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The Tramway Stakes is a 1400m Group 2 event held during late August or early September each year at Royal Randwick Racecourse. Open to horses aged three years old and over, the Tramway was formerly a handicap race but is now run under set weights plus penalties.

The Tramway Stakes, previously called the Tramway Handicap, is held on Chelmsford Stakes Day and shares the race card with three other Group status races. These are the Group 2 Chelmsford Stakes (1600m), the Group 2 Furious Stakes (1200m) and the Group 3 Concorde Stakes (1000m).

Chelmsford Stakes Day really kicks off the action of the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival and results across the program serve as a good guide for upcoming Group 1 features of the festival.

Quite a few of horses in the Tramway Stakes field may have come via the Show County Quality two weeks earlier. Those horses that perform well in the Tramway Stakes might choose to target later races such as Randwick’s Group 1 Epsom Handicap (1600m) a month later.

Happy Clapper (2017) was the last galloper to complete the Tramway Stakes – Epsom Handicap double.

It can also serve as a nice lead-up into the Group 1 George Main Stakes (1600m) with the 2019 Tramway Stakes winner Dreamforce finishing second in that elite level feature next start. Dreamforce successfully defended his Tramway Stakes title in 2020 and ran third in that year’s George Main Stakes behind the Tramway runner-up Kolding who went one better in the Group 1 rematch.

Sincero (2011) was the last horse to win the Tramway Stakes – George Main double.

The Tramway Stakes 2021 ran on Saturday September 4, 2021 and was won in outstanding style by the favourite Zaaki first-up. 

2021 Tramway Stakes
Date:	Saturday September 4, 2021
Track:	Royal Randwick Racecourse
Distance:	1400m
Race Type:	Set Weights + Penalties
Status:	Group 2
Prize Money:	$200,000

2021 Tramway Stakes Results

• 1st: #1 Zaaki
• 2nd: #9 Aramayo
• 3rd: #5 Star Of The Seas

Annabel Neasham’s returning seven-length Doomben Cup hero Zaaki ($2.30F) was excellent fresh over 1400m kicking off his Cox Plate campaign with a big win for the punters in the 2021 Tramway Stakes results.

Click here to read more about the outstanding first-up win in the 2021 Tramway Stakes by the Cox Plate favourite Zaaki.

	Finish	No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Bar.	Weight	Penalty	Starting Price
	1	1	ZAAKI (GB)	Annabel Neasham	James McDonald		7	58kg		$2.30F
	2	9	ARAMAYO	Chris Waller	Jason Collett	1.53L	9	55kg		$41
	3	5	STAR OF THE SEAS (NZ)	Chris Waller	Hugh Bowman	2.7L	5	57kg		$11
	4	6	ROCK	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	Jay Ford	4.14L	2	56.5kg		$10
	5	4	SHOUT THE BAR	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Ms Kathy O’Hara	4.35L	1	57kg		$26
	6	10	ALL SAINTS’ EVE (NZ)	John O’Shea	Sam Clipperton	4.48L	4	54kg (cd 54.5kg)		$10
	7	2	DREAMFORCE	John Thompson	Nash Rawiller	4.97L	3	58kg		$5.50
	8	8	PRIME STAR	Richard & Michael Freedman	Regan Bayliss	5.61L	10	55kg		$12
	9	3	LION’S ROAR (NZ)	John O’Shea	Kerrin McEvoy	6.01L	8	58kg		$13
	10	7	MAN OF PEACE	Matthew Dale	Ms Louise Day	7.36L	6	55kg		$41

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

2021 Tramway Stakes Odds

The latest Tramway Stakes 2021 odds and betting markets courtesy of Ladbrokes.com.au will be available below the week of the race.

Dreamforce ($3.30 in 2019 and 2020) followed by Zaaki ($2.30 in 2021) are the latest favourites in Tramway Stakes betting to win.

2021 Tramway Stakes Field

The official Tramway Stakes 2021 Field & Barriers are released the Wednesday of race week and will be available in full below.

The 2021 Tramway Stakes final field features 10 runners including the winter’s seven-length Doomben Cup winner Zaaki and dual defending champion Dreamforce.

No	Last 10	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Probable Weight	Penalty	Hcp Rating
1	647x6D111x	ZAAKI (GB)	Annabel Neasham	James McDonald	7	58kg			113
2	x017x528x0	DREAMFORCE	John Thompson	Nash Rawiller	3	58kg			110
3	112x51434x	LION’S ROAR (NZ)	John O’Shea	Kerrin McEvoy	8	58kg			103
4	06014x300x	SHOUT THE BAR	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Ms Kathy O’Hara	1	57kg			108
5	95x41690x0	STAR OF THE SEAS (NZ)	Chris Waller	Hugh Bowman	5	57kg			106
6	1730x348x8	ROCK	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	Jay Ford	2	56.5kg			102
7	111x370x65	MAN OF PEACE	Matthew Dale	Ms Louise Day	6	55kg			100
8	22x237x5x5	PRIME STAR	Richard & Michael Freedman	Regan Bayliss	10	55kg			98
9	15148x479x	ARAMAYO	Chris Waller	Jason Collett	9	55kg			96
10	174x36587x	ALL SAINTS’ EVE (NZ)	John O’Shea	Sam Clipperton	4	54kg	54.5kg		97

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2021 Tramway Stakes Nominations

Nominations for the Tramway Stakes in 2021 are taken the Monday of race week and will be published in full below once released.

