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King Charles III Stakes (George Main Stakes)

The $5 million King Charles III Stakes (formerly known as the George Main Stakes) takes place at Royal Randwick on The Everest Day.

2024 King Charles III Stakes Results

  • 1st: #6 Ceolwulf
  • 2nd: #9 Pride Of Jenni
  • 3rd: #2 My Oberon



The King Charles III Stakes – formerly known as the George Main Stakes – is a 1600m race held at Sydney’s Royal Randwick Racecourse during the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival.

2024 King Charles III Stakes Results

  • 1st: #6 Ceolwulf ($6.50)
  • 2nd: #9 Pride Of Jenni
  • 3rd: #2 My Oberon

The Joe Pride-trained Ceolwulf ($6.50) was huge again over the Randwick mile cementing his place as a champion to watch when backing-up off his Epsom triumph to claim the King Charles III Stakes 2024 results off a patient Chad Schofield ride to run down Pride Of Jenni late and steal the second Group 1 on The Everest Day.

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King Charles III Stakes 2024 Odds & Results

Randwick R9
King Charles III Stakes (G1)
Final Race time:  1729319966
Runner DetailsWinPlace
1st
6. Ceolwulf (2) J: Chad Schofield 58.5kg
T: Joseph Pride
2nd
9. Pride Of Jenni (10) J: Declan Bates 57kg
T: Ciaron Maher
3rd
2. My Oberon (7) J: Nash Rawiller 59kg
T: Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald
4th
8. Tom Kitten (11) J: Jamie Kah 58.5kg
T: James Cummings
5th
12. Amelia's Jewel (8) J: Tommy Berry 57kg
T: Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald
6th
10. Fangirl (3) J: James McDonald 57kg
T: Chris Waller
7th
7. Celestial Legend (1) J: Blake Shinn 58.5kg
T: L J Bridge
8th
5. New Energy (6) J: Jason Collett 59kg
T: Ciaron Maher
9th
1. Pericles (4) J: Zac Lloyd 59kg
T: James Cummings
10th
4. Major Beel (9) J: Adam Hyeronimus 59kg
T: G Waterhouse & A Bott
11th
3. Lion's Roar (5) J: Mark Zahra 59kg
T: John O'Shea & Tom Charlton
Odds are subject to fluctuation. For current odds on all of our live racing markets, please visit www.ladbrokes.com.au/racing.
Data retrieved: 18/02/2025 09:59:05 AM (Australia/Brisbane)

The event moved from its traditional September timeslot ahead of the 2023 edition to join Randwick’s The Everest Day race card in mid-October.

The inaugural King Charles III Stakes officially replaced the George Main Stakes from 2023 and with $5 million in stakes is the world’s richest weight-for-age 1600m race.

On The Shorts Day at Randwick in mid-September the $1 million 7 Stakes (1600m) replaced the old George Main Stakes on the card as the mile feature offering an Epsom Handicap ballot exemption.

Fangirl improved on a third in the 7 Stakes results to win the 2023 King Charles III Stakes for trainer Chris Waller.

The Everest Day offers close to $35 million in total prize money across the 10 races that are headlined by the $20 million The Everest (1200m).

The Group 1 Winx Stakes (1400m) remains a key lead-up to the event and Anamoe (2022) was the last horse to complete the Winx Stakes – George Main Stakes double first and second-up before the latter was revamped and renamed.

The next year Fangirl became the first horse to complete the new Winx Stakes – King Charles III Stakes double.

Open to horses aged three years and over the George Main Stakes was formerly a great lead-up to the Group 1 Epsom Handicap (1600m) over the same track / distance.

The King Charles III Stakes now runs a fortnight after the Epsom. The last horse to complete the George Main Stakes – Epsom Handicap double was the John O’Shea-trained Racing To Win (2006).

In 2024 Ceolwulf became the first horse to do the Epsom Handicap – King Charles III Stakes double.

