Ladbrokes Tip: The Craven Plate serves as a nice lead-up into the $750,000 Rosehill Gold Cup
The Craven Plate is a Group 3 race run at Randwick Racecourse on a Saturday in mid-October as part of Spring Champion Stakes Day.

2022 Craven Plate winner Cascadian. Photo: Steve Hart.
The meeting is headlined by the Group 1 $2 million Spring Champion Stakes (2000m) for VRC Derby hopefuls, the Group 2 $2 million The Invitation (1400m) for the mares, and the Group 2 $1 million Callander-Presnell (1600m).
Open to horses aged three-years-old and above, the Craven Plate is contested over 1800m at weight-for-age, having had its distance dropped from 2000m ahead of the 2022 race, and offers a lucrative $750,000 in prize money as of 2021.
Run and won since 1867, the race has held Group 3 status since since 1993.
Many superstar stayers have won the Craven Plate over the event’s long history including Tim Whiffler (1807-71), Carbine (1890), Wakeful (1902), Gloaming (1919, 1922, 1924), Phar Lap (1929-31), Flight (1943, 1945), Tulloch (1960), Ming Dynasty (1978), Tie The Knot (1999), Mummify (2005), and Happy Clapper (2019).
This season the 2024 Craven Plate ran on Saturday October 26, 2024 as part of Spring Champion Stakes Day in Sydney and was won narrowly by the Chris Waller-trained Lindermann ($4.20).
2024 Craven Plate Results
The official Craven Plate 2024 Results & Finishing Order will be provided below once the race is run and won on Saturday October 26, 2024.
2024 Craven Plate winner Lindermann. Photo: Steve Hart.
- 1st: #3 Lindermann
- 2nd: #7 Spirit Ridge
- 3rd: #6 Democracy Manifest
Lonhro five-year-old Lindermann ($4.20) just got in time after a messy run down the straight to salute for Chris Waller in the 2024 Craven Plate results with the galloper looking back to his best and returning to winning form with Joao Moreira aboard.
2024 Craven Plate Odds
The season’s top Craven Plate 2024 odds and betting market links will be available below as soon as open.
Early market betting odds on the 2025 Craven Plate will be displayed below once available. Odds are subject to fluctuation. For current odds on all of our live markets, please visit ladbrokes.com.au.
Craven Plate Race Info
- Date: Saturday October 26, 2024
- Track: Randwick Racecourse
- Distance: 1800m
- Conditions: Weight-for-age
- Status: Group 3
- Prize Money: $750,000
- First Run: 1867
Craven Plate Betting
Craven Plate betting markets are led by in-form staying types with good lead-up form in similar class races in Sydney.
Proven weight-for-age horses sit high up the Craven Plate betting markets each Sydney Spring Racing Carnival and any Group 1 performed gallopers down in grade are usually kept at short Craven Plate odds.
Think It Over ($1.75 in 2021) for his successful title defence followed by Cascadian ($1.75 in 2022) are the latest Craven Plate betting favourites to salute for the punters.
Craven Plate Field
The Craven Plate field attracts a quality line-up of weight-for-age horses that may be eyeing a trip south for the Melbourne features including the Group 1 $5 million Cox Plate (2040m).
Some of the better horses out of the Craven Plate field may stay in Sydney for a run in the Rosehill Gold Cup on Golden Eagle Day, an event the 2019 Craven Plate runner-up Tally won the inaugural edition of.
Think It Over (2021) was the last horse to complete the Craven Plate – Rosehill Gold Cup double.
The Craven Plate final acceptances are released on the Wednesday of race week following the early nominations taken the Monday leading-up to the race.
2024 Craven Plate Field
The official Craven Plate 2024 field and barriers will be published in full below once final acceptances are taken by Racing NSW on the Wednesday of race week.
The 2024 Craven Plate final field features a field of spring stayers led in betting by the winter’s impressive The Q22 champ Fawkner Park.
2024 Craven Plate Nominations
The early Craven Plate 2024 Nominations are taken the Monday prior to the race.
Craven Plate Tips
Top Craven Plate tips include looking for proven weight-for-age horses, runners with a strong Randwick record and any standout stars down in grade.
Last start winners make a nice bet in the Craven Plate tipping as do single-figure fancies in the markets.
2024 Craven Plate Tips
Our Ladbrokes’ insider Craven Plate 2021 betting tips and Randwick racing selections will be detailed below the week of the race so bookmark this page for the stayers to back and sack in the potential Cox Plate lead-up this spring.
- To Win: #2 Fawkner Park ($4.40 at time of publish) – BET NOW
Plenty of prize money on offer in the Craven Plate with a field of the season’s second-tier stayers facing off including the favourite Fawkner Park who looks the one to beat second-up now and ready to return to his form of last campaign. The Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald-trained Zoffany six-year-old was excellent last prep running under a half-length third in Brisbane’s Group 1 Doomben Cup before going out a winner in the Group 2 The Q22 by nearly four lengths. Fresh over 1800m in the Underwood at Caulfield he was unplaced behind Buckaroo. That form has been firmly franked however and he’ll be fitter for the run, better the Sydney way, and improving enough to win here.
Craven Plate Form Guide
The Craven Plate form guide features all the info punters need to place a well-informed wager on the 1800m showdown including the saddlecloth number, barrier, trainer and jockey of all the runners in the field.
