Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2022

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The Magic Millions 3YO Guineas is a $2 million Restricted Listed event held at Queensland’s Gold Coast Racecourse each January during the summer racing season. The Gold Coast Magic Millions Race Day features a total of nine events and offers a lucrative $10 million in total prize money.

One of the richest Magic Millions races on the card, the Magic Millions Guineas is open only to three-year-old graduates of the Magic Millions Sales and is contested over 1400m under set weights plus penalties conditions. The other key race on the line-up is the $2 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic (1200m).

Good lead-up races into the Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas field each season include Doomben’s Listed Gold Edition Plate (1200m) in December and Brisbane’s Group 3 Vo Rogue Plate (1350m) held in Brisbane a fortnight before Magic Millions Day.

Pierata (2017-18) followed by Boomsara (2018-19) are the latest horses to complete the Vo Rogue Plate – Magic Millions 3YO Guineas double. In 2020 Alligator Blood became the third horse in as many years to win the Magic Millions Guineas on the back of a Vo Rogue Plate success before being stripped of the title later in the year due to a positive swab to a banned substance.

The latest edition of the Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas ran on Saturday January 15, 2022 and was won by the $4 favourite King Of Sparta for last year’s winning trainers Peter & Paul Snowden. 

2022 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Results

The Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2022 results and finishing order will be published below as soon as announced on Saturday January 15, 2022.

• 1st: #3 King Of Sparta ($4F)
• 2nd: #11 Me Me Lagarde
• 3rd: #18 Socialist

Peter & Paul Snowden prepared their second winner in as many years in the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2022 results with the $4 favourite King Of Sparta putting it altogether under the riding of Nash Rawiller to produce a brilliant late turn of foot and win the $2 million feature.

Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Race Info

• Date: Saturday January 15, 2022
• Track: Gold Coast Racecourse
• Distance: 1400m
• Conditions: Set Weights + Penalties – 3YOs
• Status: Restricted Listed
• Prize Money: $2 million
• First Run: 2001

Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Betting

Magic Millions 3YO Guineas betting opens weeks in advance of the race with pre-field markets open on the likely runners in the feature showdown.

Runners that dominate the Magic Millions Gold Coast Guineas odds each summer include those with previous Group status wins on their record, runners proven the right-handed way of racing, horses with winning form over a similar distance and those from the major training stables in the country.

Looking at the horses that ran well in the previous summer’s Magic Millions 2YO Classic race can be a good indicator of the now three-year-olds that will perform back at the same race day 12 months on.

Alligator Blood ($1.80 in 2020) was the last favourite in Magic Millions 3YO Guineas betting to salute for the punters before being stripped of the title later that year due to a positive swab. 

There was a notable upset the following year with Aim winning the 2021 Magic Millions Guineas at a blow-out price of $31.

In 2022 Aim’s stablemate King Of Sparta won as the $4 favourite for Peter & Paul Snowden.

2022 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Odds

The Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2022 odds will be listed below complete with market links as soon as available.

Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Field

The Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas field usually draws a capacity line-up of 16 starters (plus five emergencies) with the season’s top three-year-old Magic Millions eligible runners facing off for the big prize money.

Open to both colts & geldings as well as fillies, many horses in the Magic Millions Guineas field come off a lead-up run at Brisbane or the Gold Coast giving them the experience the right-handed way of racing.

The early Magic Millions 3YO Guineas nominations are taken by Racing Queensland the previous September followed by first acceptances in December and the final field the week of the race.

2022 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Field

The Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2022 field will be released on the Monday of race week and published in full below.

The official 2022 Magic Millions Guineas Barrier Draw then takes place on the Tuesday during a special event at Surfers Paradise beach on the Gold Coast.

Peter & Paul Snowden’s Gosford Guineas third placegetter King Of Sparta and the Robert & Luke Price-trained two-time Group 2 winning filly Jamaea are among the early favourites in a capacity 2022 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas field for this weekend at the Gold Coast.

The 2022 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Barrier Draw saw Jamaea come up trumps with a favourable barrier eight draw.

Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Tips

Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas tips include backing in-form three-year-olds with black-type winning form on their record and those from interstate stables.

History shows visitors from stables in Sydney and Melbourne have a dominant record so backing a runner outside of Queensland is a good Magic Millions 3YO Guineas betting tip.

Boomsara (2019) and Alligator Blood (2020) however both overcame the local hoodoo becoming the first Queensland-trained winners of the race since 2013. The David Vandyke-trained winner was subsequently stripped of the title and Eleven Eleven declared the official 2020 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas winner.

2022 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider Gold Coast Magic Millions Guineas 2022 betting tips and exclusive summer racing selections will be detailed below the week of the race so stay tuned for the three-year-old Magic Millions Sales graduates to back and sack!

• To Win: #3 King Of Sparta ($6 at time of publish) 

Wide open edition of the MM Guineas and like the Snowden-trained King Of Sparta to break his placegetter status with a feature race victory. Ultra-consistent gelding doing plenty right and has form around some better 3YOs from last prep. Group 2 placed when third in the Roman Consul two back before another third in the Listed Gosford Guineas when missing the kick on a Slow track only to be narrowly beaten. Should come into a barrier just worse than mid-field and if he gets away even, presents fit second-up and can challenge.

Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Form Guide

The Magic Millions 3YO Guineas form guide has all the need-to-know race information including the saddlecloth numbers, Magic Millions barriers, jockeys and the trainers of all the horses in the field each Queensland Summer Racing Carnival.

When doing the Magic Millions Guineas form it is important to look out for in-form runners from Sydney stables, graduates out of the key preparatory races like Brisbane’s Vo Rogue Plate and those with Group 1 form.

2022 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Form Guide

A link to the Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2022 Form Guide will be available below following final acceptances.

Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Results

Recent Magic Millions 3YO Guineas results have been dominated by horses trained outside of the sunshine state with the last Queensland-trained winners of the race being Saluter (2013) followed more recently by Boomsara (2019) for former champion hoop Chris Munce and the champion Alligator Blood (2020), the latter subsequently stripped of the title due to a positive swab disqualification.

Fillies have plenty of winning form over the boys in the Magic Millions Guineas results including the victory of Sweet Idea (2014) and more recently Flying Jess (2017), but overall colts have enjoyed the most wins.

Notable Magic Millions 3YO Guineas winners include Ha Ha (2002), Gold Edition (2007), Mahuta (2016) and Alligator Blood (2020) who was later disqualified and removed from the official list of champions.

Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Winners