2026 SA Derby Results

Stay tuned for the official 2026 South Australian Derby results and finishing order at Morphettville on Saturday May 2, 2026.

• 1st: TBD
• 2nd: TBD
• 3rd: TBD

Winning Margin: TBD

Winning Time: TBD

South Australian Derby Tips

Stay tuned for our insider South Australian Derby 2026 Tips on the Adelaide Group 1 staying showdown this May.

To Win: No. 15 Silvasista

SILVASISTA (9) chases a hat-trick up in grade for Saturday’s SA Derby. Tony & Calvin McEvoy’s Toronado filly is one of the few in the field proven over the distance – and further. Last time out the bonny grey recorded her third win at start number 7, impressing over a genuine staying trip (2800m) at Flemington in an absolute demolition job. She had 3.5 lengths to spare on the line over Finance Merchant in the Listed VRC St Leger with 56kg after powering home from midfield. That win followed a strong performance at Donald, where the filly proved too sharp in a Benchmark 62 over 2200m, scoring by 1.3 lengths with 59.5 kilograms. With consistent form and another likely midfield settling position, she shapes as a key runner to watch back down in trip and weight in on 54.5kg with the airborne Luke Currie sticking with.

South Australian Derby News

Statuario Heads 2025 South Australian Derby Field & Betting

The South Australian Derby is one of the four Group 1 races held as part of the Adelaide Autumn Racing Carnival. It is a 2500 metre staying event that takes place at Morphettville Racecourse in early May each year one week before the Group 1 The Goodwood (1200m).

The SA Derby is for three-year-olds at set weights and offers a prize purse of $1 million.

Entries in the race may have previously contested the Group 3 SA Chairman’s Stakes (2000m) at the track a fortnight earlier. The SA Chairman’s Stakes – SA Derby double has recently been completed by Howard Be Thy Name (2016), the fellow Darren Weir-trained Leicester (2018) and Jungle Magnate (2022).

Three-year-old fillies may come via the Group 1 Australasian Oaks (2000m) on Robert Sangster Stakes Day. Delicacy (2015) was the last filly to complete the Australasian Oaks – SA Derby double. More recently, Qafila (2019) improved on a lead-up fourth in the Schweppes Oaks to beat home the boys in the SA Derby next start, while the 2024 SA Derby winner Coco Sun also came via the Oaks having run third in her lead-up.

Femminile (7th in 2025) was the last Australasian Oaks graduate to continue on and win the South Australian Derby at her next start.

As the leading three-year-olds race at Adelaide, the South Australian Derby field attracts high quality runners. One of the best winners was Mummify in 2003, who continued on to claim victory in that year’s Caulfield Cup in Melbourne and placed third in the Caulfield Cup the following year as well.

The staying distance and high status of the South Australian Derby means that some of the season’s finest horses compete in the race, which is why it is always a good race to watch as an indication for other important races held at the end of the year. For example, South Australian Derby winners Count Chivas (1995) and Shivas Revenge (1991) both continued on to place second in the Melbourne Cup, and the mighty Subzero won the SA Derby / Melbourne Cup double in 1992.

In 2020 Russian Camelot won the SA Derby as the punters’ pick and went on to run top three in his next four Group 1 runs in Melbourne over the spring including winning the Underwood Stakes.

The favourites were in form again in the 2021 SA Derby results with the ATC Derby winner Explosive Jack completing the interstate Derby double.

The 2024 South Australian Derby form was franked with the runner-up Warmonger winning Brisbane’s Group 1 Queensland Derby (2400m) at his next start.

2026 South Australian Derby Betting

The top SA Derby 2026 betting odds on the season’s staying three-year-olds will be available right here at Races.com.au once betting on the lucrative Group 1 Adelaide race opens at Ladbrokes.com.au.

Russian Camelot ($2.90 in 2020) followed by Explosive Jack ($4 in 2021) are the latest favourites in South Australian Derby betting to salute for the punters.

There was a notable upset in 2025 when the filly Femminile won at SA Derby odds of $19 when beating home the favourite Statuario.

South Australian Derby Field

2026 South Australian Derby Form

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2026 South Australian Derby Nominations

Early South Australian Derby nominations for 2026 close on Thursday the 23rd of April 2026 and will be updated in full below once announced.

The 2026 South Australian Derby nominations attracted 40 promising young stayers led in all-in betting by ATC Oaks third placed filly After Summer, the Ciaron Maher-trained colt Accidental Bid and Clayton Douglas’s ATC Derby fourth placed gelding Kaye Jay.

2026 South Australian Derby Field

The SA Derby field attracts a smart line-up of mainly local three-year-old staying types with plenty of fillies backing-up off the Australasian Oaks to take on the colts and geldings at the same track over 500m further.

The official South Australian 2026 Derby field is set for release on the Tuesday leading up to SA Derby Day and will be published in full below.

The 2026 South Australian Derby final field features a capacity line-up of young stayers led in betting by the first emergency, Accidental Bid, with Ciaron Maher’s two-time winning colt sweating on a start for him and jockey John Allen.

Click here to read more on the key runners in the SA Derby 2026 field and betting markets.

South Australian Derby Barrier & Speedmap

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Strictly Business Backmarker

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Autumn Mystery Off Midfield

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Accidental Bid invalid settling lengths

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Geneva Pace

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Single Choice Midfield

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Wigmore Midfield

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Engine Of War Midfield

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Silvasista Midfield

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Lunar Force invalid settling lengths

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Impulsive Reaction Off Midfield

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Kaye Jay Off Pace

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Flying Brant Leader

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Cannae Off Midfield

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Shotaro invalid settling lengths

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Savisanta Off Pace

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Amazake Midfield

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After Summer Off Pace

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Arabian Prince Off Midfield

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Borchard invalid settling lengths

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Kazaru Midfield

South Australian Derby History

The South Australian Derby was first run in 1860 when Midnight won.

It began as a principal race run over 12 furlongs. Not long after its inception the event was not held for a period between 1869 and 1875.

It recommenced in 1876 under the same status and distance. The race did not run again from 1885 to 1889 and in the years 1942 and 1943 due to the war.

The distance of the Derby was converted to 2500m in 1973 before decreasing to 2400m in length in 1978. This was one year before it reached Group 1 status in 1979.

For one year in 1980 the event was raced over a distance of 2600m before dropping back to 2500m the following year in 1981.

There was no South Australian Derby held in 1983 and a few years later in 1986 the distance reverted back to 2400m. In 2001 the event was again run over 2500m and has since remained the same.

Trainer Darren Weir made SA Derby history in 2018 when Leicester became his third straight winner on the trot, seeing the horseman emulate the great Bart Cummings from 40 years earlier.

Jockey John Allen enjoyed his third South Australian Derby winning ride in 2020 aboard the favourite Russian Camelot who went on enjoy a hugely successful spring in Melbourne including his Cox Plate third to Sir Dragonet. The jockey returned and posted a fourth victory aboard the favourite Explosive Jack – winner of that year’s ATC Derby in Sydney – in 2021.

In 2023 Patrick Payne trained his first Group 1 winner with Dunkel in the SA Derby, a race the horseman won as a jockey back in 1994 aboard the Mick Price-trained Bullwinkle. The South Australian Derby 2023 results also saw jockey Billy Egan enjoy his maiden Group 1 victory.

Former local, Ms Jamie Kah, won her first South Australian Group 1 aboard Coco Sun in the 2024 SA Derby results.

Femminile (2025) is the latest South Australian Derby winning filly.

South Australian Derby Previous Race Winners