Phar Lap Stakes 2022

Ladbrokes Tip: The Phar Lap is a good guide to both the ATC Oaks and ATC Derby during The Championships

The Phar Lap Stakes is one of two Group 2 races run at Rosehill Racecourse on a Saturday in mid-March as part of Coolmore Classic Day during the annual Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.

The Group 1 Coolmore Classic (1500m) for fillies and mares is the meeting’s highlight race, while the Phar Lap Stakes is another major feature on the card. Run over the same 1500m distance as the Group 1, the Phar Lap Stakes is an open gender race for three-years-old run at set weights with colts and geldings carrying 56.5kg and the fillies allocated 54.5kg.

The Phar Lap Stakes offers $200,000 in total prize money including $110,000 to the winner and connections. The race is a good lead-up for three-year-olds looking to step out over more distance in races like the Group 1 ATC Oaks and ATC Derby run over 2400m at Randwick Racecourse later in the autumn.

The Phar Lap Stakes – Australian Oaks double was completed on back-to-back years by Chris Waller-trained fillies with Unforgotten (2018) and Verry Ellegant (2019), and again with their stablemate Hungry Heart in 2021.

Waller took his incredible record in the race up to six wins in seven years when Hungry Heart became his fifth consecutive Phar Lap Stakes winning filly in 2021. She went on to complete the Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes – ATC Oaks double that atuumn.

The latest edition of the Phar Lap Stakes took place on Saturday March 12, 2022 and saw the run of the Waller-trained fillies come to an end with an upset from the Hawkes Racing-trained col Mr Mozart ($10). 

Phar Lap Stakes Info

• Date: Saturday March 12, 2022
• Track: Rosehill Gardens Racecourse
• Distance: 1500m
• Conditions: 3YO – Set Weights
• Status: Group 2
• Prize Money: $200,000
• First Run: 1973

2022 Phar Lap Stakes Results

The official Phar Lap Stakes Results 2022 and Finishing Order will be published below when the Group 2 takes place on Saturday March 12, 2022.

• 1st: #2 Mr Mozart ($10)
• 2nd: #9 Never Been Kissed
• 3rd: #5 Character

Phar Lap Stakes Betting

Phar Lap Stakes odds are dominated each year by three-year-olds with nice lead-up autumn form in similar distanced races. Those proven over at least 1400m are usually high up the markets as are those with winning Sydney form.

Hungry Heart ($3.70 in 2021) is the latest favourite in Phar Lap Stakes betting to salute for the punters.

Phar Lap Stakes betting opens the Wednesday before the race following the release of the final field of acceptances and barriers.

2022 Phar Lap Stakes Betting

The top Phar Lap Stakes 2022 odds will be provided below the week of the race so bookmark this page to get behind your favourite three-year-olds of the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.

Phar Lap Stakes Field

Winx (2015) is one of the most famous recent Phar Lap Stakes winners. Photo Credit: Steve Hart.

The Phar Lap Stakes field features a line-up of the season’s most promising three-year-old staying types.

For the fillies traditional lead-up races include the Group 2 Light Fingers Stakes (1200m) and Group 1 Surround Stakes (1400m). The Surround Stakes recently produced Phar Lap Stakes winners in 2020 with Funstar (2nd) turning the tables on her last start conqueror Probabeel and in 2021 with Hungry Heart improving on her lead-up eighth in the Group 1.

The male gallopers could come out of a number of different races in either Sydney or Melbourne including Flemington’s Group 3 CS Hayes Stakes (1400m) or the Group 2 Hobartville Stakes (1400m) held at Rosehill.

Phar Lap Stakes nominations close the Monday before the race with the final field and barrier draw out on the Wednesday.

2022 Phar Lap Stakes Field

The official Phar Lap Stakes 2022 field of final acceptances for the three-years-old Group 2 Coolmore Classic Day showdown will be published below once released on Wednesday March 9, 2022.

The 2022 Phar Lap Stakes final field features a bumper line-up of three-year-olds including the now odds-on favourite Fangirl for six-time winning trainer Chris Waller. Waller withdrew his other two top hopes Hinged and Espiona who run instead in the Group 1 Coolmore Classic against the older mares on the same day.

