South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes 2024

Ladbrokes Tip: The South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes serves as a potential lead-up to the spring’s Group 1 VRC Derby in Melbourne.

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The South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes – often known as simply the SA Sires’ or Sires’ Produce Stakes (SAJC) – is a Group 3 race held in Adelaide at Morphettville Parks Racecourse on a Saturday in mid to late July each winter racing season in South Australia.

2023 SA Sires’ Produce Stakes winner Air Assault. Photo: Jenny Barnes.

It was previously contested in May before being moved to a later time slot ahead of the 2024 edition.

The set weights event is hosted by the South Australian Jockey Club (SAJC), currently offers $150,000 in prize money and is contested over 1400m by a field of mainly local two-year-old horses at the start of their careers.

Inaugurated back in 1945, the SA Sires’ Produce Stakes held Group 2 status for a stint between 1979 and 1991 before being downgraded to its current Group 3 level in 1992.

A number of class runners have taken out the race throughout history, most famously Rebel Raider in 2008 who won that year’s Group 1 Victoria Derby in Melbourne over the Cup Carnival at 100/1!

The next edition of the South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes takes place on Saturday, July 20th, 2024 in SA.

2024 South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes Odds

The latest South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes 2024 betting odds will be available right here once released the week of the race so check back for the updated prices on your favourites to win this season’s event in Adelaide.

South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes Race Info

• Date: 2024
• Track: Morphettville Parks Racecourse
• Distance: 1400m
• Conditions: 2YOs – Set Weights
• Status: Group 3
• Prize Money: $150,000

2024 South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes Results

The full South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes 2024 results and finishing order will be available below once the race takes place on Saturday, July 20th, 2024.

• 1st: TBD
• 2nd: TBD
• 3rd: TBD

South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes Betting

The South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes betting odds are usually led by the season’s top performing young Adelaide-trained two-year-olds coming via good lead-up performances in similar grade races.

Proven form at the Morphettville track and those with past wins over at least 1200m in distance sit higher up the South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes betting markets each season.

Twin Stars ($2.80 in 2022) was the last favourite in South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes betting to win.

There was a notable upset in 2023 with Air Assault defeating the odds-on favourite Nodachi ($1.85) winning at SA Sires’ Produce Stakes odds of $21!

South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes Field

The South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes race field is made up of classy local two-year-olds coming off earlier winter runs in Adelaide.

Runners trained outside of South Australia rarely make the trip to Adelaide for the race, so the South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes field and results have been dominated by the local stables. 

Nominations for the South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes are taken on the Monday of race week followed by final acceptances on the Wednesday.

2024 South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes Field

The official South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes 2024 race field and barriers are set for release on the Wednesday of race week and will be published below showing the top two-year-olds engaged to face off in the popular Adelaide Winter Racing Carnival feature. 

The 2024 SA Sires’ field features a quality line-up of local youngsters led in betting by last start winning Written Tycoon filly Supercilious.

2024 South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes Nominations

The South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes 2024 nominations close on the Monday of race week, just a day prior to final acceptances. 

2024 SA Sires’ Produce Stakes nominations extended until 10:00am – 16/07/2024

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes Tips

The key South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes betting tips are to back in-form youngsters from local Adelaide stables coming via a lead-up run in the other winter two-year-old features at the track.

Trainer Tony McEvoy has an outstanding SA Sires’ Produce Stakes record having prepared three winners since 2012, so watching for juveniles from the McEvoy yard is a good tip.

Trainer Leon Macdonald however holds the record having prepared seven SA Sires’ Produce Stakes winners starting with Taminor (1983) up until Air Assault (2023).

2024 South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes Tips

The Ladbrokes’ insider South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes 2024 betting tips and Morphettville race selections on the July showdown will be detailed right here the week of the race so stay tuned for the top runners to back for a win in the Black-Type showdown.

• To Win: #2 Four Ace ($6.50 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Wide open edition of the SA Sires’, but have landed on the progressive Four Ace for Lindsay Park. The Brutal gelding broke his maiden status first-up last time out at Cranbourne over this distance so is proven at the 1400m where a few of them aren’t. Won that comprehensively on Slow going and gets similar conditions here. Mid-field draw, jockey change and extra half-kilo, but fitter second-up and can improve and win again.

South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes Form Guide

The South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes race form guide reveals to punters all the relevant information they need to place a successful bet on the race like the barriers, jockeys, trainers and lead-up form of all the runners in the field.

The South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes form has gone on to stack-up in better interstate races a number of times over the years including the 2023 winner Air Assault going to Melbourne that spring for a third in the Group 2 Moonee Valley Vase. He also returned to Adelaide the following autumn for a huge campaign that included a third in the 2024 Group 1 South Australian Derby.

Earlier, Go Indy Go won the 2014 SA Sires’, when run in the autumn, before her subsequent Sydney Group 1 Champagne Stakes victory.

2024 South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes 2024 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes Results

Notable two-year-olds to head the South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes race results over the years include

Biscayne Bay (2021) was the last SA Sires’ Produce Stakes winning filly.

Go Indy Go holds the current SA Sires’ Produce Stakes race record winning in 2014 in a time of 1 minute 23:76 seconds.

South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes Winners

Recent South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes winners and place-getters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.

FAQ

When is the South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes 2024?

What is the prize money for the South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes 2024?

$150,000

Where is the South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes 2024?

Morphettville Racecourse, 79 Morphett Rd, Morphettville SA 5043.