Ladbrokes Cox Plate 2024

Ladbrokes Tip: Four-year-olds have a gun recent record winning the Cox Plate at weight-for-age.

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Australasia’s weight-for-age championship the Ladbrokes Cox Plate is known as “the race where legends are made” and each year attracts the best WFA horses from both Australia and overseas. Run at the notoriously tight Moonee Valley circuit in Melbourne each spring, the 2040m classic is now worth $5 million in prize money and has been run since 1922 when Violoncello won.

2022 Cox Plate winner Anamoe. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

Named in honour of W.S. Cox who founded the Melbourne Racing Club, the Cox Plate has been won by many turf champions over the years including racing legend Phar Lap (1930-31), New Zealand hero Rising Fast (1954) who also won that year’s Melbourne and Caulfield Cups, and triple Melbourne Cup winning mare Makybe Diva (2005).

The brilliant mare Winx is one of the most famous Cox Plate winners in history. In October of 2018 she successfully defended her three titles, overtaking Kingston Town (1980-82) as the only four-time Cox Plate champion.

On the same day as Melbourne’s Cox Plate Day, Sydney hosts the Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes (2000m) and $2 million The Invitation race.

The next edition of the Ladbrokes Cox Plate runs on Saturday, October 26, 2024 at Moonee Valley Racecourse offering $5 million in total prize money. 

2024 Cox Plate Odds

The latest Ladbrokes Cox Plate 2024 Betting Odds will be updated below as the lead-up to Australasia’s weight-for-age championship heats up this season.

The current pre-nomination 2024 Ladbrokes Cox Plate odds are led by Ciaron Maher’s historic 6.5 length Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes winning mare Pride of Jenni and the defending champion Romantic Warrior out to be the first back-to-back winner since the four-peat of Winx (2015-18).

Ladbrokes Cox Plate Race Info

• Date: Saturday, October 26, 2024
• Edition: 101st
• Track: Moonee Valley Racecourse
• Distance: 2040m
• Conditions: Weight-for-age
• Status: Group 1
• Prize Money: $5 million
• First Run: 1922

2024 COX PLATE PREVIEW

2024 COX PLATE ODDS

 

2024 Cox Plate Results

The official 2024 Cox Plate Results & Finishing Order will be available in full below once the spring feature takes place on Saturday, October 26, 2024.

2023 Cox Plate winner Romantic Warrior got his nose down on the line to beat the locals in a thrilling edition of the $5 million Moonee Valley showdown. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

• 1st: TBD
• 2nd: TBD
• 3rd: TBD

Ladbrokes Cox Plate Betting

Early Cox Plate betting opens during the winter months before the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival even kicks off and features a list of all-in prices on possible runners. While there is good value on offer in these futures markets many punters prefer to wait until a few days out when the confirmed field is released.

Upsets are not uncommon in the Cox Plate and since 2000 when Sunline (11/8F) saluted for the first of her two victories 10 other favourites have won the race, boosted by the four-peat of Winx (2015-18), and most recently the Japanese raider Lys Gracieux ($2.50 2019) followed by Anamoe ($2.40 in 2022) and Hong Kong raider Romantic Warrior ($3.60 in 2023).

Winx was the first three time defending Cox Plate winner to jump favourite in her forth attempt, which she also won for the punters making the Cox Plate history books.

In the 2021 Cox Plate results, State Of Rest ($7.50) was eventually confirmed the winner denying equal favourites Anamoe and Verry Elleegant who ran second and third at $3.60 each.

Anamoe atoned in 2022 saluting as the $2.40 Cox Plate favourite 12 months after his close defeat the year before.

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.

Romantic Warrior (4th in 2023) was the last Cox Plate winner to come via a lead-up run in the Turnbull Stakes.

2024 Cox Plate Tips

Our exclusive Ladbrokes Cox Plate 2024 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: TBD

The Danger: TBD

 

Each Way: TBD

 

Best Roughie: TBD

 

Cox Plate Field

The Cox Plate race 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 the Moonee Valley Gold Cup race 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 include the Group 1 Caulfield Ladbrokes Stakes, a double recently achieved by Winx (2016) and Ocean Park (2012).

An earlier lead-up into the Cox Plate field is the Group 3 JRA Cup (2040m) held at the same track and distance in late September on Moir Stakes Night.

In Sydney a new early Cox Plate lead-up race is the $1 million 7 Stakes (1600m) held at Randwick in mid-September in place of the George Main Stakes.