Tramway Stakes History

The inaugural edition of the Tramway Handicap – now the Tramway Stakes – was in 1886, with Burrilda becoming the first ever Tramway Handicap winner. The race location has varied between Royal Randwick and Warwick Farm over the years, with Rosehill hosting for one year in 2000 and the other two tracks changing variously (the location has changed seven times since 1984).

Initially a Principal Race, in 1978 the Tramway Stakes became a Listed race. It held this status until 1984, when it was upgraded to Group 3. Following the 2013 edition, the Tramway received a further upgrade to Group 2.

For the first 85 years of its existence, the Tramway Handicap was run over 7 furlongs. In 1972, this was rounded down slightly to 1400m to bring it in line with the Metric system. The race stayed at 1400m until the year 2000, when it was ran over 1350m. The next year it ran over 1300m. From 2002 onwards, the Tramway Stakes has returned to its 1400m race distance.

Notable Tramway Stakes winners include Pompous (1906), Amounis (1928), Rogilla (dead heat with Chatham in 1932’s first edition of the race), Shaftesbury Avenue (1990), Rangirangdoo (2009), Sincero (2011), Happy Clapper (2017) and Zaaki (2021).

In 2020 Dreamforce became the first back-to-back Tramway winner since Grenoble (1959-60) but at set weights plus penalties (not handicap).

Tramway Stakes results since 2000 are listed below.

Tramway Stakes Results

Year	Place	Horse	Time
2021 Tramway Handicap	1st	Zaaki	1 minute 22.33 seconds
	2nd	Aramayo
	3rd	Star Of The Seas
2020 Tramway Handicap	1st	Dreamforce	1 minute 21.84 seconds
	2nd	Kolding
	3rd	Reloaded
2019 Tramway Handicap	1st	Dreamforce	1 minute 21.69 seconds
	2nd	Te Akau Shark
	3rd	Eckstein
2018 Tramway Handicap	1st	Comin’ Through	1 minute 22.17 seconds
	2nd	Tom Melbourne
	3rd	Dixie Blossoms
2017 Tramway Handicap	1st	Happy Clapper	1 minute 21.9 seconds
	2nd	Tom Melbourne
	3rd	Invincible Gem
2016 Tramway Handicap	1st	Hauraki	1 minute 25.9 seconds
	2nd	Le Romain
	3rd	Dibayani
2015 Tramway Handicap	1st	Hooked	1 minute 24.4 seconds
	2nd	Ecuador
	3rd	Rudy
2014 Tramway Handicap	1st	Lucia Valentina	1 minute 26.6 seconds
	2nd	Tiger Tees
	3rd	Toydini
2013 Tramway Handicap	1st	Malavio	1 minute 21.3 seconds
	2nd	Bello
	3rd	Royal Descent
2012 Tramway Handicap	1st	Tagus	1 minute 22.5 seconds
	2nd	Kontiki Park
	3rd	Moment Of Time
2011 Tramway Handicap	1st	Sincero	1 minute 22.2 seconds
	2nd	Secret Admirer
	3rd	Thankgodyou’rehere
2010 Tramway Handicap	1st	Neeson	1 minute 26.1 seconds
	2nd	Cannonball
	3rd	Herculian Prince
2009 Tramway Handicap	1st	Rangirangdoo	1 minute 21.9 seconds
	2nd	Strat’s Flyer
	3rd	Murray’s Sun
2008 Tramway Handicap	1st	Bank Robber	1 minute 25.7 seconds
	2nd	Kick ‘N’ Chase
	3rd	Vecchia Roma
2007 Tramway Handicap	1st	Race Not Held	–
	2nd	–
	3rd	–
2006 Tramway Handicap	1st	Primus	1 minute 25.6 seconds
	2nd	Stormhill
	3rd	Flaming
2005 Tramway Handicap	1st	Shania Dane	1 minute 22.7 seconds
	2nd	Lotteria
	3rd	Utzon
2004 Tramway Handicap	1st	Nips	1 minute 22.9 seconds
	2nd	West Country
	3rd	Desert War
2003 Tramway Handicap	1st	Sportsman	1 minute 21.8 seconds
	2nd	Britt’s Best
	3rd	Boreale
2002 Tramway Handicap	1st	Gordo	1 minute 24.0 seconds
	2nd	Shot Of Thunder
	3rd	Universal Prince
2001 Tramway Handicap	1st	Diamond Dane	1 minute 18.3 seconds
	2nd	Maitland Gold
	3rd	Kootoomootoo
2000 Tramway Handicap	1st	Mr Innocent	1 minute 20.6 seconds
	2nd	Eau D’Scay
	3rd	Freemason