Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2024

Ladbrokes Tip: The George Ryder Stakes is a top lead-up into the Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

The Queen Elizabeth Stakes is the richest race of the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival and offers $5 million in total prize money as of 2023.

2022 Queen Elizabeth Stakes Winner Think It Over. Photo: Steve Hart.

The prizemoney for the 2020 Queen Elizabeth Stakes was reduced to $2 million with cuts made across the carnival due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including $1.16 million reserved for the winner, before being elevated back to $4 million for 2021 and subsequently increased to $5 million for the 2023 edition.

Held on Day 2 of The Championships on the second Saturday of April each year at Royal Randwick, the weight-for-age Group 1 classic is run over 2000m and is held on the same day as the Sydney Cup, Australian Oaks and Queen Of The Turf Stakes.

The winners of the previous year’s Epsom Handicap and The Metropolitan as well as the current year’s Ranvet Stakes, Tancred Stakes, Doncaster Mile, and ATC Derby are all exempt from Queen Elizabeth Stakes ballot.

The event attracts the season’s best weight-for-age gallopers and middle-distance hopefuls and one of the best Queen Elizabeth Stakes lead-up races is the Group 1 George Ryder Stakes (1500m) held three weeks earlier at Rosehill Gardens on Golden Slipper Day.

There was a historic Queen Elizabeth Stakes result in 2024 with Pride Of Jenni leading all-the-way, including having a some 30-length lead mid-race, before saluting by 6.5 lengths.

The latest edition of the Queen Elizabeth Stakes took place on Saturday April 13, 2024 at Royal Randwick with Ciaron Maher’s mare Pride Of Jenni ($7) leading from barrier to box in a complete demolition job to win by over six lengths. 

2024 Queen Elizabeth Stakes Results

The 2024 Queen Elizabeth Stakes results and finishing order will be known on Saturday April 13, 2024 and published below.

Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2024 winner Pride Of Jenni made history saluting by over six lengths on the line. Photo: Steve Hart.

• 1st: #7 Pride Of Jenni
• 2nd: #8 Via Sistina
• 3rd: #1 Mr Brightside

All-Star Mile winning mare Pride Of Jenni ($7) stamped herself as one of history’s best ever thoroughbreds leading all-the-way, including having a dominant 30-length mid-race lead, before claiming victory in the 2024 Queen Elizabeth Stakes results by over six lengths thanks to an incredible ride by jockey Declan Bates.

2024 Queen Elizabeth Stakes Odds

The Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2024 odds and prices on the runners this autumn’s race will be available below as soon as available so stay tuned.

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Race Info

• Date: Saturday April 13, 2024
• Track: Royal Randwick Racecourse
• Distance: 2000m
• Conditions: Weight-for-age
• Status: Group 1
• Prize Money: $5 million
• First Run: 1851

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Betting

Queen Elizabeth Stakes betting each year is led by the season’s best weight-for-age performers coming out of lead-up runs in races including the Doncaster Mile, George Ryder Stakes and Tancred Stakes.

From 2010 – 2024 all but four of the 11 Queen Elizabeth Stakes winners ran either first or second in their lead-up runs including It’s A Dundeel (2014) and Criterion (2015) who came out of the Tancred Stakes and George Ryder Stakes respectively.

Australian Cup third placed Pride Of Jenni (2024) became the first horse to come off a Melbourne lead-up run and win the Queen Elizabeth Stakes since Sarrera (2008).

Favourites in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes odds have saluted nine times since 2005 most recently with three-time hero Winx (2017, 2018 and 2019) followed by UK raiders Addeybb (2020) and Dubai Honour (2023) who both completed the Ranvet Stakes – Queen Elizabeth double for trainer William Haggas. In 2021 Addeybb returned and won again as the second elect defeating the favourite, his last start conqueror and last year’s runner-up Verry Elleegant who went on to win that year’s Melbourne Cup race.

There was a big upset in 2022 with Think It Over improving on a lead-up fourth in the Tancred Stakes to win at Queen Elizabeth Stakes odds of $41.

Dubai Honour ($2.30 in 2023) was the last favourite to win the Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Field

The Queen Elizabeth Stakes race field attracts a top class line-up of weight-for-age champions that come via races including the George Ryder Stakes and the Group 1 Tancred Stakes (2400m) also held in Sydney during the autumn.

The last galloper to complete the Tancred Stakes (then The BMW) – Queen Elizabeth Stakes double was Eremein (2006).

UK raider Addeybb did the Ranvet Stakes – Queen Elizabeth Stakes double in 2020. In 2021 Addeybb atoned for a lead-up second to Verry Elleegant in that year’s Ranvet to beat her home in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes in a repeat of the 2020 quinella. Addeybb’s stablemate Dubai Honour (2023) was the last horse to do the Ranvet – Queen Elizabeth double.

Dual champion Grand Armee is one of three individual Queen Elizabeth Stakes winners for trainer Gai Waterhouse who also won with Desert War (2007) and More Joyous (2012).

Queen Elizabeth Stakes nominations close on a Monday in early February before first acceptances a month later.

The final Queen Elizabeth Stakes field of acceptances and barrier draw is then released on the Tuesday before the race.

2024 Queen Elizabeth Stakes Field

The Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2024 field and barrier will be released on the Tuesday of race week  and published below.

Chris Waller’s first-up Ranvet Stakes winning import Via Sistina heads betting on the 11-horse Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2024 final field on Day 2 of The Championships.

