Queensland Oaks 2024

Ladbrokes Tip: The Roses is the key lead-up race for fillies into the Queensland Oaks each winter.

The Queensland Oaks a Group 1 race held during the annual Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival taking place on a Saturday in late May or early June at Eagle Farm Racecourse Racecourse (Doomben from 2017-2019). Open only to three-year-old fillies the event is run at set weights, each runner carrying 56.5kg, over a staying distance of 2200m (previously over 2400m up until 2017).

2021 Queensland Oaks winner Duais (pictured in Melbourne). Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

The Queensland Oaks offers a total of $700,000 in prize money.

The Group 2 The Roses (2000m) held a fortnight earlier at Doomben Racecourse offers a ballot exemption into the Queensland Oaks field and is the key lead-up to the Group 1 – Scarlett Lady (2011) the last filly to do the double before Youngstar (2018).

The key support acts on the Queensland Oaks Day program are the Group 2 Moreton Cup and $500,000 Magic Millions National Classic (formerly the Group 3 Queensland Sapphire Stakes).

The latest edition of the Queensland Oaks ran on Saturday June 8, 2024 at Eagle Farm Racecourse and was won in a huge upset by Socks Nation who jumped at triple figure odds of $101! 

Queensland Oaks 2024 Results

The complete 2024 Queensland Oaks Results & Finishing Order will be provided below once the Group 1 takes place on Saturday June 8, 2024.

• 1st: #7 Socks Nation
• 2nd: #12 Our Gold Hope
• 3rd: #8 Miss Joelene

2024 Queensland Oaks Odds

The Queensland Oaks 2024 odds and Group 1 betting markets on the fillies’ staying showdown this winter are provided below so check out the odds for Brisbane winter race selections.

Queensland Oaks Race Info

• Date: Saturday June 8, 2024
• Track: Eagle Farm Racecourse
• Distance: 2200m
• Conditions: 3YO Fillies – Set Weights
• Status: Group 1
• Prize Money: $700,000
• First Run: 1951

Queensland Oaks Betting

Futures Queensland Oaks betting opens weeks in advance of the race offering pre-field prices on the likely fillies heading towards the classic. The Queensland Oaks odds on the final field firm once the last round of acceptances is released, and many punters prefer to wait until this time to place their bets.

Fillies coming off a dominant run in The Roses at Doomben often lead the Queensland Oaks markets and the last to complete the double was Youngstar (2018). In 2014 Tinto ran second in The Roses before winning the Queensland Oaks, while Arabian Gold won that year’s The Roses before her Oaks second next-up.

In 2022 The Roses ran over 2100m just one week before the Oaks after being rescheduled due to heavy rainfall, and the winner Barb Raider was brave on the quick back-up running second to Gypsy Goddess in the Queensland Oaks results that winter.

Favourites have a strong recent record in the Queensland Oaks with eight from 2006 – 2024 saluting for the punters as the top fancy in betting including Egg Tart ($3.10 in 2017) and Youngstar ($3.70 in 2018) – both trained by Chris Waller; the Ed Cummings-trained Duais ($2.80 in 2021); and most recently the David Vandyke-trained Queensland local Gypsy Goddess ($4.40 in 2022).

In 2023 the Queensland Oaks winner Amokura won her Black-Type debut saluting at $8 to defeat $101 roughie Reo in a lucrative quinella.

Recent double-figure Queensland Oaks winners to score an upset include: Miss Keepsake ($31 in 2010), . Winning Ways ($21 in 2019), and Socks Nation ($101 in 2024).

Queensland Oaks Field

The Queensland Oaks race field features a line-up of the winter’s best three-year-old staying fillies, many stepping out over the distance for the first time that campaign.

There is a host of earlier races offering a Queensland Oaks ballot exemption to the winner including the previous year’s VRC Oaks in Melbourne, the New Zealand Oaks, Auckland Racing Club Championship Stakes, Sydney’s ATC Oaks and South Australia’s Australasian Oaks. In Brisbane, The Roses produces the bulk of the fillies in the Queensland Oaks field.

Superstar mare Winx (2015) posted her maiden Group 1 win in the Queensland Oaks during the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival. Photo Credit: Daniel Costello.

The largest Queensland Oaks field in recent years was 20 starters in 2002 when Mon Mekki won from barrier 4 as a $51 roughie. The smallest recent Queensland Oaks field featured only seven runners in 1991 when Triscay was successful.

