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The Turnbull Stakes is a Group 1 race for staying types held in early October at Flemington Racecourse.

The Turnbull Stakes currently runs on the same Saturday as the Epsom Handicap at Randwick in Sydney. Offering $750,000 in prize money, the event is the marquee race at the meeting.

Turnbull Stakes 2025 Odds

Flemington R0
Turnbull Stakes 2000m (Pre-Noms)

Open Race time:  1759550400

Runner Details	Win	Place
Via Sistina T:	2.00	1.25
Treasurethe Moment T:	9.00	3.00
Buckaroo T:	11.00	3.50
Ceolwulf T:	11.00	3.50
Antino T:	15.00	4.50
Eliyass T:	15.00	4.50
Lindermann T:	15.00	4.50
Mr Brightside T:	15.00	4.50
Pride Of Jenni T:	15.00	4.50
Tom Kitten T:	15.00	4.50
Zardozi T:	15.00	4.50
Duke De Sessa T:	17.00	5.00
Light Infantry Man T:	17.00	5.00
Arapaho T:	26.00	7.25
Autumn Glow T:	26.00	7.25
El Castello T:	26.00	7.25
Middle Earth T:	26.00	7.25
Moira T:	26.00	7.25
Royal Patronage T:	26.00	7.25
Snazzytavi T:	26.00	7.25
Stefi Magnetica T:	26.00	7.25
Swiftfalcon T:	26.00	7.25
Vauban T:	26.00	7.25
Fawkner Park T:	34.00	9.25
Gringotts T:	34.00	9.25
Attrition T:	51.00	13.50
Circle Of Fire T:	51.00	13.50
Land Legend T:	51.00	13.50
River Of Stars T:	51.00	13.50
Deakin T:	101.00	26.00
Okita Soushi T:	101.00	26.00
Willydoit T:	101.00	26.00

Odds are subject to fluctuation. For current odds on all of our live racing markets, please visit www.ladbrokes.com.au/racing.
Data retrieved: 23/05/2025 04:41:19 AM (Australia/Brisbane)

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There are five other Group status races on the Turnbull Stakes Day card with the Group 2 The Bart Cummings (2500m) for Caulfield Cup types.

The Turnbull Stakes is for four-year-old entries and up run under set weight conditions plus penalties. This 2000m middle-distance event always attracts an elite field of highly competitive runners, many of which use the race as a key lead-up to the carnival’s feature races including the Caulfield and Melbourne Cup races.

Since being awarded Group 1 status however, the Turnbull Stakes is now seen as a premier race in its own right and not simply a preparatory race. As the first quality middle-distance race at the carnival, the Turnbull Stakes provides stayers with a chance to run over the more suitable 2000m building up to the longer 2400m and 3200m races later in the spring.

In past years the Turnbull Stakes has proven a truly excellent guide to the spring feature races, with the Turnbull Stakes providing a number of Cox Plate winners. The Turnbull Stakes paired with any of these three later events makes for some great betting doubles throughout the carnival. Champion mare Winx completed the Turnbull Stakes – Cox Plate double in both 2017 and 2018, a feat achieved again by another Waller trained mare Via Sistina in 2024.

Trainer Chris Waller made it four wins on the trot in the Turnbull Stakes results with Kings Will Dream saluting in 2019 followed by Verry Elleegant in 2020.

Verry Elleegant (2020) and Incentivise (2021) are the last runners to complete the Turnbull Stakes – Caulfield Cup double.

The Turnbull Stakes form was further franked in the 2021 Melbourne Cup results with the 2020 winner Verry Elleegant defeating the 2021 champ Incentivise in the iconic two-mile showdown that spring.

In 2023 the Turnbull Stakes was won by the previous year’s Melbourne Cup winner Gold Trip who went on to frank the form with a third in that season’s Caulfield Cup results. West Wind Blows meanwhile ran second in both the Turnbull and Caulfield Cup in 2023, while Soulcombe was third in the Turnbull before his Melbourne Cup second to Without A Fight that year.

