Ladbrokes Tip: Interstate raiders have a top record in the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas at the Gold Coast

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 16, 2021 and was won in an upset by 30/1 shot Aim. 

2021 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Results

The Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2021 results and finishing order will be published below as soon as announced on Saturday January 16, 2021.

• 1st: #8 Aim
• 2nd: #5 Amish Boy
• 3rd: #3 Away Game

The Peter & Paul Snowden-trained Aim returned to winning form with a 30/1 upset in the 2021 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas results. Relishing firmer going, the recently gelded galloper defeated fellow roughie Amish Boy (2nd) and last year’s Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Away Game (3rd), while the short favourite Isotope lost her rider and was unofficially counted in the results. 

Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Race Info

• Date: Saturday January 16, 2021
• 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. 

2021 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Odds

The Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2021 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.

2021 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Field

The Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2021 field will be released on the Monday of race week and published in full below.

The official 2021 Magic Millions Guineas Barrier Draw then takes place on the Tuesday during a special event at Surfers Paradise beach on the Gold Coast.

The Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2021 final field is now out with Tony Gollan’s in-form filly Isotope, coming off dual stakes wins in Brisbane last month, leading betting on the $2 million feature. 

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.

2021 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider Gold Coast Magic Millions Guineas 2021 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 Away Game ($4 at time of publish) 

Markets suggest Isotope, coming off back-to-back Listed Brisbane wins from December, will extend her winning streak to three. She did beat home Away Game in the Gold Edition, but only narrowly. Away Game looks value to turn the tables here back at the Gold Coast track where she famously won last season’s Magic Millions Classic by nearly two lengths at a blow-out price. Her form over the past two months has been very good and includes a Group 3 and Group 2 victory, a Blue Diamond fourth and Golden Slipper second. Was far from disgraced last May against the older mares in Adelaide’s Robert Sangster (5th), but has had just the one run since then. She’s lightly raced, but looks to be back going as good as ever. Fitter here, winning Gold Coast trial to bring her on further and the track is an advantage. 

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.

2021 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Form Guide

A link to the Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2021 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