Ipswich Cup 2024

The Ipswich Cup is a Listed staying race held at Ipswich Racecourse in Queensland towards the end of June as part of the wider Queensland Winter Racing Carnival.

2019 Ipswich Cup winner Bergerac

2019 Ipswich Cup winner Bergerac (pictured in Sydney). Photo: Steve Hart.

Contested over 2150m, the quality handicap offers $250,000 in prize money.

The Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival officially comes to an end the weekend prior with Stradbroke Handicap Day and is followed by the Ipswich Cup Day races.

Ipswich Cup Day is also host to the Listed $200,000 Eye Liner Stakes (1350m) and the Listed $160,000 Gai Waterhouse Classic (1200m) for fillies and mares.

From 1986 – 2006 the Ipswich Cup held Group 3 status before being demoted back to its current Listed status.

The latest edition of the Ipswich Cup ran on Saturday June 22, 2024 and was won in an upset by Red Wave ($17) from the Toowoomba stables of Tony & Maddysen Sears.

2024 Ipswich Cup Results

The complete Ipswich Cup 2024 Results & Finishing Order will be listed below once the race takes place on Saturday June 22, 2024.

  • 1st: #13 Red Wave
  • 2nd: #11 London Banker
  • 3rd: #9 Encoder

2024 Ipswich Cup Odds

The season’s best Ipswich Cup 2024 betting odds and links to our markets on the field will be available right here as soon as released so stay tuned for the best Queensland winter racing odds online.

Early market betting odds on the 2025 Ipswich Cup 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.

Ipswich Cup Race Info

  • Date: Saturday June 22, 2024
  • Track: Ipswich Racecourse
  • Distance: 2150m
  • Conditions: Quality Handicap
  • Status: Listed
  • Prize Money: $250,000
 

Ipswich Cup Betting

Ipswich Cup betting markets are led by in-form winter stayers with previous form in similar grade Queensland races.

Any interstate raiders making the trip up to the sunshine state for the event also sit high up the Ipswich Cup odds each season.

Tradesman ($1.80 in 2018) was the last favourite in Ipswich Cup betting to salute for the punters.

There was a notable upset in 2021 when Happy Go Plucky won at Ipswich Cup odds of $21, in 2022 with Smart Meteor won at $20, in 2023 with the Annabel Neasham-trained Regal Lion jumping at $21 in Ipswich Cup betting, and again in 2024 with Red Wave saluting at $17.

Ipswich Cup Field

The Ipswich Cup race field attracts a quality line-up of stayers coming off lead-up runs either in Queensland or interstate in similar grade and distance events.

Potential lead-up races to the Ipswich Cup field each season include the Group 2 Brisbane Cup (3200m) held the weekend before or the Group 3 Premier’s Cup in late May also run in Brisbane.

Smart Meteor (11th in 2022) and Red Wave (11th in 2024) are the latest Ipswich Cup winners to come via a lead-up run in the BRC Premier’s Cup.

Ipswich Cup runners may have also had an earlier run in Brisbane’s Group 1 $1 million Doomben Cup (2000m).

Following a run in the Ipswich Cup field there are plenty of following winter racing options for graduates including the the Listed $300,000 Caloundra Cup (2400m) on the Queensland’s Sunshine Coast in early July and the Listed $200,000 Grafton Cup (2350m) held in New South Wales.

For runners that may be keen to race on the quick back-up, the Group 3 $200,000 Tattersall’s Cup (2400m) run the following Saturday back at Eagle Farm on Tattersall’s Tiara Day is another option for Ipswich Cup horses.

Recently, the 2021 Ipswich Cup winner Happy Go Plucky went on to run third in that year’s Caloundra Cup results.

Ipswich Cup nominations close the Monday before the race runs on the Saturday and final acceptances are out on the Tuesday.

2024 Ipswich Cup Field

The official Ipswich Cup 2024 Final Field & Barriers on the event will be provided in full below once announced on the Tuesday of race week so stay tuned to see the list of stayers set to face off in the winter feature.

The Kris Lees-trained Luncies coming off back-to-back fifths heads the 2024 Ipswich Cup field and weights with 60kg in Saturday’s Queensland feature.

2024 Ipswich Cup Nominations

The Ipswich Cup 2024 early entries are taken on the Monday leading-up to the event with the full nominations to be published below.

