Canonbury Stakes

The Canonbury Stakes is a Group 3 event held at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse on Expressway Stakes Day and is an early Golden Slipper Stakes lead-up.

2023 Canonbury Stakes Results

  • 1st: #2 Red Resistance
  • 2nd: #1 King's Gambit
  • 3rd: #6 Shinzo



The Canonbury Stakes is a Group 3 race for two-year-old colts & geldings run at Rosehill Gardens in late January or early February as part of the Expressway Stakes Day line-up. The meeting is held at the very start of the prestigious Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival and is headlined by the weight-for-age Group 2 Expressway Stakes (1200m). The Canonbury Stakes is a set weights plus penalties sprint contested over 1100m.

It is open only to male two-year-old runners and is accompanied on the card by the fillies’ equivalent – the Group 3 Widden Stakes (1100m). Many of the youngsters in the Canonbury Stakes field are on debut, while some may have had an earlier run in a summer race in Sydney or even over the previous spring carnival season. After the race a likely next-up option is the Group 2 Todman Stakes (1200m) at Randwick in early March.

Both races are key lead-ups to the famous $5 million Group 1 Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m) run at Rosehill in March. The horses to complete the Canonbury Stakes – Golden Slipper double are Fine And Dandy (1958), Sebring (2007) and Vancouver (2015).

Other Canonbury Stakes graduates may head south to Melbourne over the autumn for a shot at the Group 1 $2 million Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m), which the 2017 Canonbury Stakes winner Pariah finished runner-up in.

The form of the 2021 Canonbury Stakes was franked with the runner-up Home Affairs winning the Group 2 Silver Slipper Stakes next-up before a Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes victory in Melbourne that spring.

In 2022 the Canonbury Stakes winner Best Of Bordeaux won the Group 2 Silver Slipper Stakes next-up before a second in that year’s Golden Slipper results. He further franked the form returning in the spring to run third in the Group 1 Manikato Stakes (1200m) in Melbourne.

The Canonbury Stakes 2023 ran on Saturday January 28, 2023 at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse and was won by Russian Revolution colt Red Resistance ($6) from the Waterhouse/Bott stable. 

2023 Canonbury Stakes
Date: Saturday January 28, 2023
Track: Rosehill Racecourse
Distance: 1100m
Race Type: 2YO Colts & Geldings – Set Weights + Penalties
Status: Group 3
Prize Money: $200,000

2023 Canonbury Stakes Results

  • 1st: #2 Red Resistance ($6)
  • 2nd: #1 King’s Gambit
  • 3rd: #6 Shinzo

The Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott-trained colt Red Resistance ($6) was good making it two-from-two with an upset 1.2 length win over the beaten favourite, King’s Gambit ($1.28F), in the 2023 Canonbury Stakes results

  Finish No. Horse Trainer Jockey Margin Bar. Weight Penalty Starting Price
  1 2 RED RESISTANCE Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Brett Prebble   4 57.5kg   $6
  2 1 KING’S GAMBIT Peter & Paul Snowden James McDonald 1.2L 1 57.5kg   $1.28F
  3 6 SHINZO Chris Waller Brenton Avdulla 1.74L 2 54.5kg   $11
  4 3 CHEVRON Kristen Buchanan Kerrin McEvoy 5.45L 5 54.5kg   $21
  5 4 FAMEUX Annabel Neasham Chad Schofield 7.71L 3 54.5kg (cd 55.5kg)   $19
    7 THE LITTLE PUMPER Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Regan Bayliss   0      
    5 MAFIA Peter & Paul Snowden     0    

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

2023 Canonbury Stakes Betting Odds

The top Canonbury Stakes 2023 odds and betting market links to Ladbrokes.com.au will be available here as soon as available this autumn carnival.

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2023 Canonbury Stakes Form Guide

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2023 Canonbury Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Canonbury Stakes 2023 Tips on the Golden Slipper lead-up for two-year-old male gallopers this season.

  • To Win: #1 King’s Gambit ($1.40 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Really a no-bet race with the odds-on favourite zero value but impossible to bet against. Top stable for juveniles, the Snowdens, have their Debutant Stakes winner from last October first-up here. The I Am Invincible colt won that at Caulfield on Soft going and likely gets another rain affected track this weekend. Diminishing field down to just seven at time of publish. Barrier two and James McDonald, plus the benefit of a recent winning Randwick trial to bring him on fitness-wise.

2023 Canonbury Stakes Field

The Canonbury Stakes field secures a quality line-up of young colts & geldings in the early stages of their turf careers, many eyeing a run in the iconic Golden Slipper Field later in the autumn.

The official 2023 Canonbury Stakes field and barriers are set for release on the Wednesday leading-up to the race and will be published in full below.

The Canonbury Stakes 2023 final field features a small line-up of promising young colts and geldings led in betting by the Peter & Paul Snowden-trained odds-on favourite King’s Gambit racing for the first time since taking out last spring’s Listed Debutant Stakes.

No Last 10 Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight Probable Weight Penalty Hcp Rating
1 1x KING’S GAMBIT Peter & Paul Snowden James McDonald 2 57.5kg      
2 1 RED RESISTANCE Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Brett Prebble 5 57.5kg      
3   CHEVRON Kristen Buchanan Kerrin McEvoy 6 54.5kg      
4 5 FAMEUX Annabel Neasham Chad Schofield 4 54.5kg      
5   MAFIA Peter & Paul Snowden   7 54.5kg      
6   SHINZO Chris Waller Brenton Avdulla 3 54.5kg      
7 42 THE LITTLE PUMPER Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Regan Bayliss 1 54.5kg  

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2023 Canonbury Stakes Nominations

Early nominations for the Canonbury Stakes in 2023 close the Monday of race week and will be published below once announced.

