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Our Cox Plate results page is the ultimate destination for racing fans looking to relive the outcomes of Australia’s premier weight-for-age championship and track the history of one of the nation’s most prestigious races. Run over 2040m at Moonee Valley (Flemington in 2026), the Group 1 Ladbrokes Cox Plate has crowned some of the greatest racehorses in Australian turf history, making the annual result a significant moment of the Spring Racing Carnival. The latest Cox Plate 2026 results will feature the official finishing order, margins, winning time, jockey and trainer details, and post-race analysis, while historical Cox Plate results provide valuable insight into past champions, winning trends, and notable performances. At Races.com.au, punters and racing enthusiasts can access comprehensive Cox Plate results, race replays, dividends, and expert commentary to stay informed about the outcome of the famous “Race Where Legends Are Made.”

2026 Cox Plate Results

Stay tuned for the official 2026 Ladbrokes Cox Plate results and finishing order when the latest edition of the country’s premier WFA race runs on Saturday October 24, 2026 at Flemington for the first time with Moonee Valley closed for redevelopment.

Winning Margin: 0.75 lengths

Winning Time: 2:03.30

The 2026 Cox Plate results produced a historic winner with Western Australian star Cosmic Crusader ($9.50) charging to victory in the first-ever running of the weight-for-age classic at Flemington. Trained by Andrea Leek and brilliantly ridden by William Pike, the six-year-old son of Maurice unleashed a powerful finishing burst to defeat Birdman by three-quarters of a length, while favourite Aeliana was a head away in third after another brave performance. Stopping the clock in 2:03.30, Cosmic Crusader notched his second Group 1 victory of the spring following his Turnbull Stakes success and took his career record to 12 wins from 24 starts with earnings surpassing $6.7 million. The result denied jockey James McDonald a record fifth consecutive Cox Plate triumph and further enhanced Cosmic Crusader’s standing among the nation’s elite weight-for-age performers, capping a remarkable campaign that has seen the former WA galloper rise to the pinnacle of Australian middle-distance racing.

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2026 Cox Plate Race Replay

THE WIZARDS FROM THE WEST HAVE DONE IT??

COSMIC CRUSADER IS THE COX PLATE CHAMPION ? pic.twitter.com/V6MWWB0xt5

— 7HorseRacing ? (@7horseracing) October 24, 2026

Bet on the 2026 Cox Plate Results

Bet on the latest Cox Plate Results below with market links on the iconic WFA race to be provided as soon as Cox Plate betting opens at race sponsor Ladbrokes.

The Cox Plate results reveal that spring’s Cox Plate winner, placegetters for exotic Cox Plate betting results as well as the exact finishing order of all the horses in the field.

The official Ladbrokes Cox Plate Results & Finishing Order are known once the race is run and won in late October each Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.

Punters can discover how their Cox Plate bets on the $6 million weight-for-age classic went that year by looking at the results, which also reveal the winning Cox Plate jockey and trainer for the season.

Each year the Cox Plate results are also hotly anticipated because the winner receives a ballot exemption for entry to the Melbourne Cup, meaning the Cox Plate winner will have a guaranteed place in the Melbourne Cup field if they are entered in the race. Punters planning to bet on the Melbourne Cup are bound to keep a close look on the Cox Plate results.

Past Cox Plate Results

If you are looking to bet on the Cox Plate, think about checking out past Cox Plate results.

Contenders often return to compete in the Cox Plate more than once, as the race is open to any thoroughbred over the age of three, so you can occasionally bet on runners who have previously performed in the same event – and you can predict their performance by researching their previous Cox Plate results.

You can also use past Cox Plate results when calculating your selections chances in other events, by comparing the race distance and the track conditions. Most horses have a favourite distance, and many prefer certain track conditions to others, so horses doing well in the Cox Plate can also do well in races with similar characteristics.

Cox Plate Winners

Cox Plate winners have in the past gone on to compete very successfully in the Melbourne Cup. The most recent example is legendary runner Makybe Diva, who won the 2005 Cox Plate before going on to win the 2005 Melbourne Cup, her third (and last) consecutive Melbourne Cup victory.

