Gloaming Stakes 2024

Ladbrokes Tip: The Gloaming Stakes winner may press onto the Spring Champion Stakes

The Gloaming Stakes is a Group 3 set weights race for three-year-olds currently run at Rosehill Racecourse on a Saturday in October during the annual Sydney Spring Racing Carnival.

2022 Gloaming Stakes winner Sharp 'N' Smart

2022 Gloaming Stakes winner Sharp ‘N’ Smart. Photo: Steve Hart.

The event is now held on Hill Stakes Day. Racing on the card is headlined by the $2 million Group 2 Hill Stakes for potential Ladbrokes Cox Plate hopes.

It moved from The Everest Day at Randwick in 2023 to Hill Stakes Day at Rosehill in 2024.

Other key races on the Hill Stakes Day card include the $1.5 million Alan Brown Stakes (1400m), $500,000 Tapp-Craig (1400m), Group 2 $300,000 Roman Consul Stakes (1200m), and the Group 3 $250,000 The Nivison (1200m).

Graduates out of the Gloaming Stakes field may go on to run in tougher Sydney and Melbourne races over the spring carnival, and the Gloaming Stakes winner is exempt from ballot for the Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes (2000m).

Shadow Hero (2019) and Sharp ‘N’ Smart (2022) are the latest horses to complete the Gloaming Stakes – Spring Champion Stakes double.

The Gloaming Stakes was first run in 1978 and is named after star galloper Gloaming who won 19 straight races, a then Australasian racing record he co-held with Desert Gold.

There’s also a potential for the Gloaming Stakes graduates to take on the older horses in the iconic Group 1 Cox Plate (2040m) run at Moonee Valley in October. In 2009 So You Think completed the Gloaming Stakes – Cox Plate double as a three-year-old and returned as a four-year-old in 2010 to claim his second Cox Plate trophy.

The latest edition of the Gloaming Stakes took place on Saturday October 12, 2024 on Rosehill’s Hill Stakes race card and was won by the Spring Champion Stakes-bound El Castello ($6.50) for Anthony Cummings.

2024 Gloaming Stakes Results

The full Gloaming Stakes 2024 race results and finishing order will be provided below as soon as the race is run and won on Saturday October 12, 2024.

2024 Gloaming Stakes winner El Castello

2024 Gloaming Stakes winner El Castello. Photo: Steve Hart.


  • 1st: #3 El Castello
  • 2nd: #1 Swiftfalcon
  • 3rd: #8 Firm Agreement

The Anthony Cummings-trained improver El Castello ($6.50) made it back-to-back wins getting into a lovely spot for jockey Josh Parr before unleashing a brilliant turn of foot to dominate the 2024 Gloaming Stakes results ahead of a likely Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes bid on October 26.

2024 Gloaming Stakes Odds

The season’s top Gloaming Stakes 2024 odds and Group 3 betting links to our Hill Stakes Day betting markets will be provided below as soon as open.

Early market betting odds on the 2024 Gloaming Stakes 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.

Gloaming Stakes Race Info

  • Date: Saturday October 12, 2024
  • Track: Rosehill Racecourse
  • Distance: 1800m
  • Conditions: Set Weights – Three-year-olds
  • Status: Group 3
  • Prize Money: $500,000
  • First Run: 1978
 

Gloaming Stakes Betting

Gloaming Stakes betting favours local Sydney-trained three-year-olds coming off good lead-up runs in similar races.

Any fillies opting to take on the colts and geldings in the event are usually at big Gloaming Stakes odds with the sole filly to win the race being  Constant Flight (1993).

Shadow Hero ($2.90 in 2019), Love Tap ($1.70 in 2020) and Sharp ‘N’ Smart ($2.70 in 2022) who won over the mile at Warwick Farm in the rescheduled edition are the latest favourites in Gloaming Stakes betting to win.

Gloaming Stakes Field

Gloaming Stakes Winners Ace High. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos | Ladbrokes.com.au
2017 Gloaming Stakes winner Ace High. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

The Gloaming Stakes race field attracts a quality line-up of three-year-old staying types with Group 1 ambitions.

Gloaming Stakes nominations close the Monday before the race runs on the Saturday with the field and barrier draw announced on the Wednesday.

2024 Gloaming Stakes Field

The official Gloaming Stakes 2024 Final Field & Barrier Draw will be published in full below the Wednesday leading-up to the race so stay tuned to see what gallopers line-up in the Group 3 feature.

The 2024 Gloaming Stakes final field features a quality line-up of Spring Champion Stakes-bound three-year-old led in betting by last start Listed Dulcify winner Swiftfalcon chasing more success having won his past three starts.

2024 Gloaming Stakes Nominations

The Gloaming Stakes 2024 Nominations are announced by Racing NSW the Monday of race week.

