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The Magic Millions Cup is a $1 million race held at Queensland’s Gold Coast Racecourse in January on the iconic $13.5 million Magic Millions Race Day.

The jewel of the Magic Millions Racing Carnival, the meeting is host to a bumper line-up of Restricted races open only to Magic Millions graduates including the $3 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic (1200m) and the $3 million Magic Millions 3YO Guineas (1400m).

Another highlight on the Gold Coast race card at the summer race day is the Restricted Listed Magic Millions Cup run under quality handicap conditions over 1400m.*

*In 2023 the Magic Millions Cup ran on Thursday January 19 after being postponed following the weather-related abandoned Gold Coast meeting the Saturday prior. 

Horses may come into the Magic Millions Gold Coast Cup field via an earlier summer lead-up in Queensland including the Group 3 George Moore Stakes (1200m) and the Listed Lough Neagh Stakes at Doomben in December. Vinco ran fifth in the Lough Neagh Stakes before his upset win in the 2023 Magic Millions Cup.

Sydney’s Group 2 $2 million The Ingham Stakes (1600m) – formerly the Villiers Stakes – at Randwick is also a good Magic Millions Cup lead-up and in 2015 Strawberry Boy ran third in the former and runner-up in the latter.

The riches of the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival often calls graduates of the Magic Millions Cup with races like the Group 2 QTC Cup (1300m) and the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) at Eagle Farm – now worth $3 million and sponsored by Ladbrokes.com.au – make nice upcoming targets later in the year.

The 2022 Magic Millions Cup form was franked with the winner Eleven Eleven going on to run third in that winter’s Group 1 Kingsford-Smith Cup (1300m) in Brisbane behind the Magic Millions Cup third place-getter Apache Chase.

The Gold Coast Magic Millions Cup 2024 ran on Saturday January 13, 2024 and was won in runaway fashion by the Ciaron Maher & David Eustace-trained mare Semana ($14) in an impressive upset. 

2024 Magic Millions Cup
Date:	Saturday January 13, 2024
Track:	Gold Coast Racecourse
Distance:	1400m
Race Type:	Qlty Hcp
Status:	Restricted Listed
Prize Money:	$1,000,000

2024 Magic Millions Cup Results

• 1st: #12 Semana ($14)
• 2nd: #13 Meridius
• 3rd: #7 Revolutionary Miss

It was a barnstorming upset in the Magic Millions Cup 2024 results at the Gold Coast late on Saturday afternoon with the delayed event won in emphatic fashion by Ciaron Maher & David Eustace’s classy Winning Rupert mare Semana ($14) who charged home out wide drawing away over the final furlong for an impressive success.

	Finish	No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Bar.	Weight	Penalty	Starting Price
	1	12	SEMANA	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Dylan Gibbons (a)		13	54kg		$14
	2	13	MERIDIUS	Lloyd Kennewell & Lucy Yeomans	Ms Jamie Kah	2L	4	54kg		$15
	3	7	REVOLUTIONARY MISS	Peter & Paul Snowden	James McDonald	2.2L	8	56kg		$5EF
	4	2	FAR TOO EASY	David McColm	James Orman	2.3L	15	59kg		$5EF
	5	18	THE RITZ	Michael Morrison	Robbie Dolan	2.5L	16	53kg		$151
	6	10	BATTLETON	Bjorn Baker	Tim Clark	2.6L	17	54kg		$26
	7	5	ZARASTRO	Tony Gollan	Ms Angela Jones	3.1L	14	57.5kg		$5EF
	8	3	LOCH EAGLE	Kris Lees	Nash Rawiller	3.6L	12	58.5kg		$6
	9	19e	LAVISH EMPIRE	Peter & Paul Snowden	Michael Dee	4.1L	5	54kg		$13
	10	16	PERFECT THOUGHT	John Sargent	Craig Williams	4.6L	10	53kg		$26
	11	9	KING OF HASTINGS	Anthony & Sam Freedman	Tyler Schiller	5.1L	1	54kg		$19
	12	17	ZOUSHACK	Robert Heathcote	Ms Cejay Graham (a)	5.3L	2	53kg		$61
	13	8	FROSTY ROCKS	Bjorn Baker	Adam Hyeronimus	6.6L	9	56kg (cd 56.5kg)		$51
	14	14	SUNFALL	Barry Lockwood	Martin Harley	6.8L	7	54kg		$81
	15	11	DYNAMIC IMPACT	Bjorn Baker	Ashley Morgan	7.2L	6	54kg		$61
	16	15	ARENTEE	Chris Meagher	Damien Thornton	7.7L	3	53kg		$51
	17	6	IRISH SONGS	Louise White	Jake Bayliss	9L	11	56.5kg		$61
		21e	RUSSIAN WARRIOR	Paula Barron			0
		22e	DAMIANI	Greg Ryan			0
		23e	NOBLE STYLE	Paula Barron			0
		4	ELEVEN ELEVEN	Gregory Hickman	Michael Rodd		0
		1	TAMERLANE	James Cummings	Blake Shinn		0
		20e	TUBTHUMPER	Natalie McCall			0

