Turnbull Stakes Tips & Betting Guide 2025

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Via Sistina defeats Buckaroo in the Turnbull Stakes

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
DateSaturday, October 4
TimeTBA
TrackFlemington
Distance2000m
Prize Money$750,000
ConditionsSet Weights & Penalties
Age4YO & 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
2024Via Sistina
2023Gold Trip
2022 Smokin' Romans
2021Incentivise
2020 Verry Elleegant
2019 Kings Will Dream
2018Winx
2017Winx
2016Hartnell
2015Preferment
2014Lucia Valentina
2013Happy Trials
2012Green Moon
2011December Draw
2010Zipping
2009Efficient
2008Littorio
2007Devil Moon
2006Sphenonphyta
2005Makybe Diva
2004Elvstroem
2003Studebaker
2002Northerly
2001Sunline
2000Fairway

Turnbull Stakes 2024 Results

Pos.
Horse
Trainer
Jockey
Margin
Barrier
Weight
SP
1VIA SISTINA (IRE)Chris WallerDamian LaneWinner1257kg$4 
2BUCKAROO (GB)Chris WallerJoao Moreira0.2L858kg$6.50 
3ELIYASS (FR)Gai Waterhouse & Adrian BottEthan Brown1.7L1656.5kg$3.40 
4DUKE DE SESSA (IRE)Ciaron MaherDeclan Bates2.05L755kg$13 
5YOUNG WERTHER (NZ)Danny O'BrienJye McNeil2.51L255kg$13 
6ATISHU (NZ)Chris WallerMark Zahra3.26L556kg$14 
7FRANCESCO GUARDI (IRE)Chris WallerCraig Newitt4.01L155kg$61 
8PLACE DU CARROUSEL (IRE)Anthony & Sam FreedmanBen Melham5.76L455kg$17 
9CIRCLE OF FIRE (GB)Ciaron MaherJohn Allen6.51L1158kg$81 
10VALIANT KING (GB)Chris WallerBeau Mertens6.91L355kg$101 
11WARMONGER (NZ)Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr)Michael Dee7.66L1057kg$13 
12HUETOR (FR)Peter SnowdenKoby Jennings9.91L656kg$31 
13SHARP 'N' SMART (NZ)Graeme & Deborah RogersonLuke Currie10.31L1355kg$31 
14BANKERS CHOICE (NZ)Michael Moroney & Glen ThompsonBilly Egan11.06L1555kg$151 
15BOIS D'ARGENT (GB)Annabel Neasham & Rob ArchibaldJamie Mott11.08L1458kg$81 
16KNIGHT'S CHOICEJohn Symons & Sheila LaxonJordan Childs12.58L955kg$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.
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