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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 $3.5 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 $1.5 million Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m), which the 2017 Canonbury Stakes winner Pariah finished runner-up in.

The Canonbury Stakes 2020 ran on Saturday February 1, 2020 at Randwick having been moved from Rosehill due to the heat wave in Sydney’s west and was won by the Ciaron Maher & David Eustace-trained Prague.  

2020 Canonbury Stakes
Date:	Saturday February 1, 2020
Track:	Rosehill Racecourse
Distance:	1100m
Race Type:	2YO Colts & Geldings – Set Weights + Penalties
Status:	Group 3
Prize Money:	$160,000

2020 Canonbury Stakes Results

• 1st: #5 Prague
• 2nd: #1 Global Quest
• 3rd: #3 Return With Honours

The Canonbury Stakes 2020 results saw trainers Ciaron Maher & David Eustace continue their assault on the juvenile features with expensive $1.6 million buy Prague taking out the Golden Slipper lead-up just 35 minutes after his Magic Millions Classic winning filly Away Game won the Widden Stakes on way to the $3.5 million Slipper on March 21.

Read more on the Canonbury Stakes winner Prague and his Golden Slipper 2020 prospects.

Place	#	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Barrier	Weight	SP
1	5	PRAGUE	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Tom Marquand	–	5	54.5kg	$4.40
2	1	GLOBAL QUEST	Chris Waller	Hugh Bowman	1.8L	4	57.5kg	$2.80F
3	3	RETURN WITH HONOUR	Gerald Ryan	Glyn Schofield	2.1L	3	54.5kg	$6.50
4	2	NITROUS	Peter & Paul Snowden	Tommy Berry	5.7L	6	56kg	$5.50
5	4	GRAVINA	James Cummings	Ms Rachel King	6.1L	1	54.5kg	$5.50
6	6	GORSHIN	Anthony Cummings	Christian Reith	11.7L	2	54.5kg	$20

2020 Canonbury Stakes Betting Odds

The top Canonbury Stakes 2020 odds and betting market links to Ladbrokes.com.au will be available here as soon as available this autumn carnival.

2020 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 2020 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 2020 field features just six young Golden Slipper hopefuls set to face off at Randwick after the Expressway Stakes Day meeting was moved from Rosehill due to the heat. Chris Waller’s Group 3 winner Global Quest is the favourite after the More Than Ready colt’s debut win in the Breeders’ Plate (1000m) at the track last year.

Read more on the Global Quest-led 2020 Canonbury Stakes field.

#	Form (Last 10)	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight
1	1x	GLOBAL QUEST	Chris Waller	Hugh Bowman	4	57.5kg
2	8×117	NITROUS	Peter & Paul Snowden	Tommy Berry	6	56kg
3	17	RETURN WITH HONOUR	Gerald Ryan	Glyn Schofield	3	54.5kg
4	38x	GRAVINA	James Cummings	Ms Rachel King	1	54.5kg
5	1	PRAGUE	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Tom Marquand	5	54.5kg
6	–	GORSHIN	Anthony Cummings	Christian Reith	2	54.5kg

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
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