When is the 2026 Coolmore Stud Stakes?
| Race fact | Verified detail |
|---|---|
| Date | 2026-10-31 |
| Venue | Flemington |
| Distance | 1200m |
| Grade | Group 1 |
| Prizemoney | A$2 million |
Coolmore Stud Stakes overview
The Coolmore Stud Stakes is the three-year-old sprint feature on Victoria Derby Day. Its 1200m straight-course setting asks a different tactical question from a sprint around a bend: where will the pace develop, and which runners can obtain the right tow into the race?
A barrier number is not a complete map of the contest. On the straight course, runners may congregate around the strongest speed or divide into separate groups. Cover, wind exposure and the racing lanes used earlier in the meeting can influence how the same draw plays out.
Coolmore Stud Stakes 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.
| Year | Winner | Jockey | Trainer | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Tentyris | Mark Zahra | Anthony & Sam Freedman | Flemington |
| 2024 | Switzerland | James McDonald | Chris Waller | Flemington |
| 2023 | Ozzmosis | Rachel King | Bjorn Baker | Flemington |
| 2022 | In Secret | James McDonald | James Cummings | Flemington |
| 2021 | Home Affairs | James McDonald | Chris Waller | Flemington |
| 2020 | September Run | Craig Williams | Chris Waller | Flemington |
| 2019 | Exceedance | Dwayne Dunn | Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes | Flemington |
| 2018 | Sunlight | Luke Currie | Tony McEvoy | Flemington |
| 2017 | Merchant Navy | Mark Zahra | Aaron Purcell | Flemington |
Coolmore Stud Stakes historical trends
Flemington 1200m. All 264 qualifying races, 171 meetings and 3,064 runners stored between 2017-01-01 and 2026-10-03; not just editions of the Coolmore Stud Stakes. 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 | 1,056 | 79 | 7.48% |
| Barriers 5–8 | 1,030 | 102 | 9.90% |
| Barriers 9+ | 978 | 84 | 8.59% |
Barriers 5–8 have the highest observed win rate in this grouped sample: 102 wins from 1,030 runners (9.90%). 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 | 2,117 | 180 | 8.50% |
| Soft | 801 | 71 | 8.86% |
| Heavy | 146 | 14 | 9.59% |
Coolmore Stud Stakes 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 | 1052 | 78 | 84.61 | 0.92 |
| Barriers 5–8 | 1026 | 102 | 97.19 | 1.05 |
| Barriers 9+ | 977 | 84 | 81.20 | 1.03 |
Coolmore Stud Stakes related research
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Coolmore Stud Stakes 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.
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