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The Victory Stakes is a Group 2 sprint run during the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival as a potential lead-up to the Doomben 10,000.



The Group 2 Victory Stakes takes place in late April or early May during the annual Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival and is traditionally run at Eagle Farm Racecourse.

2026 Victory Stakes Odds

Eagle Farm R8
Final Race time: 
1st
13. Splash Back (5)
J: Michael Rodd56.5kg
128×7T: Grahame Begg
8.00WIN
2.60PLACE
2nd
8. Payline (1)
J: Kyle Wilson-Taylor58.5kg
432×3T: Chris & Corey Munce
16.00WIN
4.20PLACE
3rd
6. Warnie (6)
J: Jason Collett58.5kg
2151xT: Ciaron Maher
6.50WIN
2.30PLACE
4th
1. Transatlantic (7)
J: Ryan Maloney58.5kg
2112xT: Tony Gollan
7.00WIN
2.45PLACE
5th
10. Lady Of Camelot (4)
J: Tim Clark56.5kg
2223xT: Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott
5.00WIN
2.00PLACE
6th
3. Reserve Bank (2)
J: Cejay Graham58.5kg
6111xT: Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr
21.00WIN
5.00PLACE
7th
12. Abounding (8)
J: Vlad Duric56.5kg
19×76T: Robert Heathcote
15.00WIN
4.00PLACE
8th
4. Private Harry (3)
J: Ashley Morgan58.5kg
1x55xT: Chris Waller
6.00WIN
2.20PLACE
9th
11. In Flight (10)
J: Jake Bayliss56.5kg
4×781T: Joseph Pride
8.50WIN
2.70PLACE
10th
2. Uncommon James (9)
J: Ben Thompson58.5kg
434×2T: Matthew Hoysted
8.50WIN
2.70PLACE
For current odds on all of our live racing markets, please visit www.ladbrokes.com.au/racing. Data retrieved: 02/05/2026 04:47:00 PM (Australia/Brisbane)

Run over the sprint distance of 1200m it is a weight-for-age event worth a $300,000 as of 2023 and was previously known as the Sir Byrne Hart Stakes.

Prize money for the 2020 Victory Stakes was down to $175,000 due to the COVID-19 pandemic with the race running as a set weights plus penalties event in May as part of a reduced Brisbane Winter Carnival.

The Victory Stakes is an excellent lead up to the Group 1 Doomben 10,000 (1200m), another 1200m weight-for-age event run at Doomben. Quality runners may then progress onto both the Group 1 Kingsford-Smith Cup (1350m) in late May and Queensland’s richest race, the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1350m) in June.

The last horse to do the Victory Stakes – Stradbroke Handicap double in a single season was Srikandi (2015). In 2018 Impending won the Victory Stakes having taken on the previous year’s Stradbroke Handicap (2017).

The form of the 2021 Victory Stakes was franked with the runner-up Vega One winning the Kingsford-Smith Cup next start before a subsequent second in that winter’s Stradbroke Handicap quinella.

The 2023 Victory Stakes winner Rothfire franked the form running third in the Kingsford Smith Cup results and second in that year’s Stradbroke Handicap.

The 2024 Victory Stakes form was franked with the winner, Antino, returning in the spring to claim Melbourne’s Group 1 Toorak Handicap and run second in the Group 1 Champions Mile over the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

The 2025 Victory Stakes winner, Libertad, would go on to frank the form winning Perth’s Group 1 Winterbottom Stakes that November. The form was further boosted by the third placed Golden Mile who also finished third in the Kingsford Smith Cup trifecta at his next start. 

The Victory Stakes 2026 runs on Saturday May 2, 2026 at Eagle Farm Racecourse in Brisbane as a potential Kingsford Smith Cup lead-up. 

2026 Victory Stakes
Date:Saturday May 2, 2026
Track:Eagle Farm Racecourse
Distance:1200m
Conditions:Weight-for-age
Status:Group 2
Prizemoney:$300,000
Inaugurated:1980

2026 Victory Stakes Results

Stay tuned for the official 2026 Victory Stakes results and finishing order at Eagle Farm on Saturday May 2, 2026 and to see what sprinters have the Kingsford Smith Cup in sight.

  • 1st: TBD
  • 2nd: TBD
  • 3rd: TBD

Winning Margin: TBD

Winning Time: TBD

2026 Victory Stakes Betting

The updated Victory Stakes 2026 betting odds and market links to Ladbrokes.com.au on the potential Doomben 10,000-bound winter sprinters will be available at Races.com.au the week of the race.

There was a blowout result in 2025 with Libertad saluting at Victory Stakes odds of $71!

2026 Victory Stakes Form

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2026 Victory Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Victory Stakes 2026 Tips on the Group 2 winter sprint this Brisbane Festival of Racing.

