Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup 2023

The Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup is held at the tail-end of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival on a Saturday in late November.

2022 Cranbourne Cup winner Uncle Bryn. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

On the same day over in Perth Ascot is host to the Group 1 Railway Stakes (1600m), while Victorian racing is headlined by the Listed Cranbourne Cup.

Taking place at Cranbourne Racecourse, the quality handicap event offers a lucrative $500,000 and is traditionally run over 2025m.

For 2021 the Cranbourne Cup distance was reduced to 1600m.

In 2004 the Cranbourne Cup winner  On A Jeune famously went on to run second in the next year’s Melbourne Cup behind Makybe Diva.

The race now runs at the tail-end of the spring after the Melbourne Cup Carnival events have all taken place.

The 2023 edition of the Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup ran on Saturday November 25, 2023 offering $500,000 in stakes and was won in a thrilling late upset by the Ciaron Maher & David Eustace-trained Charterhouse ($16).

2023 Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Results

The official Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup 2023 Results & Finishing Order will be available below once the Listed Cranbourne race is run and won on Saturday November 25, 2023.

2023 Cranbourne Cup winner Charterhouse ran over the top of his rivals late. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

• 1st: #5 Charterhouse
• 2nd: #9 Foxy Cleopatra
• 3rd: #2 Just Folk

The Ciaron Maher & David Eustace-trained Charterhouse ($16) was back to his best running over the top of his rivals late with a big run down the outside to post a narrow upset over the beaten favourite Foxy Cleopatra in a thrilling 2023 Cranbourne Cup result.

2023 Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Odds

The latest Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup 2023 betting odds will be provided below as soon as markets on the end-of-spring carnival event on Cranbourne Cup Day over the spring are announced.

Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Race Info

• Date: Saturday November 25, 2023
• Track: Cranbourne Racecourse
• Distance: 1600m (as of 2021)
• Conditions: Quality Handicap
• Status: Listed
• Prize Money: $500,000

Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Betting

Cranbourne Cup betting has traditionally been led by in-form staying types coming off lead-up runs in similar or tougher grade races like the Group 3 Naturalism Stakes (2000m) at Caulfield and Flemington’s Group 3 The Bart Cummings (2500m).

In 2021 the Cranbourne Cup betting markets instead favoured milers that were backing-up off a run in the Group 1 Kennedy Cantala (1600m) – now Champions Mile – over the same distance at Flemington on Derby Day a fortnight earlier.

King Magnus improved on a lead-up and luckless Kennedy Cantala Stakes fifth to win the 2021 Cranbourne Cup over the reduced distance.

Any international horses over for the carnival that contest the Cranbourne Cup are often kept safe in betting, while the Cranbourne Cup odds traditionally favour the class horses with plenty of the higher-weighted and rated runners saluting in recent years including UK raider Folkswood (59kg in 2017), Mourinho (59kg in 2014) and Pakal (60kg in 2013).

Uncle Bryn ($3.10 in 2022) was the last Cranbourne Cup favourite to salute for the punters.

There was a notable upset in 2023 with Charterhouse saluting at 15/1.

Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Field

The Cranbourne Cup race field draws a quality line-up of spring milers from both local and interstate stayers, although locally-trained Victorian gallopers usually dominate the line-up.

Runners may come via a number of different lead-up races including the Champions Mile a fortnight earlier during the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

King Magnus (5th in 2021) was the last Cranbourne Cup winner to come off a Kennedy Cantala run.

In 2022 the Cranbourne Cup winner Uncle Bryn came off a lead-up fifth in Sydney’s $2 million The Five Diamonds (1800m).

The 2023 Cranbourne Cup champ Charterhouse improved on a lead-up 15th in the Group 1 Toorak Handicap (1600m) at Caulfield the month before.

Cranbourne 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.

2023 Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Field

The official Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup 2023 field of final acceptors is announced by the Cranbourne Turf Club on the Wednesday of race week and will be published below along with the confirmed jockeys and barriers.

The Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup 2023 final field features a quality line-up of late spring hopefuls led in betting by Group 1 performed mare Foxy Cleopatra second-up after a length spell and the in-form Greg Eurell-trained Euphoric. 

2023 Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Nominations

Early Cranbourne Cup 2023 Nominations close the Monday leading-up to Cranbourne Cup Day, which is the feature meeting held each year at Cranbourne Racecourse, and will be provided in full below.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Form Guide

The Cranbourne 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 Melbourne stables have a strong recent record the race, so looking at the local gallopers instead of the visiting runners with a lead-up run at either Flemington or Caulfield is essential when doing the Cranbourne Cup form.

The Cranbourne Cup form has held-up in tougher races and has been worth following into the bigger spring races, but not so as of 2021 with the event moved to after the majors.

2023 Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Form

A link to our comprehensive Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup 2023 form guide and race betting preview will be provided for punters below the week of the event.

Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Tips

Cranbourne Cup tips include looking for in-form spring milers or stayers coming off a win in a Melbourne lead-up race, graduates that finished in the money in their lead-up assignment and tipping single-figure fancies.

2023 Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ exclusive Cranbourne Cup 2023 betting tips on the Listed race during the spring racing season will be detailed below the week of the race so, stay tuned for those to back and sack this season.

• To Win: #9 Foxy Cleopatra ($4.40 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Open race but happy to stick with current favourite Foxy Cleopatra in a winnable race for this progressive four-year-old mare. Craig Williams has the ride from a gun barrier three draw and a mile is ideal for her. She was going well as a filly this time last year recording a Group 3 second before raising in grade and distance for a shot at the 2022 Group 1 VRC Oaks (2500m) when running a mid-field seventh. Spent a year on the side lines but was good upon her return right down in distance last time out when runner-up in the Group 3 HKJ Club Stakes (1400m) on November 7 at big odds only a neck beaten. This looks right for her to get back in winning form.

Cranbourne Cup Results

The Cranbourne Cup race results show a quality list of past winners, many of which went on to win much bigger and better races including subsequent 2005 Melbourne Cup runner-up On a Jeune (2004).

Melbourne-based stables have the dominant hand in the past Cranbourne Cup results.

Past Cranbourne Cup Winners

The Cranbourne Cup has been won by plenty of quality horses over the years including On A Jeune (2004), Mourinho (2014), and Dr Drill (2019).

In 2022 Uncle Bryn set a new track record winning the Cranbourne Cup over the 1600m in a time of 1 minute 35:34 seconds.

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