2020 VRC Sprint Classic Results

• 1st: #3 Bivouac
• 2nd: #2 Nature Strip
• 3rd: #9 Libertini

	Finish	No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Bar.	Weight	Penalty	Starting Price
	1	3	BIVOUAC	James Cummings	Glen Boss		6	58.5kg		$3.20F
	2	2	NATURE STRIP	Chris Waller	Hugh Bowman	3.25L	9	58.5kg		$3.80
	3	9	LIBERTINI	Anthony Cummings	Damien Oliver	3.45L	5	56.5kg		$4.80
	4	6	ZOUTORI	Mathew Ellerton & Simon Zahra	Jamie Kah	3.75L	4	58.5kg		$21
	5	4	HEY DOC	Tony & Calvin McEvoy	Luke Currie	5.5L	3	58.5kg		$21
	6	5	GRAFF	Danny O’Brien	John Allen	5.7L	1	58.5kg		$17
	7	8	TOFANE (NZ)	Michael Moroney	Jye McNeil	7.2L	2	56.5kg		$18
	8	7	STANDOUT	Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou	Craig Williams	7.3L	8	58.5kg		$31
	9	1	SANTA ANA LANE	Anthony & Sam Freedman	Ben Melham	8.55L	7	58.5kg		$12
	10	10	FABERGINO	Tiarnna Robertson	Jordan Childs	8.65L	10	56.5kg		$26

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

The 2020 VRC Sprint Classic field is released on the Wednesday before the race during Melbourne Cup week 2020. 

The VRC Sprint Classic field attracts the season’s best sprinters that face off down the famous Flemington straight on the first Saturday of November.

The $1.5 million Group 1 VRC Sprint Classic field run over 1200m on Mackinnon Stakes Day, held four days after the Melbourne Cup.

Run under weight-for-age conditions, the VRC Sprint Classic final field attracts mainly older sprinters with the three-year-olds traditionally running a week earlier in the Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) against their own age at the same track / distance.

VRC Sprint Classic nominations close in late September each year and are followed by VRC Sprint Classic first acceptances in October.

The VRC Sprint Classic final acceptances close on the Wednesday before race day and reveal the make-up of the field and the VRC Sprint Classic barrier draw.

Bet on the VRC Sprint Classic Field

Betting on the VRC Sprint Classic field opens weeks in advance of the race, futures markets from Ladbrokes.com.au to be displayed below as soon as available.

2020 VRC Sprint Classic Field

The 2020 VRC Sprint Classic field and barriers are released the Wednesday before Mackinnon Stakes Day, which runs on the first Saturday in November each Melbourne Cup Carnival, and will be published in full below.

The 2020 Darley Sprint Classic final field features 10 hopefuls led in betting by the defending champion Nature Strip and last start The Everest runner-up Bivouac.

No	Last 10	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Penalty	Hcp Rating
1	25x6266x66	SANTA ANA LANE	Anthony & Sam Freedman	Ben Melham	7	58.5kg		115
2	41x411x247	NATURE STRIP	Chris Waller	Hugh Bowman	9	58.5kg		117
3	2x61365x32	BIVOUAC	James Cummings	Glen Boss	6	58.5kg		115
4	8x3129x841	HEY DOC	Tony & Calvin McEvoy	Luke Currie	3	58.5kg		115
5	3440x450x1	GRAFF	Danny O’Brien	Damian Lane	1	58.5kg		105
6	36x2400x11	ZOUTORI	Mathew Ellerton & Simon Zahra	Jamie Kah	4	58.5kg		109
7	12x160x552	STANDOUT	Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou	Craig Williams	8	58.5kg		104
8	x77351x359	TOFANE (NZ)	Michael Moroney	Jye McNeil	2	56.5kg		112
9	1133x49x18	LIBERTINI	Anthony Cummings	Damien Oliver	5	56.5kg		110
10	x1x11x1x02	FABERGINO	Tiarnna Robertson	Jordan Childs	10	56.5kg		106

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

2020 VRC Sprint Classic Nominations

The 2020 VRC Classic Nominations are taken in late September and will be published below as the first early sign of what sprinters will make up the VRC Classic Field.

The 2020 Darley Sprint Classic nominations drew 69 hopefuls including the past two champions Nature Strip (2019) and Santa Ana Lane (2018).

Click here to view the full list of 2020 VRC Sprint Classic nominations.