The latest edition of the Tristarc Stakes ran on Saturday, October 17, 2026 as part of Melbourne’s 2026 Caulfield Cup Day card and was won by the progresive Tom Dabernig-trained Shadhavar ($3.60).
The Tristarc Stakes 2026 is a race that savvy punters circle well before Caulfield Cup Day, with the Group 2 mares’ feature regularly attracting some of the most talented female gallopers in training. Run over a testing 1400m at Caulfield, the race combines proven black-type performers, emerging spring stars, and seasoned campaigners chasing valuable prize money and prestige during the Melbourne Spring Carnival. With competitive fields, strong form references, and plenty of betting opportunities, it’s a race that consistently generates interest across Australian wagering markets. Check out the latest Tristarc Stakes odds 2026, market moves, field updates, and expert Tristarc Stakes betting 2026 insights at Ladbrokes to stay on top of all the action leading into one of the season’s most important mares-only contests.
2026 Tristarc Stakes Results
The full Tristarc Stakes 2026 Results & Finishing Order will be available below once the race takes place on Saturday, October 17, 2026.
- #4 Shadhavar
- #10 Terilee
- #12 Concord Connie
Shadhavar ($3.60) continued her outstanding spring campaign with a dominant victory in the 2026 Tristarc Stakes results on Caulfield Cup Day, giving trainer Tom Dabernig and jockey Craig Williams another feature race success. The five-year-old daughter of Pride Of Dubai controlled the race from the front and proved far too strong in the straight, defeating Terilee by 2¾ lengths, with favourite Concord Connie a half-head away in third. Sent out at $3.60, Shadhavar stopped the clock in 1:22.28, adding a maiden Group 2 triumph to an already impressive season that included Listed wins in the Regal Roller Stakes and Matrice Stakes. Dabernig said the mare relished stepping back up to 1400m on a drier track where she could find her rhythm, while Williams praised the tough and tenacious mare for her ability to dictate races and put rivals away when allowed to roll along in front. The convincing win has connections eyeing further 1400m targets at Flemington during Cup Week, with Shadhavar continuing to enhance her reputation as one of the state’s in-form mares.
2026 Tristarc Stakes Race Replay
2026 Tristarc Stakes Odds & Finishing Order
The season’s latest Tristarc Stakes 2026 odds and links to our Tristarc Stakes betting markets will be available below the week of the race so stay tuned for the best prices on the Empire Rose Stakes-bound mares this Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival followed by the official finishing order after the event.
| 4. Shadhavar (7) 56kg1×142 | |||
| 10. Terilee (5) 55kg115×3 | |||
| 12. Concord Connie (9) 55kg111×2 | |||
| 11. Butternut Princess (4) 55kgx4378 | |||
| 5. Merrigold (6) 55kg47×60 | |||
| 13. Grand Omaha (2) 55kg339×0 | |||
| 6. Guerite (3) 55kg1x5x5 | |||
| 2. Wrote To Arataki (8) 57kg39×60 | |||
| 3. Oh Too Good (10) 57kg0226x | |||
| 7. Betwitchery (1) 55kg38093 | |||
| 1. Ferivia (11) 57.5kg640×3 | |||
| 8. Recuperato (13)SCRATCHED: | |||
| 9. Gold Medallist (8)SCRATCHED: | |||
| 14. Pillow Fight (7)SCRATCHED: | |||
Tristarc Stakes Tips
Good Tristarc Stakes tips include looking for a mare coming off a top three run in Group company, runners with winning form over the distance and Group 1 performers.
The favourites only have a fair strike rate in the race so looking further down the markets for a mare that ran well last time out at double figures is also a nice Tristarc Stakes betting tip to consider.
Ladbrokes Tip: The Tristarc Stakes is a traditional Empire Rose Stakes lead-up in the spring
2026 Tristarc Stakes Predictions & Best Bets
Our Ladbrokes’ insider Tristarc Stakes 2026 betting tips will be detailed below the week of the race so bookmark this page for the mares to back and sack in the Caulfield Cup Day support act this season.
| 12. Concord Connie (9) 55kg111×2 |
| 4. Shadhavar (7) 56kg1×142 |
| 10. Terilee (5) 55kg115×3 |
The Tristarc Stakes is a Group 2 support race on the Caulfield Cup Day card at Caulfield Racecourse in mid-late October each Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.
The meeting is headlined by the Group 1 $6.5 million Caulfield Cup (2400m) and the Group 1 Thousand Guineas (1600m). Along with the Tristarc Stakes the other Group 2 feature on the program is the Caulfield Sprint (1000m). Other features on the line-up include the Group 3 Moonga Stakes and Group 3 Ethereal Stakes for Oaks-bound fillies.
