Skyline Stakes

Ladbrokes Tip: The Skyline Stakes is a traditional lead-up to the Golden Slipper Stakes

The latst edition of the Skyline Stakes took place on Saturday, February 28, 2026 as a key Golden Slipper lead-up race in Sydney and was won in a narrow upset by the Chris Waller-trained Campione D’Italia ($41). 

2026 Skyline Stakes Results

The full Skyline Stakes 2026 Results & Finishing Order will be known on Saturday, February 28, 2026 and announced below.

Chris Waller’s progressive Snitzel colt Campione D’Italia ($41) has earned a ballot free ride into the Golden Slipper field on March 21 after his shock victory in the 2026 Skyline Stakes results. Ridden second-up by Tommy Berry, the youngster improved notably on his dead last on debut to make up lots of late ground and narrowly deny his previously unraced stablemate Central Europe in a blanket finish where many of the better fancied finished close with excuses. He has firmed in from $101 to $21 in futures Slipper betting. 

2026 Skyline Stakes Odds

The latest Skyline Stakes 2026 betting odds will be available below the week of the race so, stay tuned for the best Randwick racing markets on the Golden Slipper Stakes lead-up this autumn followed by the official Skyline Stakes results after the event.

Skyline Stakes Tips

Skyline Stakes tips favour those two-year-olds coming off good lead-up runs in Sydney showing good speed over 1200m. Upsets are uncommon in the race and horses paying under $10 make the best Skyline Stakes tips.

Many youngsters are stepping up from 1100m to 1200m for the first time, so the ability to run out that extra 100m early in their career is essential.

2026 Skyline Stakes Tips

The insider Ladbrokes’ Skyline Stakes 2026 tips will be found below the week of the race to sort the best from the rest in the official Golden Slipper Stakes lead-up.

The Skyline Stakes is one of a number of Group 2 support races run on Verry Elleegant Stakes Day at Randwick Racecourse on a Saturday in late February during the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.

Worth $300,000 in total prize money the Skyline Stakes winner takes out $170,000 in stakes for connections, which is the same for the fillies’ equivalent with the Sweet Embrace Stakes held on the same day.

The Skyline Stakes winner is also exempt from ballot from the coveted Group 1 $5 million Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m) held at Rosehill the following month. The last two-year-old to complete the Skyline Stakes – Golden Slipper Stakes double was Dance Hero (2004).

The 2023 Golden Slipper winner Shinzo meanwhile came via a lead-up second in that year’s Skyline Stakes results.

Skyline Stakes Race Facts

• Date: Saturday, February 28, 2026
• Track: Royal Randwick Racecourse
• Distance: 1200m
• Conditions: 2YO Colts & Geldings – Set Weights
• Status: Group 2
• Prize Money: $300,000
• First Run: 1979

Skyline Stakes Betting

Skyline Stakes betting is usually led by promising two-year-old gallopers coming off good lead-up runs in Sydney.

Recent last start winners to salute in the Skyline Stakes include Inglis Millennium champ Rivellino (2025), the Gold Coast’s Magic Millions 2YO Classic champ Storm Boy (2024), Microphone (2019) who came off a Talindert Stakes success in Melbourne, Santos (2018) who was odds-on favourite, Exosphere (2015), Valentina (2014), and Uate (2011).

The Skyline Stakes is also a lead-up to the Golden Slipper Stakes and so looking for value in the early Group 1 racing markets based on the results of this lead-up is a nice tip.

There was an upset in the 2020 edition of the Slipper lead-up with Mamaragan winning on debut as a $19 outsider in Skyline Stakes betting, and again in 2022 with Promitto winning at $14 on a Heavy (10) track.

Corniche won for Godolphin in 2023 at $7 in Skyline betting after placings in the Blue Diamond Preview (2nd) and Blue Diamond Prelude (3rd) in Melbourne.

Storm Boy ($1.18 in 2024) was the last Skyline Stakes favourite to salute at an odds-on quote for Waterhouse & Bott.

There was a notable upset in 2026 with Campione D’Italia saluting at Skyline Stakes odds of $41!

Skyline Stakes Field

The Skyline Stakes race field attracts a collection of the season’s most promising two-year-old colts and geldings that are heading towards a run in the world’s richest race for juveniles, the Golden Slipper Stakes.

