Turnbull Stakes Tips & Betting Guide 2025
2025 Turnbull Stakes Tips & Preview
The Turnbull Stakes is a major Group 1 race held at Flemington and it’s run a week before Guineas Day at Caulfield.
It has been won by some outstanding horses in recent times, including Winx, Verry Ellegant, Incentivise, Gold Trip and Via Sistina.
We will have final-field tips for the Turnbull Stakes when it is released three days prior to the running, however, punters can bet into the market around four months before the Turnbull Stakes is run.
Turnbull Stakes 2025 Schedule
| Turnbull Stakes | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Date | Saturday, October 4 |
| Time | TBA |
| Track | Flemington |
| Distance | 2000m |
| Prize Money | $750,000 |
| Conditions | Set Weights & Penalties |
| Age | 4YO & Upwards |
Turnbull Stakes Field & Barrier Draw 2025
The 2025 Turnbull Stakes field and barrier draw will be declared at 9:00am on October 1, and this page will be updated shortly after.
Turnbull Stakes Betting Sites & Offers
Betting sites deliver Turnbull Stakes promotions leading into the Group 1 with promotions and bonus bet specials on the agenda.
We provide you with a full list of promotions and specials for the race in the build up as well as the top betting sites to be using below.
Turnbull Stakes Form Guide
The Turnbull Stakes is a great form guide for the big spring carnival races. Punters have had great success betting on the winners of this race before the Cox Plate, Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup.
Melbourne Cup-performed runners include Galilee, Let’s Elope, All Our Mob, Doriemus, Makybe Diva, Efficient, Zipping and Green Moon. The list never ends and it stands alone as the best Cups form guide for punters.
The Cox Plate is also a good form race for horses coming out of the Turnbull Stakes, with the likes of Winx using it as a warm-up run.
Sunline won the 1999 and 2000 Cox Plates before winning the Turnbull Stakes in 2001. She would later fail to win her third Cox Plate, but her Turnbull Stakes win was impressive.
Form coming into the Turnbull Stakes is often autumn form from Sydney and Melbourne.
Turnbull Stakes History
The Turnbull Stakes has been in existence since 1865, making it one of Australia’s oldest 2000m races.
Named after the Victorian Racing Club Chairman at the time Richard Turnbull, the Turnbull Stakes has since changed names on a few occasions but the old name was restored in 1948 when Beat Gem was victorious.
It has been taken out by some of Australia’s finest middle-distance thoroughbreds. Wakeful, Ajax, Rising Fast, Galilee, Sunline and Winx have all won, and we’re leaving out Vo Rogue, Let’s Elope and Naturalism.
It’s a form guide race, as we’ll discuss later, but the Turnbull Stakes is best known as a lead-in race to the bigger riches later in the carnival.
The Turnbull Stakes is a great race in its own right but most runners aren’t having their grand final that early in the spring. It’s used as a preparation for the Cox Plate, Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup.
Turnbull Stakes Previous Winners
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Via Sistina |
| 2023 | Gold Trip |
| 2022 | Smokin' Romans |
| 2021 | Incentivise |
| 2020 | Verry Elleegant |
| 2019 | Kings Will Dream |
| 2018 | Winx |
| 2017 | Winx |
| 2016 | Hartnell |
| 2015 | Preferment |
| 2014 | Lucia Valentina |
| 2013 | Happy Trials |
| 2012 | Green Moon |
| 2011 | December Draw |
| 2010 | Zipping |
| 2009 | Efficient |
| 2008 | Littorio |
| 2007 | Devil Moon |
| 2006 | Sphenonphyta |
| 2005 | Makybe Diva |
| 2004 | Elvstroem |
| 2003 | Studebaker |
| 2002 | Northerly |
| 2001 | Sunline |
| 2000 | Fairway |
Turnbull Stakes 2024 Results
| Pos. | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Margin | Barrier | Weight | SP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VIA SISTINA (IRE) | Chris Waller | Damian Lane | Winner | 12 | 57kg | $4 |
| 2 | BUCKAROO (GB) | Chris Waller | Joao Moreira | 0.2L | 8 | 58kg | $6.50 |
| 3 | ELIYASS (FR) | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | Ethan Brown | 1.7L | 16 | 56.5kg | $3.40 |
| 4 | DUKE DE SESSA (IRE) | Ciaron Maher | Declan Bates | 2.05L | 7 | 55kg | $13 |
| 5 | YOUNG WERTHER (NZ) | Danny O'Brien | Jye McNeil | 2.51L | 2 | 55kg | $13 |
| 6 | ATISHU (NZ) | Chris Waller | Mark Zahra | 3.26L | 5 | 56kg | $14 |
| 7 | FRANCESCO GUARDI (IRE) | Chris Waller | Craig Newitt | 4.01L | 1 | 55kg | $61 |
| 8 | PLACE DU CARROUSEL (IRE) | Anthony & Sam Freedman | Ben Melham | 5.76L | 4 | 55kg | $17 |
| 9 | CIRCLE OF FIRE (GB) | Ciaron Maher | John Allen | 6.51L | 11 | 58kg | $81 |
| 10 | VALIANT KING (GB) | Chris Waller | Beau Mertens | 6.91L | 3 | 55kg | $101 |
| 11 | WARMONGER (NZ) | Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr) | Michael Dee | 7.66L | 10 | 57kg | $13 |
| 12 | HUETOR (FR) | Peter Snowden | Koby Jennings | 9.91L | 6 | 56kg | $31 |
| 13 | SHARP 'N' SMART (NZ) | Graeme & Deborah Rogerson | Luke Currie | 10.31L | 13 | 55kg | $31 |
| 14 | BANKERS CHOICE (NZ) | Michael Moroney & Glen Thompson | Billy Egan | 11.06L | 15 | 55kg | $151 |
| 15 | BOIS D'ARGENT (GB) | Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald | Jamie Mott | 11.08L | 14 | 58kg | $81 |
| 16 | KNIGHT'S CHOICE | John Symons & Sheila Laxon | Jordan Childs | 12.58L | 9 | 55kg | $101 |
Turnbull Stakes 2024 Replay
Turnbull Stakes Live Streaming
Punters can live stream the Turnbull Stakes at Dabble or Ladbrokes. The Australian-based bookmakers shows all Australian and New Zealand racing live and all you need to do is have a positive account balance.
For the full guide on how to stream, see our Spring Carnival racing live streaming guide.
