Ladbrokes Tip: The Scone Cup offers eligibility for the $3 million The Big Dance race at Randwick in November.
The Scone Cup is a popular feature race run at Scone Racecourse in New South Wales’ Hunter Region each May.
The Listed event offers $200,000, contested over 1600m and is a quality handicap race.
2022 Scone Cup winner Rustic Steel (pictured at Gosford). Photo: Steve Hart.
Scone Cup Day runs on a Friday in mid-May and is followed on the Saturday by the Group 3 Dark Jewel Classic (1400m) for the fillies and mares.
Inaugurated in 1947, the Scone Cup always attracts a quality line-up of gallopers and plenty of punters to the track.
The Scone Cup is now also an officially qualifying race for Randwick’s $3 million The Big Dance (1600m), held from 2022 in Sydney on the same day as the Melbourne Cup.
In 2022 Rustic Steel made history completing the Scone Cup – The Big Dance double.
The latest edition of the Scone Cup ran on Friday May 17, 2024 as an early lead-up to November’s now $3 million The Big Dance race and saw the Paul Perry-trained Sky Lab salute fresh at a big price of 30/1.
2024 Scone Cup Results
The official Scone Cup Results 2024 and race finishing order will be published below when the race is run and won on Friday May 17, 2024.
- 1st: #12 Sky Lab
- 2nd: #13 Waterford
- 3rd: #6 Lion’s Roar
2024 Scone Cup Odds
The Scone Cup 2024 betting odds will be available below the week of the race giving you access to the best autumn racing odds ahead of the $200,000 Listed showdown in May.
Early market betting odds on the 2025 Scone Cup will be displayed below once available. Odds are subject to fluctuation. For current odds on all of our live markets, please visit ladbrokes.com.au.
Scone Cup Race Info
- Date: Friday May 17, 2024
- Track: Scone Racecourse
- Distance: 1600m
- Conditions: Quality Handicap
- Status: Listed
- Prize Money: $200,000
- First Run: 1947
Scone Cup Betting
Early Scone Cup betting odds are out at bookmakers after nominations are taken the Monday prior to the race and firm after the final field is announced the Wednesday of race week.
Proven stayers from Sydney-based stables sit high-up the Scone Cup betting markets, as do any past Group winners down in grade for the event.
There was an upset in 2023 with Commando Hunt winning at Scone Cup odds of $19 for local trainer Cameron Crockett and again in 2024 with Sky Lab winning fresh at $31.
Sedanzer ($4.60 in 2018) is the last favourite in Scone Cup betting to salute for the punters.
Scone Cup Field
The Scone Cup race field attracts a class line-up of in-form milers out of a range of lead-up races in both Sydney and Melbourne over the autumn.
Runners in the Scone Cup field may come via a lead-up run in the Group 3 Hawkesbury Gold Cup (1600m) held a fortnight earlier.
Gosford’s $500,000 The Coast (1600m) held just six days earlier for three and four-year-old horses is another potential lead-up with Rustic Steel (2022) doing the double on the quick back-up.
Some of the better horses out of the Scone Cup field may continue onto the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival targeting the Group races in Queensland including even the Group 1 Doomben Cup (2000m).
Scone Cup nominations close the Monday of race week with the final field and barrier draw released on the Wednesday.
2024 Scone Cup Field
The official Scone Cup 2024 Field & Barriers will be released by Racing NSW the Wednesday before the race and published in full below so stay tuned to see what milers make the starting line-up.
Doncaster Mile fourth place-getter Nugget heads betting on the capacity 2024 Scone Cup field for Friday.
