Ladbrokes Tip: The Tea Rose Stakes is a key guide to the Flight Stakes

The Tea Rose Stakes is a Group 2 race for three-year-old fillies held at Royal Randwick Racecourse in September on George Main Stakes Day during the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival.

The day’s racing is headlined by the Group 1 George Main Stakes (1600m), which is supported by two Group 2 events: The Shorts (1100m) for the spring sprint stars and the Tea Rose Stakes. Part of the Princess’ Series of races, the Tea Rose Stakes is contested over 1400m at set weights plus penalties and offers a total of $200,000 in total prize money.

It is a traditional lead-up to the Group 1 Flight Stakes (1600m) at Randwick in October and recent fillies to complete the double include Funstar (2019), Alizee (2017), First Seal (2014), Guleph (2013), Streama (2011), More Joyous (2009) and Samantha Miss (2008).

In 2020 Dame Giselle made it a hat-trick of Princess Series wins taking out the Silver Shadow – Furious – Tea Rose Stakes triple.

The latest edition of the Tea Rose Stakes ran on Saturday September 19, 2020 and was won by the flying Dame Giselle. 

2020 Tea Rose Stakes Results

The official Tea Rose Stakes 2020 race results and full finishing order will be available below once the Group 2 Randwick race is run on Saturday September 19, 2020.

• 1st: #1 Dame Giselle
• 2nd: #3 Hungry Heart
• 3rd: #6 Vangelic

The Peter & Paul Snowden-trained Silver Shadow – Furious Stakes double winner Dame Giselle ($2.70) saluted again in a Princess Series hat-trick defeating the beaten Chris Waller-trained favourite Hungry Heart ($2.45F) who had to settle for second again after a luckless run in the Tea Rose Stakes 2020 results. 

Colour	Finish	No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Bar.	Weight	Penalty	Starting Price
	1	1	DAME GISELLE	Peter & Paul Snowden	Tommy Berry		5	56kg		$2.70
	2	3	HUNGRY HEART	Chris Waller	James McDonald	0.5L	3	56kg		$2.45F
	3	6	VANGELIC	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Tim Clark	1.8L	2	56kg		$18
	4	8	MONTEFILIA	David Payne	Hugh Bowman	2.3L	6	56kg		$8
	5	5	THERMOSPHERE	James Cummings	Nash Rawiller	4.3L	10	56kg		$21
	6	4	EVERY ROSE	Mark Newnham	Ms Rachel King	5.1L	1	56kg		$26
	7	10	MIRAVALLE	Mark Newnham	Joshua Parr	5.2L	8	56kg		$41
	8	7	CENTIMENTAL	Chris Waller	Sam Clipperton	5.4L	11	56kg		$71
	9	2	STELLAR PAULINE	Peter & Paul Snowden	Kerrin McEvoy	7.9L	7	56kg		$26
	10	9	MISS CANADA	Kris Lees	Brenton Avdulla	8L	9	56kg		$41
	11	11	FALL ON A STAR	Kris Lees	Jason Collett	21.2L	4	56kg		$201
		12	TRUE FAITH	Kris Lees	Jim Byrne		0

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

Tea Rose Stakes Race Info

• Date: Saturday September 19, 2020
• Track: Royal Randwick Racecourse
• Distance: 1400m
• Conditions: 3YO Fillies – Set Weights
• Status: Group 2
• Prize Money: $200,000
• First Run: 1980

Tea Rose Stakes Betting & Odds

Tea Rose Stakes odds are led by the in-form fillies of the spring coming off good lead-up runs in Sydney races against similar company.

Upsets are not uncommon and notable recent double-figure hopes in Tea Rose Stakes betting to salute include Alizee ($10 in 2017), Pearls ($12 in 2015), First Seal ($15 in 2014) and Longport ($26 in 2012).

2020 Tea Rose Stakes Odds

The season’s best Tea Rose Stakes 2020 betting odds and links to our markets will be made available to punters right here the week of the race so stay tuned for the top Group 2 Randwick racing markets.

The Tea Rose Stakes field attracts the season’s best middle-distance fillies heading towards a run in the Flight Stakes over a mile back at the track a fortnight later. The fillies that line-up in the Tea Rose Stakes field each spring can come off a number of earlier fillies’ only races including the Group 2 Silver Shadow Stakes (1200m) the month before, which Kimberly Star ran second in before her third in the 2015 Tea Rose Stakes two runs later.

