---

---

The McEwen Stakes is a Group 2 sprint held during September at Moonee Valley Racecourse. Raced over 1000 metres under weight for age conditions, the McEwen Stakes pays $300,000 in total prizemoney.

The McEwen Stakes is held on Feehan Stakes Day – also known as the Ladbrokes Cox Plate Qualifier Day – and shares its race program with the Group 2  John F. Feehan Stakes (1600m).

Most of the sprinters that contest the McEwen Stakes are kicking off their spring campaigns. Success in the McEwen Stakes is often followed by an attempt at the Group 1 Moir Stakes (1000m)  and or the Group 1 Manikato Stakes (1200m) both held back at The Valley over the spring.

In recent years the 2016 McEwen Stakes winner Wild Rain went on to run third in the Moir Stakes, while the year before the great grey Chautauqua (2015) completed the McEwen Stakes – Manikato Stakes double.

In 2020 the McEwen Stakes winning mare Bella Vella backed-up to run third in that season’s Moir Stakes results.

The 2021 McEwen Stakes form was franked with the winner The Inferno running second next-up in the Moir Stakes, while the third-placed mare September Run returned the following autumn to win the Group 1 William Reid Stakes in 2022.

The 2022 McEwen Stakes winner Rothfire franked the form with a second in that year’s Manikato.  Rothfire also returned in 2023 and placed in Brisbane’s Group 1 Kingsford Smith Stakes (3rd) and Stradbroke Handicap (2nd).

The 2022 McEwen Stakes form was further franked with the third-placed filly and that year’s Moir Stakes winner Coolangatta returning the next year to win Flemington’s Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning in 2023.

The McEwen Stakes 2023 ran on Saturday September 9, 2023 at The Valley and was won in stunning fashion by Mark Walker’s five-time Group 1 winning New Zealand mare Imperatriz ($3.90) first-up ahead of the spring majors setting a new track record. 

2023 McEwen Stakes
Date:	Saturday September 9, 2023
Track:	Moonee Valley Racecourse
Distance:	1000m
Race Type:	Weight For Age
Status:	Group 2
Prize Money:	$300,000

2023 McEwen Stakes Results

• 1st: #5 Imperatriz ($3.90)
• 2nd: #2 Rothfire
• 3rd: #1 Giga Kick

Mark Walker’s talented Kiwi expat Imperatriz ($3.90) blitzed her first-up run of the spring with the last start Group 1 William Reid Stakes winner from the autumn relishing another run at The Valley to let down late and charge past last year’s The Everest hero Giga Kick for a big 2.5 length win in the McEwen Stakes 2023 results.

Click here to read more on the outstanding win by the speedy Imperatriz in the 2023 McEwen Stakes.

2023 McEwen Stakes Results & Finishing Order

	Finish	No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Bar.	Weight	Penalty	Starting Price
	1	5	IMPERATRIZ	Mark Walker	Michael Dee		7	56.5kg		$3.90
	2	2	ROTHFIRE	Robert Heathcote	Blake Shinn	2.5L	5	58.5kg		$5
	3	1	GIGA KICK	Clayton Douglas	Craig Williams	2.6L	6	58.5kg		$1.95F
	4	3	ZOUSTYLE	Tony Gollan	Damien Oliver	3.85L	2	58.5kg		$11
	5	4	ACROMANTULA	Daniel & Ben Pearce	Damian Lane	5.35L	3	58.5kg		$16
	6	7	HOW’S THE SERENITY	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	Jye McNeil	5.55L	1	56.5kg		$101
	7	6	SERADESS	Mark & Levi Kavanagh	Ms Jamie Kah	5.65L	4	56.5kg		$31

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2023 McEwen Stakes Betting

The season’s best Mitty’s McEwen Stakes 2023 betting odds will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST 2023 MCEWEN STAKES ODDS (Final Field)

2023 McEwen Stakes Form

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL 2023 MCWEN STAKES FORM GUIDE

2023 McEwen Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider McEwen Stakes 2023 Tips on the important sprint lead-up this September.

