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The Hawkesbury Gold Cup is the feature race at the Hawkesbury Racecourse meeting in late April or early May each autumn. In 2013, the Hawkesbury Cup took place in August, and prior to that it shared the first week of November with the Melbourne Cup.

2026 Hawkesbury Gold Cup Odds

The Hawkesbury Gold Cup is a hugely popular race and is accompanied on the card by two other Group 3 status events – the Hawkesbury Crown (1300m) for fillies & mares, and the Hawkesbury Guineas (1400m) for three-year-olds.

Horses who run in the Hawkesbury Gold Cup usually have a decent autumn season of racing behind them. Some trainers use the Hawkesbury Gold Cup as preparation for the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival that kicks off the following month.

Good lead-up races into the Hawkesbury Cup include Rosehill’s Group 3 Neville Sellwood Stakes (2000m) held a month before or the Group 3 Doncaster Prelude (1500m) at the same meeting.

The Listed Scone Cup (1600m) run in mid-May is another likely next-up target for the best runners out of the Hawkesbury Gold Cup each season.

The 2022 Hawkesbury Gold Cup form was franked with the winner Kirwan’s Lane returning that summer to win the $2 million Group 2 The Ingham (1600m) at Randwick. That year’s Hawkesbury Gold Cup third-placed mare Atishu went on to finish in the money in a host of feature races including a third in the Ingham Stakes before winning the Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m) the following autumn in 2023.

The Hawkesbury Gold Cup is also now a The Big Dance eligibility event.

The 2026 Hawkesbury Gold Cup runs on Saturday May 2, 2026 as an early The Big Dance qualifier.  

2026 Hawkesbury Gold Cup
Date:	Saturday May 2, 2026
Track:	Hawkesbury Racecourse
Distance:	1600m
Conditions:	Open Handicap
Status:	Group 3
Prizemoney:	$250,000
Inaugurated:	1980

2026 Hawkesbury Gold Cup Results

Stay tuned for the official 2026 Hawkesbury Gold Cup results and finishing order on Saturday May 2, 2026 and to see which gallopers have qualified for this November’s The Big Dance.

• 1st: TBD
• 2nd: TBD
• 3rd: TBD

Winning Margin: TBD

Winning Time: TBD

2026 Hawkesbury Gold Cup Betting

The top Hawkesbury Gold Cup 2026 betting odds and links to pricing at Ladbrokes.com.au will be available at Races.com.au the week of the race.

Amangiri ($4.80 in 2020) and Punch Lane ($2.30 in 2025) are the latest favourites in Hawkesbury Gold Cup betting to salute for the punters.

2026 Hawkesbury Gold Cup Form

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL 2026 HAWKESBURY GOLD CUP FORM

2026 Hawkesbury Gold Cup Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Hawkesbury Gold Cup 2026 Tips on the Group 3 feature this autumn.

2026 Hawkesbury Gold Cup Field

The Hawkesbury Gold Cup Field attracts a smart line-up of milers coming off earlier Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival runs or gearing up for the Group 1 events over similar distance in Brisbane during the winter.

The official Hawkesbury Gold Cup 2026 field & barriers is announced by Racing NSW on the Wednesday prior to the race.

The 2026 Hawkesbury Gold Cup final field features a capacity line-up of milers including the spring’s Rosehill Gold Cup runner-up Imperialist, in-form four-year-old Taken coming off a close second in Caulfield’s Listed Anniversary Vase and the widely drawn Chris Waller-trained Osipenko racing second-up.

No	Last 10	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Probable Weight	Penalty	Hcp Rating
1	9x509033x8	MIDDLE EARTH (GB)	Ciaron Maher	Nash Rawiller	13	59.5kg			108
2	2x458791x7	TAVI TIME (NZ)	Kris Lees	Dylan Gibbons	19	58kg			105
3	187x80619x	AMOR VICTORIOUS	Bjorn Baker	Joshua Parr	12	57.5kg			104
4	5x430174x4	OSIPENKO (NZ)	Chris Waller	Nash Rawiller	18	57.5kg			104
5	2x21218x30	VIVY AIR	Ciaron Maher	Reece Jones	3	57kg			107
6	x00112150x	ROYAL SUPREMACY (IRE)	Ciaron Maher	Braith Nock (A0)	7	57kg			103
7	136x107x07	SEA KING (GB)	Matthew Dunn	Sam Clipperton	1	56.5kg			102
8	4x010060x8	WATERFORD (IRE)	Chris Waller	Tommy Berry	6	56.5kg			102
9	111×101522	TAKEN (NZ)	Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr)	Tom Sherry	4	54kg			95
10	1x4177x475	SHOHISHA	David Payne	Chad Schofield	11	54kg			94
11	4678x965x0	SKY LAB	Paul Perry	Jeff Penza	16	54kg			92
12	69×9045956	WAR ETERNAL (NZ)	Bjorn Baker	Adam Farragher	5	54kg			90
13	5x9712043x	IMPERIALIST (NZ)	Chris Waller	Andrew Adkins	14	53kg			95
14	6324×31311	CAPTAIN FURAI	Chris Waller	Tyler Schiller	15	53kg			93
15	06583×2700	PALMETTO (NZ)	John Sargent	Ms Alysha Collett	2	53kg			93
16	23153216×5	YET HE MOVES	Chris Waller	Rachel King	10	53kg			90
17e	6x09450x29	CHURCHILL’S CHOICE	Nathan Doyle	Regan Bayliss	9	54kg			89
18e	13x8112x50	HYPERBOLIC (NZ)	Brad Widdup		17	54kg			85
19e	4425×18918	COSMEENA	Michael Vella		8	54kg			70

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2026 Hawkesbury Gold Cup Nominations

Early nominations for the Hawkesbury Gold Cup in 2026 close the Monday of race week and will be published in full below once confirmed.