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

2024 Magic Millions Cup Betting Odds

The latest Magic Millions Cup odds 2024 will be listed below as soon as available along with market links to Ladbrokes.com.au to lock in your Magic Millions Cup betting tips at the right price.

Vega One ($3.30 in 2020) was the last favourite in Magic Millions Cup betting to salute for the punters.

There was a notable upset in 2023 with Vinco winning at Magic Millions Cup odds of $21.

There was also a double-figure Magic Millions Cup winner in 2024 with Semana winning by two lengths at $14.

CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST 2024 MAGIC MILLIONS CUP ODDS (Final Field)

2024 Magic Millions Cup Form Guide

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL 2024 MAGIC MILLIONS CUP FORM GUIDE

Tips on the $1 million summer showdown at the Gold Coast this January.

• To Win: #7 Revolutionary Miss ($6.50 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Great edition of the Magic Millions Cup with an open market featuring plenty of live-wire chances. With most of those draw horror gates, happy to lean towards this Peter & Paul Snowden-trained Russian Revolution mare to beat home the boys. She is in ace form coming off back-to-back wins this spring/summer season. Her latest was in the Group 3 Summoned Stakes over the Caulfield mile in early December. Has had a freshen-up since, drops from 59kg last start to 56kg, and gets the run of the race from gate 10 with the booking of James McDonald another tick.

2024 Magic Millions Cup Field

The Magic Millions Cup field features a quality list of Magic Millions qualified gallopers chasing the big money in the January clash and is restricted to 18 runners plus five emergencies.

The official Gold Coast Magic Millions Cup 2024 field and barriers are released on Wednesday January 10, 2024 and will be published in full below.

The 2024 Magic Millions Cup final field features a bumper line-up of Magic Millions graduates led in betting by Far Too Easy coming off a four-length Listed win in Brisbane and the ultra-consistent Tony Gollan-trained Zarastro who has won five of his past six starts.

No	Last 10	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Probable Weight	Penalty	Hcp Rating
1	21140×5141	TAMERLANE	James Cummings	Blake Shinn	16	59.5kg			105
2	7x1622x3x1	FAR TOO EASY	David McColm	James Orman	21	59kg			104
3	250×993121	LOCH EAGLE	Kris Lees	Nash Rawiller	15	58.5kg			103
4	92x700x820	ELEVEN ELEVEN	Gregory Hickman	Michael Rodd	12	58kg			102
5	40×2111211	ZARASTRO	Tony Gollan	Ms Angela Jones	20	57.5kg			101
6	6616105730	IRISH SONGS	Louise White	Jake Bayliss	14	56.5kg			99
7	2x99x78511	REVOLUTIONARY MISS	Peter & Paul Snowden	James McDonald	10	56kg			102
8	x941x00x07	FROSTY ROCKS	Bjorn Baker	Adam Hyeronimus	11	56kg	56.5kg		98
9	660x326x43	KING OF HASTINGS	Anthony & Sam Freedman	Tyler Schiller	1	54kg			90
10	33155D4x43	BATTLETON	Bjorn Baker	Tim Clark	23	54kg			86
11	46×9336196	DYNAMIC IMPACT	Bjorn Baker	Ashley Morgan	7	54kg			85
12	x5121215x2	SEMANA	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Dylan Gibbons (a)	19	54kg			84
13	x6177x4453	MERIDIUS	Lloyd Kennewell & Lucy Yeomans	Ms Jamie Kah	4	54kg			79.5
14	x182132x28	SUNFALL	Barry Lockwood	Martin Harley	8	54kg			79.5
15	x175471x95	ARENTEE	Chris Meagher	Damien Thornton	3	53kg			90
16	1x02x69x86	PERFECT THOUGHT	John Sargent	Craig Williams	13	53kg			88
17	8627×20540	ZOUSHACK	Robert Heathcote	Ms Cejay Graham (a)	2	53kg			88
18	0x01x2788x	THE RITZ	Michael Morrison	Robbie Dolan	22	53kg			81
19e	301×206321	LAVISH EMPIRE	Peter & Paul Snowden	Michael Dee	5	54kg			79.5
20e	7x11148x11	TUBTHUMPER	Natalie McCall		9	54kg			74
21e	0x2x610x10	RUSSIAN WARRIOR	Paula Barron		17	54kg			71
22e	12112×2223	DAMIANI	Greg Ryan		6	54kg			66
23e	12233829	NOBLE STYLE	Paula Barron		18	54kg			59

