Gunsynd Classic 2024

The Gunsynd Classic is a Group 3 race for three-year-olds run at Eagle Farm Racecourse on Stradbroke Handicap Day each June.

A key support race on the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival feature meeting, the Gunsynd Classic is contested over 1600m at set weights and offers $200,000 in prize money.

Racing on the day is headlined by the Group 1 $3 million Stradbroke Handicap (1400m). The Group 2 $1.2 million The Q22 (2200m) is the second richest race on the card.

Other top races held on Stradbroke Handicap Day include the Group 1 JJ Atkins (1600m) for two-year-olds, the Group 2 Brisbane Cup (3200m) for the stayers, and the Group 2 Dane Ripper Stakes (1300m) for the fillies and mares.

The race was inaugurated in 1989 as the Doomben Classic, before being renamed in 2010, and gained Group 3 status in 1997.

It is now named in honour of champion miler from the 1970s Gunsynd, known as the ‘Goondiwindi Grey’, who recorded wins in some of the country’s biggest races including the Epsom Handicap (1971), Doncaster Handicap (1972) and Cox Plate (1972).

The latest edition of the Gunsynd Classic ran on Saturday June 15, 2024 as part of the Stradbroke Handicap Day card in Brisbane and was won in style by Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott’s former Group 1 placegetter Bases Loaded ($7).

2024 Gunsynd Classic Results

• 1st: #5 Bases Loaded
• 2nd: #8 Port Lockroy
• 3rd: #10 McHale

The complete Gunsynd Classic 2024 race results and finishing order will be provided below once the race is run and won on Saturday June 15, 2024.

2024 Gunsynd Classic Odds

The season’s latest Gunsynd Classic 2024 odds and betting markets on the three-year-old milers in the mix will be available below the week of the race so stay tuned.

Gunsynd Classic Race Info

• Date: Saturday June 15, 2024
• Track: Eagle Farm Racecourse
• Distance: 1600m
• Conditions: 3YOs – Set Weights
• Status: Group 3
• Prize Money: $200,000
• First Run: 1989

Gunsynd Classic Betting

Gunsynd Classic betting markets are led by the season’s top-performing three-year-olds with previous winning form over the mile.

Any last-start winners in similar grade winter races in Brisbane also sit high up the Gunsynd Classic odds each season, as do the interstate raiders with three-year-olds prepared outside of Queensland having a dominant recent record.

The Chris Waller-trained Rediener (2023) was the latest last start winner to take out the Gunsynd Classic in Brisbane.

Ayrton ($1.75 in 2021) followed by Kiss Sum ($3.30 in 2022) are the last favourites in Gunsynd Classic betting to salute for the punters.

In 2023 Yellow Brick ($1.35) jumped odds-on in Gunsynd Classic betting but couldn’t run down the upset winner Rediener ($9.50) when finishing a devastatingly close second.

Gunsynd Classic Field

The Gunsynd Classic race field features a quality line-up of nice three-year-olds from both local and interstate stables.

The key lead-up into the Gunsynd Classic field is now the Group 3 Fred Best Classic (1400m) run a fortnight earlier. Ayrton (2nd in 2021), Kiss Sum (2nd in 2022) and Bases Loaded (5th in 2024) are the latest Gunsynd Classic winners to come via a Fred Best Classic run.

Gunsynd Classic nominations close the Monday before the race with the final field and barriers out on the Wednesday.

2024 Gunsynd Classic Field

The official Gunsynd Classic 2024 Field & Barriers are set for release the Wednesday of race week and will be available below so stay tuned to see what three-year-olds make the starting line-up.

The 2024 Gunsynd Classic final field features a capacity line-up of three-year-old milers led in betting by Razors from the Godolphin stable.

2024 Gunsynd Classic Nominations

The Gunsynd Classic 2024 nominations close the Monday of race week and will be available in full below. 

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Gunsynd Classic Form Guide

The Gunsynd Classic form guide features all the must know facts for punters including the barriers, jockeys, trainers and lead-up form for all the runners in the race.

The 2023 Gunsynd Classic form was firmly franked with the winner, Rediener, returning in the spring to win Sydney’s Group 1 Epsom Handicap.

2024 Gunsynd Classic Form Guide

A link to our detailed Gunsynd Classic 2024 Form Guide and betting preview will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Gunsynd Classic Tips

Good Gunsynd Classic tips include looking for three-year-olds coming off a top three run in similar events over the winter in Brisbane.

The colts and geldings make the best bet in Gunsynd Classic tipping with Galroof (2002) the last filly to beat home the boys in the event.

Backing runners drawn barrier nine or less is also a key Gunsynd Classic betting tip with Hopfgarten (14 in 2014) and Bases Loaded (15 in 2024) the only winners to do so from a double-digit barrier since 2009.

2024 Gunsynd Classic Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ exclusive Gunsynd Classic 2024 betting tips and exotic selections on the Group 3 Brisbane clash will be detailed below so stay tuned for the young runners to get behind this season.

• To Win: #9 Geriatrix ($7 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Wide-open Gunsynd where a heap have winning claims, but nice price offered for this in-form Almanzor colt from across the ditch. The Kiwi raider has his second run down under after saluting here at Eagle Farm a fortnight ago in a BM78. Carted 58kg to a good win there and has confidence now. Up in grade and distance but Group 2 performed back home and did enough last time out to suggest he’s building. Can win.

Gunsynd Classic Results

Notable horses to head the Gunsynd Classic race results in recent history include Stylish Century (1990), Tobruk (1999), Saxon (2005), Gem Song (2019), Ayrton (2021) who set the current race record time winning in 1 minute 34:95 seconds, and that year’s subsequent Epsom Handicap champ Rediener (2023).

Past Gunsynd Classic Winners

Recent Gunsynd Classic winners and place-getters dating back to the year 1989 are detailed in the below table.