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Stradbroke Season is in full swing in Brisbane for the winter and this weekend the Ladbrokes Victory Stakes 2026 serves as a key early guide to the upcoming Group 1 sprints with the resuming Private Harry favourite for the Eagle Farm feature.

Thirteen classy runners make up the field for this year’s Group 2 $300,000 Ladbrokes Victory Stakes (1200m), and the race has been won by a host of good types in recent history including Swiss Ace (2008-09), Buffering (2011 & 2013), Temple Of Boom (2014), and Srikandi (2015).

Having his first start for master trainer Chris Waller, four-year-old Harry Angel entire, Private Harry, is well backed into $3.20 through Ladbrokes.com.au to add to his strong first-up record that stands at two wins from three resuming runs to date.

A winner of five of his seven starts, the still emerging sprinter is already a proven Group 1 champ having claimed victory in last year’s The Galaxy (1100m) in Sydney.

His latest two runs back in the spring produced fifth place finishes at Randwick which brought an end to his potential Everest bid, but he lands himself in a winnable assignment off a spell to get back into winning form.

With conditions to suit on a Soft rated track and Ashley Morgan, who is riding well for the stable, booked for the ride from a favourable gate three draw, Private Harry’s recent trials have been strong, and he’s got the ability at his best to take this out.

The danger occupying the second line of Victory Stakes betting this season at $5 and the only other acceptor at single figures for the win is the Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott-trained former Golden Slipper winner Lady Of Camelot.

Stepping back into the spotlight on Saturday, the classy Written Tycoon mare finally gets the right race to snap her post-Slipper drought.

She hasn’t won since her Golden Slipper heroics as a juvenile, but everything about her set-up in the Victory Stakes suggests she’ll be ready to fire fresh.

Now a four-year-old, she boasts a strong first-up profile and drops sharply in grade after tackling elite mares in both the Surround Stakes and Coolmore Classic last prep.

She was beaten a whisker by Lady Shenandoah in the Surround before producing a huge run from a horror draw to finish a close third in the Coolmore in March 2025 — form that stacks up anywhere.

She’s been off the scene for over a year, but her recent Canterbury trial win suggested she hasn’t lost an ounce of her brilliance.

The draw is perfect, Tim Clark knows exactly how to ride her, and while a few rivals arrive with more miles in the legs, she brings the kind of class that can overcome that.

Back in Queensland for the first time since chasing home Private Harry at the Sunshine Coast last January, she maps to land just behind the speed and peel out at the right time.

If she returns anywhere near her best, she’s the comeback star that can upset the favourite.

Outside the dominant duo the other best fancied presenting value include the Ciaron Maher-trained Warnie ($10) racing for the first time since his $1 million Supernova win over Private Eye at Pakenham in mid-December, Tony Gollan‘s top local hope with a stellar Eagle Farm record – Transatlantic ($10) – who won the Group 1 Toorak Handicap in Melbourne last prep and Uncommon James ($11).

Matthew Hoysted‘s lightly raced seven-year-old, Uncommon James has form around Private Harry having placed third in last year’s The Galaxy and he strips fitter after returning here at Eagle Farm to run second with 60.5kg in the Listed Ascot Handicap (1000m).

With an imposing second-up strike-rate (6:3-1-1) and suited to the WFA conditions, he’s one of the double-figure hopes who can give this a shake-up.

Further down the markets at longer Victory Stakes odds but not without each way claims are the likes of the Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr-trained Reserve Bank ($15) who won last autumn’s Group 1 The Goodwood in SA and the widely drawn Joe Pride-trained mare In Flight ($15) coming off a Group 2 Sapphire Stakes victory at Randwick on Day 2 of The Championships.

The 2026 Ladbrokes Victory Stakes is scheduled as Eagle Farm Race 8 at 4:13pm (AEST) on Saturday’s nine-race card.

2026 Ladbrokes Victory Stakes Field & Odds

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