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JJ Atkins News

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The Ladbrokes JJ Atkins, formerly called The TJ Smith, is the premier event for two-year-olds at the annual Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival.

2025 Ladbrokes JJ Atkins Results

• 1st: #1 Cool Archie ($4.80)
• 2nd: #8 Hidden Achievement
• 3rd: #4 Call Da Vinci

In a masterful display, Cool Archie claimed headed the 2025 JJ Atkins results at Eagle Farm on Saturday, June 14, marking his fifth consecutive victory and securing a maiden Group 1 win for both himself and the father-and-son training partnership of Chris and Corey Munce.

Piloted by Irish jockey Martin Harley, who celebrated his first Group 1 success in Australia, Cool Archie, a $4.80 chance, settled perfectly in a midfield position behind a strong tempo from barrier nine. Despite the late challenge from the favourite Hidden Achievement ($4.60), Cool Archie showcased his class by effortlessly moving to the front at the 300m mark and bounding clear to win by 1.25 lengths.

This victory, described by Harley as a testament to the colt’s rapid progression, versatility across different track conditions, and strong will to win, has immediately stamped Cool Archie as a leading contender for Champion Two-Year-Old honours for the 2024/25 season.

While plans for his next race are yet to be finalised, his connections are considering a spell before targeting significant spring options, including the Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) at Flemington on November 1 and even an audacious tilt at the $20 million The Everest (1200m) at Randwick on October 18.

Traditionally held on the highly anticipated Stradbroke Handicap Day in June at Eagle Farm Racecourse, this Group 1 race is run over a middle distance of 1600m under set weight conditions.

Currently worth $1,000,000 it is one of the most lucrative races conducted during the carnival and shares the day with a host of other Group status races including the Group 1 $3 million Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) and the new-look $1.2 million The Q22 (2200m).

There are a number of quality races the two-year-old runners in the JJ Atkins field may have contested earlier including the Group 2 BRC Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) a fortnight before.

The BRC Sires Produce Stakes / JJ Atkins is a popular betting double at the carnival and horses that have won both races include Cool Archie (2025), Broadsiding (2024), Sheeza Belter (2022), Sizzling (2012), Pressday (2010), Lovely Jubly (2002), Juanmo (2001), Al Mansour (1997), Anthems (1996), Mahogany (1993), and Slight Chance (1992).

Many J.J. Atkins winners and placegetters will continue on to bigger and better races later in their careers.

The form of the 2021 JJ Atkins was franked with the winner Converge continuing on to win the Group 1 Randwick Guineas (1600m) and run second in the Rosehill Guineas in the autumn of 2022.

The 2022 JJ Atkins winner Sheeza Belta returned in the spring to win the Group 2 $500,000 Hot Danish Stakes (1400m) in Sydney before a third in the next year’s Group 1 Coolmore Classic (1500m).

The 2024 JJ Atkins form was firmly franked with the winner, Broadsiding, going on to win that year’s Golden Rose Stakes before a Cox Plate third to Via Sistina. He also returned in the autumn of 2025 and took at the Rosehill Guineas.

The 2025 Ladbrokes JJ Atkins ran on Saturday June 14, 2025 as part of the bumper Stradbroke Handicap Day race card and was won in style by the Chris & Corey Munce trained BRC Sires’ champ Cool Archie ($4.80) who made it five wins on the trot. 

2025 Ladbrokes JJ Atkins Finishing Order

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

2025 JJ Atkins Betting

The top JJ Atkins 2025 betting odds and Group 1 Brisbane racing odds provided by Ladbrokes.com.au will be available at Races.com.au as soon as released

Rothfire ($3.50 in 2020), Converge ($2.90 in 2021) and Broadsiding ($1.60 in 2024) are the latest favourites in JJ Atkins betting to salute for the punters.

There was a notable upset in 2023 with King Colorado winning at JJ Atkins odds of $14.

2025 Ladbrokes JJ Atkins Form

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2025 Ladbrokes JJ Atkins Tips

Stay tuned for our insider JJ Atkins 2025 Tips on the million-dollar two-year-old’s showdown this winter.

• To Win: TBD

2025 Ladbrokes JJ Atkins Field

The two-year-olds in the JJ Atkins field traditionally come off a lead-up run in Brisbane earlier during the winter with the BRC Sires’ Produce Stakes the key preparatory run into the Group 1 mile feature.

Interstate raiders also make-up a bulk of the JJ Atkins field each year and have a high strike rate beating home the local youngsters.

The official 2025 Ladbrokes JJ Atkins Field & Barriers will be released by Racing Queensland the Tuesday leading up to Stradbroke Handicap Day and published in full below.

2025 JJ Atkins First Acceptances

First acceptances for the JJ Atkins 2025 are taken on a Wednesday about a week and a half out from the race and will be published below once released by Racing Queensland.

The 2025 JJ Atkins first acceptances will be taken on Wednesday the 4th of June 2025. 

2025 JJ Atkins Nominations

The early JJ Atkins 2025 nominations close on a Monday or Tuesday in early May and will be available right here as soon as announced by Racing Queensland.

The official 2025 JJ Atkins nominations close on Tuesday the 6th of May 2025. 

The JJ Atkins 2025 nominations attracted 146 hopeful two-year-olds led in all-in betting by Ciaron Maher’s I Am Invincible colt Navy Pilot who won a recent Eagle Farm race with 59kg in style.

J.J. Atkins History

First run in 1897, the event was originally known as the Claret Stakes and Common won the inaugural race. The event was then named The TJ Smith after legendary trainer Tommy Smith. In 2013 the race was renamed the J.J. Atkins in honour of legendary Queensland trainer Jim Atkins.

The JJ Atkins began as a principal race run over six furlongs but was increased to seven furlongs in 1905. The race was not held between 1942 and 1945 but recommenced in 1946 under the same conditions. Nearly a decade later the race distance was increased to eight furlongs before changing to the metric conversion of 1600m in 1973. Not long after in 1980 the event reached Group 2 status before finally being elevated to its current Group 1 status in 1985.

Just A Printer holds the race record of 1:33.0 set in 1994.

The 2020 race ran over 1400m due to COVID-19.

For 2020 the prize money for the J.J. Atkins was cut to $350,000 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the race distance reduced from a mile to 1400m before returning to a mile and boosted to $1 million in stakes in 2021.

The 2017 JJ Atkins and other Stradbroke Handicap Day races were moved from Eagle Farm to Doomben Racecourse and Doomben hosted the 2018 JJ Atkins again due to the ongoing track upgrades at Eagle Farm.

In 2022 Sheeza Belter became the first filly since Linky Dink (2009) to win.

Cool Archie (2025) became the latest two-year-old to complete the BRC Sires’ – J.J. Atkins double.

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