Ladbrokes Tip: Moonee Valley Gold Cup is a good early Melbourne Cup betting guide
2022 Moonee Valley Gold Cup winner Francesco Guardi. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.
The Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup runs at Moonee Valley Racecourse on a Friday evening in late October on the eve of Ladbrokes Cox Plate Day during the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.
The Moonee Valley Gold Cup runs over 2500m under set weights plus penalties conditions. The stayers in the Moonee Valley Gold Cup field face off for $750,000 in total prize money and many are eyeing a run on the first Tuesday of November in Flemington’s iconic Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) over the two miles.
The last horse to complete the Moonee Valley Gold Cup – Melbourne Cup double in the same year was the mighty Kingston Rule (1990). More recently Darren Weir’s 2014 MV Gold Cup winner ran second in the event in 2015 before scoring an upset in the Melbourne Cup at 100/1.
The latest edition of the Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup ran on Friday October 25, 2024 on the eve of Cox Plate Day in Melbourne and saw Ciaron Maher’s Irish-bred stayer Okita Soushi ($11) book his spot in the Melbourne Cup field with a smart half-length win.
2024 Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup Results
The official Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup 2024 Results & Finishing Order will be available below once the race is run and won on Friday October 25, 2024.
2024 Moonee Valley Gold Cup winner Okita Soushi has booked his Melbourne Cup bid this November. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.
- 1st: #7 Okita Soushi
- 2nd: #3 Serpentine
- 3rd: #1 Sharp ‘N’ Smart
The Melbourne Cup on November 5 is locked in for the Ciaron Maher-trained Irish-bred stayer Okita Soushi ($11) after the seven-year-old’s smart half-length victory at The Valley in Friday night’s 2024 Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup results.
2024 Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup Odds
The updated Moonee Valley Gold Cup 2024 betting odds and links to our markets on the Cox Plate Carnival event will be available below the week of the race so stay tuned for the best prices on the Melbourne Cup lead-up.
Early market betting odds on the 2025 Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold 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.
Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup Race Info
- Date: Friday October 25, 2024
- Track: Moonee Valley
- Distance: 2500m
- Conditions: Set Weights + Penalties
- Status: Group 2
- Prize Money: $750,000
- First Run: 1883
Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup Betting
Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup betting odds are led by proven stayers with form over at least 2400m and runners with previous experience at the tight Moonee Valley track. Past Group performers and staying types with an eye on a Melbourne Cup run also sit high up the Moonee Valley Gold Cup betting markets.
Recent winners to salute at double-figures in the Moonee Valley Gold Cup betting odds include Prince Of Penzance ($11 in 2014) and Vatuvei ($10 in 2012). Prince Of Penzance ran second in the following year’s Moonee Valley Gold Cup before saluting in the Melbourne Cup results in 2015 at a blowout price of $101!
More recently in 2020 Miami Bound scored an upset in the Moonee Valley Gold Cup winning as a $25 outsider in betting on the Melbourne Cup lead-up. She went on to run third in the next year’s Sydney Cup trifecta over the two miles at Randwick.
The mares also won in 2021 with Lunar Flare ($12).
Francesco Guardi ($3.30 in 2022) was the last favourite in Moonee Valley Gold Cup betting to win.
In 2024 Okita Soushi saluted at $11.
Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup Tips
Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup tips include looking for proven stayers with winning form over at least a mile and a half, runners with a good Moonee Valley track record and those under double figures in betting.
Looking for gallopers out of spring lead-up runs including the St. Leger race in Sydney and those to have contested previous editions of the Melbourne Cup from springs gone are other good Moonee Valley Gold Cup betting tips.
Cleveland (2nd in 2023) was the last $500,000 St. Leger graduate from Randwick to win the Moonee Valley Gold Cup in Melbourne next start.
2024 Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup Tips
Our Ladbrokes’ exclusive Moonee Valley Gold Cup 2024 betting tips and selections will be detailed below the week of the race so bookmark this page for the stayers to lock into your Moonee Valley Gold Cup Trifecta tips.
