Ladbrokes Tip: The Fred Best Classic is the best lead-up to the Queensland Guineas for 3YOs

The Queensland Guineas is a Group 2 race for three-year-olds traditionally held at Eagle Farm Racecourse on Stradbroke Handicap Day during the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival each June. Run at set weights over 1600m, the mile showdown is one of three Group 2 races held at the meeting along with the Brisbane Cup (2400m) for stayers and the Dane Ripper Quality (1400m) for fillies and mares.

The program is of course headlined by the three elite levels on the card: the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m), the Group 1 Queensland Derby (2400m) and the Group 1 JJ Atkins (1600m) for two-year-olds.

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 aren’t suited to the mile-and-a-half of the Queensland Derby. The Group 3 Fred Best Classic (1400m) at Doomben a fortnight earlier is a key lead-up to the Queensland Guineas and last produced a winner of the Group 2 with Jabali (5th in 2015).

The latest edition of the Queensland Guineas took place on Saturday June 8, 2019 with the Chris Waller-trained Kolding saluting for the punters.

2019 Queensland Guineas Results

• 1st: #5 Kolding
• 2nd: #15 Baccarat Baby
• 3rd: #14 Pohutukawa

Gun gelding Kolding celebrated his fourth straight victory as favourite in the Queensland Guineas 2019 Results giving in-form jockey James McDonald three wins from the opening five races on Stradbroke Day. Connections of the impressive Queensland Guineas winner are now eyeing a run in the inaugural $7.5 million The Golden Eagle race this November at Rosehill.

The official Queensland Guineas 2019 Results & Finishing Order will be published in full below once the race is run and won on Saturday June 8, 2019.

Queensland Guineas Race Info

• Date: Saturday June 8, 2019
• Track: Eagle Farm Racecourse
• Distance: 1600m
• Conditions: 3YOs – Set Weights
• Status: Group 2
• Prize Money: $350,000
• First Run: 1896

Queensland Guineas Odds & 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.

2019 Queensland Guineas Betting

The season’s updated Queensland Guineas 2019 odds on the hopeful three-year-olds targeting the Group 2 Stradbroke Handicap Day support act will be available right here leading-up to the race so stay tuned for the best Brisbane betting markets.

Queensland Guineas Field

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

The Queensland Guineas field attracts a collection of promising three-year-old milers from both local Brisbane stables and interstate. Runners come via lead-up Brisbane Carnival events like the Listed Mick Dittman Plate (1200m) and the Fred Best Classic both held at Doomben.

Recent Queensland Guineas winners to come out of the Fred Best Classic include Jabali (5th in 2015) and Sir Moments (6th in 2014). 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.

2019 Queensland Guineas Field

The official Queensland Guineas 2019 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.

The 2019 Queensland Guineas field attracted 16 final acceptors but will run under that with the early scratching of the Peter & Paul Snowden-trained Napoleon Solo (15). Race favourite at a firming price in Queensland Guineas betting is the flying Chris Waller-trained Kolding chasing win number four on the trot.

2019 Queensland Guineas Nominations

The Queensland Guineas 2019 nominations are taken by Racing Queensland on the Monday of race week and will be available below.

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.

2019 Queensland Guineas Form Guide

Punters can access a full Queensland Guineas 2019 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 Fred Best Classic held at Doomben earlier in the winter, as well as gallopers that may have run over a mile in Group 1 company earlier in the season.

2019 Queensland Guineas Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider Queensland Guineas 2019 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.

#13 SEABROOK – Each Way 

This former Group 1 winning filly has all but been forgotten by the bookies and is unwanted in betting easing out from $9.50 to $11. True, she has been out of form of late and has a wide barrier (12) to overcome, but at her best she is more than capable of a top three finish. Damien Oliver aboard the daughter of Hinchinbrook is a plus and her lead-up fifth in the Group 3 Fred Best at the track was better than it reads on paper. She was only 2.6 lengths beaten when caught-up from that inside alley. She probably prefers her draw this weekend out wider and can continue franking the Kenedna form. She ran only 2.3 lengths off her (9th) in the Group 1 Queen of the Turf (1600m) in April and Kenedna has subsequently blitzed Brisbane in the winter doing the Doomben Cup – P.J. O’Shea double at Doomben. Mick Price stable flying and she’ll appreciate the mile having done her best work as a chaser last start.

Queensland Guineas Results

Queensland Guineas 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 Sizzling (2013), Pear Tart (2012), Rothesay (2010) and Turffontein (2008).

Queensland Guineas Winners