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

2024 Magic Millions Cup Nominations

The Magic Millions Cup 2024 nominations are out the week of the race and will be updated in full below.

Magic Millions Cup History

The Magic Millions Gold Coast Cup is one of Queensland and the Magic Millions Race Day’s youngest races, first run in 2003 when the Clarry Conners-trained Cosmic Rays won.

Locally-trained Queensland runners have a strong record in the Magic Millions Cup results including wins by the Tony Gollan-trained Spirit Of Boom (2012). Sydney’s best Chris Waller prepared back-to-back Magic Millions Cup winners at the Gold Coast with Triple Elegance (2013) and Velrosso (2014). The event was run over a shorter 1200m distance in 2003.

The Magic Millions Cup prize money was boosted to $1 million for the first time in 2016 and the race day is now Australia’s first $10 million meeting.

In 2022 Eleven Eleven made history as the first two-time Magic Millions Cup champion.

The Gold Coast’s million Magic Millions Day – including the 2023 Magic Millions Cup -was abandoned after the opening two races due to ongoing rainfall, deteriorating track conditions and unsafe jockey conditions and rescheduled for the following Thursday.

Recent Magic Millions Cup Winners

See below for a full list of Magic Millions Cup winners and results going back to the race’s first running in 2003.

Year	Place	Horse	Time
2024 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Semana	1 minute 21.46 seconds
	2nd	Meridius
	3rd	Revolutionary Miss
2023 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Vinco	1 minute 23.13 seconds
	2nd	Oscar Zulul
	3rd	Holyfield
2022 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Eleven Eleven	1 minute 20.50 seconds
	2nd	Holyfield
	3rd	Apache Chase
2021 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Eleven Eleven	1 minute 22.69 seconds
	2nd	Soxagon
	3rd	Discharged
2020 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Vega One	1 minute 21.57 seconds
	2nd	Redouble
	3rd	Sambro
2019 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Redouble	1 minute 21.40 seconds
	2nd	Sambro
	3rd	Shogun Sun
2018 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Care To Think	1 minute 20.72 seconds
	2nd	Arbeitsam
	3rd	Snippets Land
2017 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Testashadow	1 minute 21.70 seconds
	2nd	Perfect Dare
	3rd	Snippets Land
2016 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Lucky Hussler	1 minute 20.43 seconds
	2nd	Strawberry Boy
	3rd	Baligari
2015 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Spurtonic	1 minute 22.72 seconds
	2nd	Strawberry Boy
	3rd	The Bowler
2014 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Velrosso	1 minute 20.93 seconds
	2nd	Phelan Ready
	3rd	Club Command
2013 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Triple Elegance	1 minute 21.45 seconds
	2nd	Gundy Son
	3rd	Stratford
2012 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Spirit Of Boom	1 minute 22 seconds
	2nd	Startsmeup
	3rd	Latin News
2011 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Bold Glance	1 minute 23.23 seconds
	2nd	Zero Rock
	3rd	Captain Sonador
2010 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Walking Or Dancing	1 minute 21.72 seconds
	2nd	Zero Rock
	3rd	Mr Unforgettable
2009 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Masai Pride	1 minute 21.62 seconds
	2nd	Black Piranha
	3rd	Voice Commander
2008 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Theseo	1 minute 22.6 seconds
	2nd	Upilio
	3rd	Five Ways
2007 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Warrior Trader	1 minute 21.61 seconds
	2nd	Masai Pride
	3rd	Master Denis
2006 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Plans	1 minute 21.97 seconds
	2nd	Warrior Trader
	3rd	Deuxieme
2005 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Inspire	1 minute 21.57 seconds
	2nd	Gallieni
	3rd	Mitanni
2004 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Amex	1 minute 21.29 seconds
	2nd	Milkshake
	3rd	Queen Amidala
2003 Magic Millions Cup	1st	Cosmic Rays	1 minute 8.79 seconds
	2nd	Miner’s Union
	3rd	Killachi