Earlier, a nice Queensland Oaks lead-up held in Sydney is Randwick’s Group 3 Adrian Knox Stakes (2000m) run at Royal Randwick in April. Duais (2021) was the last filly to complete the Adrian Knox Stakes – Queensland Oaks double with an Australian Oaks second in between.

Going even further back to the December prior during the Brisbane Summer Racing Carnival, potential Queensland Oaks fillies may run against the boys in the Group 3 Grand Prix Stakes (2100m), a race the 2022 Queensland Oaks winner Gypsy Goddess won in the summer of 2021.

The Queensland Oaks nominations close on a Tuesday in early May, about a month before the race followed by first acceptances three weeks’ later. The final field of Queensland Oaks acceptances is released on the Tuesday before the race runs on the Saturday.

2024 Queensland Oaks Field

The official line-up of three-year-old winter fillies for Eagle Farm’s Queensland Oaks 2024 field is announced on the Tuesday of race week and will be published below along with the full barrier draw.

Chris Waller’s The Roses winner Scarlet Oaks is the filly to beat again heading betting on a capacity 2024 Queensland Oaks final field in Brisbane on Saturday.

2024 Queensland Oaks First Acceptances

The Queensland Oaks 2024 first acceptances are taken on Wednesday the 29th of May, 2024 narrowing down the list of potential fillies in the winter staying showdown.

2024 Queensland Oaks Nominations

The early Queensland Oaks 2024 Nominations are taken by Racing Queensland on a Tuesday in early May along with all the other major Group 1 winter races in Brisbane.

The 2024 Queensland Oaks nominations close on Tuesday the 7th of May, 2024 and will be updated in full below.

Autumn Angel, who won Sydney’s ATC Oaks, is narrow top elect in Queensland Oaks 2024 all-in betting following the close of nominations with the race attracting 100 early entries.

Queensland Oaks Form Guide

The Queensland Oaks form guide features all the essential info punters need before enjoying a bet including the jockeys, trainers, barriers and lead-up runs of the fillies in the field.

Barrier 11 has produced three winners in recent years including Duais (11 of 13 in 2021).

Amokura (2023) was the last Queensland Oaks winner to jump from barrier one.

Favourites perform well in the race and the latest top fancies to salute for the punters being Duais ($2.80 in 2021) and Gypsy Goddess ($4.40 in 2022). Prior to that, Egg Tart ($3.10 in 2017) was the first since stablemate Winx ($1.90 2015).

The 2022 Queensland Oaks form was franked with the winner Gypsy Goddess returning in Sydney that spring to run third in the $10 million Golden Eagle.

Queensland Oaks Form Facts

• The Roses has produced more Queensland Oaks winners than any other lead-up.
• Single-figure fancies in Queensland Oaks betting have dominated the results in the past decade.
• Barriers one and 11 are historically the most successful in the race (since 1983).

2024 Queensland Oaks Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Queensland Oaks 2024 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Queensland Oaks Tips

Looking for fillies proven over 2000 – 2400m, the best performers out of The Roses, runners that finished top four in the lead-up and runners with winning form in Brisbane are all key Queensland Oaks tips.

The Roses produced 12 of the Queensland Oaks winners from 2005 – 2020, and only three winners in that time ran worse than fourth in the lead-up to the Group 1 when Riva San (2008) improved on a ninth in The Roses to win, the New Zealand-trained Provocative came off a sixth back home for her victory in 2016 and Winning Ways (2019) improved off her Roses eighth to score an upset in the Oaks.

2024 Queensland Oaks Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider Queensland Oaks 2024 betting tips and exotic race selections will be detailed below the week of the race so stay tuned for the fillies to back and sack in the Brisbane winter racing feature.

• To Win: #11 Mare Of Mt Buller ($9 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Taking on the favourite Scarlet Oak and have the fellow Waller-trained Mare Of Mt Buller on top at a nice price following her close second behind her stablemate in the key Oaks lead-up, The Roses. The Roses winner is drawn wider out for the Group 1 while this progressive daughter of Dundeel gets the favours from barrier two. Tommy Berry retains the ride on a filly he knows well now. Continues her rise through the ranks and distances and looks set to peak after making up all the ground from the back last start.

Queensland Oaks Results

Notable upset recent Queensland Oaks race results include Winning Ways ($21 in 2019), Miss Keepsake ($31 in 2010), and Riva San ($26 in 2008).

The most famous Queensland Oaks winners in recent history include subsequent dual Cox Plate champion Winx (2015), Scarlett Lady (2011), Eskimo Queen (2007), and that year’s Melbourne Cup winning mare Ethereal (2001).

Past Queensland Oaks Winners

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