Ladbrokes Tip: The Hobart Cup – Launceston Cup double is a popular bet with punters each summer!
The latest edition of the Ladbrokes Hobart Cup took place on Sunday, February 8, 2026 as the highlight of the Hobart Cup Carnival and was won narrowly by Imogen Miller’s $31 outsider Blonde Star in a new track record time (2:29.67).
2026 Ladbrokes Hobart Cup Results
The full Ladbrokes Hobart Cup 2026 Results & Finishing Order will be known on Sunday, February 8, 2026 and published right here so stay tuned.
- #9 Blonde Star
- #8 Ziryab
- #6 Distrustful Award
Imogen Miller’s underrated five-year-old Starcraft mare Blonde Star ($31) proved a staying revelation scoring a narrow upset win in the 2026 Ladbrokes Hobart Cup results on Sunday, producing a tough, sustained finish to outstay her rivals and claim the Tasmanian feature in impressive fashion. Settling into a perfect rhythm midfield, the mare crept into the race approaching the turn before grinding home strongly in the straight, asserting her class late to secure the biggest victory of her career. She held off the challengers in a photo-thriller to score by the barest of margins and continue her good Hobart record winning in a new track best of 2:29.67.
2026 Ladbrokes Hobart Cup Odds & Results
The updated Hobart Cup 2026 betting odds will be available below as soon as released followed by the official Ladbrokes Hobart Cup results after the event.
| 9. Blonde Star (5) J: Erica Byrne Burke 54kg 51345T: Imogen Miller | ||
| 8. Ziryab (10) J: Beau Mertens 54.5kg 96268T: Ciaron Maher | ||
| 6. Distrustful Award (1) J: Chloe Wells 56kg 7x663T: Peter Luttrell | ||
| 2. Taramansour (11) J: Luke Currie 60kg 80815T: Phillip Stokes | ||
| 1. Bold Soul (8) J: Jake Noonan 60kg x8447T: Patrick & Michelle Payne | ||
| 4. Strawberry Rock (13) J: John Allen 57.5kg 06985T: Ciaron Maher | ||
| 7. Wineglass Bay (4) J: Jabez Johnstone 56kg 08633T: John Blacker | ||
| 12. Zulu Angel (6) J: Jackson Radley 54kg 78806T: John Blacker | ||
| 11. Ashfall (3) J: Liam Riordan 54kg 97787T: Ashley Meaburn | ||
| 13. Iffycould (9) J: Jett Stanley 54kg 87423T: John Keys | ||
| 10. Just A Needs (2) J: Troy Baker 54kg 58440T: John Luttrell | ||
| 5. Asva (12) J: Kelvin Sanderson 56kg 37112T: Glenn Stevenson | ||
| 3. Bank Maur (7) J: Craig Newitt 59.5kg x9031T: Richard Laming |
Hobart Cup Tips
Hobart Cup tips include backing runners with a previous win over the 2400m, those proven at the Hobart track and runners under double figures in betting.
In-form mares also make a good Hobart Cup tip with a host of female gallopers winning the race in recent years, most recently Blonde Star (2026).
2026 Hobart Cup Tips
Our expert Hobart Cup 2026 tips will be available below the week of the race so stay tuned.
| 8. Ziryab (10) J: Beau Mertens 54.5kg 96268T: Ciaron Maher |
| 7. Wineglass Bay (4) J: Jabez Johnstone 56kg 08633T: John Blacker |
| 13. Iffycould (9) J: Jett Stanley 54kg 87423T: John Keys |
The Ladbrokes Hobart Cup is a 2400m staying test run and won at Hobart Racecourse each February during the popular Tasmanian Summer Racing Carnival.
The handicap event currently offers $250,000 in stakes and is a time-honoured event first run in 1875.
Currently run on a Sunday as the sole Group race feature of Hobart Cup Day, the race serves as a nice lead-up into the Group 3 Launceston Cup (2400m) a fortnight later. Eastender (2019) was the last horse to complete the Hobart Cup – Launceston Cup double in the same year.
