When is the 2026 VRC Oaks?
| Race fact | Verified detail |
|---|---|
| Date | 2026-11-05 |
| Venue | Flemington |
| Distance | 2500m |
| Grade | Group 1 |
| Prizemoney | A$1 million |
VRC Oaks overview
The VRC Oaks, run as the Crown Oaks in 2026, is the Group 1 2500m feature for three-year-old fillies on Thursday 5 November. The event follows Derby Day and Cup Day, so the racecourse has already hosted a substantial week of racing.
A filly can show talent at a mile without yet proving she can settle through a 2500m contest. The Oaks rewards the ability to conserve energy and then maintain an effort when the race becomes a staying examination.
VRC Oaks 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 | Strictly Business | John Allen | Thomas Carberry | Flemington |
| 2024 | Treasurethe Moment | Damian Lane | Matt Laurie | Flemington |
| 2023 | Zardozi | James McDonald | James Cummings | Flemington |
| 2022 | She's Extreme | Tommy Berry | Anthony Cummings | Flemington |
| 2021 | Willowy | Damien Oliver | James Cummings | Flemington |
| 2020 | Personal | Damien Oliver | Tom Dabernig & Ben Hayes | Flemington |
| 2019 | Miami Bound | Damien Oliver | Danny O'Brien | Flemington |
| 2018 | Aristia | Damian Lane | Mathew Ellerton & Simon Zahra | Flemington |
| 2017 | Pinot | Stephen Baster | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | Flemington |
VRC Oaks historical trends
Flemington 2500m. All 70 qualifying races, 63 meetings and 772 runners stored between 2017-01-14 and 2026-09-12; not just editions of the VRC Oaks. 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 | 280 | 36 | 12.86% |
| Barriers 5–8 | 271 | 21 | 7.75% |
| Barriers 9+ | 221 | 13 | 5.88% |
Barriers 1–4 have the highest observed win rate in this grouped sample: 36 wins from 280 runners (12.86%). 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 | 509 | 47 | 9.23% |
| Soft | 251 | 22 | 8.76% |
VRC Oaks 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 | 280 | 36 | 30.42 | 1.18 |
| Barriers 5–8 | 271 | 21 | 25.18 | 0.83 |
| Barriers 9+ | 221 | 13 | 14.40 | 0.90 |
VRC Oaks related research
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VRC Oaks 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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