- To Win: #2 Just Fine ($5 at time of publish) – BET NOW
Small and open field but like the $5 on offer at time of publish on the Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott-trained confirmed Melbourne Cup contender Just Fine. Last year’s The Metrop winning import was back in winning form at Flemington last start defeating Point King in the Group 3 The Bart Cummings (2500m) at big odds carrying 57kg. He goes up to 58kg with Jordan Childs retaining the ride but think he’ll handle the kilos without a worry against these. Looks to be back in form, right distance, and the only query will be how the Waterhouse/Bott runner likes The Valley. If he handles the tight turns he can handle these on way to the Cup.
Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup Field
The Moonee Valley Gold Cup race field attracts a quality line-up of stayers each season including increasingly a number of international raiders heading towards a run in the world’s richest handicap – the Melbourne Cup at Flemington on the first Tuesday of November.
Runners in the Moonee Valley Gold Cup field may come off a run in the Group 3 JRA Cup (2040m) at the same track earlier in the month, a race that last produced a winner with The United States (6th) in 2015.
Another good lead-up race is the Group 2 Herbert Power Stakes (2400m) a fortnight before at Caulfield a race Bohemian Lily ran third in before her third next-up in the Moonee Valley Gold Cup in 2015.
Okita Soushi (2nd in 2024) was the last Moonee Valley Gold Cup winner to come via a lead-up run in the Herbert Power.
Upset Melbourne Cup winner Prince Of Penzance (2015) improved on a lead-up second in the Moonee Valley Gold Cup. Photo Credit: Steve Hart.
In 2014 Prince Of Penzance won the Moonee Valley Gold Cup before returning for a second in the race in 2015 that lead to his upset Melbourne Cup victory as a $101 roughie.
The Group 3 VRC Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2600m) on Champions Stakes Day is the other most popular next-up option for Moonee Valley Gold Cup graduates. In 2014 the MV Cup winner Prince Of Penzance ran second in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes behind Le Roi who improved on a MV Cup second that spring. Third in that year’s Moonee Valley Gold Cup Au Revoir meanwhile won the Group 2 Sandown Classic (2400m) two runs later, a race Prince Of Penzance finished third in. Americain is the other recent Melbourne Cup winner to have also won the Moonee Valley Gold Cup in 2010 and 2011 respectively.
The last galloper to complete the Moonee Valley Gold Cup – Queen Elizabeth Stakes double was Precedence in 2013. Precedence also won the 2010 Moonee Valley Gold Cup on the back of a Herbert Power Stakes third and a JRA Cup victory.
Looking further ahead, many graduates out of the Moonee Valley Gold Cup field may continue onto the Listed Sandown Cup (3200m) over the two miles on Zipping Classic Day in November.
Moonee Valley Gold Cup nominations close the Friday prior a week out from the race followed by the release of the final field and barriers on the following Tuesday.
2024 Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup Field
The official Moonee Valley Gold Cup 2024 Final Field & Barriers are set for release on the Tuesday leading-up to the race and will be published below so stay tuned to see what potential Melbourne Cup horses making the line-up.
The Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup 2024 final field features 10 gallopers led in betting by the Chris Waller-trained Francesco Guardi coming off a seventh in the Turnbull Stakes and last start The Bart Cummings winner Just Fine on way to the Melbourne Cup on November 5.
2024 Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup Nominations
The early Moonee Valley Gold Cup 2024 nominations are taken the Friday prior to the race with the full list of potential Melbourne Cup-bound stayers to be listed below.
Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup Form Guide
The Moonee Valley Gold Cup form guide features essential facts and stats like the jockeys, trainers, barriers and lead-up runs of the stayers in the field.
In recent years the Moonee Valley Gold Cup form has held up in better spring features like the Melbourne Cup a number of times including in 2002 when Mr Prudent ran third and second respectively and in 2000 when Brew won the Melbourne Cup after a second to Yippyio in the MV Cup.
