Triscay Stakes 2024

The Triscay Stakes serves as a potential lead-up to the autumn Group 1 races for mares.

The Triscay Stakes race is a Group 3 thoroughbred event run and won at the iconic Royal Randwick Racecourse in mid-February ahead of the coveted Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.

2023 Triscay Stakes winner Po Kare Kare. Photo: Steve Hart.

A quality handicap sprint taking place over 1200m, the Triscay is open only to mares aged four and above and has held Group 3 status since 2014.

It is a key lead-up to tougher grade autumn events for the female gallopers and currently offers $250,000 in total prize money.

The Triscay Stakes runs on Apollo Stakes Day that also features the Group 2 Apollo Stakes (1400m), Group 2 Expressway Stakes (1200m), and the Group 2 Light Fingers Stakes (1200m).

Inaugurated in 1995 the event is named in honour of former top line filly Triscay, best known for her success in the 1991 Queensland Guineas and Queensland Oaks during her three-year-old season.

The best mares out of the Triscay may continue onto targets like the Group 1 $1 million Coolmore Classic (1500m) the following month.

The latest edition of the Triscay Stakes ran at Randwick on Saturday, February 17, 2024 as part of the Apollo Stakes Day card and was won in a photo-finish by Ciaron Maher’s Magic Millions Cup winning daughter of Winning Rupert Semana ($4.40).

2024 Triscay Stakes Results

The full Triscay Stakes 2024 results and finishing order will be available below on Saturday, February 17, 2024 .

2024 Triscay Stakes winner Semana held on to survive a protest and take out the Group 3 on Apollo Stakes Day. Photo: Steve Hart.

• 1st: #2 Semana
• 2nd: #5 Olentia
• 3rd: #4 C’est Magique

Ciaron Maher’s Magic Millions Cup winning mare Semana ($4.40) kept her good form going saluting over the beaten favourite Olentia, the hard luck story along the rails, and surviving a protest by the runner-up to take out the 2024 Triscay Stakes in a narrow thriller.

2024 Triscay Stakes Odds

The updated Triscay Stakes 2024 betting odds will be available below as soon as markets on the Group 3 mares’ only autumn feature are released.

Triscay Stakes Race Info

• Date: Saturday, February 17, 2024
• Track: Royal Randwick Racecourse
• Distance: 1200m
• Conditions: Mares – 4YOs & Upwards – Quality Handicap
• Status: Group 3
• Prize Money: $250,000
• First Run: 1996

Triscay Stakes Betting

Triscay Stakes odds are released after the final field is known the Wednesday before the race. Mares proven at Randwick with winning form over 1200m or further, and those that were Group 1 or 2 performed during the previous spring in Sydney dominate the Triscay betting markets.

The race is often a first-up option for the older female gallopers, so those with good resuming form feature high up the markets.

Favourites have a solid record in the Triscay Stakes, although Po Kare Kare did score an upset of note saluting in 2023 at $19 odds.

The latest Triscay Stakes betting favourites to win are Tailleur ($1.35 in 2021) and Snapdancer ($2.90 in 2022).

Triscay Stakes Field

The Triscay Stakes race field attracts a top class line-up of mares each February, many kicking off their autumn campaigns.

The next run traditionally on the card for runners out of the Triscay Stakes is the Group 3 Wenona Girl Quality (1200m) at the same track and distance in March.

In 2024 the Triscay Stakes winner Semana won fresh off her Gold Coast $1 million Magic Millions Cup (1400m) victory the month prior.

Triscay Stakes nominations close the Monday before the race runs on the Saturday with the final field and barriers released on the Wednesday.

2024 Triscay Stakes Field

The complete Triscay Stakes 2024 field and barrier draw will be published below the Wednesday leading up to Apollo Stakes Day.

The 2024 Triscay Stakes final field features a line-up of smart mares with markets currently led by Chris Waller’s four-year-old daughter of Zoustar, Olentia, tipped for improvement.

2024 Triscay Stakes Nominations

The official 2024 Triscay Stakes Nominations close on the Monday leading-up to Apollo Stakes Day, the full list of early entries to be announced below so stay tuned.

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

Triscay Stakes Tips

Triscay Stakes tips include looking for mares out of the a lead-up run at the track, those with a solid Sydney race record, and short-distance performers that will enjoy the 1200m early in the autumn.

Backing mares drawn in barriers 4-6 is a key Triscay Stakes betting tip with more winners from these three gates than any others over the race’s history.

There has only been one Triscay Stakes winner since 2011 to jump from a double-digit gate with Faraway Town (barrier 10, 2018).

2024 Triscay Stakes Tips

Our exclusive Triscay Stakes 2024 betting tips will be available below the week of the race so stay tuned.

• To Win: #7 Penthouse ($12 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Going for an upset in the Triscay and have the in-form Penthouse on top at double-figures. Matthew Dale’s progressive Capitalist mare is showing form around this grade at the right time. She is proven at the track, was an eye-catching first-up winner at Rosehill in easier company with plenty of weight by a big margin, and was far from disgraced last time out for a Group 3 Geoffrey Bellmaine second at Caulfield. Drops from 56kg there to 54kg, gun barrier four draw, and Kerrin McEvoy rides. Can surprise. 

Triscay Stakes Form Guide

The Triscay Stakes form guide gives punters crucial information to consider before placing a bet including the jockeys, trainers, barriers and lead-up form of the mares in the field.

The Triscay Stakes form has gone on to hold in bigger and better races many times over the years including in 2021 when third place-getter Icebath went on to finish runner-up in the famous Group 1 Doncaster Mile (1600m) before a victory in that spring’s $2 million The Invitation race.

The 2022 Triscay Stakes also provided that year’s The Invitation champion with Promise Of Success improving on a second in the autumn Group 3 to claim the lucrative October event.

The 2022 winner Snapdancer further franked the form with success in the Group 1 Robert Sangster Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville in May. Her other good, subsequent runs included a Group 1 Tatt’s Tiara (1400m) second tin the winter and Group 1 Memsie Stakes (1400m) first in Melbourne over the spring.

2024 Triscay Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Triscay Stakes 2024 Form Guide will be provided below once final acceptances are out the Wednesday of race week.

Triscay Stakes Results

The Triscay Stakes race results and finishing order detail that year’s winner, place-getters, successful trainer and jockey, along with the winning time.

Notable Triscay Stakes winners include Victory Vein (2004), Hot Danish (2008) who now has a race named in her honour with the Group 2 Hot Danish Stakes held in November, Thump (2015), Sweet Deal (2020), and Snapdancer (2022).

Inaugural Triscay Stakes winner, Light Up The World, also holds the current Triscay Stakes race record winning in 1995 in a time of 1 minute 08:62 seconds.

Past Triscay Stakes Winners

A complete list of past Triscay Stakes winners and place-getters going back to 1995 are detailed in the below table.