Ladbrokes Hobart Cup 2024

Ladbrokes Tip: The Hobart Cup – Launceston Cup double is a popular bet with punters each summer!

The Ladbrokes Hobart Cup is a 2400m staying test run and won at Hobart Racecourse each February during the popular Tasmanian Summer Racing Carnival.

The handicap event offers a lucrative $300,000 in prize money as of 2023 and is a time-honoured event first run in 1875.

Currently run on a Sunday as the sole Group race feature of Hobart Cup Day, the race serves as a nice lead-up into the Group 3 Launceston Cup (2400m) a fortnight later.  Eastender (2019) was the last horse to complete the Hobart Cup – Launceston Cup double in the same year.

In 2024 the Hobart Cup was won by former two-time Launceston Cup champion Aurora’s Symphony (2022, 2023).

Plenty of quality stayers have taken out the Hobart Cup over the event’s rich history, most famously Piping Lane in 1972 who went on to win that spring’s iconic Melbourne Cup race at Flemington.

The latest edition of the Ladbrokes Hobart Cup took place on Sunday February 11, 2024 and was won in a commanding track record time by former dual Launceston Cup hero Aurora’s Symphony ($8.50).

2024 Ladbrokes Hobart Cup Results

The full Ladbrokes Hobart Cup 2024 Results & Finishing Order will be known on Sunday February 11, 2024 and published right here so stay tuned.

• 1st: #1 Aurora’s Sympony
• 2nd: #6 Wyclif
• 3rd: #5 Grand Pierro

Symon Wilde’s former two-time Launceston Cup champ Aurora’s Symphony ($8.50) was good again in the Apple Isle on Sunday, the seven-year-old charging home down the outside to dominate the 2024 Ladbrokes Hobart Cup results with a nearly three-length victory in a new track record time (2:30.21).

2024 Ladbrokes Hobart Cup Odds

The updated Hobart Cup 2024 betting odds will be available below as soon as released.

Ladbrokes Hobart Cup Race Info

• Date: Sunday February 11, 2024
• Track: Hobart Racecourse
• Distance: 2400m
• Conditions: Open Handicap
• Status: Group 3
• Prize Money: $300,000
• First Run: 1875

Hobart Cup Betting

Hobart Cup betting markets are led by in-form summer stayers from local Tasmanian stables with few interstate raiders making the trip. The Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott-trained Military Mission (2023) from Sydney followed by Symon Wilde’s Warrnambool-based gelding Aurora’s Symphony (2024) are the latest interstate raiders to win the Hobart Cup.

Runners with previous winning form at the track, the proven mile and a half performers, and those with past Black-Type wins on their CV sit high up the Hobart Cup odds each season.

Favourites have a solid recent record in the Hobart Cup including back-to-back wins by Toorak Affair ($3.40 in 2020) and Double You Tee ($2.80 in 2021).

Hobart Cup Field

The Hobart Cup race field attracts a quality line-up of mainly Tasmanian-trained stayers targeting a next-up run in the Launceston Cup at the state’s sister track over the same distance.

Many horses have contested the race previously with the Hobart Cup field often made-up of similar runners to the summer prior.

Hobart Cup nominations are taken the Monday before the race with final acceptances and barriers out on the Wednesday.

2024 Ladbrokes Hobart Cup Field & Barrier Draw

The official Ladbrokes Hobart Cup 2024 Field & Barriers are announced by Tas Racing on the Wednesday of race week and published in full below so stay tuned for the full line-up of top summer stayers.

Patrick Payne’s emphatic Summer Cup winner at the track, Alhambra Lad, headlines the 2024 Ladbrokes Hobart Cup final field in Tassie on Sunday.

2024 Hobart Cup Nominations

The Hobart Cup 2024 nominations are taken on the Monday leading-up to the event and the list of early entries will be available below once announced.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Hobart Cup Tips

Hobart Cup tips include backing runners with a previous win over the 2400m, those proven at the Hobart track and runners under double-figures in betting.

In-form mares also make a good Hobart Cup tip with three female gallopers winning the race since 2013, most recently Toorak Affair (2013).

2024 Hobart Cup Tips

Our expert Hobart Cup 2024 tips will be available below the week of the race so stay tuned.

• To Win: #4 Ashy Boy ($6.50 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Wide-open Hobart Cup field on Sunday, but leaning towards Glenn Stevenson’s Star Witness five-year-old Ashy Boy. The consistent gelding has a good Hobart track record (3:1-2-0) and is right down in weight from his last run when carrying 59kg to a distant second here in the Summer Cup (2200m). With 54kg he gets the chance to atone and turn the tables on his last start conqueror. Drawn well in gate six with Craig Newitt to ride. Yet to win over further than 2100m but looks well placed here. 

Hobart Cup Form Guide

The Hobart Cup form guide details key details for punters including the race field, lead-up runs, saddlecloth numbers, jockeys, barriers and weights of each horse.

The event serves as a key lead-up into Tasmania’s Launceston Cup, but the Hobart Cup form has also held in bigger and better races many times over the years including in 2007 when the winner Blutigeroo went on to win that year’s Group 1 Tancred Stakes (The BMW) in Sydney.

The 2022 Hobart Cup form was franked with the winner Ho Ho Khan second next-up in the Launceston Cup before heading to Flemington for the Group 1 Australian Cup (2000m) where he ran a brave fourth behind Duais at 60/1.

In 2023 the Hobart Cup third place-getter Spirit Ridge franked the form with top three runs in a host of other key races that year including the Launceston Cup (3rd), Grafton Cup (3rd), Wyong Cup (3rd), Newcastle Gold Cup (2nd), and most notably a second in the Group 1 The Metropolitan over 2400m in Sydney that spring.

2024 Ladbrokes Hobart Cup Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Ladbrokes Hobart Cup 2024 Form Guide will be provided below the week of the race.

Hobart Cup Results

The Hobart Cup race results have been dominated by local Tasmanian-trained horses under $10 in betting.

Notable Hobart Cup winners include that year’s Melbourne Cup winner Piping Lane (1972), Frontier Boy (1993), Palos Verdes (1997) who later produced Cox Plate hero El Segundo, St. Andrews (2002), Blutigeroo (2007), Growl (2010), recent dual champion Geegees Blackflash (2012 & 2015), Eastender (2019) who completed the Devonport Cup/Hobart Cup/ Launceston Cup treble, and two-time Launceston Cup winner Aurora’s Symphony (2024).

Toorak Affair (2020) was the last Hobart Cup winning mare.

Aurora’s Symphony holds the current Hobart Cup track record winning in 2024 in a time of 2 minutes 30.21 seconds.

Hobart Cup Winners

Past Hobart Cup winners and place-getters going back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.