Skyline Stakes runners may back-up only a week later in the Group 2 Todman Stakes (1200m), however youngsters usually contest one or the other leading into the Golden Slipper.

Another possible race for Skyline Stakes graduates each year is the Group 3 Pago Pago Stakes (1200m) run at Rosehill on Coolmore Classic Day.

In 2022 Rise Of The Masses improved on a second in the Skyline Stakes to win the Pago Pago Stakes next start.

The Skyline Stakes nominations close on the Monday before the race with the final field and barriers out on the Wednesday.

2026 Skyline Stakes Field

The official Skyline Stakes 2026 field and barrier draw for the two-year-olds’ clash on Verry Elleegant Stakes Day will be published below once released the Wednesday of race week so stay tuned.

The Skyline Stakes 2026 final field features a bumper line-up of two-year-old colts and geldings including the widely drawn but undefeated Chris Waller-trained Inglis Millennium winner Fireball and Bjorn Baker’s early Golden Slipper favourite Warwoven also chasing a hat-trick and drawn better with the rails run.

Randwick R5

Final Race time: 

	Entrant	Last 6	Sex	Barrier	Weight
	1. Fireball J: James McDonald T: Chris Waller	1x1	C	10	56.5kg
	2. Knightsbridge J: Tim Clark T: Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	5x15	C	4	56.5kg
	3. Star Of Jamaica J: Zac Lloyd T: Chris & Corey Munce	214	C	9	56.5kg
	4. Warwoven J: Rachel King T: Bjorn Baker	11	C	1	56.5kg
	5. Plagiarism J: Adam Hyeronimus T: Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	3x6	C	7	56.5kg
	6. Outspan (13)  Scratched:
	7. High Alert J: Nash Rawiller T: Anthony & Sam Freedman	45	C	3	56.5kg
	8. Gold Globe (14)  Scratched:
	9. Campione D'italia J: Tommy Berry T: Chris Waller	0	C	6	56.5kg
	10. Nomadic (3)  Scratched:
	11. Central Europe J: Jason Collett T: Chris Waller		C	5	56.5kg
	12. Concrete Storm (2)  Scratched:
	13. Spring Ruler J: Tom Sherry T: Clarry Conners		G	2	56.5kg
	14. Zensen J: Craig Williams T: Gary Portelli		C	8	56.5kg

View Results

2026 Skyline Stakes Nominations

Nominations for the Skyline Stakes 2026 close the Monday of race week.

	Last 10	Horse	Sex	Age	Trainer	Hcp Rating
1	44x	ANTHROPOID	C	2	Brad Widdup
2	0	CAMPIONE D’ITALIA	C	2	Chris Waller
3		CENTRAL EUROPE	C	2	Chris Waller
4		CONCRETE STORM (NZ)	C	2	John O’Shea & Tom Charlton
5	1×1	FIREBALL	C	2	Chris Waller
6	45	GOLD GLOBE	G	2	David Payne
7	45	HIGH ALERT	C	2	Anthony & Sam Freedman
8	5×15	KNIGHTSBRIDGE	C	2	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott
9	8	NOMADIC	C	2	John Thompson
10	518	OUTSPAN	C	2	Michael Freedman
11	3×6	PLAGIARISM	C	2	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott
12		SPRING RULER	G	2	Clarry Conners
13	214	STAR OF JAMAICA	C	2	Chris & Corey Munce
14	6x	TENENBAUM	C	2	Brad Widdup
15	3122	TORNADO VALLEY	C	2	Ciaron Maher
16	11	WARWOVEN	C	2	Bjorn Baker
17	84	WRITTEN IN MUNNY	C	2	Richard & Will Freedman
18		ZENSEN	C	2	Gary Portelli

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Skyline Stakes Form Guide

The Skyline Stakes form guide lists everything from the jockeys and trainers to the barriers for all the runners in the field.

The Skyline Stakes form has stacked up in better autumn features in recent years including in 2011 when the winner Uate went on to run second to Helmet in the Group 1 Inglis Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) next start.

In 2015 Exosphere won the Skyline Stakes before coming back in the spring to win that year’s Group 1 Golden Rose Stakes (1400m). Back in 2009 Manhattan Rain backed up from his Skyline Stakes win to finish a brave third to Phelan Ready in the Golden Slipper Stakes.

More recently Microphone completed the Skyline Stakes – ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes double with a Golden Slipper second in between.