Cox Plate history was made in 2014 when the then Aidan O’Brien-trained Adelaide became the first international Cox Plate winner trained outside of Australia or New Zealand. In 2019 the Japanese-trained mare Lys Gracieux joined Adelaide as the only Cox Plate winners trained outside of Australia / New Zealand. In 2021 Aidan O’Brien’s son Joseph O’Brien prepared another international Cox Plate winner with Irish galloper State Of Rest surviving a protest to claim Australia’s greatest race.

Hong Kong galloper Romantic Warrior ($3.60 in 2023) was the last international raider to win the Cox Plate.

In 2013 the Cox Plate winner Shamus Award also made the history books when breaking his maiden status in the classic.

There have been many notable dual Cox Plate winners including Phar Lap, Flight, Sunline and So You Think. Kingston Town was the only triple Cox Plate winner, a feat Winx emulated (2015-17).

Winx went on to become arguably the greatest Cox Plate winner of all time when her 2018 success saw her become history’s only four-time champion. She first made Cox Plate history in 2015 setting a race record but blitzed her own record with her third success in 2017. Winx also made the history books in 2016 setting the eight-length winning margin record in the ‘Race Where Champions Are Made’.

Rising Fast (1954) is the only horse to win the Cox Plate in the same year as completing the Caulfield Cup – Melbourne Cup double.

In 2024 the Cox Plate results saw the Chris Waller-trained Via Sistina equal the eight-length winning margin of her former stablemate Winx when surpassing her Cox Plate record winning in 2 minutes 01.07 seconds.

The Cox Plate 2025 results saw the defending champion Via Sistina go back-to-back this time as the $2.25 favourite in a half-head thriller over stablemate Buckaroo.

The Cox Plate 2026 results saw history made with the event run at Flemington and won by Perth expat Cosmic Crusader at $9.50 on the quick back-up off a Caulfield Cup 4th for trainer Andrea Leek and jockey William Pike.

Recent Cox Plate Results

Year	Winner	Runner-Up	Third	Time
2026	Cosmic Crusader	Birdman	Aeliana	2:03.30
2025	Via Sistina	Buckaroo	Treasurethe Moment	2:05.03
2024	Via Sistina	Prognosis	Broadsiding	2:01.07 (R)
2023	Romantic Warrior	Mr Brightside	Alligator Blood	2:03.16
2022	Anamoe	I’m Thunderstruck	El Bodegon	2:10.17
2021	State Of Rest	Anamoe	Verry Elleegant	2:06.97
2020	Sir Dragonet	Armory	Russian Camelot	2:08.46
2019	Lys Gracieux	Castelvecchio	Te Akau Shark	2:04.21
2018	Winx	Benbatl	Humidor	2:03.64
2017	Winx	Humidor	Folkswood	2:02.94
2016	Winx	Hartnell	Yankee Rose	2:06.35
2015	Winx	Criterion	Highland Reel	2:02.98
2014	Adelaide	Fawkner	Silent Achiever	2:03.8
2013	Shamus Award	Happy Trails	Fiorente	2:05.3
2012	Ocean Park	All Too Hard	Pierro	2:03.14
2011	Pinker Pinker	Jimmy Choux	Rekindled Interest	2:05.39
2010	So You Think	Zipping	Whobegotyou	2:03.9
2009	So You Think	Manhattan Rain	Zipping	2:03.9
2008	Maldivian	Zipping	Samantha Miss	2:06.9
2007	El Segundo	Wonderful World	Haradasun	2:06.3
2006	Fields Of Omagh	El Segundo	Pompeii Ruler	2:06.9
2005	Makybe Diva	Lotteria	Fields Of Omagh	2:09.3
2004	Savabeel	Fields Of Omagh	Starcraft	2:06.9
2003	Fields Of Omagh	Defier	Lonhro	2:07.6
2002	Northerly	Defier	Grandera	2:06.3
2001	Northerly	Sunline	Viscount	2:05.8
2000	Sunline	Diatribe	Referral	2:07.7