Rough Habit Plate 2024

Ladbrokes Tip: The Rough Habit Plate is a key lead-up into the Queensland Derby each winter.

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The Rough Habit Plate is a Group 3 race for three-year-olds held on a Saturday in mid-May at Doomben Racecourse on Doomben 10,000 Day during the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival. Offering an increased $250,000 in total prize money as of 2021, the 2000m showdown for young staying types is run at set weights and is a traditional lead-up to the Group 1 Queensland Derby (2400m) over the mile and a half at Eagle Farm.

The feature race at the meeting is the Group 1 Doomben 10,000 (1200m), with the Group 2 Spirit Of Boom Classic for two-year-olds and the Group 3 Rough Habit Plate for three-year-olds the major support acts on the Doomben card.

The 2020 Rough Habit Plate took place over 2200m at Eagle Farm on Stradbroke Handicap Day offering a reduced $175,000 with no Group 1 Queensland Derby scheduled for the carnival due to COVID-19.

The three-year-olds racing in the Rough Habit Plate are usually eyeing a Queensland Derby run over further and Dark Dream (2018) was the last horse to do the double and the seventh since the Rough Habit was first contested in 1993.

In 2022 the Rough Habit Plate ran at Eagle Farm Racecourse over 2143m.

The next edition of the Rough Habit Plate runs on Saturday May 18, 2024 as part of the Doomben 10,000 Day race card in Brisbane.

2024 Rough Habit Plate Odds

The Rough Habit Plate 2024 odds on the Queensland Derby-bound three-year-old winter gallopers will be provided below the week of the race so stay tuned for access to the best Brisbane racing markets.

Rough Habit Plate Race Info

• Date: Saturday May 18, 2024
• Track: Doomben Racecourse
• Distance: 2000m
• Conditions: 3YO – Set Weights
• Status: Group 3
• Prize Money: $250,000 
• First Run: 1993

2024 Rough Habit Plate Results

The official Rough Habit Plate 2024 Results & Finishing Order will be provided below once the race takes place at Doomben Racecourse on 2024.

• 1st: TBD
• 2nd: TBD
• 3rd: TBD

Rough Habit Plate Betting

Rough Habit Plate betting odds are usually led by three-year-olds with proven ability in Group class races. Sydney raiders with Group winning form or that were Group 1 performed during the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival before coming to Queensland often feature high up the Rough Habit Plate betting markets.

Rough Habit Plate betting usually favours proven young stayers with winning form over at least 1,800m or even previous 2400m performers who are down in distance at the 2000m.

Ballistic Boy ($2.80 in 2020) was the last favourite in Rough Habit Plate betting to get the job done.

The biggest recent upset was in 2021 with $71 outsider Criminal Defence won.

There was another notable upset in 2023 with Special Swey saluting for Chris Waller first-up down under at Rough Habit Plate odds of $26.

Rough Habit Plate Field

The Rough Habit Plate race field attracts the winter’s best three-year-old hopefuls from both local Brisbane stables and interstate. The bulk of the Rough Habit Plate field continue onto the Queensland Derby field run two weeks later at Eagle Farm.

Youngsters in the Rough Habit Plate field often come off a run in the Group 3 Gunsynd Classic (1800m) run in Brisbane during late April.

Belmonte (2006) is the last horse to complete the Gunsynd Classic – Rough Habit Plate double.

The Group 2 Queensland Guineas (1600m) over the mile at Eagle Farm in late April is another key lead-up race into the Rough Habit Plate field each season. Dark Destroyer (2nd in 2022) was the last Queensland Guineas graduate to back-up and win the Rough Habit Plate.

Rough Habit Plate nominations close the Monday before the race with the final field and barriers out on the Wednesday.

2024 Rough Habit Plate Field

The official Rough Habit Plate 2024 Final Field & Barrier Draw will be published below on the Wednesday leading up to Doomben 10,000 Day so check back to see the three-year-olds that make the line-up.

The 2024 Rough Habit Plate field features a capacity line-up of potential Queensland Derby-bound runners led in betting by Australian Oaks winning filly Autumn Angel for Moody & Coleman.

2024 Rough Habit Plate Nominations

Rough Habit Plate Form Guide

The Rough Habit Plate form guide features all the must know info on the runners in the field including saddlecloth numbers, barriers, jockeys, trainers and lead-up form. Looking for three-year-olds with previous Group race experience or winning form over 1800m is important when doing the Rough Habit Plate form.

The Rough Habit Plate form has also stacked up in better Brisbane two-years-old races in recent years including the Queensland Derby with seven horses having done the double Tenor (1994), Dodge (1998), De Gaulle Lane (2001), Empires Choice (2007), Brambles (2012), Hawkspur (2013), and Dark Dream (2018).

More recently in 2021 the Rough Habit Plate runner-up Kukeracha went on to win the Queensland Derby next start, while Senor Toba finished third in the Rough Habit and second in the Queensland Derby that season.

The 2022 Rough Habit Plate form was franked with the winner Dark Destroyer running a next-up fourth in the Queensland Derby results before returning home to New Zealand to win the Group 1 Tarzino Trophy. Paternal further franked the form running second in both the Rough Habit and Queensland Derby that winter.

2024 Rough Habit Plate Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Rough Habit Plate 2024 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Rough Habit Plate Tips

Rough Habit Plate tips include looking for three-year-olds with previous Group winning form over the 1800m in either Sydney or Brisbane and for the stand-out young stayers of the season in the mix.

Locals have a strong record in the race, but Sydney trainer Chris Waller has also dominated the recent Rough Habit results preparing four winners since 2012 most recently the New Zealand import Special Swey (2023).

2024 Rough Habit Plate Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider Rough Habit Plate 2024 betting tips and Brisbane racing selections on the Group 3 event will be detailed below the week of the race so stay tuned for the three-year-olds to back and sack in the early winter feature.

• To Win: #1 Kintyre ($7 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Plenty of winning hopes line-up in the Rough Habit, but Kintyre chasing the hat-trick looks a genuine chance to keep the victories coming. Two back this Gary Portelli-trained son of Hallowed Crown was good posting narrow Group 3 Frank Packer Plate win at this distance on a Heavy Randwick track. In Brisbane last time out and won the Group 2 Queensland Guineas when back to a mile. Fit, proven at the 2000m, and apprentice Cejay Graham stays on after doing a good job aboard last start. Needs to stay out of trouble from that inside alley, but ticks plenty of boxes.

Rough Habit Plate Results

Rough Habit Plate race results in recent years show an even mix of local and interstate-trained three-year-olds.

Some of the better known Rough Habit Plate winners include Hawkspur (2013), Dark Dream (2018), Ballistic Boy (2020), and New Zealand raider Dark Destroyer (2022).

Fillydelphia (2011) was the last Rough Habit Plate winning filly.

Past Rough Habit Plate Winners

Recent Rough Habit Plate winners and place-getters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.