The most notable recent George Main Stakes winner was superstar mare Winx who became the first back-to-back winner since Kingston Town (1981-82) when the champion defended her title in 2017 scoring her 20th straight race victory. Winx made George Main Stakes history again saluting in the event for the third consecutive year in 2018.

In 2021 trainer Chris Waller took his record in the race up to eight wins in 10 years with Verry Elleegant saluting. Verry Elleegant went on to frank the George Main Stakes form that year winning the iconic Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington three starts later.

The master horseman then won the first edition of the new race with Fangirl saluting in the 2023 King Charles III Stakes results for the stable.

The 2022 George Main Stakes form was franked with the winner Anamoe going on to win the Group 1 Caulfield Stakes – Cox Plate double later that spring.

The inaugural King Charles III Stakes winner in 2023 was Fangirl. The King Charles III Stakes form was franked that year with the runner-up, Mr Brightside, going on to run second in the Cox Plate and Champion’s Mile before a killer 2024 autumn that included wins in the CF Orr and Futurity Stakes.

The 2024 King Charles III Stakes (formerly George Main Stakes) ran on Saturday, October 19, 2024 at Royal Randwick on The Everest Day and was won in a brilliant late burst by Joe Pride’s Epsom Handicap champ Ceolwulf ($6.50). 

King Charles III Stakes (George Main Stakes)
Date: Saturday, October 19, 2024
Track: Randwick Racecourse
Distance: 1600m
Race Type: Weight-For-Age
Status: Group 1
Prize Money: $5,000,000

2024 King Charles III Stakes Finishing Order

Finish No. Horse Trainer Jockey Margin Bar. Weight Penalty Starting Price
1 6 CEOLWULF (NZ) Joseph Pride Chad Schofield 2 58.5kg $6.50
2 9 PRIDE OF JENNI Ciaron Maher Declan Bates 0.72L 10 57kg $2.70F
3 2 MY OBERON (IRE) Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald Nash Rawiller 1.01L 7 59kg $26
4 8 TOM KITTEN James Cummings Ms Jamie Kah 3.4L 11 58.5kg $21
5 12 AMELIA’S JEWEL Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald Tommy Berry 3.66L 8 57kg $17
6 10 FANGIRL Chris Waller James McDonald 3.9L 3 57kg $2.90
7 7 CELESTIAL LEGEND Les Bridge Blake Shinn 4.25L 1 58.5kg $10
8 5 NEW ENERGY (IRE) Ciaron Maher Jason Collett 5.01L 6 59kg $101
9 1 PERICLES James Cummings Zac Lloyd (a) 5.42L 4 59kg $31
10 4 MAJOR BEEL (NZ) Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Adam Hyeronimus 7.62L 9 59kg $101
11 3 LION’S ROAR (NZ) John O’Shea & Tom Charlton Mark Zahra 8.91L 5 59kg $101
11 ZOUGOTCHA Chris Waller 0

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

2024 King Charles III Stakes Betting

The season’s best King Charles III Stakes 2024 odds and betting market links to Ladbrokes.com.au will be available here at Races.com.au as soon as available.

From 2010-2022 eleven favourites in George Main Stakes betting saluted for the punters. The most recent favourites to get the job done were Avilius ($3.10 in 2019), Verry Elleegant ($1.75 in 2021) and Anamoe ($1.65 in 2022).

Fangirl won the inaugural King Charles III Stakes in 2023 at $5.50 beating the odds-on favourite Mr Brightside ($1.95).

Pride Of Jenni ($2.70) jumped the favourite in King Charles III Stakes betting in 2024 only to be run down late by Ceolwulf ($6.50).

2024 King Charles III Stakes Form

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2024 King Charles III Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider King Charles III Stakes 2024 Tips on the important Group 1 mile showdown this spring.

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To Win: #19 Pride Of Jenni ($2.40 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Sticking with a form mare and deserving favourite who has the ability to lead all-the-way in this year’s King Charles III Stakes.

Cannot go past Pride Of Jenni to win a Sydney Group 1 here off her excellent Melbourne lead-up form further south.