In 2020 after winning the Skyline Stakes on debut in an upset, Mamaragan went on to frank the form by running third in both the Golden Slipper and Inglis Sires’ results.

The 2021 Skyline Stakes third placed Captivant went on to win that year’s Group 1 Champagne Stakes (1600m), while the runner-up in the Skyline Hilal ran second in both the Inglis Sires’ and Champagne in the autumn before a $1 million Bondi Stakes victory in the spring.

The Skyline Stakes 2024 form was franked with the winner, Storm Boy, running a next-up third in that year’s Golden Slipper Stakes trifecta.

2026 Skyline Stakes Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Skyline Stakes 2026 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

CLICK HERE FOR OUR FULL 2026 SKYLINE STAKES FORM GUIDE

Past Skyline Stakes Results

Favourites and single-figure fancies have a strong record in the Skyline Stakes race results over the past decade. The race is traditionally run by a quality youngster and many subsequent stallions have taken it out.

Notable recent Skyline Stakes winners include Storm Boy (2024), Microphone (2019), All The Talk (2013), Hinchinbrook (2010), Manhattan Rain (2009), Snitzel (2005), and Choisir (2002).

Recent Skyline Stakes Winners

Past Skyline Stakes winners and placegetters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.

Year	Winner	Runner-Up	Third	Time
2026	Campione D’Italia	Central Europe	Star Of Jamaica	1:10.09
2025	Rivellino	Skyhook	Quietly Arrogant	1:10.39
2024	Storm Boy	Prost	Duvana	1:09.98
2023	Corniche	Shinzo	Bases Loaded	1:10.44
2022	Promitto	Rise Of The Masses	Jemeldi	1:15.45
2021	O’President	Hilal	Captivant	1:10.99
2020	Mamaragan	Osamu	Aim	1:09.52
2019	Microphone	Cosmic Force	Castelvecchio	1:09.33
2018	Santos	Spin	Legend Of Condor	1:11.15
2017	Diamond Tathagata	Coruscate	Single Bullet	1:14.22
2016	Good Standing	Lionhearted	Souchez	1:09.0
2015	Exosphere	Odyssey Moon	Wolf Cry	1:10.6
2014	Valentia	Mr Bogart	Modoc	1:11.4
2013	All The Talk	Octane Flyer	Dothraki	1:09.7
2012	Ashokan	Raceway	Collect	1:10.9
2011	Uate	Hot Snitzel	Flight Of Pegasus	1:09.7
2010	Hinchinbrook	Brightexpectations	Pressday	1:08.8
2009	Manhattan Rain	The Mikado	Romanus	1:10.3
2008	All American	Over the Wicket	Dubai To Sydney	1.11.2
2007	Murtajill	Husson Lightning	Pistols	1.09.6
2006	Casino Prince	Empire’s Choice	My Middi	1.11.1
2005	Snitzel	Stratum	Paratroopers	1:10.0
2004	Dance Hero	Fastnet Rock	Econsul	1:10.7
2003	Kusi	Face Value	Resistor	1:10.0
2002	Choisir	Emerging Star	Charlie Bub	1:10.3
2001	Viscount	Excellerator	Shags	1:10.3
2000	Kootoomootoo	Assertive Lad	Veteran	1:11.8

FAQ

Who won the 2026 Skyline Stakes?

The 2026 Skyline Stakes was won by two-year-old Snitzel colt Campione D’Italia at a huge price of $41 for trainer Chris Waller with jockey Tommy Berry aboard on 56.5kg from barrier 6 to win by 0.01 lengths on a Soft (6) track in a time of 1:10.09.

Who won the 2025 Skyline Stakes?

The 2025 Skyline Stakes was won by Rivellino at $5.50 for trainer Kris Lees with jockey Jason Collett aboard from barrier 9 on 55.5kg to salute by 0.14 lengths in a time of 1:10.39.

When is the Skyline Stakes 2026?

Saturday, February 28, 2026

What is the prize money for the Skyline Stakes 2026?

$300,000

Where is the Skyline Stakes 2026?

Randwick Racecourse, Alison Rd, Randwick NSW 2031.

How do I bet on the 2026 Skyline Stakes?

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Which horse will win the 2026 Skyline Stakes?

The best way to pick which horse will win the Skyline Stakes 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.