Queen Of The Turf Stakes 2024

Ladbrokes Tip: Last start winners have an excellent recent record in the Queen Of The Turf Stakes results.

The Queen Of The Turf Stakes runs on the second Saturday of April as part of the elite racing action of the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival and has recently been known as the Coolmore Legacy Stakes. The Group 1 race for fillies and mares is held on Day 2 of The Championships at Royal Randwick Racecourse and runs alongside the Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Sydney Cup and Australian Oaks.

2022 Queen Of The Turf Stakes winner Nimalee. Photo: Steve Hart.

Contested over 1600m the mile classic was run over 1500m up until 2014. It has been conducted under weight-for-age conditions since 2005 and offers a total of $1 million in prize money including $600,000 for the Queen Of The Turf Stakes winner.

For 2020 the Queen Of The Turf Stakes (run as the Coolmore Legacy Stakes) prizemoney was down to $500,000 due to the Coronavirus outbreak with $287,000 going to the winner, with stakes boosted back to $1 million in 2021.

Winners of the Coolmore Classic and Emancipation Stakes are exempt from Queen Of The Turf Stakes ballot and have provided the majority of winners in the past decade or so.

The latest female gallopers to complete the Coolmore Classic – Queen Of The Turf Stakes double are Appearance (2013), Con Te Partiro (2020), and Zougotcha (2024).

The latest edition of the Queen Of The Turf Stakes took place on Saturday April 13, 2024 on Day 2 of The Championships at Randwick in Sydney and was won in a narrow thriller by the Chris Waller-trained favourite Zougotcha ($3.50F). 

2024 Queen Of The Turf Results

The Queen Of The Turf Stakes 2024 results and finishing order will be known on Saturday April 13, 2024 and released below.

2024 Queen Of The Turf Stakes winner Zougotcha narrowly held on to take out her third Group 1 trophy. Photo: Steve Hart.

• 1st: #2 Zougotcha
• 2nd: #1 Atishu
• 3rd: #5 Semana

Zougotcha ($3.50F) completed a Sydney hat-trick this autumn backing-up from wins in the Millie Fox and Coolmore Classic to narrowly hold out stablemate, last year’s winner Atishu, in the 2024 Queen Of The Turf Stakes results.

2024 Queen Of The Turf Stakes Odds

The Queen Of The Turf Stakes 2024 odds and markets for the Group 1 Randwick mile feature will be available below the week of the race so stay tuned to view the Queen Of The Turf Stakes betting markets.

Queen Of The Turf Stakes Race Info

• Date: Saturday April 13, 2024
• Track: Royal Randwick Racecourse
• Distance: 1600m
• Conditions: Weight-for-age – Fillies & Mares
• Status: Group 1
• Prize Money: $1 million
• First Run: 1972

Queen Of The Turf Stakes Betting

Queen Of The Turf Stakes betting is traditionally led by proven Group 1 performers that come out of the Coolmore Classic in March over 1500m at Rosehill.

The Coolmore is a quality handicap race while the Queen Of The Turf is WFA so looking for fillies and mares with previous weight-for-age form is also important.

Nettoyer (Doncaster Mile 9th in 2021) became the first Queen Of The Turf Stakes winner since 2001 to finish worse than sixth in the lead-up, and last start winners often dominate the odds with seven saluting from 2008 – 2024.

Queen Of The Turf Stakes odds are usually dominated by four-year-old mares as this age group has produced more winners than any other including seven of the winners from 2010 – 2024, most recently Zougotcha (2024). In 2017-2018 however the three-year-old fillies went back-to-back with Foxplay and Alizee respectively.

Favourites enjoyed a purple patch from 2004 – 2012 winning all but one of the editions before three upset Queen Of The Turf Stakes results from 2013 – 15 including 40/1 roughie Diamond Drille (2014). The punters were back in luck for the 2016 edition when Azkadellia won as the shortest-priced in Queen Of The Turf Stakes betting.

There was another notable upset in 2019 when Kenenda won the event – run as the  Coolmore Legacy – at odds of $26.

In 2021 Nettoyer also won in a boil-over at 25/1, while the next year Nimalee continued the new trend of roughies in Queen Of The Turf betting saluting at 30/1.

In 2023 the Chris Waller-trained Atishu won the Queen Of The Turf Stakes at $10 odds improving on a lead-up second in the Group 2 Emancipation Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill.

Atishu returned to run second in the 2024 Queen Of The Turf Stakes results behind her better fancied stablemate Zougotcha who saluted for the punters as the $3.50 favourite.

Queen Of The Turf Stakes Field

The Queen Of The Turf Stakes race field features a line-up of the season’s best fillies and mares proven over a mile and coming out of lead-up races like the Group 1 Coolmore Classic (1500m) the month before and the Group 2 Emancipation Stakes (1500m) a fortnight earlier. Atishu (2nd in 2023) was the last Queen Of The Turf Stakes winner to come via the Emancipation Stakes.

From 1996 – 2024, 13 Queen Of The Turf Stakes winners had their final lead-up in the Coolmore Classic including three completing the double most recently Con Te Partiro (2020) and Zougotcha (2024).

In that time only three had their preparatory run outside of Sydney most recently with Typhoon Tracy who came off a Melbourne win at Caulfield in the Group 1 Futurity Stakes in 2010 followed in 2019 by Kenedna who improved on a Group 2 Sunline Stakes third at The Valley.

Another earlier lead-up is the Group 3 Aspiration Quality (1600m) on Randwick Guineas Day and Diamond Drille (2014) was the last mare to complete the Aspiration Quality – Queen Of The Turf Stakes double.

