Emancipation Stakes 2024

Ladbrokes Tip: Check the Emancipation Stakes results for a guide to the Queen Of The Turf Stakes.

The Emancipation Stakes is a Group 2 race for fillies and mares aged three-years-old and above held at

2022 Emancipation Stakes winner Promise Of Success. Photo: Steve Hart.

Rosehill Gardens Racecourse on a Saturday in late March (early April in 2021) each Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.

The set weights plus penalties event runs over 1500m and is a key support act on the Tancred Stakes Day card, which is one of the big race days of the season hosting two Group 1 showdowns.

Offering $300,000 in total prize money as of 2024, the Emancipation Stakes is often used as a lead-up to the Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m) at Randwick a fortnight later with the Emancipation winner exempt from Queen Of The Turf Stakes ballot.

Atishu (2nd in 2023) was the last Queen Of The Turf Stakes runner to back up and win the Queen Of The Turf Stakes at Randwick during ‘The Championships’.

The latest edition of the Emancipation Stakes ran on Saturday March 30, 2024 on Tancred Stakes Day at Rosehill offering the runaway 2.6 length winner Olentia ($6.50) a ballot exemption for the Queen Of The Turf Stakes. 

2024 Emancipation Stakes Results

The official Emancipation Stakes Results 2024 and race finishing order will be published below when the race is run and won on Saturday March 30, 2024.

2024 Emancipation Stakes winner Olentia. Photo: Steve Hart.

• 1st: #5 Olentia
• 2nd: #14 Arctic Glamour
• 3rd: #1 Ruthless Dame

The Chris Waller-trained four-year-old Zoustar mare Olentia ($6.50) was excellent up in distance to post a nearly three-length victory in the Emancipation Stakes 2024 results.

2024 Emancipation Stakes Odds

The Emancipation Stakes 2024 betting odds will be available below the week of the race giving you access to the best autumn racing odds ahead of the Group 2 on Tancred Stakes Day at Rosehill.

Emancipation Stakes Race Info

• Date: Saturday March 30, 2024
• Track: Rosehill Gardens Racecourse
• Distance: 1500m
• Conditions: Fillies & Mares (3YO&Up) – Set Weights + Penalties
• Status: Group 2
• Prize Money: $300,000
• First Run: 1985

Emancipation Stakes Betting

Early Emancipation Stakes odds are out at bookmakers after nominations are taken the Monday of race week and firm after the final field is announced two days later.

Mares with good lead-up form in earlier races of similar class for female gallopers over the autumn in Sydney usually dominate Emancipation Stakes betting including those that ran well in the Group 2 Guy Walter Stakes (1400m) in February and the Group 1 Coolmore Classic (1500m) a fortnight before.

Nimalee ($4.20 in 2021) was the last favourite in Emancipation Stakes betting to get the job done.

Emancipation Stakes Field

Chris Waller prepared dual Emancipation Stakes winner Catkins (2014-15). Photo Credit: Steve Hart.

The Emancipation Stakes race field attracts a class line-up of in-form fillies and mares coming off earlier Sydney runs over the autumn.

Many back-up out of a tougher assignment at the track in the previous month’s Group 1 Coolmore Classic (1500m). In 2014 the Emancipation Stakes winner Catkins, who also won the 2015 edition 12 months later, came off a third in the Coolmore Classic.

More recently in 2017 the Emancipation Stakes winner Zanbagh improved on a lead-up fifth in the Coolmore Classic to salute; Prompt Response atoned for a luckless fifth in the Coolmore Classic to win the Emancipation Stakes of 2018; and the following year Invincible Gem won the Group 2 having run eighth in the Group 1 last time out.

In 2022 Promise Of Success improved on a lead-up Coolmore Classic fourth to win the rescheduled Emancipation Stakes at Newcastle.

Emancipation Stakes nominations close the Monday before the race runs on the Saturday with the final field and barrier draw released on the Wednesday.

2024 Emancipation Stakes Field

The official Emancipation Stakes 2024 Field & Barriers will be released by Racing NSW the Wednesday before the race and published in full below so stay tuned to see who is in and out of the Tancred Stakes Day event.

The rails-drawn Snitzel filly Makarena coming off a Group 2 Phar Lap Stakes second at the track and trip heads betting on the 2024 Emancipation Stakes final field in Sydney this weekend.

2024 Emancipation Stakes Nominations

The early Emancipation Stakes 2024 Nominations close the Monday of race week and will be listed in full below once released.