Run over 1400m under set weights plus penalties, the Tristarc Stakes is open only to mares aged four-years-old and above and offers $300,000 in total prize money.
The Tristarc Stakes makes a nice lead-up into the Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes (1600m) at Flemington on Victoria Derby Day during the Melbourne Cup Carnival. The latest mares to complete the Tristarc Stakes – Empire Rose Stakes double are Red Tracer (2013) and Colette (2021).
Tristarc Stakes Race Info
- Date: Saturday, October 17, 2026
- Track: Caulfield Racecourse
- Distance: 1400m
- Conditions: Mares – Set Weights + Penalties
- Status: Group 2
- Prize Money: $300,000
- First Run: 1982
Tristarc Stakes Betting
Tristarc Stakes betting odds are led each season by quality mares with proven Melbourne form, ability over 1400m – 1600m and those coming off a run in a lead-up race like the Blazer Stakes – now known as the Rose Of Kingston Stakes – or the Group 3 How Now Stakes held the month before. In 2022 beaten How Now Stakes favourite Chain Of Lightning improved on her third in that lead-up race to win the Tristarc Stakes next start.
Upsets are not uncommon however and recent winners to jump at double-figures in Tristarc Stakes betting include La Passe ($26 in 2015), Streama ($10 in 2012), Madam Rouge ($10 in 2020), and Lady In Pink ($17 in 2024).
Colette ($2.45 in 2021) was the last favourite in Tristarc Stakes betting to win.
Tristarc Stakes Field
The Tristarc Stakes race field attracts a collection of the season’s top middle-distance mares many eyeing a Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes (formerly known as the Myer Classic) run over the mile on Derby Day a fortnight later.
The traditional lead-up into the Tristarc Stakes field is Flemington’s Group 2 Rose Of Kingston Stakes (1400m) – formerly known as the Blazer Stakes – run over the same distance two weeks earlier.
La Passe (2015) was the last mare to complete the Blazer Stakes – Tristarc Stakes double. That same year Jessy Belle ran third in both races. More recently, Savatiano (2019) won the Tristarc Stakes improving on a lead-up fourth in the Blazer.
In 2023 Wrote To Arataki improved on a third in the Rose Of Kingston Stakes to win the Tristarc Stakes.
Lady In Pink (7th in 2024) was the last Rose Of Kingston Stakes graduate to win the Tristarc Stakes at her next start.
Tristarc Stakes nominations close the Monday before the race runs on the Saturday followed by the final acceptances and barriers released on the Wednesday.
2026 Tristarc Stakes Field
The official Tristarc Stakes 2026 Final Field & Barriers will be released on the Wednesday of race week and detailed in full below so stay tuned to see which mares line-up in the capacity 16-starter Tristarc Stakes field.
The Tristarc Stakes 2026 final field features a class line-up of potential Empire Rose-bound mares led in betting by the ultra-consistent Contributer four-year-old Concord Connie coming off a devastatingly close first-up second at Mornington when carrying 4kgs more.
| Entrant | Last 6 | Sex | Barrier | Weight | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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1. Ferivia
J: Lachlan Neindorf
T: Phillip & Tommy Stokes |
9640×3 | M | 11 | 57.5kg | |
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2. Wrote To Arataki
J: Dean Yendall
T: Matthew Williams |
139×60 | M | 8 | 57kg | |
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3. Oh Too Good
J: Damian Lane
T: Kevin Daffy |
40226x | M | 10 | 57kg | |
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4. Shadhavar
J: Craig Williams
T: Tom Dabernig |
11×142 | M | 7 | 56kg | |
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5. Merrigold
J: Daniel Stackhouse
T: John Sadler |
147×60 | M | 6 | 55kg | |
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6. Guerite
J: Fred W Kersley
T: Lindsey Smith |
11x5x5 | M | 3 | 55kg | |
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7. Betwitchery
J: Ben Allen
T: L & T Corstens & W Larkin |
x38093 | M | 1 | 55kg | |
| 8. Recuperato (13) Scratched: | |||||
| 9. Gold Medallist (8) Scratched: | |||||
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10. Terilee
J: William Pike
T: Michael Kent |
4115×3 | M | 5 | 55kg | |
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11. Butternut Princess
J: Luke Cartwright
T: Peter G Moody & Katherine Coleman |
6×4378 | M | 4 | 55kg | |
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12. Concord Connie
J: Jett Stanley
T: Charlotte Littlefield |
x111x2 | M | 9 | 55kg | |
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13. Grand Omaha
J: Patrick Moloney
T: Matt Laurie |
2339×0 | M | 2 | 55kg | |
| 14. Pillow Fight (7) Scratched: | |||||
2026 Tristarc Stakes Nominations
The Tristarc Stakes 2026 Nominations are first taken on the Monday leading-up to Caulfield Cup week and the full list of early entries will be available below once released.