Scratchings Update:

• #9 Atishu (9) – runs in the Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m).

2024 Queen Elizabeth Stakes First Acceptances

The Queen Elizabeth Stakes first acceptances are taken in early March, about a month after the nominations and four weeks out from the event.

The 2024 Queen Elizabeth Stakes first acceptances close at midday on Tuesday the 12th of March, 2024.

Mr Brightside heads all-in betting on the fifty-three first acceptances taken for this autumn’s showcase Sydney race – the Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2024.

2024 Queen Elizabeth Stakes Nominations

The 2024 Queen Elizabeth Stakes nominations are taken on Tuesday the 13th of February, 2024. 

The 2024 Queen Elizabeth Stakes nominations attracted 101 weight-for-age stars including the Lindsay Park-trained ace weight-for-age performer Mr Brightside and Chris Waller’s multiple Group 1 winning mare Fangirl.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Tips

Looking for gallopers that finished in the money in lead-up Sydney Group 1 races like the Tancred Stakes held a fortnight earlier over 500m further is a top Queen Elizabeth Stakes tip.

Favourites in the race only had a fair record until the three-peat of odds-on fancy Winx (2017-19) followed by a fourth straight win for the punters in 2020 with the European visitor Addeybb and another international raider saluting for the punters in 2023 in Dubai Honour.

Mares also had a poor Queen Elizabeth Stakes record until recent years when the hoodoo was lifted with victories by More Joyous (2012), Lucia Valentina (2016) and Winx (2017, 2018 & 2019).

Pride Of Jenni (2024) was the last Queen Elizabeth Stakes winning mare.

2024 Queen Elizabeth Stakes Tips

Our insider Ladbrokes’ Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2024 betting tips will be detailed below the week of the race so stay tuned for who to back and sack in the Group 1 weight-for-age classic this autumn.

• To Win: #8 Via Sistina ($2.30 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Not a lot of value in the Waller-trained favourite, but in a small field where plenty of these go better in Melbourne, she is the one to stick with. The imported Fastnet Rock mare brought some strong form lines from Europe to Sydney in her down under debut at Rosehill to win the Group 1 Ranvet Stakes (2000m) over this distance last time out. She is fitter for the run and full of confidence now heading to Royal Randwick where she can win again with James McDonald retaining the ride.

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Form Guide

The Queen Elizabeth Stakes form guide provides punters with all the must-know race facts and statistics including barrier positions and lead-up form.

Horses coming off runs at Rosehill and Randwick have dominated the race over the past 30 years with only three Queen Elizabeth Stakes winners coming off a non-Sydney lead-up since 1983 with Pride Of Jenni (3rd in Flemington’s Australian Cup in 2024) the latest.

The age of the runners in the field is also listed on the Queen Elizabeth Stakes form guide and only one three-year-old has won in three decades with Intergaze (1997).

The form out of the 2022 Queen Elizabeth Stakes was franked with the runner-up, Zaaki, going on to place in a host of subsequent Group 1 races before successfully defending his title that spring in the Group 1 Champions Stakes (2000m) at Flemington over the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Form Facts

• Favourites didn’t have a great recent record in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes results until the three-peat of Winx (2017-19) followed by that of UK gallopers Addeybb (2020) and Dubai Honour (2023).
• Since 1987 eight  Queen Elizabeth Stakes winners have been mares with Pride Of Jenni (2024), More Joyous (2012), Lucia Valentina (2016) and Winx (2017-19).
• Three-year-olds don’t stack-up in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes form with only one beating their older rivals in over 30 years – Intergaze (1997).

2024 Queen Elizabeth Stakes Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2024 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Records

Below we take a look at some of the Queen Elizabeth Stakes race records like who is the most successful Queen Elizabeth Stakes jockey and what horse has run the fastest time in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes?

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Race Record: Intergaze in 1997 set the current Queen Elizabeth Stakes winning time of  2:01.22.

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Jockey Record: George Moore holds the current record with six Queen Elizabeth Stakes winning rides followed by Damien Oliver (5), Peter Cook (5), Neville Sellwood (5) and Hugh Bowman (4).

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Trainer Record: The late, great Tommy Smith Tommy Smith prepared a record 11 Queen Elizabeth Stakes winners. In the modern era the most successful Queen Elizabeth Stakes winning trainers are Chris Waller (5) and Tommy Smith’s daughter Gai Waterhouse (4).

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Winning Margin Record: Pride Of Jenni (6.54 lengths in 2024).

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Results

Horses aged between four-years-old and six-years-old coming off lead-up runs in Sydney Group 1s have dominated the Queen Elizabeth Stakes race results over the past 30 years.

There have been a number of upset Queen Elizabeth Stakes results in that time as well with some of the longest priced victories going to Think It Over ($41 in 2022), Reliable Man ($12 in 2013), My Kingdom Of Fife ($13 in 2011) and Sarrera ($51 in 2008).

Other notable recent Queen Elizabeth Stakes winners include Road To Rock (2010); Desert War (2007), Lonhro (2003); three-time champion Winx (2017, 2018 & 2019); UK raider Addeybb (2020, 2021); and historic champ Pride Of Jenni (2024) who made an absolute mess of her rivals.

Past Queen Elizabeth Stakes Winners

Recent Queen Elizabeth Stakes winners and place-getters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.