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The Group 2 Adelaide Cup is an open handicap race held at Adelaide’s Morphettville Racecourse in early to mid-March each year during the Adelaide Autumn Racing Carnival.

Raced over 3200m, the Adelaide Cup is the same distance as the prestigious Melbourne Cup held on the first Tuesday of November each spring at Flemington Racecourse in Victoria. Back in 1992 the great grey Subzero completed the rare Adelaide Cup – Melbourne Cup double.

Run on a Monday afternoon each year on the Labour Day public holiday in SA, the always popular staying event offers $300,000 in prize money and attracts a host of local stayers as well as a few interstate horses chasing the lucrative prize money in the classic.

The key lead-up into the Adelaide Cup field is Group 3 Lord Reims Stakes (2600m) held roughly two weeks prior at the same track. Melbourne raiders in the Adelaide Cup field may come off a Flemington run in the Listed Roy Higgins Quality (2600m) on Australian Guineas Day.

The latest Adelaide Cup winners to back-up out of the Roy Higgins were the Lindsay Park-trained mare Fanatic (2nd in 2018) and the Danny O’Brien-trained King Of Leogrance (2020) who did the double.

The 2021 Adelaide Cup ran on Monday March 8, 2021 and was won by last year’s runner-up Good Idea.

Adelaide Cup 2021
Date:	Monday March 8, 2021
Track:	Morphettville Racecourse
Distance:	3,200m
Race Type:	Open Handicap
Status:	Group 2
Prize Money:	$300,000

2021 Adelaide Cup Results

• 1st: #10 Good Idea
• 2nd: #9 Eperdument
• 3rd: #6 Long Arm

Phillip Stokes’ 2020 runner-up Good Idea went one better in the 2021 Adelaide Cup results charging home in the two-mile classic for a 3.5 length victory over 80/1 shot Eperdument in the quickest winning time since 2008.

Click here to read more on the runaway Adelaide Cup 2021 win by Good Idea.

	Finish	No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Bar.	Weight	Penalty	Starting Price
	1	10	GOOD IDEA	Phillip Stokes	Ben Thompson		1	53kg		$17
	2	9	EPERDUMENT	Shane Oxlade	Ms Kayla Crowther	3.5L	2	53kg		$81
	3	6	LONG ARM (IRE)	Peter Gelagotis	Kerrin McEvoy	3.7L	14	53.5kg		$6.50
	4	4	TRALEE ROSE (NZ)	Symon Wilde	Jason Holder	4.7L	4	55.5kg		$1.85F
	5	5	BARADE (FR)	Archie Alexander	Ms Jessica Eaton (a)	4.9L	5	54kg		$26
	6	2	MOSH MUSIC	Archie Alexander	Mark Zahra	6.1L	12	58kg	1.0kg	$17
	7	7	STARCASTER (GB)	Anthony & Sam Freedman	Ms Jamie Kah	6.3L	3	53.5kg		$9
	8	8	STARS OF CARRUM	Peter G Moody	Jason Benbow	7.9L	9	53.5kg		$21
	9	15	VIVIDREDSKY (NZ)	Paul Preusker	Dean Holland	11L	13	53kg		$101
	10	11	WHITE HAWK	Angela Brakey	Stan Tsaikos	21.7L	8	53kg		$101
	11	13	DARVIN (IRE)	Matthew Williams	Dean Yendall	24L	6	53kg		$11
	12	14	RIPCORD (NZ)	Paul Preusker	Declan Bates	31.4L	10	53kg		$101
	13	12	CLASSIC WEIWEI	Tony & Calvin McEvoy	Barend Vorster	46.9L	7	53kg		$41
	14	17	TABLE OF WISDOM	Dennis O’Leary	Ms Anna Jordsjo	57.9L	11	53kg		$201
	SB	3	SIN TO WIN (NZ)	Tom Dabernig & Ben Hayes	Daniel Stackhouse		0	55.5kg
		1	DOUBLE YOU TEE	Patrick Payne	Todd Pannell		0
		16	OURKHANI	Richard & Chantelle Jolly	Jeffrey Maund		0

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

2021 Adelaide Cup Odds

The season’s latest Adelaide Cup 2021 odds and betting market links to Ladbrokes.com.au will be available below leading up to the 3200m feature so stay tuned.

2021 Adelaide Cup Field

The Adelaide Cup field features an ever increasing quality of both local and visiting autumn stayers coming out of lead-up races including Flemington’s Roy Higgins Quality that produced the 2017 champ Annus Mirabilis (5th), 2018 winner Fanatic (2nd) and 2020 champ King Of Leogrance (1st); Tasmania’s Launceston Cup (2400m) the month before and the Lord Reims Stakes that is the key local lead-up.