	Last 10	Horse	Sex	Age	Trainer	Ballot	Weight	True Weight	Penalty	Hcp Rating
1	150x7527x8	RUTHLESS DAME (NZ)	M	4	Ciaron Maher	1	58kg			109
2	4x40786x25	HINGED	M	5	Chris Waller	2=	58kg			104
3	162x116x49	VIENNA PRINCESS	M	4	Chris Waller	2=	54kg			104
4	16x0301x48	FOXY FRIDA	M	6	Andrew Noblet	4	55kg			103
5	7x28047x30	MADAME POMMERY	M	4	Chris Waller	5	58kg			102
6	417420×050	BARBIE’S FOX	M	7	Ben, Will & JD Hayes	6	54kg			100
7	14811115×3	SEONEE	M	5	Patrick Payne	7	54kg			97
8	85×4211310	HELL HATH NO FURY	M	4	Annabel Neasham	8=	56kg			96
9	1x15800x24	OLENTIA	M	4	Chris Waller	8=	55kg			96
10	15840x0x80	SHE’S ALL CLASS	M	5	Ciaron Maher	10	54kg			94
11	614x1250x6	AUSBRED FLIRT	M	5	Brad Widdup	11	54kg			92
12	211×252	MAKARENA	F	3	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	12	53kg			90
13	22113×2115	GENTLY ROLLED	M	4	Bryce Heys	13	54kg			81
14	83x3717x18	SWEET MERCY	M	4	David Payne	14	54kg			78
15	1136x450x0	STREET GOSSIP	M	4	Joseph Pride	15	54kg			77
16	2x1165x705	ARCTIC GLAMOUR	F	3	Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou	16	53kg			76
17	130x6685x0	MAYROSE	M	5	John Sargent	17	54kg			71
18	0x150x8084	STORMY WITNESS	M	4	Danny Williams	18	54kg			56

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Emancipation Stakes Tips

2023 Emancipation Stakes winner Roots was good leading an all-Waller trifecta. Photo: Steve Hart.

Emancipation Stakes tips include looking for proven Group-class mares with good records over a similar distance with form in Sydney against similar company.

The Coolmore Classic over the same track and distance earlier in the month has been a good Emancipation Stakes guide in recent years, and three mares have gone back-to-back in the race in the past decade with dual winners Skyerush (2012-13), Catkins (2014-15), and Zanbagh (2016-17).

2024 Emancipation Stakes Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider Emancipation Stakes 2024 betting tips and race selections will be detailed below the week of the race so stay tuned for the female gallopers to back and sack in the Queen Of The Turf Stakes lead-up race.

• To Win: #13 Makarena ($4 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Makarena is deserving favourite in the Emancipation Stakes fit now and looking ready to strike fourth-up taking on the older mares. She chases her first win since the Tapp-Craig during the spring over 1400m here and has been thereabouts in all of her autumn lead-ups. Group 1 Surround Stakes fifth caught the eye two back only two lengths beaten in top company. At her latest she was runner-up to Zardozi (a Gr.1 VRC Oaks winner) in the Group 2 Phar Lap with 54.5kg at this track and trip. Down to 53kg now, Tim Clark retains the ride, and she’s drawn the rails. Big chance.

Emancipation Stakes Form Guide

The Emancipation Stakes form guide details must know facts for punters including the trainers, jockeys, barriers and lead-up form of all the runners in the race.

Looking at the form on mares coming out of a lead-up like the Coolmore Classic and checking the records of the Emancipation Stakes hopefuls at the track / distance is important and can help make a successful wager on the event.

The Emancipation Stakes form was franked in 2022 with the winner Promise Of Success back that spring to win the lucrative $2 million The Invitation (1400m) at Randwick in October.

In 2023 the Emancipation Stakes winner Roots franked the form in the winter heading to Brisbane for a Group 1 Tatt’s Tiara (1400m) second, while her stablemate Atishu improved on a second in the Emancipation to win both the Queen Of The Turf Stakes and the spring’s Group 1 Champions Stakes (2000m) that year.

2024 Emancipation Stakes Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Emancipation Stakes 2024 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Emancipation Stakes Results

The Emancipation Stakes race results have been dominated by classy mares in recent years, a number of which went on to run well in Randwick’s Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m) over the mile.

Notable recent Emancipation Stakes winners include Roots (2023), Promise Of Success (2022), Zanbagh (2016-17), Catkins (2014-15), Sykerush (2012-13), Sacred Choice (2010), and Hot Danish (2007).

Past Emancipation Stakes Winners

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