Sir John Monash Stakes 2024

Ladbrokes Tip: The Sir John Monash Stakes is a nice lead-up into the Bletchingly Stakes.

The Sir John Monash Stakes is one of the final Group races of the season run on a Saturday in early July at Caulfield Racecourse during the Melbourne Winter Racing Carnival. The weight-for-age sprint is contested over 1100m and offers a total of $200,000 in total prize money.

2022 Sir John Monash Stakes winner Mileva. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

It is the sole Black-Type race on the Caulfield card at the end-of-season meeting and can serve as a nice lead-up race into the Group 3 Bletchingly Stakes (1200m) run back at the track a fortnight later. A number of horses won both events during their careers, but Rubitano (2002) was the last horse to take out the Sir John Monash – Bletchingly Stakes double in the same year.

Many of the best Sir John Monash Stakes horses may also progress onto tougher assignments during the upcoming Sydney and Melbourne Spring Racing Carnivals.

The latest edition of the Sir John Monash Stakes ran on Saturday, July 13, 2024 at Caulfield Racecourse and was won in emphatic fashion by seven-length champion Recommendation ($3.70) for trainer Ciaron Maher.

2024 Sir John Monash Stakes Results

The official Sir John Monash Stakes 2024 Results & Finishing Order will be available below once the Listed Caulfield race is run and won on Saturday, July 13, 2024.

2024 Sir John Monash Stakes winner Recommendation saluted by a record seven lengths. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

• 1st: #2 Recommendation
• 2nd: #7 Party For Two
• 3rd: #5 Mrs Chrissie

Tougher spring assignments could be calling for Ciaron Maher’s progressive Shalaa four-year-old Recommendation ($3.70) who annihilated his rivals at Caulfield with a seven length romp home in the 2024 Sir John Monash Stakes results. 

2024 Sir John Monash Stakes Odds

Betting on the Sir John Monash Stakes 2024 opens the week of the race following the nominations and full markets will be provided below.

Sir John Monash Stakes Race Info

• Date: Saturday, July 13, 2024
• Track: Caulfield Racecourse
• Distance: 1100m
• Conditions: Weight-for-age
• Status: Group 3
• Prize Money: $200,000
• First Run: 1994

Sir John Monash Stakes Betting

Sir John Monash Stakes betting odds are led by proven Caulfield performers and local Melbourne hopes with good form over the shorter sprint distances. The race attracts both end-of-season and resuming spring hopefuls, so any first-up runners with a good record fresh also sit high up the Sir John Monash Stakes betting markets.

Looking for in-form winter sprinters rounding out their preps in the Group 3 can also be a good Sir John Monash Stakes betting guide.

Jungle Edge ($2.60 in 2020) was the last favourite in Sir John Monash Stakes betting to salute.

Sir John Monash Stakes Field

The Sir John Monash Stakes race field attracts both end-of-season winter runners as well as spring-bound hopefuls kicking off the new season campaigns. Runners have a variety of different races they can come out of into the Sir John Monash Stakes including the Listed Ramornie Handicap (1200m) held at Grafton earlier in the month.

A likely next-up run for Sir John Monash Stakes graduates is the Group 3 Bletchingly Stakes, which the 2018 Sir John Monash Stakes winner – the ill-fated Voodoo Lad – ran second in next-up before continuing on that summer to win Perth’s Group 1 Winterbottom Stakes (1200m). In 2019 Jungle Edge ran second in both races before returning in 2020 to go one better in the Sir John Monash Stakes results.

2024 Sir John Monash Stakes Field

The official 2024 Sir John Monash field of final acceptors is released by Racing Victoria the Wednesday of race week and will be published in full below.

The Sir John Monash Stakes 2024 final field features just eight runners with the Ciaron Maher-trained Recommendation and Gavin Bedggood’s Mornington Glory – who ran sixth and third in the autumn’s Group 1 Oakleigh Plate respectively – battling for first-up favouritism.

2024 Sir John Monash Stakes Nominations

The Sir John Monash Stakes 2024 nominations are taken the Monday of race week closing at 12:00PM (AEST).

*Nominations extended until 10:00am (AEDT) on Tuesday, July 9th, 2024. 

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Sir John Monash Stakes Tips

Top Sir John Monash Stakes tips include looking for runners with a strong record over the 1000m -1100m short sprint distance, Melbourne runners that run well at the Caulfield track and Black-Type graduates coming off good lead-up winter runs.

2024 Sir John Monash Stakes Tips

Our insider tips on the Sir John Monash Stakes 2024 will be listed here the week of the race so stay tuned for the winter sprinter to back in the Group 3 this season.

• To Win: #3 Mornington Glory ($3.20 at time of publish) – BET NOW

A small and open field in the Group 3 at Caulfield on Saturday and have landed on the resuming Mornington Glory who showed his class with a Group 1 Oakleigh Plate third here last time out back in February. Gavin Bedggood’s five-year-old has had three starts here and that was the sole top three finish, but he goes well fresh and has faced tougher company than this. Nice gate in a diminutive affair. Can win. 

Sir John Monash Stakes Form Guide

The Sir John Monash Stakes form guide, released when final acceptances close on the Wednesday before the race runs that Saturday, details crucial information like the jockeys and barriers as well as the lead-up runs of the sprinters in the field.

The Sir John Monash Stakes form has stacked up in future Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival races a number of times in recent years including in 2016 when the winner Wild Rain went on to win the Group 2 McEwen Stakes and finish third in that spring’s Group 1 Moir Stakes at Moonee Valley.

2024 Sir John Monash Stakes Form Guide

A link to our completed Sir John Monash Stakes 2024 form guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Sir John Monash Stakes Results

The Sir John Monash Stakes race results over the past decade have been dominated by quality types with experience in tougher assignments including Jungle Edge (2020) who won the race as a nine-year-old and the ill-fated Group 1 champion Voodoo Lad (2018).

Blue Diamond Champion Reward For Effort (2010) is one of the most famous Sir John Monash Stakes winners, while Super Elleegant (2004-05) is the only dual Sir John Monash Stakes champion to date.

Mileva (2022) and Sigh (2023) are the latest Sir John Monash Stakes winning mares.

Lord Of The Sky (2014) was the last Sir John Monash Stakes winning three-year-old.

Red Can Man holds the current 1100m Sir John Monash Stakes race record winning in 2021 in a time of 1 minute 03:47 seconds.

Recommendation (2024) holds the Sir John Monash Stakes winning margin record of seven lengths.

Past Sir John Monash Stakes Winners

Recent Sir John Monash Stakes winners dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.