Chris Waller posted his sixth Turnbull Stakes win in 10 years in 2024 training the quinella with Via Sistina narrowly beating Buckaroo.

Via Sistina went on to frank the 2024 Turnbull Stakes form with her runaway eight-length Cox Plate win at The Valley next start. She went on to win a host more Group 1 races including that year’s Champions Stakes during the Melbourne Cup Carnival and the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

The 2025 Turnbull Stakes runs on Saturday October 4, 2025 as a key Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate lead-up. 

2025 Turnbull Stakes
Date:	Saturday October 4, 2025
Track:	Flemington Racecourse
Distance:	2000m
Conditions:	4YO & Up – Set Weights + Penalties
Status:	Group 1
Prize Money:	$750,000
Inaugurated:	1948

2025 Turnbull Stakes Results

• 1st: TBD
• 2nd: TBD
• 3rd: TBD

2025 Turnbull Stakes Betting

The Turnbull Stakes 2025 betting markets and updated odds from Ladbrokes.com.au will be available at Races.com.au as soon as released.

Verry Elleegant ($5 in 2020) was the last Turnbull Stakes favourite to salute for the punters. Verry Elleegant jumped the $2.10 favourite in the 2021 Turnbull Stakes but only managed to run fourth to Incentivise ($2.70).

There was a notable upset in 2022 with Smokin’ Romans winning at Turnbull Stakes odds of $21, and again in 2023 with the previous year’s Melbourne Cup hero Gold Trip saluting at $19.

2025 Turnbull Stakes Form

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2025 Turnbull Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Turnbull Stakes 2025 Tips on the Spring Cups’ lead-up this season.

• To Win: TBD

2025 Turnbull Stakes Field

The Turnbull Stakes field attracts a quality line-up of spring gallopers each year coming via a host of different lead-up races including the Group 1 Underwood Stakes (1800m).

Plenty of runners come into the Turnbull Stakes field off a Sydney campaign and in 2015 and 2016 both champions of the Flemington Group 1 won the Group 2 Hill Stakes at Randwick in the lead-up with Preferment and Hartnell respectively doing the double. Note, the Hill Stakes now takes place on the same day as the Turnbull.

Four-time Cox Plate hero won the 2017 and 2018 editions of the Turnbull Stakes on the back of her back-to-back Group 1 George Main Stakes victories in Sydney.

The official Turnbull Stakes 2025 Final Field & Barriers will be announced on the Wednesday of race week and published in full below.

2025 Turnbull Stakes Nominations

The 2025 Turnbull Stakes nominations are released by Racing Victoria on the Monday leading-up to Turnbull Stakes Day.

Turnbull Stakes History

Named in honour of the incumbent VRC Chairman Mr. Richard Turnbull, the Turnbull Stakes was first run in 1948 when Beau Gem claimed victory. It was originally a 12 furlong (approx. 2400m) Principal race up until 1972 when the distance was changed to the shorter length of 2000m with Australia’s adoption of the metric system.

The race was run as a handicap event through until 1963 when weight-for-age conditions were adopted until 1970 when eventually the Turnbull Stakes became a set weights plus penalties race. In 1979 the event was elevated to Group 2 status and remained the same until 2006 when it was installed as a Group 1 event following the win of the infamous Makybe Diva in 2005.

Notable winners of the Turnbull Stakes include Rising Fast (1954), Galilee (1968), Super Impose (1989), Let’s Elope (1991), Naturalism (1992), Sunline (2000), Northerly (2002), and Efficient (2009).

In 2012 Green Moon won the Turnbull Stakes before taking out the ‘race that stops the nation’ with a Melbourne Cup victory two starts later on the first Tuesday of November.

One of the most famous recent Turnbull Stakes winners was Winx who won her Flemington debut in the race in 2017 by six and a half lengths and then successfully defended her Turnbull Stakes title in 2018.

