The Group 3 Red Anchor Stakes is a 1200m sprint held at Moonee Valley Racecourse during the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival in late October on Ladbrokes Cox Plate Day.

2024 Red Anchor Stakes Results

• 1st: #1 Bittercreek ($7.50)
• 2nd: #2 Pisces
• 3rd: #6 Winnasedge

Classy Snitzel colt, Bittercreek ($7.50), has booked his shot at the Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes on Derby Day with connections confirming plans for a quick back-up into the classic for the winter’s JJ Atkins runner-up who was good on Cox Plate Day second-up winning the 2024 Red Anchor Stakes by three quarters of a length.

Held under set weights with penalties conditions, the Red Anchor Stakes is restricted to three-year-old sprinters and offers $200,000 in prize money.

The Red Anchor Stakes is held on Cox Plate Day alongside a host of other Group status spring features. These include the renowned Group 1 Cox Plate (2040m), the Group 2 Moonee Valley Fillies Classic (1600m), Group 2 Moonee Valley Vase (2040m), Group 2 Crystal Mile (1600m), Group 2 McEwen Stakes (1200m), Group 3 JRA Cup (2040m), and the Group 3 Tesio Stakes (1600m).

Classier types tend to perform well under the set weights plus penalties conditions of the Red Anchor Stakes. Some fairly decent young horses have gotten up over Group 1 types in recent years, so when punting don’t be too quick to immediately jump on the well-known horses when placing your bets on the Red Anchor Stakes.

Horses tend to target the Red Anchor Stakes following runs in races with similar conditions and similar distances including the Group 3 Blue Sapphire Stakes (1200m) over the Caulfield Cup Carnival.

Following the Red Anchor Stakes, some runners may go on to the Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m), run a week later at Flemington Racecourse on VRC Derby Day.

The 2020 Red Anchor Stakes form was later franked with the winner Portland Sky winning the following autumn’s Group 1 Oakleigh Plate.

The 2024 Red Anchor Stakes ran at the Moonee Valley track on Saturday October 26, 2024 as part of Ladbrokes Cox Plate Day and was won by the Coolmore Stud Stakes-bound Snitzel colt Bittercreek ($7.50). 

2024 Red Anchor Stakes Finishing Order

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2024 Red Anchor Stakes Betting

The latest Red Anchor Stakes 2024 betting odds from Ladbrokes.com.au will be provided at Races.com.au for punters to lock in tips on the three-years-old sprint on Cox Plate Day at the best price.

Generation ($2.20 in 2021) and Archo Nacho ($2.60 in 2023) are the latest favourites in Red Anchor Stakes betting to salute for the punters.

2024 Red Anchor Stakes Form Guide

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2024 Red Anchor Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Red Anchor Stakes 2024 Tips on the potential Coolmore Stud Stakes lead-up this spring.

• To Win: #2 Pisces ($4.20 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Think Godolphin could be in for a big Cox Plate Day with Broadsiding lining-up in the Cox Plate. Earlier on the card Pisces looks a nice price to collect a Group 3 in the Red Anchor with the son of Frosted racing first-up. He is well tried having had eight starts for two wins, including one fresh victory prior, and carried plenty of weight for a Listed fourth last time out. Has good form over the distance (3:1-1-1), comes off two solid trials in Sydney and shapes up as a genuine chance here with James McDonald riding at The Valley.

2024 Red Anchor Stakes Field

The Red Anchor Stakes field tends to attract three-year-olds who have had fairly extensive preparations already that season. Horses that run in the Red Anchor Stakes field usually do so following several black type races already that season including Sydney’s Group 2 Roman Consul Stakes (1200m) or Caulfield’s Group 3 HDF McNeil Stakes (1200m) in September.

Sejardan (6th in 2022) was the last Roman Consul Stakes graduate to back-up and win the Red Anchor Stakes on Cox Plate Day, while Sweet Ride ran second in both events that year.

The 2024 Red Anchor Stakes field and barriers are released on the Wednesday leading-up to Cox Plate Day and will be published in full below.

The Red Anchor Stakes 2024 final field features a smart line-up of three-year-olds facing off early on the Cox Plate Day card including the current favourite Ikasara coming off a Group 2 Roman Consul fourth for the Waterhouse/Bott stable.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2024 Red Anchor Stakes Nominations

Nominations for the Red Anchor Stakes in 2024 close the Monday leading-up to the race.

Red Anchor Stakes History

The Red Anchor Stakes was inaugurated in 1985, with Seiger taking out the first edition. Since then, the Red Anchor Stakes has provided classy three-year-olds with an opportunity to showcase their skills against other horses of similar levels of skill.

The Red Anchor Stakes has always been held over 1200m. Between the years of 1990 and 2005 the race ran as the CS Hayes Stakes. Between 2006 and 2011 it was referred to as the City Pacific Finance Stakes. Following that, it adopted the name Telstra Phonewords Stakes.

Notable Red Anchor Stakes winners include Rubiton (1986), Sequalo (1993), Yell (2002), Royal Asscher (2007) and Karuta Queen (2011). Red Anchor Stakes results and winning times are listed below.

Red Anchor Stakes History