The 2026 edition of the Rosehill Gold Cup runs on Saturday, October 31, 2026 at Randwick Racecourse on Golden Eagle Day as the Sydney Gold Cup.
The Rosehill Gold Cup 2026 – known in 2026 as the Sydney Gold Cup – is one of Sydney’s premier middle-staying contests and a race that always captures the attention of serious punters searching for value over the longer trips. Run over 2000m at Randwick, the feature regularly attracts a quality line-up of proven stayers, emerging Cups contenders, and in-form handicap specialists looking to add valuable black-type success to their spring campaigns. With many runners using the race as a platform towards bigger staying targets later in the carnival, the Rosehill Gold Cup betting 2026 markets often feature strong form lines, intriguing weight scenarios, and plenty of opportunities for astute bettors to get ahead of the market. Whether you’re tracking the latest Rosehill Gold Cup odds 2026, analysing market movers, or looking for the next stayer ready to peak on race day, Ladbrokes has all the odds, betting updates, field information, and expert insights you need for one of the Sydney Spring Carnival’s newer staying features.
2026 Rosehill Gold Cup Odds
The latest Sydney Gold Cup 2026 odds and betting market links to the Golden Eagle Day support act will be listed right here as soon as available with earlier Sydney Spring Racing Carnival results to impact the odds on offer for the $750,000 feature followed by the official finishing order after the event.
| 6. Travolta (9) 56.5kg4×957 | |||
| 14. Barrengarry (6) 53kg5×112 | |||
| 9. Starzintheireyes (4) 54kg6×224 | |||
| 10. Anthracite (5) 53.5kg21311 | |||
| 3. Militarize (8) 58kgx6065 | |||
| 7. Portland (3) 56kg5×776 | |||
| 1. Kovalica (2) 58.5kgx0557 | |||
| 8. Doctor Askar (1) 54.5kg090×0 | |||
| 4. Campaldino (7) 57.5kgx9070 | |||
| 11. Don Diego De Vega (10) 53.5kg000×5 | |||
| 12. Medatsu (11) 53kgx0354 | |||
| 2. Tavi Time (11)SCRATCHED: | |||
| 5. Pounding (7)SCRATCHED: | |||
| 13. Perisher (13)SCRATCHED: | |||
Rosehill Gold Cup (Sydney Gold Cup) Tips
Top Rosehill Gold Cup tips include watching for the best The Metropolitan graduates, runners that performed well in either the Craven Plate or St Leger a fortnight earlier or in-form horses that get in on a low handicap weight.
2026 Rosehill Gold Cup Predictions & Best Bets
Our Ladbrokes’ exclusive Rosehill Gold Cup 2026 race betting tips and predictions on the event known this year as the Sydney Gold Cup will be published below the week of the event.
| 9. Starzintheireyes (4) 54kg6×224 |
| 10. Anthracite (5) 53.5kg21311 |
| 5. Pounding (7)SCRATCHED: | |||
The Rosehill Gold Cup is a lucrative event added to Sydney’s Golden Eagle Day race card on a Saturday in either late October or early November each spring racing season.
In 2026 the race is known as the Sydney Gold Cup.
It began without Black-Type status but became a Group 3 ahead of the 2024 edition. It was demoted back to a Listed event in 2026.
Previously run at Rosehill Gardens, the event was moved to Royal Randwick in 2025.
Contested in Sydney on the same day as Melbourne’s Victoria Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse – after which RV announced the official Melbourne Cup field and barriers – Golden Eagle Race Day is headlined by the $10 million The Golden Eagle for four-year-olds.
It is accompanied on the card by the $3 million Russell Balding Stakes (1300m) which was previously known as the Winners Stakes and renamed each season in honour of the previous year’s The Everest winner before 2024.
Other Golden Eagle Day support acts include the $500,000 The Four Pillars (1500m) taking place for the first time in 2021 and the $750,000 Rosehill Gold Cup.
The Rosehill Gold Cup is run over 2000m under quality handicap conditions and is open to horses aged three-years-old and above. There is also an additional $500,000 bonus attached to the Rosehill Gold Cup from earlier Sydney Spring Racing Carnival races contested on two Saturdays across October / November – including a fortnight prior on The Everest Day.