2024 Scone Cup Nominations
The early Scone Cup 2024 Nominations close the Monday prior to the race and will be listed in full below once released.
| |
Last 10 |
Horse |
Sex |
Age |
Trainer |
Hcp Rating |
| 1 |
8711x704x3 |
AKASAWA |
G |
6 |
Paul Messara & Leah Gavranich |
|
| 2 |
41x412x805 |
ATTRACTABLE |
G |
5 |
Sara Ryan |
|
| 3 |
7x085136x0 |
BABY RIDER (FR) |
G |
6 |
Bjorn Baker |
|
| 4 |
20×0507034 |
BARBIE’S FOX |
M |
7 |
Ben, Will & JD Hayes |
|
| 5 |
x11356x508 |
BERKSHIRE SHADOW (GB) |
G |
5 |
Ciaron Maher |
|
| 6 |
6168x74x10 |
BETHENCOURT |
G |
7 |
Kim Waugh |
|
| 7 |
79×0534960 |
BOLD MAC (NZ) |
G |
6 |
Chris Waller |
|
| 8 |
x32x60106x |
CHARTERHOUSE (GB) |
G |
6 |
Ciaron Maher |
|
| 9 |
3027x4006x |
CONVERGE |
G |
5 |
Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott |
|
| 10 |
x04398x789 |
FLYING CRAZY |
G |
5 |
Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes |
|
| 11 |
1x350x10x0 |
FONISKA (IRE) |
M |
4 |
Chris Waller |
|
| 12 |
x52729x013 |
HIGHLIGHTS |
G |
6 |
Bjorn Baker |
|
| 13 |
x8241930x0 |
HOSIER (IRE) |
G |
7 |
Mark Minervini |
|
| 14 |
x0530x02x0 |
JOJO WAS A MAN |
G |
6 |
John Thompson |
|
| 15 |
41x2x100x5 |
KIBOU |
G |
4 |
Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott |
|
| 16 |
6x3723320x |
LIGHT INFANTRY MAN (FR) |
H |
5 |
Ciaron Maher |
|
| 17 |
0x506231x7 |
LION’S ROAR (NZ) |
G |
6 |
John O’Shea |
|
| 18 |
x63115x663 |
MAKTOOB (GB) |
G |
5 |
Simon Zahra |
|
| 19 |
26×5158367 |
MIRACLE SPIN (GB) |
G |
5 |
Matthew Smith |
|
| 20 |
53x404x734 |
NUGGET (GB) |
G |
7 |
Ciaron Maher |
|
| 21 |
1x95249x60 |
OAKFIELD WARATAH |
G |
5 |
Kristen Buchanan |
|
| 22 |
26177×3004 |
PALMETTO (NZ) |
G |
5 |
John Sargent |
|
| 23 |
2x61213x03 |
REMATCH |
G |
4 |
Paul Messara & Leah Gavranich |
|
| 24 |
0x7x1404x1 |
RISE OF THE MASSES |
H |
4 |
Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott |
|
| 25 |
x0003022x6 |
RIYAZAN (IRE) |
G |
9 |
Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes |
|
| 26 |
110113×182 |
RUBY FLYER |
G |
5 |
Brad Widdup |
|
| 27 |
0x402343x2 |
SIBAAQ (GB) |
G |
6 |
Annabel Neasham |
|
| 28 |
405063638x |
SKY LAB |
G |
6 |
Paul Perry |
|
| 29 |
5x243631x9 |
SUPER PURSUIT (NZ) |
G |
7 |
Richard Collett |
|
| 30 |
40121×0010 |
THAT’S MOLLY |
M |
5 |
Glen Milligan |
88 |
| 31 |
936118×839 |
TOESONTHENOSE (NZ) |
G |
5 |
John Sargent |
|
| 32 |
133x42420x |
TOURISTIC (GB) |
G |
5 |
Peter & Paul Snowden |
|
| 33 |
x3393555x1 |
WATERFORD (IRE) |
G |
5 |
Chris Waller |
|
| 34 |
222x9x1833 |
WELWAL (GB) |
G |
5 |
Chris Waller |
|
| 35 |
29602×5062 |
WILLIAMSBURG |
H |
4 |
Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou |
|
| 36 |
42215914×0 |
WINEGLASS BAY (IRE) |
G |
5 |
Chris Waller |
|
Table Credit: Racing Australia.
Scone Cup Tips
Scone Cup tips include looking for proven Group-class milers with winning form over the 1600m or further and those with a good lead-up run from the autumn.
The lower-weighted runners make a good tip in the Scone Cup as since Speediness (57.5kg in 2013), Dr Drill (56.5kg in 2020) and Sky Lab (57kg in 2024) are the only Scone Cup winners to carry more than 54kg to victory.