In 2024 the Hobart Cup was won by former two-time Launceston Cup champion Aurora’s Symphony (2022, 2023).
Plenty of quality stayers have taken out the Hobart Cup over the event’s rich history, most famously Piping Lane in 1972 who went on to win that spring’s iconic Melbourne Cup race at Flemington.
Ladbrokes Hobart Cup Race Info
- Date: Sunday, February 8, 2026
- Track: Hobart Racecourse
- Distance: 2400m
- Conditions: Open Handicap
- Status: Group 3
- Prize Money: $300,000
- First Run: 1875
Hobart Cup Betting
Hobart Cup betting markets are led by in-form summer stayers from local Tasmanian stables with few interstate raiders making the trip.
The Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott-trained Military Mission (2023) from Sydney, Symon Wilde’s Warrnambool-based gelding Aurora’s Symphony (2024), and Ciaron Maher’s Victorian trained Strawberry Rock (2025) are the latest interstate raiders to win the Hobart Cup.
Runners with previous winning form at the track, the proven mile and a half performers, and those with past Black-Type wins on their CV sit high up the Hobart Cup odds each season.
Favourites have a solid recent record in the Hobart Cup including back-to-back wins by Toorak Affair ($3.40 in 2020) and Double You Tee ($2.80 in 2021).
There was a blowout Hobart Cup winner in 2026 meanwhile with Blonde Star winning in a new track record time at a $31 starting price.
Hobart Cup Field
The Hobart Cup race field attracts a quality line-up of mainly Tasmanian-trained stayers targeting a next-up run in the Launceston Cup at the state’s sister track over the same distance.
Many horses have contested the race previously with the Hobart Cup field often made-up of similar runners to the summer prior.
Hobart Cup nominations are taken the Monday before the race with final acceptances and barriers out on the Wednesday.
2026 Ladbrokes Hobart Cup Field & Barrier Draw
The official Ladbrokes Hobart Cup 2026 Field & Barriers are announced by Tas Racing on the Wednesday of race week and published in full below so stay tuned for the full line-up of top summer stayers.
The Ladbrokes Hobart Cup 2026 final field features a quality line-up of summer stayers including Bank Maur coming off a two-length romp home here in the Summer Cup and Hobart track specialist Wineglass Bay.
| Entrant | Last 6 | Sex | Barrier | Weight | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1. Bold Soul
J: Jake Noonan
T: Patrick & Michelle Payne |
3x8447 | G | 8 | 60kg | |
|
2. Taramansour
J: Luke Currie
T: Phillip Stokes |
380815 | G | 11 | 60kg | |
|
3. Bank Maur
J: Craig Newitt
T: Richard Laming |
qx9031 | G | 7 | 59.5kg | |
|
4. Strawberry Rock
J: John Allen
T: Ciaron Maher |
006985 | G | 13 | 57.5kg | |
|
5. Asva
J: Kelvin Sanderson
T: Glenn Stevenson |
x37112 | G | 12 | 56kg | |
|
6. Distrustful Award
J: Chloe Wells
T: Peter Luttrell |
67x663 | G | 1 | 56kg | |
|
7. Wineglass Bay
J: Jabez Johnstone
T: John Blacker |
x08633 | G | 4 | 56kg | |
|
8. Ziryab
J: Beau Mertens
T: Ciaron Maher |
596268 | G | 10 | 54.5kg | |
|
9. Blonde Star
J: Erica Byrne Burke
T: Imogen Miller |
x51345 | M | 5 | 54kg | |
|
10. Just A Needs
J: Troy Baker
T: John Luttrell |
x58440 | M | 2 | 54kg | |
|
11. Ashfall
J: Liam Riordan
T: Ashley Meaburn |
097787 | G | 3 | 54kg | |
|
12. Zulu Angel
J: Jackson Radley
T: John Blacker |
078806 | G | 6 | 54kg | |
|
13. Iffycould
J: Jett Stanley
T: John Keys |
x87423 | G | 9 | 54kg |
2026 Hobart Cup Nominations
The Hobart Cup 2026 nominations are taken on the Monday leading-up to the event and the list of early entries will be available below once announced.
