Champagne Stakes

The ATC Champagne Stakes is a Group 1 race for two-year-olds at set weights over the 1600m distance held every year at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, New South Wales.

First run in 1861, the $500,000 Champagne Stakes was once the premier sprint in Australia before it was overtaken by much richer races such as the Golden Slipper.

The Australian Jockey Club decided to change the distance of the Champagne Stakes to one mile in 1972, which created a third event for elite two-year-old horses in the country.

The race is now considered part of the Juvenile Triple Crown alongside the Golden Slipper and the Sires Produce Stakes.

2023 Champagne Stakes betting odds

Markets for the 2023 Champagne Stakes is currently unavailable.

Best Champagne Stakes bookmakers

The race has taken somewhat of a backseat after the fanfare of The Championships, but any online bookmaker which takes itself seriously has markets up at least a week in advance of the race.

It is seldom that a Group 1 event does not get front page privilege on a bookmaker’s website, so keep an eye out at our trusted online bookies for the best odds possible:

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Betting on the Champagne Stakes

The cream of the two-year-old crop battle it out every year in the Champagne Stakes, and invariably the standout performers are already in the public eye prior to the running of the race.

The Champagne Stakes has been a favourites race over the last decade.

10 runners from 2010 through have taken out the Champagne Stakes as the favourite going into the race, with the average price being just over $2.60.

Even when the favourite goes down, it is very rare that a double-figure winner takes out the race. The last time this occurred was back in 2010 when Skilled took out the Champagne Stakes.

Only four winners have taken out the Champagne Stakes at a price of $10 or more since 1983.

2023 Champagne Stakes Final Field

Horsebetting.com.au will update this page when the 2023 Champagne Stakes field is released.

Previous Champagne Stakes Fields

Some of the best two-year-olds each season have competed in the Champagne Stakes, here are the full fields from previous years.

• 2022 Champagne Stakes field

  No.	Silks	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight
  1		Let’srollthedice	Danny O’Brien	Damian Lane	4	56.5kg
  2		Williamsburg	Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou	Kerrin McEvoy	3	56.5kg
  3		Counttheheadlights	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	John Allen	5	56.5kg
  4		Wealthy Investor	Damien Lane	Joshua Parr	1	56.5kg
  5		Fireburn	Gary Portelli	Brenton Avdulla	2	54.5kg
  6		She’s Extreme	Anthony Cummings	Tommy Berry	6	54.5kg

• 2021 Champagne Stakes field

  No.	Silks	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight
  1		Captivant	Peter & Paul Snowden	James McDonald	1	56.5kg
  2		Hilal	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	Tommy Berry	4	56.5kg
  3		Converge	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Tim Clark	3	56.5kg
  4		Daily Bugle	Robbie Griffiths & Mathew de Kock	Luke Currie	10	56.5kg
  5		I’ve Bean There	Stuart Kendrick	James Orman	7	56.5kg
  6		Maurice’s Medad	Bjorn Baker	Rachel King	2	56.5kg
  7		Aranqueur	Jean Dubois	Andrew Adkins	6	56.5kg
  8		Akahata	Bjorn Baker	Craig Williams	12	56.5kg
  9		Patton	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	Jason Collett	13	56.5kg
  10		Port Louis	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Hugh Bowman	14	56.5kg
  11		Wolfburn	Bjorn Baker	Joshua Parr	5	56.5kg
  12		Lease	Anthony Cummings	John Allen	11	56.5kg
  13		Queen Of Wizardry	Annabel Neasham	Jamie Kah	9	54.5kg
  14		Gin Martini	John Sargent	Brenton Avdulla	8	54.5kg

• 2020 Champagne Stakes field

  No.	Silks	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight
  1		King’s Legacy	Peter & Paul Snowden	Hugh Bowman	3	56.5kg
  2		Glenfiddich	Robbie Griffiths & Matthew de Kock	Tommy Berry	7	56.5kg
  3		Aim	Peter & Paul Snowden	Kerrin McEvoy	4	56.5kg
  4		Holyfield	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Tom Marquand	5	56.5kg
  5		Super Buddy	Peter & Paul Snowden	Nash Rawiller	2	56.5kg
  6		Ole Kirk	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	James McDonald	8	56.5kg
  7		Not An Option	Tony Pike	Opie Bosson	10	56.5kg
  8		Philizzy	Anthony Cummings	Brenton Avdulla	9	54.5kg
  9		Fayerra	Anthony Cummings	Jason Collett	1	54.5kg
  10		Mandalong Beyond	Mitchell & Desiree Kearney	James Innes Jnr	6	54.5kg

