Queensland Guineas 2024

Ladbrokes Tip: The Queensland Guineas serves as a good Queensland Derby lead-up each season.

The Queensland Guineas is a Group 2 race for three-year-olds previously held at Eagle Farm Racecourse on Stradbroke Handicap Day during the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival each June.

2022 Queensland Guineas winner Character (pictured in Sydney). Photo: Steve Hart.

After the event was cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19, the new-look Winter Carnival for 2021 had the Queensland Guineas taking place on its own feature race day in late April or early May.

Run at set weights over 1600m, the mile showdown is now one of two Group 2 races held at the Eagle Farm meeting along with the Group 2 Victory Stakes for Stradbroke Handicap types.

In 2017 and 2018 the Queensland Guineas and other Stradbroke Handicap Day races, many of which also changed distances to accommodate the change of location, ran at Doomben.

Offering $350,000 in total prize money, the Queensland Guineas is a lucrative race for middle-distance three-year-olds that now serves as a lead-up into the mile-and-a-half of the Group 1 Queensland Derby.

The Group 3 Fred Best Classic (1400m) at Doomben was considered a key lead-up to the Queensland Guineas before its rescheduling.

The Queensland Guineas winner also now earns a ballot free ride into the $1.2 million Group 2 The Q22 (2200m) – a rebranded weight-for-age race held at Eagle Farm Racecourse on Stradbroke Day in mid-June.

The event serves as a key lead-up to the Group 1 Queensland Derby (2400m) later at the carnival and Kovalica (2023) was the last horse to complete the double.

The latest edition of the Queensland Guineas took place on Saturday May 4, 2024 at Eagle Farm Racecourse and was won in a gutsy effort by the Gary Portelli-trained Kintyre ($9) who was ridden to victory by apprentice Cejay Graham. 

2024 Queensland Guineas Results

The official Queensland Guineas 2024 Results & Finishing Order will be published in full below once the race is run and won on Saturday May 4, 2024.

• 1st: #1 Kintyre 
• 2nd: #6 Razors
• 3rd: #11 Press Link

Apprentice Cejay Graham celebrated her biggest success to date guiding the Gary Portelli-trained last-start Sydney winner Kintyre ($9) up the inside late to defeat Razors and Press Link in the 2024 Queensland Guineas results ahead of a likely next-up run in the Rough Habit Plate.

2024 Queensland Guineas Odds

The season’s updated Queensland Guineas 2024 odds on the hopeful three-year-olds targeting the Group 2 event will be available right here leading-up to the race so stay tuned for the best Brisbane betting markets.

Queensland Guineas Race Info

• Date: Saturday May 4, 2024
• Track: Eagle Farm Racecourse
• Distance: 1600m
• Conditions: 3YOs – Set Weights
• Status: Group 2
• Prize Money: $350,000
• First Run: 1896

Queensland Guineas Betting

Queensland Guineas odds are usually dominated by smart three-year-olds with proven ability over the mile (1600m).

Previous winning form in Brisbane and Group 1 race experience in tougher company also help determine the runners sitting at the top of the Queensland Guineas betting markets each winter.

Kovalica ($2.40 in 2023) was the last Queensland Guineas favourite to win.

Queensland Guineas Field

Tsaritsa (2016) beat home the boys in the Queensland Guineas results. Photo Credit: Steve Hart.

The Queensland Guineas race field attracts a collection of promising three-year-old milers from both local Brisbane stables and interstate.

Three-year-olds could also have previous Guineas experience in the previous spring’s Group 1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m) in Melbourne before progressing onto the Group 3 Sunshine Coast Guineas (1600m).

Queensland Guineas nominations close the Monday before the race runs that Saturday followed by the final field of acceptances on the Wednesday.

2024 Queensland Guineas Field

The official Queensland Guineas 2024 Final Field & Barriers will be published in full below on the Wednesday of race week so stay tuned to see what three-year-olds make the cut for the $350,000 event.

A line-up of smart Queensland Derby hopes face off in Saturday’s 2024 Queensland Guineas field including Kintyre and Ducasse both coming off good Group 3 winning lead-ups in Sydney.

2024 Queensland Guineas Nominations

The Queensland Guineas 2024 nominations are taken by Racing Queensland on the Monday of race week.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Queensland Guineas Form Guide

The Queensland Guineas form guide details all the essential information for punters including the trainers, jockeys, barriers and lead-up runs of the three-year-olds in the field. When doing the Queensland Guineas form it is good to look for horses with a good record over the mile and previous winning form in Queensland.

The Queensland Guineas form has also stacked up in tougher races in recent years including in 2012 when the filly Pear Tart backed up from her win over the boys to take out the Group 1 Tattersall’s Tiara (1400m). In 2016 Tsaritsa also saluted in the Queensland Guineas as a filly, so looking for the in-form female gallopers on the Queensland Guineas form guide could prove crucial.

The 2021 Queensland Guineas form was franked with the winner Private Eye later winning Sydney’s Group 1 Epsom Handicap (1600m) that spring.

The 2022 Queensland Guineas runner-up Dark Destroyer franked the form winning the Group 3 Rough Habit Plate next start. He then ran fourth in the Queensland Derby results before a Group 1 win in New Zealand later that year.

The Queensland Guineas 2023 form was franked with the winner Kovalica running a next-up third in the Doomben Cup results before success in that year’s Queensland Derby and a subsequent Epsom Handicap second in Sydney during the spring.

2024 Queensland Guineas Form Guide

Punters can access a full Queensland Guineas 2024 Form Guide complete with race commentary the week of the event by following the provided link.

Queensland Guineas Tips

Looking for three-year-olds with form over the track and distance or that come off a top three Brisbane lead-up run are good Queensland Guineas betting tips.

Other tips for picking the season’s Queensland Guineas winner are keeping an eye on the results of the Sydney autumn races, as well as gallopers that may have run over a mile in Group 1 company earlier in the season.

2024 Queensland Guineas Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider Queensland Guineas 2024 betting tips will be detailed below the week of the race with the three-year-olds to back and sack in the Group 2 Brisbane event.

• To Win: #1 Kintyre ($7.50 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Top edition of the Guineas and have landed on Kintyre at a nice price for the mile showdown. Gary Portelli’s Hallowed Crown gelding has winning form up to 2000m having won the Group 3 Frank Packer Plate on Heavy going in Sydney last time out. Back to 1600m now will give him a bit of a relief after he fought hard for that win. He is a class horse with a good gate (3) that gives him the advantage in Brisbane. Versatile, will likely be midfield just off the speed with plenty to run home with. Can win.

Queensland Guineas Results

Queensland Guineas race results have been mixed for punters in recent years with the longest priced champ from the past decade being Jabali ($31) in 2015. Sir Moments ($14 in 2014) also scored an upset Queensland Guineas result as did Salsonic ($14 in 2017).

Notable Queensland Guineas winners include Private Eye (2021), Sizzling (2013), Pear Tart (2012), Rothesay (2010), and Turffontein (2008).

Tsaritsa (2016) was the last Queensland Guineas winning filly.

Past Queensland Guineas Winners

Recent Queensland Guineas winners and place-getters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.