Kingsford Smith Cup

The BTC Cup – also known as the Kingsford Smith Cup – is a Group 1 race held at Brisbane’s Eagle Farm. The race is a three-year-olds and older weight-for-age event over 1300m.

The BTC Cup was previously the opening group one race of the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival, but is now run in the middle of the Carnival following the Doomben 10,000 and the Doomben Cup.

Formerly run over the 1200m journey, the $1,000,000 race is now over the 1300m trip and has a fantastic group of former winners among its ranks.

2024 Kingsford Smith Cup Betting Odds

Markets for the 2024 Kingsford Smith Cup are currently unavailable.

Best BTC Cup bookmakers

The BTC Cup is a group one race that previously kicked off the Brisbane Winter Carnival, and while it is not as prominent as it once was, any bookmaker worth their salt has markets up well in advance of the race.

Tote prices and other Fixed Odds markets tend to open when the race is four to five days away.

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Betting on the BTC Cup

The BTC Cup always brings out the best sprinters in the country to the sunshine state, and is the preamble to the Stradbroke Handicap, which is typically run a fortnight later.

Naturally, the key form race heading into the BTC Cup is the Doomben 10,000 held a fortnight prior, and for the interstate raiders the TJ Smith Stakes has produced a couple of winners over the years.

In recent times however, the race has been not favourable to the key market elects.

Since Black Caviar won the race as a short-priced favourite in 2011, only two favourites Impending (2018) and Think About It (2023) has rewarded favourite punters since.

Punters need to beware of the big names in this race, given a lot of runners use the race as a tune up for the Stradbroke.

2024 Kingsford-Smith Cup Final Field

Horsebetting.com.au will update this page when the 2024 Kingsford Smith Cup field is released.

Previous Kingsford-Smith Cup Fields

Plenty of the future sprinting superstars of the racing scene have competed in the Kingsford-Smith Cup, here is what the final fields looked like in the last couple of years.

• 2023 Kingsford-Smith Cup field

  No.	Silks	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight
  1		Eduardo	Joseph Pride	Nash Rawiller	5	59kg
  2		A Case Of You	Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr)	Mark Zahra	6	59kg
  3		Paulele	James Cummings	Ben Melham	16	59kg
  4		Rothfire	Robert Heathcote	Blake Shinn	7	59kg
  5		Vilana	James Cummings	James McDonald	13	59kg
  6		Converge	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Tim Clark	1	59kg
  7		King Of Sparta	Peter & Paul Snowden	Chad Schofield	2	59kg
  8		Kirwan’s Lane	John O’Shea	Opie Bosson	15	59kg
  9		Eleven Eleven	Gregory Hickman	Tyler Schiller	14	59kg
  10		Gentleman Roy	Ben & JD Hayes	Craig Williams	18	59kg
  11		Think About It	Joseph Pride	Sam Clipperton	8	59kg
  12		Emerald Kingdom	Desleigh Forster	Damien Thornton	4	59kg
  13		Alpine Edge	Toby & Trent Edmonds	Ryan Maloney	17	59kg
  14		The Inferno	Cliff Brown	Craig Newitt	9	59kg
  15		Promise Of Success	John O’Shea	Jason Collett	12	57kg
  16		Palaisipan	Chris Munce	Joshua Parr	19	57kg
  17		Chaillot (1E)	Steven O’Sea & Matthew Hoysted	Ben Thompson	11	57kg
  18		Irish Songs (2E)	Louise White	Larry Cassidy	10	59kg
  19		Antino (3E)	Tony Gollan	James Orman	3	59kg

• 2022 Kingsford-Smith Cup field

  No.	Silks	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight
  1		Private Eye	Joseph Pride	Brenton Avdulla	16	59kg
  2		Laws Of Indices	Annabel Neasham	Rachel King	21	59kg
  3		Ellsberg	Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou	Nash Rawiller	12	59kg
  4		Eleven Eleven	Gregory Hickman	Hugh Bowman	4	59kg
  5		Apache Chase	Desleigh Forster	Jim Byrne	6	59kg
  6		Wild Planet	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	William Pike	19	59kg
  7		Rothfire	Robert Heathcote	James Orman	14	59kg
  8		Olmedo	Annabel Neasham	Brodie Loy	3	59kg
  9		Signore Fox	Peter & Paul Snowden	Ben Thompson	11	59kg
  10		Sierra Sue	Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young	Daniel Moor	20	57kg
  11		September Run	Chris Waller	Craig Williams	7	57kg
  12		Entriviere	Mark Walker	Opie Bosson	17	57kg
  13		Paulele	James Cummings	James McDonald	8	57kg
  14		Isotope	Tony Gollan	Ryan Maloney	13	57kg
  15		Away Game	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	John Allen	18	57kg
  16		Brooklyn Hustle	Jason Warren & Dean Krongold	Jamie Kah	5	57kg
  17		Scallopini (1E)	Steven O’Dea & Matthew Hoysted	Boris Thornton	9	59kg
  18		Niccanova (2E)	Steve Tregea	Anthony Allen	10	59kg
  19		Jamaea (3E)	Robert & Luke Price	Tommy Berry	15	55kg
  20		Ranch Hand (4E)	Chris Waller	Kerrin McEvoy	1	57kg
  21		Alpine Edge (5E)	Toby & Trent Edmonds	Robbie Fradd	2	57kg

