Wagga Wagga Gold Cup 2024

Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Betting

Early Wagga Wagga Gold Cup odds are out at bookmakers after nominations are taken the Friday prior to the race and firm after the final field is announced the Tuesday of race week. 

Wagga Wagga Gold Cup betting is traditionally dominated by the colts and geldings with Call Me Lily (2002) the last mare to win. 

Proven middle-distance types from local Sydney-based stables sit high-up the Wagga Wagga Gold Cup betting markets, as do any past Group winners down in grade for the event. 

House Of Cartier ($5 in 2020) was favourite in Wagga Wagga Cup betting and won before being subsequently disqualified. The following year the favourite Yonkers ran second in an upset behind 30/1 winner Inverloch. 

The latest Wagga Wagga Gold Cup favourites to salute for the punters were Aleas ($4.60) in 2022 and Fawkner Park ($3.70 in 2024).  

Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Field

2018 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup winner Life Less Ordinary (pictured at Flemington). Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

The Wagga Wagga Gold Cup race field attracts a class line-up of in-form staying types out of a range of lead-up races in both Sydney and Melbourne over the autumn. 

Following a run in the Wagga Wagga Gold Cup field many gallopers may head up to Brisbane for the winter targeting races like the Group 3 Premier’s Cup (2400m) and the Group 1 $1 million Doomben Cup (2000m). 

In 2021 Spirit Ridge improved on a dead-heat second in the Wagga Wagga Gold Cup results to win the Premier’s Cup at Eagle Farm next start. 

Wagga Wagga Cup nominations close the Monday of race week with the final field and barrier draw released on the Wednesday. 

2024 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Field

The official Wagga Wagga Gold Cup 2024 Field & Barriers will be released by Racing NSW the Wednesday before the race and published in full below so stay tuned to see what stayers make the starting line-up. 

The capacity 2024 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup final field features a host of in-form autumn hopefuls including Albury Cup champ Fawkner Park and last start Gundagai Cup winner Cliff House chasing a third win on the trot. 

2024 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Nominations

The early Wagga Wagga Gold Cup 2024 Nominations close the Monday leading up to the event and will be listed in full below once released.

Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Tips

Wagga Wagga Cup tips include looking for proven Group-class stayers with winning form over the 2000m distance and those with a good lead-up run from the autumn. 

Sydney-trained horses have a strong record in the race so runners from head stables make a good Wagga Wagga Gold tip, especially those prepared by Chris Waller who has won the race five times most recently in 2023 with Wicklow. 

Backing horses drawn out wide is statistically a strong Wagga Wagg Gold Cup betting tip as from 2012-21 six of the 10 winners jumped from double-digit barriers. 

Wicklow (barrier 13 in 2023) also won the race from out wide, as did Fawkner Park (gate 11 of 12 in 2024). 

2024 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider Wagga Wagga Cup 2024 betting tips and race selections will be detailed below the week of the race so stay tuned for the gallopers to back and sack in the autumn staying showdown. 

• To Win: #11 Cliff House ($9 at time of publish) – BET NOW

No doubt the favourite Fawkner Park has claims but out that wide happy to take him on with this value runner who is flying. Cliff House has won two on the trot and maps well to make it a hat-trick of victories on Friday. The local Tim Donnelly-trained five-year-old has a killer record at his home track (4:3-1-0) and is looking to stretch his form out to 2000m now. Longest distanced win to date is 1800m which came last time out on a Heavy (8) in the Gundagai Cup. He was huge taking that out by just shy of five lengths with 59kg. Down to 54kg now so will be airborne with that weight. Think he’ll run it out without a worry and looks overs.

Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Form Guide

The Wagga Wagga Cup form guide details must know facts for punters including the trainers, jockeys, barriers and lead-up form of all the runners in the race.

Looking at the age of the horses in the field on the Wagga Wagga Gold Cup form is also crucial as older gallopers have a strong recent strike rate in the event with wins by Landlocked (8YO in 2015), Messene (7YO in 2016), Maurus (9YO in 2020) and Inverloch (7YO in 2021). 

The Wagga Wagga Gold Cup form has gone on to hold in tougher grade races many times over the years including in 2021 when the runner-up Yonkers went on to win the Group 2 Shannon Stakes (1500m) first-up in the spring. 

The Wagga Wagga Gold Cup form 2023 was franked with the second placed Lion’s Roar back that summer for the $2 millionThe Ingham where he ran third before a subsequent Group 3 Summer Cup victory at Randwick’s Boxing Day meet.

2024 Wagga Wagga Cup Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Wagga Wagga Cup 2024 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Results

Multiple Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Winners: Allez Bijou (1981 & 1984); Big Bickies (1979 & 1980); Cop ( 1976 & 1978); What Fun (1967 & 1968); Flash Gem (1957 & 1958); Collison (1948 & 1949).

Goodwood (1999) holds the Wagga Wagga Gold Cup record winning in 1 minute 59:8 seconds.

Notable horses to head the Wagga Wagga Gold Cup race results in recent years include Messene (2016), Stampede (2017), Life Less Ordinary (2018), and Maurus* (2020). 

*House Of Cartier was first past the post in the 2020 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup results but was subsequently disqualified due to a positive swab. 

Past Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Winners

Recent Wagga Wagga Gold Cup winners and place-getters dating back to the year 1997 are detailed in the below table.