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Overview
This page was last updated on March 28, 2026
The 2026 Vinery Stud Stakes ran on Saturday March 28 as part of Rosehill's Tancred Stakes Day as a key lead-up to the Australian Oaks and was narrowly won by the Mark Walker-trained favourite Belle Cheval ($2.60F) in her first Australian start.
- Race Date: 28/03/2026
- Race Status: Group 1
- Race Conditions: Set Weights; 3YO Fillies
- Race Venue: Rosehill, NSW
- Prize Money: $750,000
- Distance: 2000m
- Track Conditions: Soft6 - Fine
- Rail Position: +5m Entire. (Pent: 5.87)
| 2. Belle Cheval (2) J: Zac Lloyd56kg 3x112T: Mark Walker | ||
| 5. After Summer (6) J: Billy Egan56kg 133x6T: Dominic Sutton | ||
| 3. Salty Pearl (3) J: Ben Allen56kg x3231T: Ciaron Maher | ||
| 1. Ohope Wins (9) J: James McDonald56kg 52111T: Chris Waller | ||
| 9. Stand My Ground (4) J: Tyler Schiller56kg 4x1T: Marc Chevalier | ||
| 6. Long Legs (1) J: Nash Rawiller56kg 13x34T: Gary Portelli | ||
| 4. Panova (7) J: Tommy Berry56kg 11x65T: Chris Waller | ||
| 8. Celestial Award (5) J: Craig Newitt56kg 41T: Jerome Hunter | ||
| 7. Aisle Two (8) J: Adam Hyeronimus56kg x1215T: Robert & Luke Price |
2026 Vinery Stud Stakes Results
Stay tuned for the official 2026 Vinery Stud Stakes results and finishing order at Rosehill on Saturday March 28, 2026 and to see what fillies are heading into the Australian Oaks.
- 1st: No. 2 Belle Cheval ($2.60F)
- 2nd: No. 5 After Summer
- 3rd: No. 3 Salty Pearl
Winning Margin: 0.01 lengths
Winning Time: 2:05.97
Mark Walker’s The Kiwi runner-up, Savabeel filly Belle Cheval ($2.60F), atoned for her narrow loss across the Tasman in The Kiwi to salute for the punters by a whisker taking out her Australian debut in the 2026 Vinery Stud Stakes results on Saturday. Despite wandering on the straight, she held on and survived a protest by the runner-up After Summer to collect the Group 1 victory. Belle Cheval now heads to the paddock ahead of the spring bypassing the Australian Oaks, which After Summer has firmed notably to win on April 11 at Randwick.
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Vinery Stud Stakes Tips
Stay tuned for our insider Vinery Stud Stakes 2026 Tips on the key Tancred Stakes Day support act this autumn.
To Win: No. 1 Ohope Wins
OHOPE WINS (9) looks perfectly placed to make a winning Australian debut and claim Saturday’s Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes at Rosehill. The classy Kiwi filly has been a model of consistency across the Tasman, stringing together three straight victories including a dominant 2.2 length romp in the New Zealand Oaks where she overcame a wide draw and put her rivals away with authority. Now under the care of Chris Waller, she arrives freshened, fit and ready to fire over 2000m — a distance she handles with ease. Waller has already won this race three times since 2018, and Ohope Wins shapes as the stable’s next star to add her name to the honour roll. Her Randwick trial earlier this month was only fair, but her overall class stands out in this field, and the addition of blinkers suggests she’ll be switched on for her Australian launch. The biggest tick of all is the booking of James McDonald, who takes the reins from gate nine and should have her poised to pounce. If she brings her New Zealand brilliance to Rosehill, Ohope Wins has the turn of foot and staying strength to lengthen late and steal the show. She’s the clear top pick to deliver for punters and stamp herself as a genuine autumn star.
| 1. Ohope Wins (9) J: James McDonald56kg 52111T: Chris Waller |
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The Vinery Stud Stakes – registered as the Storm Queen Stakes – is a Group 1 race for three-year-old fillies held as part of the exciting Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival. A middle-distance event run over 2000m, the Vinery Stud Stakes is run on Tancred Stakes Day at Rosehill Gardens. This elite race meeting conducted by the Australian Turf Club (ATC) also features the Group 1 HE Tancred Stakes (2400m) as well as a host of Group 2 & 3 support races including the Group 2 Tulloch Stakes (2000m) and the Group 2 Emancipation Stakes (1500m).
Offering $750,000 in total prize money, the Vinery Stud Stakes is run at set weights and so favours the class fillies in the field. A key lead-up into the Vinery Stud Stakes field is the Group 1 Coolmore Classic (1500m) run at the same track but open to both fillies and mares a fortnight before.
Most of the Vinery Stud Stakes runners are looking to back-up at Royal Randwick in two weeks on Day 2 of ‘The Championships’ in the Group 1 Australian Oaks (2400m) for which the Vinery Stud Stakes winner is exempt from ballot.