Tristarc Stakes Form Guide
The Tristarc Stakes form guide gives punters all the crucial information from trainers, jockeys and barriers to the lead-up runs and track / distance records of the mares in the race.
In recent years the Tristarc Stakes form has held-up in the Myer Classic including in 2013 when Red Tracer completed the double for her Sydney trainer Chris Waller. Red Tracer also ran third in the 2012 Tristarc Stakes.
In 2021 Colette franked the Tristarc Stakes form going on to win the Empire Rose Stakes that Melbourne Cup Carnival.
The Tristarc Stakes form from 2022 was franked with the second placegetter Palaisipan returned in the winter of 2023 to win the Tattersall’s Tiara in Brisbane. The 2025 runner-up, Splash Back, repeated that feat with a win in the 2026 Tiara.
2026 Tristarc Stakes Form Guide
A link to our comprehensive Tristarc Stakes 2026 Form Guide will be available for punters the week of the race.
Past Tristarc Stakes Results
The Tristarc Stakes race results have been a mixed bag between single and double figure winners, but many of the successful mares have gone on to win in Group 1 company.
Notable recent Tristarc Stakes winners include Colette (2021), Global Glamour (2018), Sweet Idea (2014), Red Tracer (2013), Streama (2012), More Joyous (2011), and Typhoon Tracy (2009).
Infinite Grace holds the current Tristarc Stakes race record winning in 2001 in a time of 1 minute 22:19 seconds.
Recent Tristarc Stakes Winners
Recent Tristarc Stakes winners and placegetters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.
| Year | Winner | 2nd | 3rd | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Shadhavar | Terilee | Concord Connie | 1:22.28 |
| 2025 | Abounding | Splash Back | Bossy Nic | 1:24.06 |
| 2024 | Lady In Pink | Revolutionary Miss | Miss Aria | 1:26.22 |
| 2023 | Wrote To Arataki | Shuffle Dancer | Call Di | 1:23.53 |
| 2022 | Chain Of Lightning | Palaisipan | Pride Of Jenni | 1:24.9 |
| 2021 | Colette | Steinem | Aidensfield | 1:24.9 |
| 2020 | Madam Rouge | She Shao Fly | Felicia | 1:27.7 |
| 2019 | Savatiano | Angelic Ruler | Spanish Whisper | 1:24.2 |
| 2018 | Shumookh | Invincibella | Aloisia | 1:25.6 |
| 2017 | Global Glamour | Cool Passion | Shillelagh | 1:23.8 |
| 2016 | First Seal | Tycoon Tara | Pearls | 1:25.1 |
| 2015 | La Passe | Solicit | Jessy Belle | 1:23.7 |
| 2014 | Sweet Idea | Girl Guide | Catkins | 1:25.4 |
| 2013 | Red Tracer | Koonoomoo | Ava’s Delight | 1:23.1 |
| 2012 | Streama | Pear Tart | Red Tracer | 1:24.7 |
| 2011 | More Joyous | Sister Madly | Response | 1:22.8 |
| 2010 | Culminate | Jersey Lily | Marquardt | 1:26.5 |
| 2009 | Typhoon Tracy | Hot Danish | Glowlamp | 1:22.8 |
| 2008 | Mimi Lebrock | Tan Tat De Lago | Absolutely Fabulous | 1.23.3 |
| 2007 | Miss Fantabulous | Bellini Rose | Like It Is | 1:23.0 |
| 2006 | Nuclear Free | Belle Bizarre | Divine Madonna | 1:23.0 |
| 2005 | Infinite Grace | Candy Vale | Storm Alert | 1:22.1 |
| 2004 | Our Egyptian Raine | Infinite Grace | Skewiff | 1:24.5 |
| 2003 | Infinite Grace | Forum Floozie | Faith Hill | 1:23.0 |
| 2002 | Reactive | Gentle Genius | Taimana | 1:23.6 |
| 2001 | Pernod | Kaemess | Calm Smyzer | 1:24.2 |
| 2000 | Lady Marion | Pace Invader | Spice Doll | 1:23.0 |