2022 Champagne Stakes result

Recent Champagne Stakes winners

• 2022: She's Extreme spoils Fireburn's party
  Having claimed the Golden Slipper and Sires Produce Stakes, the Gary Portelli-trained Fireburn was pushing to become the first horse since Pierro in 2012 to claim the juvenile Triple Crown. However, She’s Extreme who finished second behind Fireburn in the Sires managed to turn the tables on Fireburn in a smart all the way victory. She’s Extreme was aided by a clear rail bias for leader’s at Randwick, but Fireburn had every chance in the home straight to run down the eventual winner.
• 2021: Captivant delivers for Snowden
  Hugh Bowman saw something special in Captivant after his first run with him, saying to trainer Snowden “He’ll end up being your best two-year-old yet”. Captivant lived up to those words as he claimed his first group one win in the Champagne Stakes. Captivant managed to hold off Hilal by .3 of a length and Converge 1.5 lengths away. Port Louis wen’t in from $34 to $5 however was no able to produce for the punters as he ran across the posts in fifth position.
• 2020: Legacy fit for a King
  Having taken out the ATC Sires Produce Stakes a fortnight prior, the Peter & Paul Snowden-trained King’s Legacy became the latest horse to complete the double. Having hit the front inside the final 100m, King’s Legacy never looked like getting run down and became Redoute’s Choice first two-year-old to claim multiple Group 1’s as a juvenile.
• 2019: Castelvecchio clinches Champagne Stakes
  After a number of highly promising lead in runs to this event Castelvecchio loomed large to claim the Champagne Stakes in style. Settling towards midfield the winner couldn’t have gotten a better run in transit and absolutely steamrolled the field in the latter stages to win by just over three lengths on the line ahead of the other chief contender Loving Gaby.
• 2017: Perry completes Champagne Mission
  Damien Lane and The Mission did it for Newcastle trainer Paul Perry, proving too strong for an all-star cast. After getting out of the gates fairly, The Mission lead most of the way to beat home the odds on favourite – Invader. The Mission was paying $9.50 but there was a bit of money late. $6 chance Whispered Secret was a neck away in third. It was Perry’s first victory in a group one race for eight years, with the last being Newport in The Metropolitan. Read a full report.
• 2016: Prized Icon delivers under pressure
  Prized Icon went off as the short-priced favourite in the 2016 edition of the race, and few would have been panicked when El Sicario set a red-hot tempo from the outset, effectively giving the horse something to chase. Glen Schofield had to bustle the colt along early in the straight but it was never troubled, recording a comfortable one length win on the line. Read a full report.
• 2015: Moody and Pasadena Girl pop the cork
  Pasadena Girl was the $2.80 favourite for the Champagne Stakes in 2015, but on a softer track many a punter were worried about the filly’s ability to make up ground from the back of the field. Hugh Bowman unleashed the gun Peter Moody runner on the outside and it quickly gobbled up the field to record a spectacular win.
• 2014: Go Indy Go completes Sires’/Champagne double
  Go Indy Go was looking to back up its Sires Produce Stakes win in the Champagne Stakes, but the market suggested it faced an uphill battle at the $7 quote. The horse was last at the turn but Chad Schofield steered it to the outside and Go Indy Go did the rest. The filly completely outclassed its rivals to record an excellent one length win.
• 2013: Guelph guns tem down in the shadows of the post
  Guelph came into the 2013 Champaign Stakes as the $2.50 favourite to back up its strong Sires Produce win, but after Fuerza pinched a massive lead into the straight it looked like it would take something special for the filly to run it down. The star Exceed And Excel product produced exactly that to pinch the race in a photo finish which is one of the greatest Champagne Stakes finishes of the modern era.

Champagne Stakes winners

Champagne Stakes Past Winners Pre 2000

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