More recently Americain won the 2011 Moonee Valley Gold Cup a year after saluting in the Melbourne Cup, while in 2015 Prince Of Penzance ran second when failing to defend his Moonee Valley Gold Cup title before success in that year’s Melbourne Cup as a triple-figure roughie.
In 2021 the Moonee Valley Gold Cup runner-up Floating Artist went on to run a good fourth behind Verry Elleegant in that year’s Melbourne Cup results.
2024 Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup Form Guide
A link to our comprehensive Moonee Valley Gold Cup 2024 Form Guide will be available below for punters the week of the race.
Moonee Valley Gold Cup Results
There have been more favourites than roughies saluting for the punters in the Moonee Valley Gold Cup race results over the past decade.
Many quality gallopers have taken out the race and standout recent Moonee Valley Gold Cup winners include Miami Bound (2020), Prince Of Penzance (2014), Americain (2011), and Zipping (2006).
Lunar Flare (2021) was the last Moonee Valley Gold Cup winning mare. Lunar Flare also finished runner-up in 2022 and fourth as the beaten favourite with excuses in 2023.
Past Moonee Valley Gold Cup Winners
Recent Moonee Valley Gold Cup winners and placegetters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.
| Year |
Winner |
2nd |
3rd |
Time |
| 2024 |
Okita Soushi |
Serpentine |
Sharp ‘N’ Smart |
2:34.77 |
| 2023 |
Cleveland |
Vow And Declare |
Future History |
2:35.20 |
| 2022 |
Francesco Guardi |
Lunar Flare |
Persan |
2:39.3 |
| 2021 |
Lunar Flare |
Floating Artist |
Sound |
2:40.1 |
| 2020 |
Miami Bound |
Shared Ambition |
Oceanex |
2:39.6 |
| 2019 |
Hunting Horn |
Mr Quickie |
Downdraft |
2:39.4 |
| 2018 |
Ventura Storm |
Trap For Fools |
Libran |
2:34.3 |
| 2017 |
Who Shot Thebarman |
Libran |
Cismontane |
2:37.3 |
| 2016 |
Grand Marshal |
Who Shot Thebarman |
Pentathlon |
2:41.4 |
| 2015 |
The United States |
Prince Of Penzance |
Bohemian Lily |
2:34.4 |
| 2014 |
Prince Of Penzance |
Le Roi |
Au Revoir |
2:36.0 |
| 2013 |
Precedence |
Shoreham |
Gotta Take Care |
2:36.9 |
| 2012 |
Vatuvei |
Reuben Percival |
Ironstein |
2:35.7 |
| 2011 |
Americain |
Tullamore |
Illo |
2:36.4 |
| 2010 |
Precedence |
Above Average |
Capecover |
2:38.9 |
| 2009 |
The Sportsman |
Irazu |
Think Money |
2:37.3 |
| 2008 |
Gallopin |
Baughurst |
Ice Chariot |
2:36.5 |
| 2007 |
Gallic |
Lazer Sharp |
Jukebox Johnny |
2:36.5 |
| 2006 |
Zipping |
Show Barry |
Gallic |
2:38.9 |
| 2005 |
Umbula |
Bazelle |
Kindjhal |
2:45.1 |
| 2004 |
Another Warrior |
Rizon |
Hard To Get |
2:37.1 |
| 2003 |
Frightening |
Legible |
County Tyrone |
2:38.5 |
| 2002 |
Thong Classic |
Rain Gauge |
Mr Prudent |
2:40.9 |
| 2001 |
Rain Gauge |
Spirit Of Westbury |
Big Pat |
2;37.6 |
| 2000 |
Yippyio |
Brew |
Cronus |
2:41.3 |
FAQ
Who won the 2024 Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup?
The 2024 Moonee Valley Gold Cup was won by the Ciaron Maher-trained Okita Soushi at $11 with Billy Egan in the saddle.
When is the Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup 2024?
Friday October 25, 2024
What is the prize money for the Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup 2024?
$750,000
Where is the Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup 2024?
Moonee Valley Racecourse, Feehan Ave, Moonee Ponds VIC 3039.