• To Win: #1 Giga Kick ($1.95 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Does last year’s The Everest champion come out and win first-up this spring as the odds-on favourite? Looks that way. The McEwen features a small but top-notch field of sprint stars, but Giga Kick is the standout fresh looking to kick off where he left off. The now four-year-old son of Scissor Kick has just shy of $9.6 million in the bank, and he can add notably to that this prep. At his last two starts back in the winter he won the interstate Group 1 All Aged Stakes – Doomben 10,000 double. He has a lovely record fresh and can beat this field in his first go at The Valley.

2023 McEwen Stakes Field

The official McEwen Stakes 2023 Final Field & Barriers are released by Racing Victoria on the Wednesday leading-up to Feehan Stakes Day, the line-up of sprinters to be published in full below.

The 2023 McEwen Stakes field features a diminutive but imposing field of sprint stars led in betting by last year’s The Everest hero Giga Kick racing first-up.

No	Last 10	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Probable Weight	Penalty	Hcp Rating
1	1115x3211x	GIGA KICK	Clayton Douglas	Craig Williams	6	58.5kg			116
2	5285x2132x	ROTHFIRE	Robert Heathcote	Blake Shinn	5	58.5kg			111
3	x2332x506x	ZOUSTYLE	Tony Gollan	Damien Oliver	2	58.5kg			103
4	3452213×31	ACROMANTULA	Daniel & Ben Pearce	Damian Lane	3	58.5kg			99
5	148x11121x	IMPERATRIZ	Mark Walker	Michael Dee	7	56.5kg			116
6	1x70x2455x	SERADESS	Mark & Levi Kavanagh	Ms Jamie Kah	4	56.5kg			98
7	77x118x2x8	HOW’S THE SERENITY	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	Jye McNeil	1	56.5kg			98

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

2023 McEwen Stakes Nominations

Nominations for the Mitty’s McEwen Stakes in 2023 are taken on the Monday of race week.

	Last 10	Horse	Sex	Age	Trainer	Hcp Rating
1	3452213×31	ACROMANTULA	G	6	Daniel & Ben Pearce	99
2	1115x3211x	GIGA KICK	G	4	Clayton Douglas	116
3	77x118x2x8	HOW’S THE SERENITY	M	6	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	98
4	148x11121x	IMPERATRIZ	M	5	Mark Walker	116
5	822213×804	RATTLE AND BANG	G	6	Dean Binaisse	77
6	5285x2132x	ROTHFIRE	G	6	Robert Heathcote	111
7	1x70x2455x	SERADESS	M	5	Mark & Levi Kavanagh	98
8	x01110412x	SHE DANCES	M	4	Peter G Moody & Katherine Coleman	85
9	x2332x506x	ZOUSTYLE	G	8	Tony Gollan	103

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

McEwen Stakes History

Registered as the Ian McEwen Trophy, the McEwen Stakes was inaugurated in 1995, making it a relatively young race. The McEwen Stakes was named in honour of Ian McEwen, a former secretary for the Moonee Valley Racing Club. For the very first year it ran, the race was referred to as the Anniversary Trophy.

Between 1995 and 1997 the race ran as an unlisted event. Following an upgrade in 1997, the race was listed until 2005. In 2006, a further upgrade saw the McEwen Stakes run as a Group 3 event for six years. From 2013 onwards, the McEwen Stakes is Group 2 event.

The McEwen Stakes has always been run over 1000m (excepting the year 2000 when it was run over 1200m) and has always been held at Moonee Valley (with the exception of the inaugural edition, when it was held at Caulfield).

Plenty of impressive horses have ran in the race throughout the years. Notable McEwen Stakes winners include Sequalo (1995), Testa Rossa (2000), Mistegic (2002), Miss Andretti (2006), Buffering (2011), and the ‘Grey Flash’ Chautauqua (2015).