Via Sistina won the 2024 Turnbull Stakes before an eight-length romp home in the Ladbrokes Cox Plate.

Turnbull Stakes Records
Multiple Winners:	Comic Court (1949 & 1950), Vo Rogue (1987 & 1988), Winx (2017 & 2018).
Most Successful Jockeys:	Two jockeys have won four Turnbull Stakes. Harry White with Lefroy (1978), No Peer (1981), Birchwood (1982) and Just Now (1986). R. Higgins with Sir Dane (1964), Galilee (1968), Leilani (1974) and Denise’s Joy (1976).

Recent Turnbull Stakes Winners

Year	Place	Horse	Time
2025 Turnbull Stakes	1st	TBD	TBD
	2nd	TBD
	3rd	TBD
2024 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Via Sistina	2 minutes 02.62 seconds
	2nd	Buckaroo
	3rd	Eliyass
2023 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Gold Trip	2 minutes 01.62 seconds
	2nd	West Wind Blows
	3rd	Soulcombe
2022 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Smokin’ Romans	2 minutes 02.23 seconds
	2nd	Maximal
	3rd	Young Werther
2021 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Incentivise	2 minutes 01.46 seconds
	2nd	Young Werther
	3rd	Chapada
2020 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Verry Elleegant	2 minutes 1.84 seconds
	2nd	Toffee Tongue
	3rd	Finche
2019 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Kings Will Dream	2 minutes 3.54 seconds
	2nd	Finche
	3rd	Hartnell
2018 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Winx	2 minutes 1.60 seconds
	2nd	Youngstar
	3rd	Kings Will Dream
2017 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Winx	2 minutes 2.07 seconds
	2nd	Ventura Storm
	3rd	Humidor
2016 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Hartnell	2 minutes 1.03 seconds
	2nd	Jameka
	3rd	Tally
2015 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Preferment	2 minutes 1.34 seconds
	2nd	Royal Descent
	3rd	Set Square
2014 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Lucia Valentina	2 minutes 1.84 seconds
	2nd	Lidari
	3rd	Brambles
2013 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Happy Trails	2 minutes 2.94 seconds
	2nd	Puissance De Lune
	3rd	Fawkner
2012 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Green Moon	2 minutes 2.11 seconds
	2nd	Seville
	3rd	December Draw
2011 Turnbull Stakes	1st	December Draw	2 minutes 3.98 seconds
	2nd	Glass Harmonium
	3rd	Playing God
2010 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Zipping	2 minutes 3.23 seconds
	2nd	Shocking
	3rd	Shoot Out
2009 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Efficient	2 minutes 1.6 seconds
	2nd	Predatory Pricer
	3rd	Scenic Shot
2008 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Littorio	2 minutes 2.4 seconds
	2nd	Master O’Reilly
	3rd	Zipping
2007 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Devil Moon	2 minutes 3.4 seconds
	2nd	Scenic Shot
	3rd	Haradasun
2006 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Sphenophyta	2 minutes 1.9 seconds
	2nd	Our Smoking Joe
	3rd	Aqua D Amore
2005 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Makybe Diva	2 minutes 1.5 seconds
	2nd	Lad Of The Manor
	3rd	Confectioner
2004 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Elvstroem	2 minutes 0.4 seconds
	2nd	Mummify
	3rd	Confectioner
2003 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Studebaker	2 minutes 4 seconds
	2nd	Pentastic
	3rd	Strasbourg
2002 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Northerly	2 minutes 2.3 seconds
	2nd	Dash For Cash
	3rd	Fields Of Omagh
2001 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Sunline	2 minutes 3.9 seconds
	2nd	Universal Prince
	3rd	Primrose Sands
2000 Turnbull Stakes	1st	Fairway	2 minutes 2.2 seconds
	2nd	Sunline
	3rd	Diatribe