2026 Ladbrokes Hobart Cup nominations extended until 10:00am (AEDT) – 03/02/2026
| Last 10 | Horse | Sex | Age | Trainer | Hcp Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 213×097787 | ASHFALL | G | 5 | Ashley Meaburn | 71 |
| 2 | 4322×37112 | ASVA (NZ) | G | 6 | Glenn Stevenson | 89 |
| 3 | 1677Dx9031 | BANK MAUR | G | 6 | Richard Laming | 96 |
| 4 | 1611×51345 | BLONDE STAR | M | 5 | Imogen Miller | 81 |
| 5 | 12413×8447 | BOLD SOUL (NZ) | G | 5 | Patrick & Michelle Payne | 97 |
| 6 | x37567x663 | DISTRUSTFUL AWARD | G | 6 | Peter Luttrell | 89 |
| 7 | 0x38x87423 | IFFYCOULD (NZ) | G | 7 | John Keys | 64 |
| 8 | 6×44434112 | JOHNNIE PINCH | G | 5 | John Keys | 71 |
| 9 | 4233×58440 | JUST A NEEDS | M | 6 | John Luttrell | 74 |
| 10 | 5x3600x058 | NIGHT ENDEAVOR (FR) | G | 7 | Ciaron Maher | 84 |
| 11 | 260×006985 | STRAWBERRY ROCK (IRE) | G | 9 | Ciaron Maher | 92 |
| 12 | 6×74911231 | SUNTORA | M | 4 | Nick Ryan | 86 |
| 13 | 0005380815 | TARAMANSOUR (IRE) | G | 9 | Phillip Stokes | 97 |
| 14 | x111x08633 | WINEGLASS BAY (IRE) | G | 7 | John Blacker | 89 |
| 15 | 133×596268 | ZIRYAB (GB) | G | 6 | Ciaron Maher | 86 |
| 16 | 562×078806 | ZULU ANGEL | G | 6 | John Blacker | 71 |
Table Credit: Racing Australia.
Hobart Cup Form Guide
The Hobart Cup form guide details key details for punters including the race field, lead-up runs, saddlecloth numbers, jockeys, barriers and weights of each horse.
The event serves as a key lead-up into Tasmania’s Launceston Cup, but the Hobart Cup form has also held in bigger and better races many times over the years including in 2007 when the winner Blutigeroo went on to win that year’s Group 1 Tancred Stakes (The BMW) in Sydney.
The 2022 Hobart Cup form was franked with the winner Ho Ho Khan second next-up in the Launceston Cup before heading to Flemington for the Group 1 Australian Cup (2000m) where he ran a brave fourth behind Duais at 60/1.
In 2023 the Hobart Cup third place-getter Spirit Ridge franked the form with top three runs in a host of other key races that year including the Launceston Cup (3rd), Grafton Cup (3rd), Wyong Cup (3rd), Newcastle Gold Cup (2nd), and most notably a second in the Group 1 The Metropolitan over 2400m in Sydney that spring.
2026 Ladbrokes Hobart Cup Form Guide
A link to our comprehensive Ladbrokes Hobart Cup 2026 Form Guide will be provided below the week of the race.
CLICK HERE FOR OUR FULL 2026 LADBROKES HOBART CUP FORM GUIDE
Past Hobart Cup Results
The Hobart Cup race results have been dominated by local Tasmanian-trained horses under $10 in betting.
Notable Hobart Cup winners include that year’s Melbourne Cup winner Piping Lane (1972), Frontier Boy (1993), Palos Verdes (1997) who later produced Cox Plate hero El Segundo, St. Andrews (2002), Blutigeroo (2007), Growl (2010), recent dual champion Geegees Blackflash (2012 & 2015), Eastender (2019) who completed the Devonport Cup/Hobart Cup/ Launceston Cup treble, and two-time Launceston Cup winner Aurora’s Symphony (2024).
