UPDATE: The Coast 2024 and Gosford Gold Cup Day card moved from Gosford to Newcastle due to the Heavy (10) track at Gosford and continued rainfall.
Ladbrokes Tip: The Coast race serves as a potential lead-up to Brisbane’s Group 1 Doomben Cup.
The Coast is one of the newly-created Special Condition races conducted in New South Wales offering $500,000 in prize money and first conducted in 2021 in a further boost to provincial racing in the state.
2022 The Coast winner Rustic Steel. Photo: Steve Hart.
Not a Group status event, the race runs at Gosford* in early May as a key support act on Gosford Gold Cup Day and draws horses looking to press on following Randwick’s ‘The Championships’ across the first two Saturdays in April.
*Note, in 2024 the Gosford Gold Cup Day card including The Coast race moved to Newcastle due to the bottomless track conditions and inclement weather at Gosford.
A quality handicap race, The Coast is open only to three-year-old and four-year-old horses and is run and won over 1600m. There are no class restrictions and along with the half-a-million in stakes there’s a BOBS Silver Bonus available up to $38,500 on offer to eligible runners.
The Coast race serves as a nice potential lead-up into the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival including the Group 1 $1.5 million Doomben Cup (2000m) a fortnight later.
In 2022 The Coast runs on the same date as the Group 1 Robert Sangster Stakes in Adelaide as well as the Gold Coast’s A.D. Hollindale Stakes Day card in Queensland, while the Listed $250,000 Gosford Gold Cup (2100m) is the feature race at the Gosford meeting.
It follows on from the introduction of other feature provincial races including The Gong (1600m) held at Kembla Grange and Newcastle’s The Hunter (1300m) both held in November for the first time in 2019.
The latest edition of The Coast ran on Saturday May 11th, 2024 as part of Gosford Gold Cup Day and ran at Newcastle Racecourse (moved from Gosford for 2024) with Leon & Troy Corstens’ progressive mudlark from Melbourne, Magnaspin ($18), posting a narrow upset in the wet.
2024 The Coast Results
The complete The Coast 2024 race results and full finishing order will be available right here once the race is run and won on Saturday May 11th, 2024.
2024 The Coast winner Magnaspin best handled the Heavy track conditions at Newcastle. Photo: Steve Hart.
- 1st: #4 Magnaspin
- 2nd: #2 Williamsburg
- 3rd: #3 Iknowastar
2024 The Coast Odds
The season’s top The Coast 2024 odds will be available here once markets on the Gosford Gold Cup Day race are out so stay tuned.
Early market betting odds on the 2024 The Coast 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.
The Coast Race Info
- Date: Saturday May 11th, 2024
- Track: Gosford Racecourse (Newcastle Racecourse in 2024)
- Distance: 1600m
- Conditions: Quality Handicap – 3YOs & 4YOs
- Status: Special Condition
- Prize Money: $500,000
- First Run: 2021
The Coast Betting
The Coast betting markets are led by in-form milers with a proven record over 1600m and those coming off good lead-up form over the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.
Any horses with past form at the Gosford track, those down in grade off a Group 1 or 2 performance and the better-weighted gallopers are usually found at shorter The Coast odds.
The inaugural favourite in The Coast betting was Wheelhouse ($4.40) who ran ninth in 2021.
In 2022 the favourite Our Playboy ($6) ran fourth.
The 2023 The Coast favourite Kayobi ($5.50) also finished fourth leaving the top elects without a win in the event to date.
There was a notable upset in the 2024 The Coast results with Magnaspin saluting at Newcastle in the wet as a $18 shot in betting.
The Coast Field
Inaugural The Coast winner Brandenburg (pictured at Rosehill). Photo: Steve Hart. The Coast race field is made up each season by in-form three and four-year-old gallopers coming via a number of different lead-up races.
The Coast has a capacity field limit of 16 starters plus four emergencies. The inaugural The Coast field in 2021 ran with 12 starters, while 13 lined-up in 2022. There were also 13 starters in the 2023 The Coast final field, while just 10 faced off at Newcastle in the 2024 The Coast field in the wet.
Following a run in The Coast field horses may back-up in the Listed Scone Cup (1600m) later in May. Rustic Steel (2022) is the latest horse to complete The Coast – Scone Cup double.
The Coast nominations close the Monday of race week with the final field released on the Wednesday.
2024 The Coast Field
The official The Coast 2024 final field and barriers are released the Wednesday before the race and will be announced in full below.
The Coast 2024 field features a strong field of milers set to face off on a likely soft-rated Newcastle track (moved from Gosford) with markets on the final acceptances led by the Kris Lees-trained Mudgee Cup winner Tavi Time.
2024 The Coast Nominations
The early The Coast 2024 nominations are released on the Monday ahead of the event and will be published below once announced.
The Coast Form Guide
The Coast form guide provides all the crucial field information like the jockeys, trainers, barriers and lead-up runs of the hopefuls.
With Gosford a noted tight-turning track, looking for horses on The Coast form guide with form on similar circuits can be key.
The Coast form from the opening edition in 2021 was franked with the winner Brandenburg going on to run third to Zaaki in the Doomben Cup results next race and fourth behind the same horse in that winter’s Group 2 $1.2 million The Q22 (2200m).
The 2022 The Coast winner Rustic Steel went on to frank the form that spring winning the inaugural running of the multi-million-dollar The Big Dance race at Randwick on Melbourne Cup Day.
2024 The Coast Form Guide
A link to our comprehensive The Coast 2024 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.
The Coast Tips
The Coast tips favour local Sydney-trained gallopers, Group 1 performers and the strong mile types down in the weights.
2024 The Coast Tips
Our Ladbrokes’ insider The Coast 2024 betting tips on the middle-distance horses to back and sack in the lucrative Gosford mile race will be detailed below the week of the race so bookmark this page.
- To Win: #2 Williamsburg ($9.50 at time of publish) – BET NOW
Williamsburg looks a nice mudlark in The Coast and remains a genuine contender even after the meeting’s move from a Heavy Gosford track to Soft going at Newcastle. The Snitzel four-year-old hasn’t won in some time with his latest being right back in October of 2022. Still, he’s got a good wet track record and was a Group 3 runner-up by a narrow margin at Rosehill in December. Gate two with Josh Parr to ride. Sixth over the mile in Brisbane last time out but improvement to come. If it’s a genuine wet track, this is your horse.
The Coast Results
The inaugural The Coast race results in 2021 saw Brandenburg win at odds of $8.50 from barrier 12 of 12 carrying 58.5kg to victory.
The following year the Kris Lees-trained subsequent The Big Dance champion Rustic Steel won at $7.50 from gate 6 of 13 carrying just 52kg.
The Coast 2023 results saw the John Sargent-trained Palmetto salute at $6 from barrier 10 of 13 with 53.5kg.
The 2024 The Coast winner was the Leon & Troy Corstens-trained Victorian visitor Magnaspin ($18) who won in an upset from barrier 7 of 10 at Newcastle on a Heavy (9) with 54kg and Tom Sherry in the saddle.
Past The Coast Winners
A complete list of past The Coast race winners and place-getters dating back to the event’s inauguration in 2021 are detailed in the below table.
| Year |
Winner |
Second |
Third |
Time |
| 2024 |
Magnaspin |
Williamsburg |
Iknowastar |
1:38.42 |
| 2023 |
Palmetto |
Welwal |
Military Expert |
1:36.49 |
| 2022 |
Rustic Steel |
O’President |
Old Flame |
1:39.31 |
| 2021 |
Brandenburg |
Nudge |
Brutality |
1:37.93 |