There’s obviously plenty of depth in this field including a very big danger in Fangirl, last start winner of the 7 Stakes, who is looking to go back-to-back with a successful title defence for the race’s incredible nine-time winning trainer Chris Waller.

Ciaron Maher’s brilliant favourite however held her measure in the Group 1 Champions Mile at Flemington last year during the Melbourne Cup Carnival and think she’ll win this.

She doesn’t have quite the same impressive Randwick record as Fangirl, but she is a Group 1 winner (by 6.5 lengths!) at the track in the autumn’s Queen Elizabeth.

Obviously well proven at a mile (10-4-2-0) and presents rock hard fit.

It is the local vs the visitor, so strap in!

Group 2 Feehan Stakes win over this distance at The Valley was really nice last start, the form of which was firmly franked by the third placed Antino who was emphatic with his own 6.5 length Group 1 win in last weekend’s Toorak.

Front runner can go all the way.

The Danger: #10 Fangirl ($3.70 at time of publish) – BET NOW

You cannot bet on the King Charles III Stakes this year and leave out the defending champion Fangirl.

She won the 7 Stakes in terrific style last start beating a good line-up of rivals by a solid margin at this track and trip.

Waller’s six-year-old Sebring mare is a Randwick track specialist (17:6-3-3) and will love a Soft going course on which she’s got a wonderful strike-rate in (8:4-2-0).

Drawn a treat in gate four and no doubt James McDonald is the form jockey of the season (again).

Fangirl is fit third-up, confident off her last start, at the right course to dominate, and will give plenty of chase late to Pride Of Jenni making for a potential thriller!

Each Way: #12 Amelia’s Jewel ($15 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Yeah the girls! Amelia’s Jewel is another class mare in this field and she has perhaps been forgotten by the punters making her a sneaky top three value runner.

The former WA-trained daughter of Siyouni is a Group 1 winner in Perth and dual $4 million The Quokka runner-up to Overpass who is a very good horse in his own right luckless not to gain a The Everest slot this weekend.

The five-year-old is consistent with nine wins and six seconds from 18 starts.

Two of those second placings have come back-to-back in Sydney this prep for her new stable with the mare now prepared out of Warwick Farm by Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald.

Fresh she was runner-up to Royal Patronage in the Group 2 Tramway here before an eye-catching Golden Pendant second with 58kg at Rosehill.

Gets options from gate nine, Tommy Berry is getting to know her well now, and up to 1600m third-up looks great with Amelia’s Jewel a two-time winner from three runs at the distance.

Value.

The Roughie: #1 Pericles ($23 at time of publish) – BET NOW

The price on this talented Godolphin-raced son of Street Boss is huge considering what he is capable of on his day.

Apprentice Zac Lloyd is absolutely airborne this season and partners the James Cummings-trained five-year-old from a favourable barrier five draw.

Pericles is deep into his prep already coming off a string of good runs including his third behind this Saturday’s Caulfield Cup favourite in Melbourne, Buckaroo, in the Group 1 Underwood Stakes (1800m) two back.

Last start was at Rosehill in the Group 2 Hill Stakes over 1900m where he finished fourth to Attrition.

Think the drop back to a mile is a smart move by the Royal Blue brigade with the horse’s only other 1600m run producing a close second to Celestial Legend on a Heavy (8) in the autumn’s Doncaster Mile.

Can surprise a few well-conditioned and back in distance.

2024 King Charles III Stakes Field

The King Charles III Stakes field attracts a top-class line-up of spring milers, many looking to step-up in distance later in the season heading towards a Melbourne feature including the Cox Plate – a double Winx achieved in 2016, 2017 and incredibly again in 2018.

Many gallopers have a lead-up run in events like the Group 1 Winx Stakes (1400m) and or Group 2 Chelmsford Stakes (1600m). Winx (2017) was the last horse to complete the Chelmsford Stakes – George Main Stakes double.