Queen Of The Turf Stakes nominations are taken on a Monday in early February before first acceptances close a month later. The final Queen Of The Turf Stakes field of acceptances and barrier draw is released on the Tuesday before the race and connections have until then to pay the $11,000 fee for any late entries.

Azkadellia (2016) was favourite in Queen Of The Turf Stakes betting for her win in the Group 1 autumn mile feature. Photo Credit: Steve Hart.

2024 Queen Of The Turf Stakes Field

The Queen Of The Turf Stakes 2024 field and barrier draw will be available below the Tuesday of race week so stay tuned to see what autumn milers make the line-up.

Chris Waller’s Coolmore Classic winner Zougotcha heads betting on the 2024 Queen Of The Turf Stakes final field in Sydney this weekend.

2024 Queen Of The Turf Stakes Nominations

The 2024 Queen Of The Turf Stakes nominations are taken on Tuesday, February 13, 2024. 

The Queen Of The Turf Stakes 2024 nominations attracted 121 female gallopers including Chris Waller’s champion mare Fangirl, her Champions Stakes winning stablemate Atishu, and the Ciaron Maher-trained Empire Rose Stakes – Champions Mile double winner from the spring Pride Of Jenni who resumed with a brilliant second in the CF Orr fresh.

2024 Queen Of The Turf Stakes First Acceptances

First acceptances for the Queen Of The Turf Stakes close in early March about a month out from the race, four weeks after the nominations in February.

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

The Queen Of The Turf Stakes 2024 first acceptances drew 76 female gallopers including Chris Waller’s defending champion Atishu.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Queen Of The Turf Stakes Tips

Queen Of The Turf Stakes tips are dominated by fillies and mares coming off a top three or four lead-up run in the Emancipation Stakes and or Coolmore Classic.

The then Group 2 (now Group 1) Canterbury Stakes (1300m) at Randwick in mid-March also produced two winners in recent times with the Gai Waterhouse-trained superstar More Joyous complete the double back-to-back in 2011 and 2012.

Fillies and mares trained by Gai Waterhouse also make top Queen Of The Turf Stakes tips as she boasts an imposing record of nine winners including four of the five from 2011 – 2015. Waterhouse’s latest was in 2020 with Con Te Partiro.

2024 Queen Of The Turf Stakes Tips

The latest autumn Queen Of the Turf Stakes 2024 betting tips and selections from the Ladbrokes expert team of tipsters will be detailed below the week of the race outlining the value bets of the Queen Of The Turf field.

• To Win: #2 Zougotcha ($3.20 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Really excellent and open edition of the Queen Of The Turf with plenty of livewire chances, but happy to stick with the Chris Waller favourite Zougotcha who is going too good to ignore. She is a last start Group 1 winner in the Coolmore Classic at Rosehill and won the Millie Fox prior to that. Heads to Randwick now looking for an autumn hat-trick, and she has strong form at the track ( 7:3-1-0). Proven at a mile, think the stablemate Atishu will run in Queen Elizabeth instead, rails draw and James McDonald aboard. Tick, tick, tick.

2023 Queen Of The Turf Stakes winner Atishu was strong late producing a stellar turn of foot to win the Group 1. Photo: Steve Hart.

Queen Of The Turf Stakes Form Guide

The Queen Of The Turf Stakes form guide is a must review before placing bets on the autumn classic and displays information from the trainers and jockeys to the barrier draw.

Only two Queen Of The Turf Stakes winners since 2001 have won from double digits when Mnemosyne saluted from barrier 10 of 14 in 2006 and Foxplay from gate 10 of 17 in 2017.

The most successful Queen Of The Turf Stakes barriers since 1983 are 1 – 8, with eight producing the most winners with eight – most recently Azdadellia (2016), Alizee (2018) and Kenedna (2019). Gai Waterhouse is the most successful Queen Of The Turf Stakes trainer with nine winners, most recently Con Te Partiro (2020).

The Queen Of The Turf Stakes 2022 form was franked with upset winner Nimalee going on to run third in the $2 million The Invitation that spring, while the third placed Icebath won Victoria’s Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes (1600m) during that year’s Melbourne Cup Carnival.

The Queen Of The Turf Stakes form from 2023 was franked that spring with the winner Atishu claiming victory at Flemington in the Group 1 Champions Stakes (2000m).

Queen Of The Turf Stakes Form Facts

• Four-year-old mares have dominated the Queen Of The Turf Stakes results in the past 30 years including all four winners from 2013 – 2016.
• No mare over five-years-old had won in over three decades until Con Te Partiro (6yo in 2020) and Nettoyer (7yo in 2021) – so check for runners aged 3 – 5 in the Queen Of The Turf Stakes form guide.
• Runners coming off a top three run are the best to back in your Queen Of The Turf Stakes tips with just six from 2005 – 2024 finishing worse than third in the lead-up.
• The Emancipation Stakes and Coolmore Classic have produced more Queen Of The Turf Stakes winners than any other lead-up autumn races.

2024 Queen Of The Turf Stakes Form Guide

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

Queen Of The Turf Stakes Results

Favourites have a dominant record in the Queen Of The Turf Stakes race results over the past decade or so however there has been some notable upsets in that time.

Both the 2014 and 2015 Queen Of The Turf Stakes champions saluted at juicy starting prices with Diamond Drille ($41) and Amanpour ($21) getting the job done respectively for Gai Waterhouse to give her a total of eight victories. Waterhouse took out her ninth and first in partnership with Adrian Bott in 2020 with Con Te Partiro.

Some of the most noteworthy Queen Of The Stakes winners in the past decade include Forensics (2008), Typhoon Tracy (2010) and More Joyous (2011-12).

Past Queen Of The Turf Stakes Winners

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