In recent years the Craven Plate form has gone on to stack-up in bigger races including when the 2020 winner Think It Over went on to run third in that spring’s $1 million The Gong before winning the following year’s Group 1 George Ryder Stakes.
In 2021 Think It Over won the Hill Stakes before his second Craven Plate victory. He further franked the form winning the Rosehill Gold Cup next-up before returning in 2022 for a top autumn campaign that included a Group 1 Australian Cup second in Melbourne and victory in Sydney’s Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m).
Cascadian (2022) is the last horse to do the Hill Stakes – Craven Plate Sydney spring double.
Cascadian franked the 2022 Craven Plate form in the autumn of 2023 with a $5 million The All-Star Mile second, Group 1 Australian Cup victory and third in the All Aged Stakes.
2024 Craven Plate Form Guide
A link to our comprehensive Craven Plate 2024 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.
Craven Plate Results
The Craven Plate race results and finishing order are announced on Spring Champion Stakes Day, the same day Melbourne hosts its coveted Cox Plate Day program.
As well as the Craven Plate winner, successful trifecta and first four you can also see the starting price and margin of all the runners as well as any scratched horses.
In the early years many of the country’s best horses dominated the Craven Plate results including the likes of The Barb, Phar Lap, Peter Pan, Tim Whiffler, Carbine, Chatham, Windbag, and Tulloch.
Miss Marielle (2009) was the last Craven Plate winning mare.
Adventurous (1996) was the last three-year-old Craven Plate winner.
No filly has won the Craven Plate since Tea Rose (1944).
Past Craven Plate Winners
Recent Craven Plate winners and placegetters dating back to the year 1988 are detailed in the below table.
Year |
Winner |
2nd |
3rd |
Time |
2024 |
Lindermann |
Spirit Ridge |
Democracy Manifest |
1:49.29 |
2023 |
Zeyrek |
Renaissance Woman |
Skyman |
1:49.10
|
2022 |
Cascadian |
Just Folk |
Promitto |
1:50.68
(run over 1800m)
|
2021 |
Think It Over |
Sky Lab |
Lion’s Roar |
2:05.0 |
2020 |
Think It Over |
Nettoyer |
Vanna Girl |
2:02.6 |
2019 |
Happy Clapper |
Tally |
Life Less Ordinary |
2:00.6 |
2018 |
Moss ‘n’ Dale |
Doukhan |
Egg Tart |
2:07.9 |
2017 |
Classic Uniform |
Happy Clapper |
Mccreery |
2:04.3 |
2016 |
It’s Somewhat |
Spiritjim |
Pinstripe Lane |
2:02.5 |
2015 |
Complacent |
Hauraki |
I’m Imposing |
2:01.8 |
2014 |
Moriarty |
Rising Romance |
Vilanova |
2:02.6 |
2013 |
Honorius |
Masked Marvel |
Vaquera |
2:03.7 |
2012 |
Mourayan |
Western Symbol |
Dare To Dream |
2:02.4 |
2011 |
My Kingdom Of Fife |
Shootoff |
Gazza Guru |
2:04.3 |
2010 |
C’est le Guerre |
Purple |
Triple Honour |
2:02.2 |
2009 |
Miss Marielle |
Nom Du Jeu |
Fulmonti |
2:08.3 |
2008 |
Lorne Dancer |
Riva San |
Ice Chariot |
2:06.4 |
2007 Race Not Run |
– |
– |
– |
– |
2006 |
Cateclipse |
Testafiable |
Gawne |
2:03.4 |
2005 |
Mummify |
Wild Iris |
Natural Blitz |
2:03.1 |
2004 |
Fiery Venture |
Restless |
Ain’t Seen Nothin’ |
2:07.8 |
2003 |
Shower of Roses |
So Assertive |
Mon Mekki |
2:02.8 |
2002 |
Manner Hill |
Spillway |
Forest Jim |
2:03.9 |
2001 |
The Man |
Altiero |
Viva La Vie |
1:49.8 |
2000 |
Yippyio |
Pravda |
Freemason |
2:05.6 |
1999 |
Tie The Knot |
Arena |
Pasta Express |
2:01.7 |
1998 |
Sharscay |
Yippyio |
Turridu |
2:02.8 |
1997 |
Yippyio |
Magic Of Sydney |
Kassani |
2:01.7 |
1996 |
Adventurous |
Saintly |
Donar |
2:02.0 |
1995 |
Stony Bay |
Protara’s Bay |
Desert Chill |
2:03.0 |
1994 |
Fraternity |
Silk Ali |
Deposition |
2:03.8 |
1993 |
Mahaya |
Durbridge |
Oppressor |
2:04.2 |
1992 |
Telesto |
Donegal Mist |
Captain Cook |
2:02.9 |
1991 |
Lord Revenir |
Just A Dancer |
Dorset Downs |
2:04.2 |
1990 |
Dual Treasures |
Just Trish |
High Regard |
2:02.8 |
1989 |
Sarah Fay |
Coshking |
Final Scene |
2:01.7 |
1988 |
Balciano |
Regal Prize |
Sound Gold |
2:05.2 |
FAQ
Who won the 2024 Craven Plate?
The 2024 Craven Plate was won by the Chris Waller-trained Lindermann who saluted at $4.20 in betting and was ridden to victory by Joao Moreira.
When is the Craven Plate 2024?
Saturday October 26, 2024
What is the prize money for the Craven Plate 2024?
$750,000
Where is the Craven Plate 2024?
Royal Randwick Racecourse, Alison Rd, Randwick NSW 2031.