Queens Cup

The Queen’s Cup

The Queen’s Cup is a quality Group 3 thoroughbred’s race conducted at Victoria’s famous Flemington Racecourse on Emirates Stakes Day, which is the final meeting of the annual Melbourne Cup Carnival.

Held on the first Saturday in November each year, the Saturday after the iconic Melbourne Cup runs on the Tuesday, Emirates Stakes Day features five Group status races including the Group 3 Queen’s Cup.

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A handicap race run over 2600m the Queen’s Cup is worth $250,000 in prize money, which is considered high stakes for a Group 3 event, and was previously known as the VRC Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Other highlight races at the meeting include the Group 1 Emirates Stakes (1600m) and the Group 1 Patinack Farm Classic (1200m).

Queen’s Cup History

The race now known as the Queen’s Cup was first run in 1854 making it one of the Victorian Racing Club’s oldest classic races.

Originally run over a much longer distance of 4800m, the race length of the Queen’s Cup has gradually decreased to its current distance of 2600m.

Starting as a Principal Race, the Queen’s Cup was elevated to a Group 2 event from 1979 – 2004 before being downgraded to its current Group 3 stats in 2005.

Over the year’s this race has been registered under a number of different names.

First called the Queen’s Plate, it has also been known as the Flemington Plate, C.B. Fisher Plate and Queen Elizabeth Stakes before renamed as the Queen’s Cup for 2010 edition.

Queen’s Cup Betting

The best betting tip when it comes to backing the Queen’s Cup winner is to place your wagers at an online bookmaker such as SportsBet or IASbet as you are assured better odds and bigger payouts than the TAB.

There are a number of earlier spring lead-up races that serve as an excellent Queen’s Cup guide including the Group 3 The Lexus Stakes (2500m) the week before and the Group 3 Geelong Cup (2400m) in late October.

The Queen’s Cup is also often contested by stayers that previously ran in the other feature spring Cups including the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.

Queen’s Cup Winners

The first horse to win the race was Shadow (1854) and since then many turf stars have claimed victory in the Queen’s Cup including the legendary Phar Lap (1930), Rising Fast (1954 & 1955), Tulloch (1957), Galilee (1966), Hyperno (1979 & 1980), Might And Power (1998) and Makybe Diva (2002).

Below is a list of the most recent winners and placegetters in the Queen’s Cup.