The official King Charles III Stakes 2024 Final Field & Barriers are released the Wednesday prior to the race and will be published in full below.

The 2024 King Charles III Stakes field has drawn an elite line-up of 12 spring hopefuls led in betting by the Ciaron Maher-trained Pride Of Jenni and Chris Waller’s defending champion Fangirl.

Click here to read more on the key runners in the King Charles III Stakes 2024 field and betting markets.

No Last 10 Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight Probable Weight Penalty Hcp Rating
1 62572×3134 PERICLES James Cummings Zac Lloyd (a) 5 59kg 110
2 x64730x026 MY OBERON (IRE) Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald Nash Rawiller 8 59kg 109
3 31x737x721 LION’S ROAR (NZ) John O’Shea & Tom Charlton Mark Zahra 6 59kg 105
4 09x740x157 MAJOR BEEL (NZ) Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Adam Hyeronimus 10 59kg 101
5 x43x209x65 NEW ENERGY (IRE) Ciaron Maher Jason Collett 7 59kg 101
6 66228×6121 CEOLWULF (NZ) Joseph Pride Chad Schofield 2 58.5kg 111
7 25x5111x86 CELESTIAL LEGEND Les Bridge Blake Shinn 1 58.5kg 108
8 x65464x152 TOM KITTEN James Cummings Ms Jamie Kah 12 58.5kg 106
9 1x2121x521 PRIDE OF JENNI Ciaron Maher Declan Bates 11 57kg 122
10 3174x12x31 FANGIRL Chris Waller James McDonald 4 57kg 119
11 646x111x28 ZOUGOTCHA Chris Waller 3 57kg 116
12 190x220x22 AMELIA’S JEWEL Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald Tommy Berry 9 57kg 112

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2024 King Charles III Stakes Nominations

Nominations for the King Charles III Stakes 2024 close the Monday of race week.

Nominations extended until 11:00am (AEDT) on 15/10/2024

Last 10 Horse Sex Age Trainer Hcp Rating
1 190x220x22 AMELIA’S JEWEL M 5 Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald 112
2 25x5111x86 CELESTIAL LEGEND H 4 Les Bridge 108
3 66228×6121 CEOLWULF (NZ) G 4 Joseph Pride 111
4 44x618x408 DEMOCRACY MANIFEST G 6 Chris Waller 105
5 3174x12x31 FANGIRL M 6 Chris Waller 119
6 6x2555x727 HINGED M 6 Chris Waller 104
7 31x737x721 LION’S ROAR (NZ) G 7 John O’Shea & Tom Charlton 105
8 09x740x157 MAJOR BEEL (NZ) G 5 Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott 101
9 x64730x026 MY OBERON (IRE) G 8 Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald 109
10 9x7622x037 NEW ENDEAVOUR (IRE) G 5 Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott 103
11 x43x209x65 NEW ENERGY (IRE) G 6 Ciaron Maher 101
12 4x73407x80 NUGGET (GB) G 8 Ciaron Maher 103
13 62572×3134 PERICLES G 5 James Cummings 110
14 1x2121x521 PRIDE OF JENNI M 7 Ciaron Maher 122
15 211x110x40 REDIENER G 5 Chris Waller 106
16 x65464x152 TOM KITTEN G 4 James Cummings 106
17 646x111x28 ZOUGOTCHA M 5 Chris Waller 116

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

George Main Stakes / King Charles III Stakes History

The race was previously named after George Main, the former chairman of the Australian Jockey Club, racehorse breeder and sheep runner before being renamed ahead of the 2023 in honour of His Majesty King Charles III.

Inaugurated in 1945, the first winner of the George Main Stakes was Modulation. There have been several horses which have managed to win the race more than once including Kingston Town in 1981-82, Regal Rhythm in 1967-68, Count Radiant in 1964-65 and Shannon in 1946-47. In 2011 the race was run over a 1500m trip at Rosehill due to construction work at Randwick.