To Win: No. 10 Lady Of Camelot

LADY OF CAMELOT (4) is winless since her 2024 Golden Slipper success as a two-year-old, but she lands herself a chance to break the drought fresh in Brisbane this weekend. The now four-year-old daughter of Written Tycoon has solid form first-up (4:1-1-1) and is down in grade after two Group 1 performances last time in. She was narrowly denied by Lady Shenandoah in last year’s Group 1 Surround Stakes (1400m) before a brave third from a wide gate under a length off that same very good filly in the Coolmore Classic in March 2025 to see out her last prep. On the sidelines for over a year, how she comes back will be key, but she looked the goods in a recent Canterbury trial win and oozes class. While she gives the fitness edge away to a few of her key rivals, she’s drawn a dream in gate for and has the flying Tim Clark back aboard. Looking poised to make a statement first-up, she’s back in Queensland now for the first time since her second to Saturday’s favourite – subsequent The Galaxy winner Private Harry – at the Sunshine Coast in January last year. Likely to settle just off pace, she’s a comeback queen I’m happy to be on the trial of.

Eagle Farm R8
Final Race time: 
5th
10. Lady Of Camelot (4)
J: Tim Clark56.5kg
2223xT: Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott
5.00WIN
2.00PLACE
For current odds on all of our live racing markets, please visit www.ladbrokes.com.au/racing. Data retrieved: 02/05/2026 04:47:00 PM (Australia/Brisbane)

2026 Victory Stakes Field

The Victory Stakes field attracts a class line-up of Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival hopes usually having their first Queensland run of the season.

Horses that contested the race the season prior often return, while a host of interstate raiders dominate the Victory Stakes final acceptances including runners out of the Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes (1200m) in Sydney earlier in the month.

The official Victory Stakes 2026 Field & Barriers are set for release by Racing Queensland on the Wednesday of race week and will be published in full below.

The 2026 Victory Stakes final field features 13 smart sprinters including the resuming Reserve Bank who completed last autumn’s Group 2 Tobin Bronze / Group 1 Goodwood double in SA, the widely drawn Joe Pride-trained In Flight coming off a Group 2 Sapphire Stakes victory in Sydney and the Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott-trained Lady Of Camelot chasing her first win since the 2024 Golden Slipper.

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

No Last 10 Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight Probable Weight Penalty Hcp Rating
1 519x22112x TRANSATLANTIC Tony Gollan Ryan Maloney 7 58.5kg     110
2 x587x434x2 UNCOMMON JAMES Matthew Hoysted Ben Thompson 10 58.5kg     109
3 125x66111x RESERVE BANK Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr) Ms Cejay Graham 2 58.5kg     108
4 1111x1x55x PRIVATE HARRY Chris Waller Ashley Morgan 3 58.5kg     107
5 024x1410x4 HIDDEN WEALTH Tony Gollan   11 58.5kg     107
6 545742151x WARNIE (IRE) Ciaron Maher Jason Collett 6 58.5kg     107
7 x52x40x36x ZARASTRO Tony Gollan Angela Jones 9 58.5kg     106
8 56645432×3 PAYLINE Chris & Corey Munce Kyle Wilson-Taylor 1 58.5kg     103
9 4721x3232x PEREILLE Tony Gollan Martin Harley 13 58.5kg     97
10 3743x2223x LADY OF CAMELOT Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Tim Clark 4 56.5kg     109
11 211164×781 IN FLIGHT Joseph Pride Jake Bayliss 12 56.5kg     107
12 2x33219x76 ABOUNDING Robert Heathcote Vlad Duric 8 56.5kg     106
13 11525128×7 SPLASH BACK (FR) Grahame Begg Michael Rodd 5 56.5kg     104

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2026 Victory Stakes Nominations

The Victory Stakes nominations close on the Monday of race week and traditionally feature Doomben 10,000 bound sprinters kicking off their Brisbane campaigns for the winter.

2026 Victory Stakes nominations extended until 10:00am (AEST) – 28/04/2026

  Last 10 Horse Sex Age Trainer Hcp Rating
1 2x33219x76 ABOUNDING M 5 Robert Heathcote  
2 187x80619x AMOR VICTORIOUS G 6 Bjorn Baker  
3 024x1410x4 HIDDEN WEALTH G 6 Tony Gollan  
4 211164×781 IN FLIGHT M 5 Joseph Pride  
5 100x62000x IOWNA MERC G 6 Bjorn Baker  
6 3743x2223x LADY OF CAMELOT M 4 Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott  
7 56645432×3 PAYLINE G 5 Chris & Corey Munce  
8 4721x3232x PEREILLE G 6 Tony Gollan  
9 1111x1x55x PRIVATE HARRY H 4 Chris Waller  
10 125x66111x RESERVE BANK H 4 Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr)  
11 519x22112x TRANSATLANTIC G 5 Tony Gollan  
12 x587x434x2 UNCOMMON JAMES G 7 Matthew Hoysted  
13 545742151x WARNIE (IRE) G 5 Ciaron Maher  
14 x52x40x36x ZARASTRO G 7 Tony Gollan  

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Victory Stakes History

The first horse to win the race then called the Sir Byrne Hart Stakes was Golden Rhapsody in 1980 when the race was inaugurated.