2024 Cox Plate Acceptance Dates

• 2024 Cox Plate Nominations: Closed on Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 – 137 nominees. 
• 2024 Cox Plate First Acceptances: Close on Tuesday, September 10th, 2024 – 75 first acceptors.
• 2024 Cox Plate Second Acceptances: Close on Tuesday, September 24th, 2024.
• 2024 Cox Plate Third Acceptances: Close on Tuesday, October 8th, 2024 – 31. 
• 2024 Cox Plate Final Acceptances: Close on Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024 at 8:30am (AEDT). 

2024 Cox Plate Field

Champion mare Winx won the 2015 Cox Plate in record-breaking time and saluted for the punters again in 2016, 2017 and 2018.

The 2024 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.

2024 Cox Plate Third Acceptances

The Ladbrokes Cox Plate 2024 Third Acceptances are announced in early October as the final stage of acceptances before the field is confirmed the week of the race.

The 2024 Ladbrokes Cox Plate third acceptances close on Tuesday, October 8, 2024. 

2024 Cox Plate Second Acceptances

The make-up of the Ladbrokes Cox Plate 2024 Field further takes shape with the 2024 Cox Plate Second Acceptances closing in early September.

The Ladbrokes Cox Plate 2024 second acceptances close on Tuesday, September 24, 2024. 

2024 Cox Plate First Acceptances

The make-up of the Ladbrokes Cox Plate 2024 Field further takes shape with the 2024 Cox Plate First Acceptances closing in early September.

The 2024 Ladbrokes Cox Plate first acceptances close on Tuesday, September 10th, 2024. 

Chris Waller’s first-up Winx Stakes winning mare, Via Sistina, headlines the 75 official Ladbrokes Cox Plate 2024 first acceptances as her trainer chases his fifth win in the Australasian weight-for-age championship on October 26. 

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

2024 Cox Plate Nominations

The first hint at the likely Ladbrokes Cox Plate Horses for 2024 are revealed when Racing Victoria take 2024 Cox Plate Nominations in early August, the early entries often attracting in excess of 150 hopefuls.

The 2024 Cox Plate Nominations closed on Tuesday, August 6, 2024.

The excitement builds as 137 horses have been nominated for the prestigious 2024 Ladbrokes Cox Plate. Led in all-in betting by the reigning Queen Elizabeth Stakes champion, Pride Of Jenni, the field is potential brimming with talent with 20 international raiders also nominated including a dozen for Aidan O’Brien. 

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 Might And Power – is one of the best lead-up races into the Cox Plate with the double most recently achieved by Winx (2016) and Anamoe (2022).

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 a number of Cox Plate winners over the years most recently Romantic Warrior (4th in 2023).

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

The 2022 Cox Plate form was franked with the winner Anamoe returning the following autumn to win the Group 1 Apollo Stakes – George Ryder Stakes double in 2023.

The 2023 Cox Plate winner Romantic Warrior franked the form in Hong Kong that summer winning both the Group 1 Hong Kong Cup and Group 1 Hong Kong Gold Cup at Sha Tin at his next two starts.

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. Romantic Warrior meanwhile won as a 6YO in 2023.
• Only one horse has finished worse than third in the lead-up to a Cox Plate win since So You Think (Caulfield Guineas 5th in 2009) with Romantic Warrior (Turnbull Stakes 4th in 2023).
• 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 – 2023 saluted from a double-digit barrier most recently Lys Gracieux (11 of 14 in 2019).

2024 Cox Plate Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Ladbrokes Cox Plate 2024 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Cox Plate Records

Last Mare to Win: Winx (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)

Last Filly to Win: Surround (1976)

Last Three-Year-Old to Win: Savabeel (2004)

Last Favourite to Win: Romantic Warrior ($3.60 in 2023)

Multiple Winners: Winx (2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018); Fields Of Omagh (2003 & 2006); Northerly (2001 & 2002); Sunline (1999 & 2000); KIngston Town (1980, 1981 & 1982); Tobin Bronze (1988 & 1967); Hydrogen (1952 & 1953); Flight (1945 & 1946); Tranquil Star (1942 & 1944); Beau Vite ( 1940 & 1941); Young Idea (1936 & 1937); Phar Lap (1930 & 1931)

Winx holds the Cox Plate record over the 2040m winning in 2017 in a time of 2 minutes 2:94 seconds.

Ladbrokes Cox Plate Results

The Cox Plate race 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.

Past Cox Plate Winners

Recent Cox Plate winners and place-getters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.

FAQ

When is the Cox Plate 2024?

What is the prize money for the Cox Plate 2024?

$5,000,000

Where is the Cox Plate 2024?

Moonee Valley Racecourse, Feehan Ave, Moonee Ponds VIC 3039.