The $500,000 Rosehill Gold Cup bonus is available to any horse that wins the event on the back of a lead-up win in either the Group 1 The Metropolitan (2400m) or the Group 2 Hill Stakes (1800m), as well as either the Group 2 Craven Plate (2000m), or the St Leger (2600m).
In 2021 Think It Over completed the Hill Stakes – Craven Plate – Rosehill Gold Cup treble to take out the million-dollar bonus.
Racing NSW also have a $100,000 bonus up for grabs for any galloper that contested, but did not win, any of the above four races before winning the Rosehill Gold Cup.
The 2000m distance of the Rosehill Gold Cup makes it an interesting target for both middle-distance types and more dour stayers making for an open field and betting market.
The 2024 Rosehill Gold Cup winner, Fawkner Park, demonstrated the strength of the race’s form by placing in several subsequent Group 1 events in 2025, including a third-place finish in the Ranvet Stakes and a second-place finish in the Doomben Cup.
In 2025 the Rosehill Gold Cup was moved from its traditional home at Rosehill Gardens to Royal Randwick Racecourse.
Rosehill Gold Cup Info
- 2026 Race Name: Sydney Gold Cup
- Date: Saturday, October 31, 2026
- Track: Randwick Racecourse
- Distance: 2000m
- Conditions: 3YOs & Up – Quality Handicap
- Status: Listed
- Prize Money: $750,000
- Available Bonuses: $500,000 / $100,000
- First Run: 2019
2026 Rosehill Gold Cup (Sydney Gold Cup) Results
The official Rosehill Gold Cup 2026 Results & Finishing Order will be made available right here once the race is run and won on Saturday, October 31, 2026.
- #6 Travolta
- #14 Barrengarry
- #9 Starzintheireyes
Rosehill Gold Cup (Sydney Gold Cup) Betting
Rosehill Gold Cup betting is led by the in-form spring gallopers coming off good runs in the key lead-up races that are attached to the bonus program.
The top three runners in Randwick’s The Metropolitan and Hill Stakes, as well as the Craven Plate and St Leger on The Everest Day dominate Rosehill Gold Cup odds. In 2021 Think It Over won the Hill Stakes, Craven Plate and the Rosehill Gold Cup during an incredible spring carnival.
Markets on the season’s top middle-distance horses and staying types out of those races that stay in Sydney instead of heading to Melbourne for the Cup Carnival will firm closer to race day so backing your early tips in futures Rosehill Gold Cup betting can prove profitable.
For the inaugural edition of the race, the Rosehill Gold Cup odds were led by Tally ($4 in 2019) who saluted for the punters.
The following year in 2020 there was a huge upset with Costello winning the Rosehill Gold Cup at 30/1.
Think It Over ($2.70 in 2021) became the second horse in the race’s three-year history to win as the Rosehill Gold Cup favourite.
There was another notable upset in 2023 with Wild Planet saluting as a $26 outsider in Rosehill Gold Cup betting.
The last Rosehill Gold Cup favourite to win was Fawkner Park ($4.60 in 2024) who improved on a lead-up fifth in the Craven Plate.
In 2025, Wootton Verni completed the Coongy Cup – Rosehill Gold Cup interstate double becoming the latest Rosehill Gold Cup favourite to win at $2.90.
2026 Rosehill Gold Cup Big Bets
Rosehill Gold Cup Field
The Rosehill Gold Cup race field attracts a line-up of smart gallopers out of either the middle-distance lead-up races of the Hill Stakes and Craven Plate or those more dour types following the staying path out of The Metropolitan and or St Leger.
The first Rosehill Gold Cup field in 2019 featured 13 horses and saw the favourite Tally ($4) win in an improved run out of the Hill Stakes (4th).
2026 Sydney Gold Cup Final Field & Barrier Draw
The official Rosehill Gold Cup 2026 final field and barriers will be announced by Racing NSW the week of the race with the full acceptances to be published below.