• Scratched: #3 Silent Impact (9); #4 Cape Breton (8); #6 Gracilistyla (6); #7 Son Of Sangio (10); #8 Hinged (2); #10 Espiona (11); #13 Cap Estel (13).

2022 Phar Lap Stakes Nominations

The early Phar Lap Stakes 2022 Nominations are taken on the Monday of race week and the list of potential runners in the field will be detailed below as soon as announced by Racing NSW.

The 2022 Phar Lap Stakes nominations drew 21 hopeful three-year-olds including eight for Chris Waller led by Espiona with the horseman chasing his seventh win in eight years and sixth on the trot.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Phar Lap Stakes Tips

Fillies have a great recent record over the boys in the Phar Lap Stakes and make good tips in the race especially those coming out of the recently upgraded Group 1 Surround Stakes (1400m) a fortnight earlier.

Trainer Chris Waller prepared six fillies to win in seven years with superstar mare Winx (2015), Foxplay (2017), Unforgotten (2018), Verry Elleegant (2019), Funstar (2020) and Hungry Heart (2021).

Taking in-form hopefuls at single figures is also a good Phar Lap Stakes betting tip with those at longer odds rarely successful.

2022 Phar Lap Stakes Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider Phar Lap Stakes 2022 tips and betting selections will be detailed right here soon after betting opens so stay tuned to see who to back and sack in the ATC Derby & ATC Oaks lead-up.

• To Win: #11 Fangirl ($3.80 at time of publish) 

Plenty hinges on whether Waller keeps his two top fillies in this or they scratch out in favour of a Group 1 Coolmore Classic run. If she lines-up, Fangirl looks a great bet to continue her trainer’s dominant record in this race. Waller has prepared six Phar Lap winners since 2014 and the past five straight with star fillies. This daughter of Sebring is four from seven to date ahead of her Rosehill debut. First-up she won the Light Fingers Stakes at a big price and her Group 1 Surround Stakes fifth last time out was brave when under two lengths beaten behind stablemate Hinged. Similar performance here and she can win this.

Phar Lap Stakes Form Guide

The Phar Lap Stakes form guide lists crucial information like the jockeys, trainers, barriers and lead-up runs of the three-year-olds in the field. The Phar Lap Stakes form has stacked up in better autumn races in recent years including the Group 1 Australian Oaks (2400m) for the fillies in April with the 2015 Phar Lap winner Winx running second in the Oaks two runs later. That was the last time Winx was ever beaten, the champion mare going on to win her subsequent 33 starts consecutively including a record four Cox Plate trophies.

That same year the Phar Lap Stakes runner-up Hauraki went on to win the Group 2 Tulloch Stakes (2000m) before his second to Mongolian Khan in the Group 1 Australian Derby (2400m). In 2009 Whobetgotyou was runner-up to Heart Of Dreams in the Phar Lap Stakes before running third in the Group 1 Doncaster Mile (1600m) two starts later.

More recently Foxplay (2017) backed-up from her Phar Lap Stakes win two starts later to win Randwick’s Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m), while the 2020 Phar Lap winner Funstar ran second in that year’s Queen Of The Turf Stakes.

Following that, tjree other Waller-trained fillies franked the Phar Lap Stakes form by winning both it and the ATC Oaks – Unforgettable (2018), Verry Ellegant (2019) and Hungry Heart (2021).

2022 Phar Lap Stakes Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Phar Lap Stakes 2022 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Phar Lap Stakes Results

Single figure fancies have dominated the Phar Lap Stakes results in recent years with the last to salute at a double figure price being Just Mambo ($11 in 2007).

Notable recent Phar Lap Stakes winners include subsequent ATC Oaks winners Hungry Heart (2021), Verry Elleegant (2019) and Unforgotten (2018); Foxplay (2017) who jumped odds-on; super star mare Winx (2015); Heart Of Dreams (2009) and Apache Cat (2006).

Phar Lap Stakes Winners