In 2017 Winx became the latest back-to-back George Main Stakes winner and the shortest-priced favourite to salute at odds of $1.12. The mighty mare won the event for the third year on the trot in 2018 defeating just six rivals, the closest being Le Romain by four lengths!

Trainer Chris Waller posted his seventh George Main Stakes win in nine years in 2020 with Kolding scoring an upset over three of his stablemates for an all-Waller first four followed by his eighth in ten years with his subsequent Melbourne Cup winning mare Verry Elleegant in 2021.

In 2022 subsequent Cox Plate star Anamoe became one of the shortest-priced favourites to salute in the George Main Stakes results winning at a $1.65 starting price.

The first official King Charles III Stakes winner was Fangirl for Chris Waller in 2023.

George Main Stakes / King Charles III Results

Year Place Horse Time
2024
King Charles III Stakes
1st Ceolwulf 1 minute 34.07 seconds
2nd Pride Of Jenni
3rd My Oberon
2023
King Charles III Stakes
1st Fangirl 1 minute 33.79 seconds
2nd Mr Brightside
3rd My Oberon
2022
George Main Stakes
1st Anamoe 1 minute 38.61 seconds
2nd Icebath
3rd Hinged
2021
George Main Stakes
1st Verry Elleegant 1 minute 36.07 seconds
2nd Riodini
3rd Think It Over
2020
George Main Stakes
1st Kolding 1 minute 33.30 seconds
2nd Star Of The Seas
3rd Imaging
2019
George Main Stakes
1st Avilius 1 minute 36.18 seconds
2nd Dreamforce
3rd Happy Clapper
2018
George Main Stakes
1st Winx 1 minute 34.21 seconds
2nd Le Romain
3rd Egg Tart
2017
George Main Stakes
1st Winx 1 minute 33.65 seconds
2nd Happy Clapper
3rd Foxplay
2016
George Main Stakes
1st Winx 1 minute 36.1 seconds
2nd Hauraki
3rd It’s Somewhat
2015
George Main Stakes
1st Kermadec 1 minute 37.70 seconds
2nd Royal Descent
3rd Pornichet
2014
George Main Stakes
1st Sacred Falls 1 minute 35.66 seconds
2nd Royal Descent
3rd Laser Hawk
2013
George Main Stakes
1st Streama 1 minute 34.78 seconds
2nd Royal Descent
3rd Veyron
2012
George Main Stakes
1st Shoot Out 1 minute 36.4 seconds
2nd Rangirangdoo
3rd Secret Admirer
2011
George Main Stakes
1st Sincero 1 minute 28.5 seconds
2nd Ilovethiscity
3rd Triple Elegance
2010
George Main Stakes
1st More Joyous 1 minute 35.6 seconds
2nd Trusting
3rd Empires Choice
2009
George Main Stakes
1st Road To Rock 1 minute 35.5 seconds
2nd Black Piranha
3rd Onemorenomore
2008
George Main Stakes
1st Mentality 1 minute 34.68 seconds
2nd Theseo
3rd Gallant Tess
2007
George Main Stakes
Race Not Held  
2006
George Main Stakes
1st Racing To Win 1 minute 33.75 seconds
2nd Red Dazzler
3rd Desert War
2005
George Main Stakes
1st Mr Celebrity 1 minute 34.6 seconds
2nd Shania Dane
3rd Outback Prince
2004
George Main Stakes
1st Grand Armee 1 minute 36.94 seconds
2nd King’s Chapel
3rd Shamekha
2003
George Main Stakes
1st Lonhro 1 minute 37.48 seconds
2nd Grand Armee
3rd Defier
2002
George Main Stakes
1st Defier 1 minute 38.31 seconds
2nd Excellerator
3rd Sunline
2001
George Main Stakes
1st Viscount 1 minute 36.74 seconds
2nd Shogun Lodge
3rd Courvoisier
2000
George Main Stakes
1st Adam 1 minute 35.25 seconds
2nd Mr. Innocent
3rd Al Mansour

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