The Sydney Gold Cup 2026 field features a quality line-up of stayers including the Kris Lees-trained Tavi Time coming off a third in the Big Dance Wildcard and the flying Joe Pride-trained Anthracite chasing his third win on the trot up in grade.
| Entrant | Last 6 | Sex | Barrier | Weight | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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1. Kovalica
J: Nash Rawiller
T: Chris Waller |
9×0557 | G | 2 | 58.5kg | |
| 2. Tavi Time (11) Scratched: | |||||
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3. Militarize
J: Zac Purton
T: Chris Waller |
3×6065 | G | 8 | 58kg | |
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4. Campaldino
J: Tim Clark
T: Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott |
2×9070 | G | 7 | 57.5kg | |
| 5. Pounding (7) Scratched: | |||||
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6. Travolta
J: Tommy Berry
T: Chris Waller |
34×957 | G | 9 | 56.5kg | |
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7. Portland
J: Tyler Schiller
T: Matthew Smith |
15×776 | G | 3 | 56kg | |
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8. Doctor Askar
J: Reece Jones
T: Chris Waller |
6090×0 | G | 1 | 54.5kg | |
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9. Starzintheireyes
J: Chad Schofield
T: John O’shea & Tom Charlton |
36×224 | G | 4 | 54kg | |
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10. Anthracite
J: Andrew Adkins
T: Joseph Pride |
321311 | G | 5 | 53.5kg | |
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11. Don Diego De Vega
J: Tom Sherry
T: Annabel & Rob Archibald |
x000x5 | G | 10 | 53.5kg | |
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12. Medatsu
J: Rachel King
T: Chris Waller |
4×0354 | G | 11 | 53kg | |
| 13. Perisher (13) Scratched: | |||||
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14. Barrengarry
J: Dylan Gibbons
T: Joseph Ible |
15×112 | G | 6 | 53kg | |
2026 Rosehill Gold Cup Nominations
Nominations for the Rosehill Gold Cup 2026 are announced the Monday of race week.
The Sydney Gold Cup 2026 nominations are now out featuring 21 spring stayers led in all-in betting by the in-form Joe Pride-trained Anthracite chasing a hat trick and Chris Waller’s Militarize down in grade after finishing last (5th) to the country’s best Autumn Glow in the Group 1 King Charles at his latest.
Rosehill Gold Cup Form Guide
Details available on the Rosehill Gold Cup form guide include the field of horses, jockeys, trainers, lead-up form, track / distance stats and early betting predictions.
Looking for the Rosehill Gold Cup form lines on horses out of the specified lead-up races, any runners with a standout record at the track and the well-weighted chances that may have beaten the handicappers can prove profitable when it comes to spring betting.
The Rosehill Gold Cup form out of the 2020 edition was franked when the runner-up She’s Ideel went on to run second in the following year’s Group 1 Tancred Stakes (2400m) and fourth in the Group 1 Sydney Cup (3200m) in the autumn.
The 2021 Rosehill Gold Cup form held the following autumn with the winner Think It Over running well in a number of key races including his Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) victory in 2022.
2026 Rosehill Gold Cup Form
A link to our full Rosehill Gold Cup 2026 form guide and insider betting preview will be made available right here following final acceptances on the week leading-up to The Golden Rose Day.
Past Rosehill Gold Cup Results
The Rosehill Gold Cup race results list the winner and placegetters plus the full Rosehill Gold Cup finishing order.
The winning race time, margins, starting prices and where the favourite fared in the Rosehill Gold Cup results are also worth looking for post-race.
Star Of India holds the current Rosehill Gold Cup race record winning in 2022 in a time of 2 minutes 1.92 seconds.
Recent Rosehill Gold Cup Winners
A complete list of past Rosehill Gold Cup winners and placegetters dating back to the race’s inauguration in 2019 can be found in the below table.
| Year | Winner | 2nd | 3rd | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 2025 | Wootton Verni | Imperialist | Redstone Well | 2:04.67 |
| 2024 | Fawkner Park | Wyclif | Hinged | 2:03.29 |
| 2023 | Wild Planet | Stroke Of Luck | Shock ‘Em Ova | 2:03.20 |
| 2022 | Star Of India | Hezashocka | Bois D’Argent | 2:01.92 |
| 2021 | Think It Over | Rock | Kiss The Bride | 2:02.01 |
| 2020 | Costello | She’s Ideel | Morton’s Fork | 2:05.74 |
| 2019 | Tally | Another Dollar | The Lord Mayor | 2:02.53 |