Ladbrokes Tip: Locally trained 3YOs have the best record in the SA Derby

The South Australian Derby is a Group 1 race for three-year-old staying types held at Morphettville Racecourse in mid-May during the Adelaide Autumn Racing Carnival. Contested a week after the Group 1 Schweppes Australasian Oaks (2000m) for the fillies, the set weights clash takes place over 2500m and offers $500,000 in prize money. For 2020 the SA Derby prize money was cut to $400,000 due to the global Coronavirus crisis.

It is one of the major Morphettville races during the season and locally-trained horses have a top record in the event.

The latest edition of the South Australian Derby took place on Saturday May 9, 2020 and was won by the outstanding favourite Russian Camelot. 

SA Derby Race Info

• Date: Saturday May 9, 2020
• Track: Morphettville Racecourse
• Distance: 2500m
• Conditions: 3YO – Set Weights
• Status: Group 1
• Prize Money: $500,000 ($400,000 in 2020 due to COVID-19)
• First Run: 1860

2020 South Australian Derby Results

The official South Australian Derby 2020 results and finishing order will be available below once the race is run and won on Saturday May 9, 2020.

• 1st: #4 Russian Camelot
• 2nd: #1 Dalasan
• 3rd: #2 Warning

The 2020 South Australian Derby results went the way of the punters with the well-backed favourite Russian Camelot ($2.90) overcoming a three-deep run without cover at the tail end of the field the entire trip to earn talks of a Melbourne Cup bid with his impressive late victory.

South Australian Derby Odds

South Australian Derby odds are usually led by the best performing three-year-olds coming off 2000m runs at the track in either the Chairman’s Stakes or the Schweppes Oaks.

Favourites tend to have an outstanding recent record in the race with eight winning 2006 – 2020. The latest favourites in SA Derby betting to salute were: Russian Camelot ($2.90 in 2020), Leicester ($4 in 2018) and the odds-on top elect Delicacy ($1.90 2015).

Previous experience at Morphettville often helps determine the South Australian Derby betting markets, as do those tested in previous Group 1 races either in Adelaide or interstate like the Group 1 Australian Derby (2400m) in Sydney the month before.

2020 SA Derby Betting

The autumn racing odds and South Australian Derby 2020 betting markets will be available below once open so you can back your favourite three-year-old stayers at the right price in the  Adelaide Group 1 autumn racing feature so stay tuned.

South Australian Derby Field

The South Australian Derby field attracts the season’s top three-year-old stayers from both locally and interstate. It is mainly made up of Adelaide-trained hopefuls however that come out of lead-up races including the Group 3 SA Chairman’s Stakes (2000m) in late April and for the fillies the Group 1 Schweppes Oaks (2000m) the Saturday prior.

SA Derby winner Howard Be Thy Name (2016) went on to run fourth in the Queensland Derby in Brisbane. Photo Credit: Jenny Barnes.

The South Australian Oaks – Derby double was last completed by Delicacy (2015), while in 2016 Howard Be Thy Name completed the Chairman’s Stakes – SA Derby double before stablemate Leicester (2018) repeated the feat for trainer Darren Weir two years later.

South Australian Derby nominations close the Tuesday of the week before the race, a week before final SA Derby acceptances are taken revealing the field of hopeful young stayers.

2020 South Australian Derby Field

The official South Australian Derby 2020 final field and barriers are released by the South Australian Jockey Club (SAJC) the Tuesday of race week and will be provided below.

The 2020 SA Derby final field attracted 14 gun young stayers including this season’s Chairman’s Handicap winner Dalasan and the VRC Derby champ from last spring Warning.

• Scratchings: #5 Miyake (14), #13 Silent Sovereign (11) 

South Australian Derby Form Guide

The South Australian Derby form guide provides all the must know information before punters place a bet including the jockeys, trainers, barriers and lead-up form of the three-year-olds in the mix.

Wide barriers are not something to shy away from with plenty of good horses getting the job done from barrier 10 or wider including Volatile Mix (barrier 11 in 2017), Kidnapped who saluted from the outside barrier 16 of 16 in 2010, as did both Tails Of Triomphe (2005) and Testafiable (2006).

Over the years the South Australian Derby form has stacked up in better staying races in Melbourne during the spring including in 2003 when Mummify won the SA Derby – Caulfield Cup double before running third in the following year’s Sydney Cup and the 2005 Caulfield Cup.

Count Chivas (1995) and Shivas Revenge (1991) both won the SA Derby before placing second in the iconic Melbourne Cup in their respective years, while Subzero (1992) completed the double winning that spring’s ‘race that stops a nation’.

SA Derby Form Facts

• Delicacy (2015) and Qafila (2019) are the only fillies since 2008 to beat the boys in the SA Derby results
• The Chairman’s Stakes is the key SA Derby form race to follow and Howard Be Thy Name (2016) and Leicester (2018) were the last to do the double
• Favourites in SA Derby betting have a gun record in the race over the past decade with the latest to salute being Russian Camelot ($2.90 in 2020)

2020 South Australian Derby Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive South Australian Derby 2020 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

South Australian Derby Tips

The favourites have a strong record in the race so taking the top fancy in betting is a good South Australian Derby tip.

Fillies have only won three times since 1999, so taking the colts and geldings that are high up the markets coming out of a run in the Chairman’s Stakes in Adelaide is a great SA Derby betting tip.

2020 SA Derby Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ exclusive South Australian Derby 2020 betting tips and exotic selections will be detailed below the week of the race so check back for the three-year-olds to back and sack in your Morphettville punting.

South Australian Derby Results

South Australian Derby results have been dominated by the favourites in recent years with the most notable upsets scored by Shadows In The Sun ($20 in 2011) and Tails Of Triomphe ($50 in 2005).

The most famous recent South Australian Derby winners include Delicacy (2015), Rebel Raider (2009), Mummify (2003) and Subzero (1992).

South Australian Derby Past Winners