  Last 10 Horse Sex Age Trainer Hcp Rating
1 x085136x00 BABY RIDER (FR) G 6 Bjorn Baker 94
2 814×017372 BROOKHAVEN G 4 Chris Munce 81
3 1x807x7079 CAPRICE DES DIEUX (FR) G 6 Stephen Lee 82
4 312x673x72 DANISH FORTUNE G 6 Darren McLeod 87
5 2466435×00 DESERT ICON (FR) G 8 Chris Waller 101
6 21663×7536 DUNE FORTY FIVE G 6 Robert Heathcote 92
7 14612×0066 ENCODER G 3 Lee Freedman 75
8 8135x0x200 JIMI HENDRIX (IRE) G 5 Annabel Neasham 102
9 0x0039x850 KING FRANKEL (IRE) G 6 Annabel Neasham 99
10 050413×242 KNIGHT’S CHOICE G 4 John Symons & Sheila Laxon 102
11 56x26x8977 LONDON BANKER (NZ) G 8 Kelly Schweida 90
12 x984024x55 LUNCIES (GB) G 7 Kris Lees 104
13 149740×060 MILITARY GAMBLER G 5 Chris Munce 84
14 13112×3037 NIKAU SPUR (NZ) G 7 Corey & Kylie Geran 86
15 x7580986x0 PORT PHILIP (IRE) G 6 Marcus Wilson 85
16 232×542340 RED WAVE G 5 Tony & Maddysen Sears 83
17 x099852248 REGAL LION (NZ) G 5 Annabel Neasham 91
18 x42x438218 WARP SPEED G 7 Mark Goodwin 86
19 11x02940x0 ZOUMON G 5 Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott 103

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Ipswich Cup Tips

Good Ipswich Cup tips include backing stayers coming off a top three run in Group 2 or 3 grade over the 2000m – 2400m distance range in Brisbane and any past Ipswich winners.

The male runners make a good bet in Ipswich Cup tipping with only a handful of mares having recently won the race. Since Portland Singa (2004) the only female runners to win the Ipswich Cup are Bianca (2008) and Anagold (2013).

2024 Ipswich Cup Tips

Our insider Ipswich Cup 2024 betting tips and Black-Type Queensland racing selections will be detailed below the week of the race so you know what mares to get behind at the best odds on Ipswich Cup Day.

  • To Win: #10 Regal Lion ($4.20 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Tipping back-to-back Ipswich Cup wins by Regal Lion who looks well-weighted and well-positioned to become the event’s first dual champ since Our Lukas (2009-10). This Annabel Neasham-trained, Kiwi-bred galloper carried 54kg to a narrow win her last winter and is now out to break a year-long drought not having won again since. He is in on a lesser weight now (53.5kg) and should relish a drop back to the 2150m after a last start eighth over the mile and a half in a Brisbane Group 3. Prior to that he was racing well in easier company including an Albury Cup second and nice fourth behind Spirit Ridge not far beaten in Doomben’s Group 3 Chairman’s Handicap. Proven here and looks right to his liking again. Can win. 

Ipswich Cup Form Guide

The Ipswich Cup form guide features all the essential stats and info including the jockeys, trainers, barriers, weights and lead-up runs of the horses in the field.

The Ipswich Cup form has gone on to be franked in tougher staying events plenty of times over the years including the 2006 winner Sphenophyta continuing on to take out Flemington’s Group 1 Turnbull Stakes (2000m).

The 2022 Ipswich Cup form was franked with the third placed Street Dancer going on to run second in the Gold Coast’s $1 million Magic Millions Trophy (2200m) in 2023.

2024 Ipswich Cup Form Guide

A link to our insider Ipswich Cup Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Ipswich Cup Results

Notable recent Ipswich Cup winners include the only dual champion since 1948 Our Lukas (2009 & 2010), Maurus (2016), and Tradesman (2018).

Looking further back in Ipswich Cup history, the event has been won by a number of quality stayers and Group 1 winners including Caulfield Cup champion Sometime who with Confidence in the 1963 Ipswich Cup results.

Note, there was no Ipswich Cup held in 2000 due to COVID-19.

Past Ipswich Cup Winners

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

Year Winner Second Third
2024 Red Wave London Banker Encoder
2023 Regal Lion Desert Icon London Banker
2022 Smart Meteor Our Intrigue Street Dancer
2021 Happy Go Plucky So You Win Flash Aah
2020
Race not held
2019 Bergerac Sampson Fighting Teo
2018 Tradesman First Crush All In Vogue
2017 Self Sense Benzini Jumbo Prince
2016 Maurus Jumbo Prince Instrumentalist
2015 Danchai Banca Mo Darci Be Good
2014 Brave Ali Noisy Ocean Grey Assignment
2013 Anagold High Kin Za Magic
2012 Shenzhou Steeds Kinnersley Warrior Within
2011 Gold In Dubai Danagaze Our Lukas
2010 Our Lukas Frozone Warrior Within
2009 Our Lukas Macknuckle Jujulio
2008 Bianca Rampant Lion Art Success
2007 Sculptor Cold Start Upstaged
2006 Sphenophyta Rampant Lion Motivate
2005 Forest Jim Motivate Classic Karla
2004 Portland Singa Motivate Forest Jim
2003 Mowerman Mon Mekki Victory Smile
2002 Awesome Weather Victory Smile Lord Of The Pines
2001 Henderson Bay British Buska Go Clinton
2000 I Reign Supreme Director’s Special Thursday’s Child