When is the 2026 Champions Mile?
| Race fact | Verified detail |
|---|---|
| Date | 2026-11-07 |
| Venue | Flemington |
| Distance | 1600m |
| Grade | Group 1 |
| Prizemoney | A$3 million |
Champions Mile overview
The Champions Mile is Flemington's Group 1 weight-for-age 1600m championship on Saturday 7 November. It shares the final carnival card with the sprint and middle-distance championships.
The race's history includes earlier identities and different conditions. A historical honour roll is useful background, but the modern weight-for-age contest should not be treated as though every earlier edition was run under identical rules.
Champions Mile past winners (2017–2025)
Historical feature-race results are separate from the all-races track-and-distance sample below. Only source-backed editions are listed; omitted years have not been filled by inference. Earlier names and race conditions differ; an honour roll is not a uniform-condition statistical cohort.
| Year | Winner | Jockey | Trainer | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Ceolwulf | Chad Schofield | Joseph Pride | Flemington |
| 2024 | Mr Brightside | Craig Williams | Ben, Will & Jd Hayes | Flemington |
| 2023 | Pride Of Jenni | Declan Bates | Ciaron Maher & David Eustace | Flemington |
| 2022 | Alligator Blood | Tim Clark | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | Flemington |
| 2021 | Superstorm | Damien Oliver | Danny O'Brien | Flemington |
| 2020 | Yulong Prince | Damian Lane | Chris Waller | Flemington |
| 2020 | Sikorsky | Damien Oliver | David & B Hayes & T Dabernig | Flemington |
| 2019 | Fierce Impact | Craig Williams | Matthew Smith | Flemington |
| 2018 | Best Of Days | Craig Williams | James Cummings | Flemington |
| 2017 | Shillelagh | Michael Dee | Chris Waller | Flemington |
Champions Mile historical trends
Flemington 1600m. All 275 qualifying races, 162 meetings and 3,166 runners stored between 2017-01-01 and 2026-10-03; not just editions of the Champions Mile. Snapshot checked 23 October 2026, using the available ten-year window (23 October 2016–23 October 2026), with all other filters unrestricted.
| Published barrier | Runners | Wins | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barriers 1–4 | 1,100 | 98 | 8.91% |
| Barriers 5–8 | 1,067 | 106 | 9.93% |
| Barriers 9+ | 999 | 72 | 7.21% |
Barriers 5–8 have the highest observed win rate in this grouped sample: 106 wins from 1,067 runners (9.93%). This is an historical association, not a forecast or an isolated causal barrier effect. The groups differ in field-size exposure and can contain different classes, ages and track conditions.
Stored race-level going only, without substituting a meeting's headline rating. These are scenario subsets of the same sample, not additional races. Rows without a stored race rating are unclassified; subsets smaller than 30 runners are omitted.
| Race going | Runners | Wins | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good | 2,203 | 195 | 8.85% |
| Soft | 883 | 73 | 8.27% |
| Heavy | 80 | 8 | 10.00% |
Champions Mile TrackBro insights
Win rate is wins divided by starters, not the share of all race winners. Every first-place runner counts as a full win, including dead heats. Missing barriers: 0. No runner-level records are published in this graph.
Actual versus Expected is shown only for the app-eligible subset: complete confirmed fields, usable SP for every starter and a total implied probability between 1.00 and 1.50. Expected wins are race-normalised before grouping; eligible sample size can differ from the barrier chart.
| Published barrier | Eligible runners | Actual wins | Expected wins | A2E |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barriers 1–4 | 1092 | 97 | 102.01 | 0.95 |
| Barriers 5–8 | 1059 | 106 | 98.16 | 1.08 |
| Barriers 9+ | 992 | 71 | 72.83 | 0.97 |
Champions Mile related research
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Champions Mile sources
Official 2026 race-day/program reference. Race facts and sources reviewed 23 October 2026.
Historical statistics and honour-roll rows: read-only TrackBro production racing records, checked 23 October 2026. Calculations reuse the existing research application's win and A2E functions; no racing records or research calculations were changed.