Any in-form horses from the Snowden stable are also a nice Scone Cup betting tip as Peter Snowden has prepared three winners since 2010 most recently Pajaro (2016).
The boys hold the advantage and usually dominate Scone Cup tipping with Sedanzer (2018) the last mare to win.
2024 Scone Cup Tips
Our Ladbrokes’ insider Scone Cup 2024 betting tips and race selections will be detailed below the week of the race so stay tuned for the gallopers to back and sack in the winter showdown.
- To Win: #8 Welwal ($10 at time of publish) – BET NOW
Tricky race for the punters, but at double-figures at time of publish Welwal looks a touch of value from the Waller stable. This consistent five-year-old is a proven miler looking fit after back-to-back thirds in similar or tougher grade races. Third to Another Wil in Doncaster Prelude (1500m) from out wide two back before rounding out the Hawkesbury Cup trifecta behind Just Folk a fortnight ago under a half-length beaten. Good gate, Jay Ford rides, up in weight but still in with a shot.
Scone Cup Form Guide
The Scone Cup form guide details must know facts for punters including the trainers, jockeys, barriers and lead-up form of all the runners in the race.
The Scone Cup form has gone on to hold-up in tougher events many times in recent years including in 2019 when the runner-up Fierce Impact went on to enjoy three subsequent Group 1 victories over his career taking out that spring’s Toorak Handicap – Cantala Stakes and the 2020 Makybe Diva Stakes.
In 2022 the Scone Cup winner Rustic Steel went on to win the inaugural The Big Dance at Randwick on the first Tuesday of November, while the third place-getter Atishu further franked the form returning in the autumn of 2023 to win the Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m).
2024 Scone Cup Form Guide
A link to our comprehensive Scone Cup 2024 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.
Scone Cup Results
To date Brave Prince (2000, 2001) is the only dual Scone Cup winner.
Notable horses to head the Scone Cup race results in recent years include Raspberries (2012), Sedanzer (2018), Special Missile (2019), and subsequent The Big Dance champion Rustic Steel.
Past Scone Cup Winners
Recent Scone Cup winners and place-getters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.
| Year |
Winner |
Second |
Third |
| 2024 |
Sky Lab |
Waterford |
Lion’s Roar |
| 2023 |
Commando Hunt |
Luncies |
Acquitted |
| 2022 |
Rustic Steel |
Dr Drill |
Atishu |
| 2021 |
Laure Me In |
Looks Like Elvis |
Order Again |
| 2020 |
Dr Drill |
Phaistos |
Sambro |
| 2019 |
Special Missile |
Fierce Impact |
Goldstream |
| 2018 |
Sedanzer |
Duca Valentinois |
Kingsguard |
| 2017 |
Duca Valentinois |
God’s In Him |
Pajaro |
| 2016 |
Pajaro |
Amovatio |
Malice |
| 2015 |
Tales Of Grimm |
Frespanol |
San Diego |
| 2014 |
Cameo |
Full Of Spirit |
Loaded |
| 2013 |
Speediness |
Mouro |
Kaypers |
| 2012 |
Raspberries |
Izababe |
Lightinthenite |
| 2011 |
Dysphonia |
Willy Jimmy |
Mr Unforgettable |
| 2010 |
Keepin’ The Dream |
Snow Alert |
Tagus |
| 2009 |
Obvious Choice |
My Sweet Cookie |
Soiled |
| 2008 |
Newton’s Rings |
Mr Ubiquitous |
Life’s Too Short |
| 2007 |
Spy Zaim |
Flaming |
Rumbird |
| 2006 |
Fighting Fund |
Diamond Sun |
But I’m Serious |
| 2005 |
Impaler |
Tall Timbers |
Fiery Venture |
| 2004 |
Jeremiad |
Precise Timing |
Maskerado |
| 2003 |
Full On Magic |
Make Me a Miracle |
Kerouac |
| 2002 |
Huge Demand |
Royal Integrity |
Sea Jester |
| 2001 |
Brave Prince |
Adamantly |
Hunter Winemaker |
| 2000 |
Brave Prince |
Asante |
Pyramid Park |