The official Adelaide Cup 2021 final field and barriers are announced on Tuesday March 2, 2021 and will be published in full below.

The 2021 Adelaide Cup field features 17 stayers including recent Hobart Cup champ Double You Tee allocated the 59kg top weight and the widely-drawn Archie Alexander-trained mare Mosh Music backing-up from a win in the Listed Roy Higgins Quality in Melbourne.

• Scratchings Update: #1 Double You Tee (9)

Adelaide Cup History

Originally run in May, the Adelaide Cup was moved to March in 2005. The Morphettville Racecourse has been home to the Cup since 1876 and was previously held at the Old Course where it was first won by Falcon in 1864. Over the years the event has switched between being a two mile and one mile five furlong race, however in the years 1870-71 and 1886-88, the race was not held.

The Adelaide Cup is not used as a guide to the Melbourne Cup as the last Cup double winner was Subzero in 1992. In 2007 the event was downgraded from Group 1 status to Group 2, a decision made by the Australian Pattern Committee.

The Adelaide Cup has one triple winner which is Lord Reims which won the event three consecutive times from 1987-1989. The race’s double winners include Cowra in 1866-67, Eyeglass in 1911-12, Peerless Fox in 1950-51 and Our Pompeii in 1993-94.

The 2019 Adelaide Cup winner Surprise Baby went on to run an eye-catching fifth under a length beaten by Vow And Declare in that spring’s Melbourne Cup results.

Recent Adelaide Cup Winners

Year	Place	Horse	Time
2021 Adelaide Cup	1st	Good Idea	3 minutes 22.00 seconds
	2nd	Eperdument
	3rd	Long Arm
2020 Adelaide Cup	1st	King Of Leogrance	3 minutes 24.76 seconds
	2nd	Good Idea
	3rd	Chouxting The Mob
2019 Adelaide Cup	1st	Surprise Baby	3 minutes 25.94 seconds
	2nd	Top Of The Range
	3rd	Navel Warfare
2018 Adelaide Cup	1st	Fanatic	3 minutes 25.28 seconds
	2nd	Ormito
	3rd	Poppiholla
2017 Adelaide Cup	1st	Annus Mirabilis	3 minutes 24.25 seconds
	2nd	Double Bluff
	3rd	Master Of Arts
2016 Adelaide Cup	1st	Purple Smile	3 minutes 24.1 seconds
	2nd	Tunes
	3rd	Real Love
2015 Adelaide Cup	1st	Tanby	3 minutes 25.51 seconds
	2nd	Taiyoo
	3rd	Renew
2014 Adelaide Cup	1st	Outback Joe	3 minutes 22.09 seconds
	2nd	Black Tycoon
	3rd	Base
2013 Adelaide Cup	1st	Norsqui	3 minutes 24.4 seconds
	2nd	Waratone
	3rd	Dame Claire
2012 Adelaide Cup	1st	Rialya	3 minutes 23.3 seconds
	2nd	Drunken Sailor
	3rd	Norsqui
2011 Adelaide Cup	1st	Muir	3 minutes 23.4 seconds
	2nd	Saddler’s Story
	3rd	Macedonian
2010 Adelaide Cup	1st	Capecover	3 minutes 28.81 seconds
	2nd	Kerdem
	3rd	Itstheone
2009 Adelaide Cup	1st	Zavite	3 minutes 22.7 seconds
	2nd	Kerdem
	3rd	Banana Man
2008 Adelaide Cup	1st	Lacey Underall	3 minutes 22 seconds
	2nd	Cefalu
	3rd	Tails Of Triomphe
2007 Adelaide Cup	1st	Gallic	3 minutes 20.9 seconds
	2nd	Lacey Underall
	3rd	Exalted Time
2006 Adelaide Cup	1st	Exalted Time	3 minutes 25.1 seconds
	2nd	Tubular Bells
	3rd	Ista Kareem
2005 Adelaide Cup	1st	Demerger	3 minutes 21.9 seconds
	2nd	Envoy
	3rd	Intriguing
2004 Adelaide Cup	1st	Pantani	3 minutes 27.5 seconds
	2nd	Danestorm
	3rd	Bel Air
2003 Adelaide Cup	1st	Pillage N Plunder	3 minutes 28.4 seconds
	2nd	Nautilism
	3rd	Odysseus
2002 Adelaide Cup	1st	The A Train	3 minutes 29.7 seconds
	2nd	Homewrecker
	3rd	Silver Baron
2001 Adelaide Cup	1st	Apache King	3 minutes 29.7 seconds
	2nd	Native Jazz
	3rd	Bel Air
2000 Adelaide Cup	1st	Bohemiath	3 minutes 24.6 seconds
	2nd	Karasi
	3rd	Oxford Dollar