• 2021 Kingsford-Smith Cup field

  No.	Silks	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight
  1		Trekking	James Cummings	Kerrin McEvoy	12	59kg
  2		Gytrash	Gordon Richards	Jason Collett	15	59kg
  3		Savatoxl	Tony & Calvin McEvoy	Barend Vorster	14	59kg
  4		Imaging	Chris Waller	James McDonald	16	59kg
  5		Kementari	James Cummings	Joshua Parr	1	59kg
  6		Victorem	Jenny Graham	Mark Du Plessis	2	59kg
  7		So Si Bon	Tom Dabernig & Ben Hayes	Mark Zahra	3	59kg
  8		Niccanova	Steve Tregea	James Orman	11	59kg
  9		Vega One	Tony Gollan	Jamie Kah	13	59kg
  10		Jonker	Tony Gollan	Jim Byrne	4	59kg
  11		Signore Fox	Peter & Paul Snowden	Ryan Maloney	5	59kg
  12		Blazejowski	Greg Eurell	Jye McNeil	10	59kg
  13		Savatiano	James Cummings	Hugh Bowman	8	57kg
  14		Outback Barbie	Tony Gollan	Brenton Avdulla	9	57kg
  15		Pennino	Darryl Hansen	Tiffani Brooker	7	57kg
  16		Dame Giselle	Peter & Paul Snowden	Tim Clark	6	55kg

2023 BTC Cup result

Recent BTC Cup winners

• 2023: Think About It gets Group 1 moment
  It was a first-time Group 1 success for Think About It, taking out the Kingsford Smith Cup at Eagle Farm. The son of So You Think continued his model of consistency remaining undefeated since resuming in the new year, with this now being his sixth win on the trot. It’s been a meteoric rise as a four-year-old from the Joseph Pride barn, now resulting in Group 1 glory and doing so in stylish fashion, while also ticking the weight-for-age box in the process. Jockey Sam Clipperton has been a big part of this horse’s maturing this campaign, taking the reins on all six occasions to score victories. It was another classy steer from Clipperton, producing a ‘no panic’ ride when finding himself cast three-wide the entire trip and Vilana unable to take him into the race. His mount still stormed down the middle of the course and was able to kick clear, hanging on from a game Rothfire and Converge sneaking rails runs almost spoiling the party for favourite backers. It’s full steam ahead now for Think About It, with all signs pointing to the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap – where he is a firm $3.50 favourite with for QLD’s premier race.
• 2022: Apache Chase could not be run down
  Trainer Desleigh Forster gave Jim Byrne one instruction for his ride on Apache Chase; do not go slow! Byrne followed those instructions to perfection, having his mount flying along out in front throughout the Kingsford-Smith Cup, with Apache Chase fending off his rivals to claim Group 1 glory. Despite being vulnerable for the taking inside the final furlong, Apache Chase kept kicking in the home straight under urgings from Byrne and held off the fast finishing Paulele and Eleven Eleven, with 0.4 lengths separating the first four, with Rothfire back in fourth.
• 2021: Jamie Kah performs magic to get Vega One over the line
  All connections to Vega One would have been scrunching their tickets up before the race was over. Barrier 13 and stuck behind a blockade of horses down the straight things were not looking good for the five-year-old gelding, however it was the brilliant riding of Jamie Kah that found the gap that didn’t exist to get up on Jonker and Signore Fox to win by .5 of a length.
• 2020: Cancelled due to COVID-19
  The Kingsford Smith Cup was cancelled due to the lockdowns because of COVID-19
• 2019: The Bostonian does the Doomben 10,000 - BTC Cup double
  Remarkably, The Bostonian was sent around as a $10 chance in the BTC Cup, but on the back of another superb steer from Michael Cahill the pair grabbed back to back Group 1 victories. Having been granted the run of the race, Cahill found a gap in the home straight at the 300m mark and the Tony Pike-trained gelding managed to hold out the rank outsider Princess Posh and race favourite Trekking in the concluding stages.
• 2018: Impending wins in the last stride
  Godolphin runner Impending came into the 2018 BTC Cup hoping to improve on a strong run in the Doomben 10000 two weeks prior, but when Le Romain kicked away in the straight it looked like a win would be beyond the four-year-old. The horse surged to the line however to topple Le Romain in a photo-finish.
• 2017: Clearly Innocent wins in the wet
  Clearly Innocent trounced its rivals in the 2017 Kingsford-Smith Cup (BTC Cup) at Eagle Farm. The Kris Lees-trained runner was considered a course specialist at Scone, but transferred that form to Eagle Farm where it enjoyed the wet conditions at Eagle Farm. Read the report here.
• 2016: Malaguerra a photo finish
  Malaguerra was not one of the key elects in the market going into the 2016 BTC Cup, but was found late in the market to firm into $7. In one of the tightest finishes in the race’s history the gelding held on well in a photo-finish ahead of Dothraki.
• 2015: Hot Snitzel makes it a last win to remember
  The $26 outsider Hot Snitzel was not expected to be a factor in the 2015 edition of the race, but when the horse sprinted from midfield to challenge the long-time leader, roughie backers would have had their hearts in their mouths. The horse went on to salute, but failed to win a race thereafter.
• 2014: Famous Seamus finally delivers elusive win
  Famous Seamus is a horse that teased punters over the journey, and most backers did not want to go near the $21 pop heading into the race. However, under a perfect ride from Ryan Wiggins the Kiwi import blazed down the outside to record one of the best wins of its career.
• 2013: Your Song records commanding win
  In a performance that belied its huge price, Your Song ($12) absolutely torched its rivals to record a comfortable five length win – the biggest margin since Black Caviar’s towering performance in 2011. The horse raced just a further two times in its career before retiring a month later.

Previous BTC Cup winners

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