In 2017 the Tea Rose Stakes winner Alizee had earlier run second in the Silver Shadow Stakes.

The other popular lead-up run that is also part of the Princess’ Series for 3YO fillies is the Group 2 Furious Stakes (1200m). In 2014 the Furious Stakes winner Winx went on to run second in both the Tea Rose Stakes and Flight Stakes. She would later win a host of Group 1s including the 2015 and 2016 Cox Plate. That same year Blue Diamond winner and Golden Slipper runner-up Earthquake ran third in both the Furious Stakes and Tea Rose Stakes.

More recently the Furious Stakes produced three of the four Tea Rose Stakes winners from 2016-19 with Foxplay (1st) doing the double, Alizee (4th) and Miss Fabulass (6th).

First Seal (2014) took out the Tea Rose Stakes – Flight Stakes double during her three-year-old season. Photo Credit: Steve Hart.

The Furious Stakes also produced the 2013 Tea Rose – Flight Stakes winner Guelph (2nd). That year the Furious Stakes winner Bound For Earth went on to run third in both the Tea Rose Stakes and Flight Stakes.

Tea Rose Stakes graduates traditionally back-up in the Flight Stakes. In 2015 Honesta ran second in both races and later went on to cross second twice more in Melbourne including in the Group 1 Crown Oaks (2500m) at Flemington.

The Tea Rose Stakes – Flight Stakes double has been achieved many times in the past decade, most recently by Funstar (2019), Alizee (2017) and First Seal (2014).

First Seal also went on to cross second in that year’s Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes (2000m), while Alizee would win features including the Queen Of The Turf (2018) and Futurity Stakes (2019) later in her career.

Plenty of Tea Rose Stakes winners also go on to place in the Flight Stakes trifecta.

In 2020 Dame Giselle won the Silver Shadow – Furious Stakes – Tea Rose Stakes hat-trick.

2020 Tea Rose Stakes Field

The official Tea Rose Stakes 2020 final field and barrier draw will be available below once announced on the Wednesday of George Main Stakes Day.

The 2020 Tea Rose Stakes field features a dozen three-year-old Flight Stakes-bound fillies led in betting by the progressive Chris Waller-trained Hungry Heart and flying Dame Giselle chasing a Princess Series hat-trick.

• Scratchings: #12 True Faith (10)

2020 Tea Rose Stakes Nominations

The early Tea Rose Stakes 2020 nominations are announced on the Monday of race week and will be published below once released. 

Team Snowden’s Silver Shadow – Furious Stakes double winner Dame Giselle heads a class list of 13 three-year-old fillies for the 2020 Tea Rose Stakes nominations.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Tea Rose Stakes Form Guide

The Tea Rose Stakes form guide features all the crucial information for punters like the jockeys, trainers, barriers and lead-up runs. The best form line to follow into the Tea Rose Stakes is that out of the earlier Princess Series legs including the Furious Stakes.

Tea Rose Stakes form has held up more often than not in the Flight Stakes the following month as well as Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival Group 1s later in the season.

2020 Tea Rose Stakes Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Tea Rose Stakes 2020 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Tea Rose Stakes Tips

Good Tea Rose Stakes tips include looking for fillies coming off a top three run in Sydney last time out, proven Randwick performers and those suited to at least 1400m. The favourites only have a fair recent record in the race so laying the top fancy is another popular Tea Rose Stakes betting tip during the spring.

2020 Tea Rose Stakes Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider Tea Rose Stakes 2020 betting tips and exotic selections will be detailed below leading up to the race so stay tuned for the fillies to get behind in the George Main Stakes Day support act this September.

• To Win: #1 Dame Giselle ($3 at time of publish) 

What a race! Plenty to suggest the step-up in distance second-up for Hungry Heart will see her win, but going to stick with the form filly in the mix and tip Dame Giselle to make it a hat-trick this Princess Series. She continues to go out underrated, but think she’s still got improvement in her and can handle the distance.

Tea Rose Stakes Results

The Tea Rose Stakes results have been a mix between short-priced favourites and double-figure roughies in the past decade.

Tea Rose Stakes winners of late include Dame Giselle (2020), Funstar (2019), Alizee (2017), Foxplay (2016), Pearls (2015), First Seal (2014), Guelph (2013), Streama (2011), More Joyous (2009), Samantha Miss (2008) and Sunline (1998).

Tea Rose Stakes Winners