Recent Vinery Stud Stakes graduates to win the ATC Oaks include Rising Romance (4th in 2014), Streama (2nd in 2012) and Once Were Wild (5th in 2010). In 2019 the Chris Waller-trained Verry Elleegant won Vinery Stud Stakes – ATC Oaks double, a feat repeated by her stablemate Hungry Heart in 2021.
Treasurethe Moment (2025) was the last filly to complete the Vinery Stud Stakes – ATC Oaks double.Â
The 2022 Vinery Stud Stakes form was franked with the winner Fangirl returning in the spring to run second in the Group 1 Winx Stakes and second in the $10 million The Golden Eagle. The runner-up Hinged ran fourth next-up in the ATC Oaks results and ran top three in a number of subsequent Group 1 races, while the third placed Gypsy Goddess was runner-up in the ATC Oaks before her win in that winter’s Queensland Oaks in Brisbane and third in the Golden Eagle back in Sydney over the spring.
In 2024 the Vinery Stud Stakes form was franked with the winner Orchestral running third next-up in the Australian Oaks trifecta, while the third placed Zardozi was runner-up in the Oaks before a stellar spring later in the year that ended with a brave fourth in the Melbourne Cup results at Flemington.
After completing the Vinery – ATC Oaks double in 2025, Treasurethe Moment went on to further frank the form during the spring winning the Group 1 Memsie Stakes and running top three in a host of other top-level events including her Cox Plate third. The Vinery runner-up Benagil meanwhile travelled to Adelaide and claimed the Group 1 Australasian Oaks before a third in the winter’s Queensland Oaks trifecta.
2026 Vinery Stud Stakes Betting
The latest autumn Vinery Stud Stakes 2026 betting odds on the three-year-old staying fillies running in the ATC Oaks lead-up will be available at Ladbrokes.com.au and also published here at Races.com.au.
Prowess ($2.15 in 2023), Orchestral ($1.60 in 2024), Treasurethe Moment ($1.40 in 2025) and Belle Cheval ($2.60 in 2026) are the latest favourites in Vinery Stud Stakes betting to win.
Vinery Stud Stakes Field
2026 Vinery Stud Stakes Form Guide
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2026 Vinery Stud Stakes Nominations
The Vinery Stud Stakes 2026 nominations are due to close on the Monday of race week and will be published below as soon as available.
The 2026 Vinery Stud Stakes nominations attracted 15 three-year-old fillies led in all-in betting by the flying NZ Oaks winning daughter of Ocean Park, Ohope Wins, who is set to debut for Chris Waller in her first Australian start.
| Last 10 | Horse | Sex | Age | Trainer | Hcp Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 47133×6 | AFTER SUMMER | F | 3 | Dominic Sutton | 82 |
| 2 | 9x331x1215 | AISLE TWO | F | 3 | Robert & Luke Price | 71 |
| 3 | 313×112 | BELLE CHEVAL (NZ) | F | 3 | Mark Walker | 94 |
| 4 | 41 | CELESTIAL AWARD | F | 3 | Jerome Hunter | 62 |
| 5 | 525344×2 | CLASSIC GEM | F | 3 | Dominic Sutton | |
| 6 | 311 | FEMININO (NZ) | F | 3 | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | 75 |
| 7 | 24x13x34 | LONG LEGS | F | 3 | Gary Portelli | 72 |
| 8 | 552111 | OHOPE WINS (NZ) | F | 3 | Chris Waller | 100 |
| 9 | 2x4211x65 | PANOVA | F | 3 | Chris Waller | 84 |
| 10 | 1x3486x680 | QUEEN OF CLUBS | F | 3 | Gary Portelli | 79 |
| 11 | x3341x3231 | SALTY PEARL | F | 3 | Ciaron Maher | 86 |
| 12 | 41×124 | SOVERATO (NZ) | F | 3 | Chris Waller | 80 |
| 13 | 7x04817x48 | SPICY LU | F | 3 | Nick Olive | 80 |
| 14 | 4×1 | STAND MY GROUND | F | 3 | Marc Chevalier | 60 |
| 15 | 64 | WOOLLEN (NZ) | F | 3 | Jerome Hunter |
Table Credit: Racing Australia.
2026 Vinery Stud Stakes Field
Each autumn the Vinery Stud Stakes attracts a class line-up of three-year-old fillies displaying the potential to stay longer distances with many eyeing an ATC Oaks run over the mile and a half during ‘The Championships’ in April.
The official 2026 Vinery Stud Stakes field and barrier draw will be released by Racing NSW on the Wednesday of race week and listed in full below.
The Vinery Stud Stakes 2026 final field features nine potential Australian Oaks-bound fillies led in betting by Chris Waller’s NZ Oaks winning Kiwi visitor Ohope Wins.
