Caulfield Cup 2024

Caulfield Cup

Preview, Trends & Analysis

The Rundown

The Caulfield Cup is the premiere staying event over 2400 metres in the spring carnival. 

Inaugurated in 1879, the race was originally run by Newminster.  

It is always tricky trying to find the winner of a handicap staying race, in particular the Caulfield Cup.

It is made even trickier when it is hard to know whether this race is the grand final or whether the horse you like is using it as a platform to win the Melbourne Cup.

Usually a horse who settles anywhere from on-pace to midfield is preferable, but the superior wide lanes of the Caulfield straight can come into play if gallopers slingshot out deep on the track.

While the track might seem a leisurely stroll, the acid test really comes on in the back straight with an elevated back section that can suck the air out of a horse who does not have big aerobic capacity.

The Famous Winners and Record Results

The Caulfield Cup is a race heaped in prestige with many brilliant horses having won the event and giving this race the title of the one of the premier handicap staying races in the country and in the world.

Only seven horses have won the race multiple times; Paris (1892, 1894), Hymettus (1898, 1901), Poseidon (1906-07), Uncle Sam (1912, 1914), Whittier (1922, 1925), Rising Fast (1954-1955) and Ming Dynasty (1977, 1980).

The most famous of winners in recent times would have to been Might and Power (1997).

His eight-length demolition job will still go down as the most crushing win the race has ever seen.

He and Ethereal (2001) are the most recent horses to have done the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double.

Doriemus (1995), Let’s Elopte (1991), Gurner’s Lane (1982), Galilee (1966), Even Stevens (1962), Rising Fast (1954), Rivette (1939), The Trump (1937) and Poseidon (1906) are the other horses to have achieve Cup double feat.

Of course, it would remiss to exclude mentioning the great Bart Cummings.

The champion trainer holds the record for most Caulfield Cup winners with seven to his name.

The last of those was his might stayer and Melbourne Cup winner Viewed (2009) who was given one the best Caulfield Cup rides ever by Brad Rawiller.

Damien Oliver is the most successful jockey in the race out of the current crop of jockeys in Australia with four winners, but the champion hoop is yet to win the event since 1999 when he was triumphant on Sky Heights.

The Statistics

Caulfield Cup Recent Winners

Year  

Winner 

Trainer 

Jockey 

Odds 

2022

Durston

Chris Waller

Michael Dee

$16

2021 

Incentivise

Peter Moody

Brett Prebble

$2.4

2020 

Verry Elleegant

Chris Waller

Mark Zahra

$5 

2019 

Mer De Glace

Hisashi Shimizu

Damian Lane

$7

2018 

Best Solution

Saeed Bin Suroor

Patrick Cosgrave

$10

2017 

Boom Time 

Davis Hayes & Tom Dabernig 

Corey Parish

$51

2016 

Jameka 

Ciaron Maher

Nicholas Hall

$3.80

2015 

Mongolian Khan 

Murray Baker 

Opie Bosson

$5

2014 

Admire Rakti

Tomoyuki Yumeda

Zac Purton

$10

2013 

Fawkner

Robert Hickmott

Nicholas Hall

$10

2012 

Dunaden

Mikel Delzangles

Craig Williams

$10 

2011 

Souther Speed

Leon Macdonald & Andrew Gluyas

Craig Williams

$9

2010 

Descardo

Gai Waterhouse

Chris Munche

$12 

The Questions

When is the Caulfield Cup held?

The race will be run and won on the 15th of October, 2022. 

Are there any other races on the day?
  • Yes, there are nine more races on the card outside of the Caulfield Cup.
  • A few of these include the Ethereal Stakes, The Gothic Stakes and the Moonga Stakes and the Caulfield Classic.
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Where do the runners of the Caulfield Cup race next?

The majority of winners and runners will trek towards the Melbourne or may even well head to the spelling paddock.

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