Blonde Star (2026) was the last Hobart Cup winning mare.
Blonde Star holds the current Hobart Cup track record winning in 2026 in a time of 2 minutes 29.67 seconds.
Hobart Cup Winners
Past Hobart Cup winners and placegetters going back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.
| Year | Winner | Second | Third |
| 2026 | Blonde Star | Ziryab | Distrustful Award |
| 2025 | Strawberry Rock | Promises Kept | Alhambra Lad |
| 2024 | Aurora’s Symphony | Wyclif | Grand Pierro |
| 2023 | Military Mission | Travelling Gigolo | Spirit Ridge |
| 2022 | Ho Ho Khan | In A Twinkling | White Hawk |
| 2021 | Double You Tee | Classic Weiwei | Barade |
| 2020 | Toorak Affair | Shady Hustle | Glass Warrior |
| 2019 | Eastender | Lamborghini | Appmat |
| 2018 | Pretty Punk | Andrea Mantegna | Fastnet Dragon |
| 2017 | Count Da Vinci | Big Duke | Gladstone |
| 2016 | Up Cups | Geegees Goldengirl | Beliveau |
| 2015 | Geegees Blackflash | Genuine Lad | Banca Mo |
| 2014 | Epingle | Geegees Blackflash | Gee Gee’s La Quita |
| 2013 | Hurdy Gurdy Man | The Cleaner | Geegees Blackflash |
| 2012 | Geegees Blackflash | Viking Hero | Dream Flyer |
| 2011 | Bid Spotter | Organised | Davcon |
| 2010 | Growl | De Fine Lago | Dream Pedlar |
| 2009 | Gotta Keep Cool | Zavite | Dream Pedlar |
| 2008 | Offenbach | Jacques Le Naif | Ista Kareem |
| 2007 | Blutigeroo | Rubijon | Field Hunter |
| 2006 | True Courser | Di’s Angel | Petite Oiseau |
| 2005 | Our Dashing Dane | Under The Bridge | Surge Of Power |
| 2004 | Zacielo | Dream Quest | Liquid Lunch |
| 2003 | Jeune’s Mark | The Mighty Lions | St. Andrews |
| 2002 | St. Andrews | Imax | Lord Baracus |
| 2001 | Brorama Star | Lord Baracus | Naucho |
| 2000 | Lord Baracus | Break The Bank | Torbellino |
FAQ
Who won the 2026 Ladbrokes Hobart Cup?
The 2026 Ladbrokes Hobart Cup was won by five-year-old Starcraft mare Blonde Star at a big starting price of $31 for trainer Imogen Miller with jockey Erica Byrne Burke aboard on 54kg from barrier 5 to win by 0.02 lengths on a Soft (5) track in a new record time of 2:29.67.
Who won the 2025 Ladbrokes Hobart Cup?
The 2025 Ladbrokes Hobart Cup was won by Strawberry Rock at $6 for trainer Ciaron Maher with Declan Bates in the saddle from barrier six on 55kg to salute by 0.2 lengths in 2:30.74.
When is the Ladbrokes Hobart Cup 2026?
Sunday, February 8, 2026What is the prize money for the Ladbrokes Hobart Cup 2026?
$250,000
Where is the Ladbrokes Hobart Cup 2026?
Hobart Racecourse, 6 Goodwood Road, Glenorchy, TAS 7010.
How do I bet on the 2026 Ladbrokes Hobart Cup?
Bet online or via the latest iOS/Android apps with Ladbrokes.
The first step is to create an account at ladbrokes.com.au. The process is quick and easy!
Once you've created your account you can make a deposit via credit card, or any other of our secure payment methods. Next up, head to the racing page and find the race and runner that's right for you.
Which horse will win the 2026 Ladbrokes Hobart Cup?
The best way to pick which horse will win the Ladbrokes Hobart Cup is to take into account the form, assess the barriers, and consider the weight the horse will carry (among other factors). Check out ladbrokes.com.au in the lead up to the race for full form information.