Click here to read more on the key runners in the 2026 Vinery Stud Stakes field and betting markets.
| No | Horse | Jockey | Trainer | Barrier | Weight | Age | Sex | Last Starts | Prize Money |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohope Wins | James McDonald | Chris Waller | 9 | 56kg | 3 | F | 52111 | $648,184 |
| 2 | Belle Cheval | Zac Lloyd | Mark Walker | 2 | 56kg | 3 | F | 3x112 | $664,821 |
| 3 | Salty Pearl | Ben Allen | Ciaron Maher | 3 | 56kg | 3 | F | x3231 | $811,000 |
| 4 | Panova | Tommy Berry | Chris Waller | 7 | 56kg | 3 | F | 11x65 | $482,145 |
| 5 | After Summer | Billy Egan | Dominic Sutton | 6 | 56kg | 3 | F | 133x6 | $163,475 |
| 6 | Long Legs | Nash Rawiller | Gary Portelli | 1 | 56kg | 3 | F | 13x34 | $101,050 |
| 7 | Aisle Two | Adam Hyeronimus | Robert & Luke Price | 8 | 56kg | 3 | F | x1215 | $104,275 |
| 8 | Celestial Award | Craig Newitt | Jerome Hunter | 5 | 56kg | 3 | F | 41 | $19,850 |
| 9 | Stand My Ground | Tyler Schiller | Marc Chevalier | 4 | 56kg | 3 | F | 4x1 | $30,700 |
Vinery Stud Stakes Barrier & Speedmap
Vinery Stud Stakes History
The Vinery Stud Stakes has been won by a number of talented fillies, but in 1989 was taken out by a genuine equine superstar in Research.
Research won the Group 1 Flight Stakes (1600m), Group 2 Wakeful Stakes (2000m) and Group 1 VRC Oaks (2500m) during the 1988 Spring Racing Carnival and started her autumn campaign with a win in the Vinery Stud Stakes before capturing both the Group 1 Australian Derby (2400m) and the Group 1 Australian Oaks (2400m) in the space of four days – a feat that has never been repeated.
Other talented fillies whose names feature on the Vinery Stud Stakes honour roll include Serenade Rose (2006), Miss Finland (2007), Mosheen (2012), Norzita (2013), Lucia Valentina (2014), as well as the next-up ATC Oaks winners Verry Elleegant (2019) and Hungry Heart (2021).
The 2019 Vinery Stud Stakes winner Verry Elleegant would also go on to make history winning the 2021 Melbourne Cup race at Flemington.
In 2022 the Vinery Stud Stakes was moved from Rosehill on Saturday the 26th of March to Newcastle on Monday the 28th of March due to unsafe Heavy track conditions and rainfall.
The 2025 Vinery Stud Stakes winner was Treasurethe Moment who had won the previous spring’s Group 1 VRC Oaks in Melbourne.
Tancred Stakes Day 2025 was called off on Saturday due to heavy rainfall with all 10 races, including the 2025 Vinery Stud Stakes, postponed until Tuesday April 1.
Vinery Stud Stakes Previous Race Winners
| Year | Place | Horse | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Vinery Stud Stakes |
1st | Belle Cheval | 2 minutes 05.97 seconds |
| 2nd | After Summer | ||
| 3rd | Salty Pearl | ||
| 2025 Vinery Stud Stakes |
1st | Treasurethe Moment | 2 minutes 04.97 seconds |
| 2nd | Benagil | ||
| 3rd | Declichy Boulevard | ||
| 2024 Vinery Stud Stakes |
1st | Orchestral | 2 minutes 3.65 seconds |
| 2nd | Tutta La Vita | ||
| 3rd | Zardozi | ||
| 2023 Vinery Stud Stakes |
1st | Prowess | 2 minutes 4.06 seconds |
| 2nd | Pavitra | ||
| 3rd | Fireburn | ||
| 2022 Vinery Stud Stakes(Run over 1850m at Newcastle) |
1st | Fangirl | 1 minute 57.04 seconds |
| 2nd | Hinged | ||
| 3rd | Gypsy Goddess | ||
| 2021 Vinery Stud Stakes |
1st | Hungry Heart | 2 minutes 2.06 seconds |
| 2nd | Harmony Rose | ||
| 3rd | Impecunious | ||
| 2020 Vinery Stud Stakes |
1st | Shout The Bar | 2 minutes 8.28 seconds |
| 2nd | Probabeel | ||
| 3rd | Nudge | ||
| Vinery Stud Stakes 2026 | |
|---|---|
| Date: | Saturday March 28, 2026 |
| Track: | Rosehill Gardens Racecourse |
| Distance: | 2000m |
| Conditions: | 3YO Fillies at Set Weights – 56kg |
| Status: | Group 1 |
| Prize Money: | $750,000 |
| Inaugurated: | 1979 |
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