When is the 2026 Empire Rose Stakes?
| Race fact | Verified detail |
|---|---|
| Date | 2026-10-31 |
| Venue | Flemington |
| Distance | 1600m |
| Grade | Group 1 |
| Prizemoney | A$1 million |
Empire Rose Stakes overview
The Empire Rose Stakes is Flemington's Group 1 1600m feature for fillies and mares on Derby Day. It can bring together established milers, runners stepping up from shorter races and those returning from longer tests.
Those different preparations make the early shape important. A specialist miler seeking a strong tempo may not want the same race as a horse relying on a short sprint after settling close to the lead.
Empire Rose 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 | Pride Of Jenni | Declan Bates | Ciaron Maher | Flemington |
| 2024 | Atishu | James McDonald | Chris Waller | Flemington |
| 2023 | Pride Of Jenni | Declan Bates | Ciaron Maher & David Eustace | Flemington |
| 2022 | Icebath | Craig Williams | Brad Widdup | Flemington |
| 2021 | Colette | Damien Oliver | James Cummings | Flemington |
| 2020 | Shout The Bar | Damien Oliver | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | Flemington |
| 2019 | Melody Belle | Opie Bosson | Jamie Richards | Flemington |
| 2018 | Shillelagh | James McDonald | Chris Waller | Flemington |
| 2017 | Shoals | Dean Yendall | Anthony Freedman | Flemington |
Empire Rose Stakes 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 Empire Rose 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 | 1,100 | 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% |
Empire Rose 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 | 1092 | 97 | 102.01 | 0.95 |
| Barriers 5–8 | 1059 | 106 | 98.16 | 1.08 |
| Barriers 9+ | 992 | 71 | 72.83 | 0.97 |
Empire Rose Stakes related research
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Empire Rose 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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