 5th in 2009)
• In the past decade three horses have won multiple editions of the Cox Plate with So You Think (2009-10) and Winx (2015-18)
• Three Cox Plate champions from 2011 – 2019 saluted from a double-digit barrier most recently Lys Gracieux (11 of 14 in 2019)

2020 Cox Plate Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Ladbrokes Cox Plate 2020 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Ladbrokes Cox Plate Results

The Cox Plate results are known after the classic jumps as Moonee Valley Race 9 at the late October meeting each spring. As well as listing the complete Cox Plate finishing order the results show the trainer and jockey of each horse as well as the margin between each place, the weight they carried and their starting price in the betting markets.

Cox Plate Winners

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd	Time
2020	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
2019	Lys Gracieux	Castelvecchio	Te Akau Shark	2:04.2
2018	Winx	Benbatl	Humidor	2:03.4
2017	Winx	Humidor	Folkswood	2:02.9
2016	Winx	Hartnell	Yankee Rose	2:06.35
2015	Winx	Criterion	Highland Reel	2:02.9
2014	Adelaide	Fawkner	Silent Achiever	2:03.7
2013	Shamus Award	Happy Trails	Fiorente	2:05.2
2012	Ocean Park	All Too Hard	Pierro	2:04.1
2011	Pinker Pinker	Jimmy Choux	Rekindled Interest	2:05.3
2010	So You Think	Zipping	Whobegotyou	2:07.4
2009	So You Think	Manhattan Rain	Zipping	2:03.9
2008	Maldivian	Zipping	Samantha Miss	2:06.9
2007	El Segundo	Wonderful World	Haradasun	2:06.3
2006	Fields Of Omagh	El Segundo	Pompeii Ruler	2:06.9
2005	Makybe Diva	Lotteria	Fields Of Omagh	2:09.3
2004	Savabeel	Fields Of Omagh	Starcraft	2:06.9
2003	Fields Of Omagh	Defier	Lonhro	2:07.6
2002	Northerly	Defier	Grandera	2:06.3
2001	Northerly	Sunline	Viscount	2:05.8
2000	Sunline	Diatribe	Referral	2:07.7