In 2018 the McEwen Stakes winner Nature Strip – subsequent winner of the 2021 The Everest race – set a new record winning in a slick 56.95 seconds.

His record was beaten in 2023 with Imperatriz flashing home in a new track record of 56.68 seconds.

McEwen Stakes results since 2000 are listed below.

McEwen Stakes Results

Year	Place	Horse	Time
2023 McEwen Stakes	1st	Imperatriz	1 minutes 56.68 seconds (R)
	2nd	Rothfire
	3rd	Giga Kick
2022 McEwen Stakes	1st	Rothfire	0 minutes 58.90 seconds
	2nd	Zoustyle
	3rd	Coolangatta
2021 McEwen Stakes	1st	The Inferno	0 minutes 59.48 seconds
	2nd	Portland Sky
	3rd	September Run
2020 McEwen Stakes	1st	Bella Vella	0 minutes 58.02 seconds
	2nd	Ashlor
	3rd	Brooklyn Hustle
2019 McEwen Stakes	1st	Faatinah	0 minutes 58.40 seconds
	2nd	Bons Away
	3rd	Eduardo
2018 McEwen Stakes	1st	Nature Strip	0 minutes 56.95 seconds (R)
	2nd	Houtzen
	3rd	Shoals
2017 McEwen Stakes	1st	Russian Revolution	0 minutes 58.14 seconds
	2nd	Heatherly
	3rd	Houtzen
2016 McEwen Stakes	1st	Wild Rain	0 minutes 58.8 seconds
	2nd	Furnaces
	3rd	Heatherly
2015 McEwen Stakes	1st	Chautauqua	0 minutes 58.2 seconds
	2nd	Flamberge
	3rd	Furnaces
2014 Ajax Stakes	1st	Angelic Light	0 minutes 57.5 seconds
	2nd	Lankan Rupee
	3rd	Eloping
2013 McEwen Stakes	1st	Kuroshio	0 minutes 57.8 seconds
	2nd	Moment Of Change
	3rd	General Truce
2012 McEwen Stakes	1st	Bel Sprinter	0 minutes 57.3 seconds
	2nd	Platelet
	3rd	Snitzem
2011 McEwen Stakes	1st	Buffering	0 minutes 58.5 seconds
	2nd	Crystal Lily
	3rd	Atomic Force
2010 McEwen Stakes	1st	Hay List	0 minute 59.6 seconds
	2nd	Catapulted
	3rd	Reward For Effort
2009 McEwen Stakes	1st	Nicconi	0 minute 57.4 seconds
	2nd	Morgan Dollar
	3rd	Secret Flyer
2008 McEwen Stakes	1st	Kaphero	0 minute 59.4 seconds
	2nd	Morgan Dollar
	3rd	Lucky Secret
2007 McEwen Stakes	1st	Here De Angels	0 minute 57.4 seconds
	2nd	Gold Edition
	3rd	Dr Nipandtuck
2006 McEwen Stakes	1st	Miss Andretti	0 minute 58.8 seconds
	2nd	Sassbee
	3rd	Cargo Cult
2005 McEwen Stakes	1st	Strikeline	0 minute 59.8 seconds
	2nd	Truly Wicked
	3rd	Titanic Jack
2004 McEwen Stakes	1st	Edgeton	1 minute 01.8 seconds
	2nd	Reactive
	3rd	Mistegic
2003 McEwen Stakes	1st	Yell	0 minute 59.6 seconds
	2nd	The Big Chill
	3rd	Dantana
2002 McEwen Stakes	1st	Mistegic	1 minute 0.2 seconds
	2nd	Shaye Spice
	3rd	Aragonce
2001 McEwen Stakes	1st	Strategic Image	0 minute 58.4 seconds
	2nd	Sports
	3rd	Ateates
2000 McEwen Stakes	1st	Testa Rossa	1 minute 13.4 seconds
	2nd	Sports
	3rd	Chattanooga