  Last 10 Horse Sex Age Trainer Ballot Weight True Weight Penalty Hcp Rating
1 1x KING’S GAMBIT C 2 Peter & Paul Snowden 1 57.5kg      
2 1 RED RESISTANCE C 2 Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott 2 57.5kg      
3 6x TARABEAU C 2 Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott 3 54.5kg      
4 5 FAMEUX C 2 Annabel Neasham 4 54.5kg      
5   CHEVRON C 2 Kristen Buchanan 5= 54.5kg      
6   MAFIA C 2 Peter & Paul Snowden 5= 54.5kg      
7   RUPERT’S HOUSE G 2 Bjorn Baker 5= 54.5kg      
8   SHINZO C 2 Chris Waller 5= 54.5kg      
9 42 THE LITTLE PUMPER C 2 Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott 9 54.5kg      

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

Canonbury Stakes History

The Canonbury Stakes has been run and won since 1930 when Lightning March took out the inaugural running. The race originated as a five furlong (1000m) event holding Principal status at Randwick, where it was run up until 2003 and again from 2008 – 2011. It has been run over the 1100m distance from 2004 – 2006 and from 2009 onwards. Rosehill held the event from 2004 – 2006 and from 2013 until the present. In 2014 the race gained Listed status before it was elevated to a Group 3 feature in 2015. The race is named in honour of Canonbury, a house built near Sydney’s Darling Point in 1911. The Australian Jockey Club (AJC) – now the Australian Turf Club (ATC) – has owned Canonbury house since the death of its builder in 1919. Notable Canonbury Stakes winners include Tulloch (1956), Shogun Lodge (1998), Not A Single Doubt (2003), Sebring (2008), Hinchinbrook (2010) and Vancouver (2015). See below for a full list of Canonbury Stakes winners and results dating back to 2000.

Recent Canonbury Stakes Winners

Year Place Horse Time
 
2023 Canonbury Stakes  1st Red Resistance 1 minute 3.60 seconds
2nd King’s Gambit
3rd Shinzo
 
2022 Canonbury Stakes  1st Best Of Bordeaux 1 minute 3.91 seconds
2nd Rakomelo
3rd Flashing Steel
 
2021 Canonbury Stakes  1st Zethus 1 minute 6.62 seconds
2nd Home Affairs
3rd Sing A Love Song
 
2020 Canonbury Stakes (Held at Randwick) 1st Prague 1 minute 3.94 seconds
2nd Global Quest
3rd Return With Honour
 
2019 Canonbury Stakes 1st McLaren 1 minute 5.98 seconds
2nd Spring Loaded
3rd Deep Chill
 
2018 Canonbury Stakes 1st Performer 1 minute 6.21 seconds
2nd Stratosphere
3rd Exceltic
 
2017 Canonbury Stakes 1st Pariah 1 minute 4.63 seconds
2nd Menari
3rd Malahat
 
2016 Canonbury Stakes 1st Tessera 1 minute 6.0 seconds
2nd Defcon
3rd Mount Panorama
 
2015 Canonbury Stakes 1st Vancouver 1 minute 5.8 seconds
2nd Outreach
3rd Chamarel
 
2014 Canonbury Stakes 1st Fighting Sun 1 minute 5.4 seconds
2nd Mr Cha Cha
3rd Ghibellines
 
2013 Canonbury Stakes 1st Never Can Tell 1 minute 5.3 seconds
2nd Whittington
3rd Criterion
 
2012 Canonbury Stakes 1st Raceway 1 minute 3.9 seconds
2nd Shelford
3rd Narcissus
 
2011 Canonbury Stakes 1st Diamond To Pegasus 1 minute 3.41 seconds
2nd Written Consent
3rd Wild And Proud
 
2010 Canonbury Stakes 1st Hinchinbrook 1 minute 5.33 seconds
2nd Corvidae
3rd Run For Wilson
 
2009 Canonbury Stakes 1st Tickets 1 minute 4.27 seconds
2nd Manhattan Rain
3rd Wanted
 
2008 Canonbury Stakes 1st Sebring 58.15 seconds
2nd Ming Hoi Treasure
3rd Giotto
 
2007 Canonbury Stakes 1st Race Not Held
2nd  
3rd  
 
2006 Canonbury Stakes 1st Danehill Smile 1 minute 5.67 seconds
2nd Keiki
3rd Arlington
 
2005 Canonbury Stakes 1st Diego Garcia 1 minute 4.74 seconds
2nd Big Joker
3rd Coast To The Post
 
2004 Canonbury Stakes 1st Bradbury’s Luck 57.43 seconds
2nd Kincharm
3rd Pasikatera
 
2003 Canonbury Stakes 1st Not A Single Doubt 58.03  seconds
2nd Valse Des Fleurs
3rd Suite
 
2002 Canonbury Stakes 1st Hammerbeam 59.70 seconds
2nd Bushland
3rd L’espalier
 
2001 Canonbury Stakes 1st Snowland 59.09 seconds
2nd Tom Coureuse
3rd Mission Statement
 
2000 Canonbury Stakes 1st Excellerator 57.80 seconds
2nd Courvoisier
3rd Mistegic

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