Beginning as a Listed race the following year in 1981 it reached Group 3 status before being installed as a Group 2 event in 1992. First run over 1810m, the Sir Byrne Hart Stakes has gone through a number of distance changes throughout its history but is now a 1200m sprint at the Eagle Farm Racecourse for gallopers heading towards the Group 1 Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival features.

In recent years the Victory Stakes has been run at Doomben Racecourse (2016 & 2018) due to ongoing track issues at Eagle Farm.

In 2020 the Victory Stakes took place in May as a set weights plus penalties event due to COVID-19 and was the key Stradbroke lead-up that year.

Victory Stakes Distance:
1980 – 1983:1810m
1984 – 1986:2100m
1987:2125m
1988:1810m
1989:2125m
1990 – 2005:1400m
2006 onwards:1200m

Victory Stakes Winners

YearPlaceHorseTime
 
2026
Victory Stakes
1stTBDTBD
2ndTBD
3rdTBD
 
2025
Victory Stakes
1stLibertad1 minute 09.60 seconds
2ndJedibeel
3rdGolden Mile
 
2024
Victory Stakes
1stAntino1 minute 09.32 seconds
2ndWee Nessy
3rdGolden Mile
 
2023
Victory Stakes
1stRothfire1 minute 10.32 seconds
2ndKing Of Sparta
3rdPrince Of Boom
 
2022
Victory Stakes
1stCount De Rupee1 minute 09.61 seconds
2ndScallopini
3rdJamaea
 
2021
Victory Stakes
1stNiccanova1 minute 11.90 seconds
2ndVega One
3rdPennino
 
2020
Victory Stakes
1stVictorem1 minute 10.60 seconds
2ndNiccanova
3rdDeep Image
 
2019
Victory Stakes
1stI Am Excited1 minute 9.64 seconds
2ndRedzel
3rdJonker
 
2018
Victory Stakes
1stImpending1 minute 10.06 seconds
2ndMost Important
3rdI Am Excited
 
2017
Victory Stakes
1stMusic Magnate1 minute 13.27 seconds
2ndHopfgarten
3rdMiss Cover Girl
 
2016
Victory Stakes
1stFell Swoop1 minute 9.02 seconds
2ndDidntcostalot
3rdArtlee
 
2015
Victory Stakes
1stSrikandi1 minute 9.63 seconds
2ndBall Of Muscle
3rdDances On Stars
 
2014
Victory Stakes
1stTemple Of Boom1 minute 9.0 seconds
2ndSpirit Of Boom
3rdSnitzerland
 
2013
Victory Stakes
1stBuffering1 minute 8.54 seconds
2ndSpirit Of Boom
3rdAlbrecht
 
2012
Victory Stakes
1stMeeting Abandoned
2nd
3rd
 
2011
Victory Stakes
1stBuffering1 minute 13.0 seconds
2ndAtomic Force
3rdAzzaland
 
2010
Victory Stakes
1stGhetto Blaster1 minute 09.6 seconds
2ndThe Jackal
3rdAlbert The Fat
 
2009
Sir Byrne Hart Stakes
1stSwiss Ace1 minute 9.7 seconds
2ndSniper?s Bullet
3rdRed Element
 
2008
Sir Byrne Hart Stakes
1stSwiss Ace1 minute 9.8 seconds
2ndAtapi
3rdDance The Waves
 
2007
Sir Byrne Hart Stakes
1stMitanni1 minute 9.7 seconds
2ndAnwaar
3rdTellem
 
2006
Sir Byrne Hart Stakes
1stAll Bar One1 minute 8.5 seconds
2ndFalaise
3rdImpaler
 
2005
Sir Byrne Hart Stakes
1stWager1 minute 21.9 seconds
2ndDeuxieme
3rdDezigna
 
2004
Sir Byrne Hart Stakes
1stOnly Words1 minute 25.8 seconds
2ndOur Egyptian Raine
3rdDefier
 
2003
Sir Byrne Hart Stakes
1stTit For Taat1 minute 21.5 seconds
2ndScenic Peak
3rdMr Bureaucrat
 
2002
Sir Byrne Hart Stakes
1stMr Bureaucrat1 minute 23.3 seconds
2ndSalgado
3rdFaiza
 
2001
Sir Byrne Hart Stakes
1stMake Mine Magic1 minute 20.8 seconds
2ndPlay Station
3rdCamarena
 
2000
Sir Byrne Hart Stakes
1stCheiron1 minute 22.8 seconds
2ndNarwong
3rdCity Fair

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