VRC Sires Produce Stakes 2024

Ladbrokes Tip: The Talindert Stakes is the best guide to the VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes.

The VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes is a Group 2 support act on Newmarket Handicap Day at Flemington Racecourse during the Melbourne Autumn Racing Carnival.

2022 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes winner Let’srollthedice. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

Open only to two-year-olds and run over 1400m at set weights, the VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes runs on a Saturday in early to mid March and takes place at the same meeting as the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m).

The race offers a total of $300,000 in prize money including $120,000 to the VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes winner. It was demoted from a Group 1 race to a Group 2 event in 2005 and remains the first two-year-old Group-status race over further than 1200m during the autumn carnival season.

The latest edition of the VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes took place on Saturday March 9, 2024 at Flemington and was won in a demolition job by the Ciaron Maher-trained Street Boss colt Traffic Warden ($5). 

2024 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes Results

The full 2024 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes Results & Finishing Order will be available below once the race is run and won on 2024.

2024 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes winner Traffic Warden was huge in the Group 2 on Super Saturday. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

• 1st: #3 Traffic Warden
• 2nd: #1 Rue De Royale
• 3rd: #9 Bosustow

Jamie Kah continued her outstanding Melbourne Autumn Carnival with a big 1.75 length romp home in the VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes 2024 results from out wide in gate 14 aboard the progressive Blue Diamond graduate (8th), Traffic Warden ($5), for James Cummings and the Godolphin stable.

2024 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes Odds

The VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes 2024 odds on the progressive two-year-olds in the 1400m feature will be provided below once announced so stay tuned for the top Flemington Newmarket Handicap Day racing markets.

VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes Race Info

• Date: Saturday March 9, 2024
• Track: Flemington Racecourse
• Distance: 1400m
• Conditions: 2YO – Set Weights
• Status: Group 2
• Prize Money: $300,000
• First Run: 1862

VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes Betting

VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes betting markets are released after the final field is taken on the Wednesday before the race.

Two-year-olds with previous winning form often sit high up the VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes odds, especially those with form in the Talindert Stakes.

In 2014 Marcado won the Talindert Stakes before his third in the Group 2 back at the track, and the following year Jameka (2015) improved off her Talindert Stakes fourth to win the Sires’ Produce.

The Talindert Stakes – VRC Sires’ Produce double was last achieved by All Too Hard (2012) who went on to win the Group 2 Pago Pago Stakes (1200m) in Sydney and run second in the Group 1 Inglis Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) to Pierro at Randwick that campaign.

Let’srollthedice ($3.70 in 2022) and Veight ($4.80 in 2023) are the last favourites in VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes betting to win.

VRC Sires Produce Stakes Field

The VRC Sires Produce Stakes race field has a capacity of 16 starters and attracts a field of promising young staying types that could be heading towards a mile run during this campaign or next. Juveniles come from a variety of different lead-up races including the Listed Talindert Stakes (1100m) at the track the month before.

Plenty of graduates out of the VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes field are eyeing a Sydney run during April’s ‘The Championships’ in the Group 1 ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) at Royal Randwick. In 2017 the winner of the Melbourne race Sircconi ran a brave fourth in the Sydney Group 1, but Keepers (1983) was the last to do the double without another run in between.

In 2022 the VRC Sires’ winner Let’srollthedice went on to run third in that year’s ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes, run as the Inglis Sires’.

The 2024 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes winner Veight was fourth next start in the Inglis Sires’ results.

VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes nominations close the Monday before the race with the final field of acceptances and barrier draw released on the Wednesday.

2024 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes Field

The official VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes 2024 field of two-year-olds will be published as of Wednesday March 6, 2024 ahead of the important Group 2 clash.

The Tony & Calvin McEvoy-trained promising galloper Rue De Royale heads betting on the final 2024 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes field of two-year-olds at Flemington this weekend.

2024 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes Nominations

The early VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes 2024 nominations close on the Monday leading-up to Newmarket Handicap Day at Flemington with the full list of nominees to be published below.

VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes Tips

Taking two-year-olds with previous winning form or off a good Talindert Stakes run down the Flemington straight in February are good VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes tips.

Single-figure fancies in betting have a gun recent record and so taking the favourite is another top VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes betting tip.

2024 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes 2024 betting tips on the two-year-olds to back and sack in the race will be detailed below heading up to the race so stay tuned.

• To Win: #4 Aardvark ($5 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Open edition of the Sires’ in Melbourne and taking on the favourite with Aardvark going great guns at the right time and building. This Leon & Troy Corstens-trained Capitalist colt is nicely bred and starting to put together a nice record. Solid third on debut at Caulfield last year before resuming with a Listed Talindert Stakes victory here last month. Won over the 1100m fresh by over a length. Notable step up to 1400m now, but think he’ll run it without a worry.

VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes Form Guide

The VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes form guide details all of the essential race information including the trainers, jockeys, barriers and lead-up form of the horses in the race.

The VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes form has stacked up in tougher races in recent years including Jameka (2015) who went on to win the Group 1 VRC Oaks (2500m) during the spring.

The 2014 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes winner Zululand finished runner-up to Go Indy Go in the Group 1 Champagne Stakes (1600m) at Randwick two runs later. In 2013 Shamus Award ran second in the VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes and won the Group 1 Cox Plate (2040m) that October.

The 2020 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes form was franked when the third placegetter Ole Kirk went on to take out that spring’s Group 1 Golden Rose – Caulfield Guineas double.

The 2020 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes winner Lunar Fox meanwhile made history the following autumn becoming the country’s longest-priced Group 1 winner at 300/1 in the 2021 Australian Guineas.

The 2023 VRC Sires’ form was franked with the winner Veight second that spring in the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas results, while the runner-up Apulia went on to win The Valley’s Group 2 Vase before a Group 1 Victoria Derby (2500m) second later in the year.

2023 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes winner Veight heads to Sydney next for the Group 1 Inglis Sires’ at Randwick. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

2024 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes Form Guide

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

VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes Results

Two-year-olds starting under $10 in betting have dominated the VRC Sires Produce Stakes race results in recent years.

Since Running Tall ($10 in 2011) the only other double-figure winners have been Sircconi ($11 in 2017) and La Tene ($12 in 2019).

Notable recent VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes winners include Jameka (2015), All Too Hard (2012), and Shamrocker (2010).

VRC Sires’ Produce Winners

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