Gloaming Stakes Tips

Good Gloaming Stakes betting tips include backing Sydney-trained three-year-olds with previous winning form and those at single-figures in the markets as the favourites have a strong recent record in the event.

2024 Gloaming Stakes Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ exclusive Gloaming Stakes 2024 betting tips and exotic Sydney racing selections on the Spring Champion Stakes ballot exemption-offering event will be detailed below the week of the race.

  • To Win: #1 Swiftfalcon ($2.50 at time of publish) – BET NOW

A couple of livewire hopes and potential future Group 1 runners but happy to stick with the airborne favourite Swiftfalcon here chasing his fourth straight win and third this time in. The locally-trained Team Hawkes runner is putting it together now and has won three of his five starts. Proven at Rosehill in the wet last June, was a winner first-up with 61.5kg at Flemington as a three-year-old this time in, and comes off a Listed Dulcify Quality victory at Randwick over the mile with 56.5kg. Think he’ll see out this distance without a worry after he had over two lengths to spare in the Black-Type 1600m win. Equal weights, midfield draw and Jay Ford all pluses. Can salute.

Gloaming Stakes Form Guide

The Gloaming Stakes form guide details to punters all the facts and stats from the jockeys, trainers and barriers, to the horse’s records over the track / distance and their lead-up runs.

The Gloaming Stakes form has stacked-up in bigger three-year-old features over the spring including both the Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes (2000m) and Melbourne’s Group 1 Victoria Derby (2500m) held at Flemington.

In 2017 Ace High completed the Gloaming Stakes – Spring Champion Stakes – VRC Derby treble.

In 2021 the Gloaming Stakes form was franked with Profondo improving on his second to win the Spring Champion Stakes next start.

The 2022 Gloaming Stakes winner Sharp ‘N’ Smart franked the form with a next-up Spring Champion Stakes victory followed by a second in that year’s VRC Derby results. The Kiwi raider then returned home for a further two Group 1 wins in New Zealand including the NZ Derby before a trip back to Sydney that autumn when fourth in the Group 1 Australian Derby (2400m).

The Gloaming Stakes recently produced the 2023 Spring Champion Stakes winner with the Group 3 runner-up Tom Kitten going one better in the Group 1 next start.

2024 Gloaming Stakes Form Guide

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

Gloaming Stakes Results

The Gloaming Stakes race results have been dominated by single-figure runners.

Retrieve holds the current 1800m Gloaming Stakes race record winning in 2010 in a time of 1 minute 48:2 seconds.

Some of the notable Gloaming Stakes winners throughout history include Kingston Town (1979) who went on to win three Cox Plates during his career, Tie The Knot (1997), dual Cox Plate champion So You Think (2009), It’s A Dundeel (2012), Ace High (2017), and Shadow Hero (2019).

Past Gloaming Stakes Winners

Recent Gloaming Stakes winners dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.

Year Winner Jockey Weight (kgs) Time
2024 El Castello J. Parr 56.5 1:49.16
2023 Raf Attack R. Bayliss 56.5 1:48.11
2022 Sharp ‘N’ Smart H. Bowman 56.5 1:39.94 (run over 1600m)
2021 Head Of State J. McDonald 56.5 1:50.04
2020 Love Tap N. Rawiller 56.5 1:48.89
2019 Shadow Hero J. Parr 56.5 1:49.10
2018 Thinkin’ Big T. Clark 56.5 1:50.28
2017 Ace High T. Angland 56.5 1:50.82
2016 Veladero R. Hutchings 56.5 1:50.24
2015 Vanbrugh H. Bowman 56.5 1:49.60
2014 Sweynesse K. McEvoy 56.5 1:49.48
2013 Complacent K. McEvoy 56.5 1:49.16
2012 It’s A Dundeel J. B McDonald 56.5 1:50.56
2011 Strike the Stars H. Bowman 56.5 1:49.07
2010 Retrieve J. Parr 56.5 1:48.28
2009 So You Think H. Bowman 56.5 1:50.56
2008 Predatory Pricer G. Schofield 56.5 1:51.95
2007 N/A N/A N/A N/A
2006 All Black Gold J. Ford 55.5 1:49.15
2005 Pendragon H. Bowman 55.5 1:50.41
2004 Al Maher J. Cassidy 55.5 1:49.33
2003 Tsuimai Z. Purton (a) 55.5 1:49.59
2002 Maskerado C. Brown 55.5 1:57.04
2001 Courvoisier G. Boss 55.5 1:49.67
2000 Go Bint D. McLellan 55.5 1:59.43

FAQ

When is the Gloaming Stakes 2024?

Saturday October 12, 2024

What is the prize money for the Gloaming Stakes 2024?

$500,000

Where is the Gloaming Stakes 2024?

Rosehill Racecourse, James Ruse Dr, Rosehill NSW 2142.