	Last 10	Horse	Sex	Age	Trainer	Hcp Rating
1	187x80619x	AMOR VICTORIOUS	G	6	Bjorn Baker	104
2	6324×31311	CAPTAIN FURAI	G	5	Chris Waller	93
3	3532×33120	CHICA MOJITO (NZ)	M	5	Chris Waller	100
4	6x09450x29	CHURCHILL’S CHOICE	M	4	Nathan Doyle	89
5	4425×18918	COSMEENA	M	4	Michael Vella	70
6	13x8112x50	HYPERBOLIC (NZ)	M	4	Brad Widdup	85
7	5x9712043x	IMPERIALIST (NZ)	G	4	Chris Waller	95
8	27720×1738	LORD PENMAN (NZ)	G	4	Chris Waller	97
9	9x509033x8	MIDDLE EARTH (GB)	G	6	Ciaron Maher	108
10	5x430174x4	OSIPENKO (NZ)	G	6	Chris Waller	104
11	06583×2700	PALMETTO (NZ)	G	7	John Sargent	93
12	x00112150x	ROYAL SUPREMACY (IRE)	G	5	Ciaron Maher	103
13	136x107x07	SEA KING (GB)	G	7	Matthew Dunn	102
14	x613489x68	SHEEZA DIVA	F	3	Mitchell & Desiree Kearney	66
15	1x4177x475	SHOHISHA	M	4	David Payne	94
16	4678x965x0	SKY LAB	G	8	Paul Perry	92
17	111×101522	TAKEN (NZ)	G	4	Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr)	95
18	2x458791x7	TAVI TIME (NZ)	G	6	Kris Lees	105
19	2x21218x30	VIVY AIR	M	5	Ciaron Maher	107
20	69×9045956	WAR ETERNAL (NZ)	G	7	Bjorn Baker	90
21	4x010060x8	WATERFORD (IRE)	G	7	Chris Waller	102
22	23153216×5	YET HE MOVES	G	6	Chris Waller	90
23	211217x	ZAHRANN (IRE)	H	4	Ciaron Maher	100

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Hawkesbury Gold Cup History

The Hawkesbury Gold Cup was inaugurated in 1980, when Peninsula won the first title. The Hawkesbury Cup was initially run over 2000m, before it was reduced to a mile in 1988. Prior to 1997, the race held Listed status. Following several years of increased purse size and improving fields, the race was upgraded to Group 3.

In 2007, the decision was made to cancel the Hawkesbury Gold Cup meeting. This came about due to the outbreak of Equine Influenza; it was considered too great a risk to continue with the meeting. This among other cancelled meetings and events illustrate the broad-reaching consequences of Equine Influenza.

Recovering quickly, the Hawkesbury Race Club ran a stellar meeting in 2008, with Nuclear Sky seizing victory. Since then, the Hawkesbury Gold Cup has gone from strength to strength. There was more spotlight on Cup Day in the racing community during the 2014 meeting, mainly due to the fact that the event wasn’t vastly overshadowed by the Melbourne Cup.

The 2020 Hawkesbury Gold Cup took place at Rosehill Gardens due to the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions to racing and was held over a reduced distance of 1500m.

Hawkesbury Gold Cup Results

Year	Place	Horse	Time
2026 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	TBD	TBD
	2nd	TBD
	3rd	TBD
2025 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Punch Lane	1:36.15
	2nd	Ospienko
	3rd	My Oberon
2024 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Just Folk	1:34.80
	2nd	Detonator Jack
	3rd	Welwal
2023 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	New Mandate	1:36.02
	2nd	Desert Icon
	3rd	Jojo Was A Man
2022 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Kirwan’s Lane	1:38.88
	2nd	Hopeful
	3rd	Atishu
2021 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Archedemus	1:35.94
	2nd	Royal Celebration
	3rd	Purple Sector
2020 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Amangiri	1:28.18 (held over 1500m)
	2nd	Live And Free
	3rd	Another Dollar
2019 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Archedemus	1:34.47
	2nd	Tom Melbourne
	3rd	Sixties Groove
2018 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Kingsguard	1:37.05
	2nd	Ecuador
	3rd	McCreery
2017 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Fabrizio	1:34.6
	2nd	Moher
	3rd	Testashadow
2016 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Amovatio	1:34.8
	2nd	Mighty Lucky
	3rd	Casino Dancer
2015 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Sons Of John	1:38.4
	2nd	Tales Of Grimm
	3rd	Rugged Cross
2014 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Leebaz	1:36.50
	2nd	Wistful
	3rd	Keep Cool
2013 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Coup Ay Tee	1:35.64
	2nd	Julienas
	3rd	Darci Be Good
2012 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Darci Be Good	1:35:35
	2nd	Isopach
	3rd	Praecido
2011 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Somepin Anypin	1:34.7
	2nd	Willy Jimmy
	3rd	Renewed Vitality
2010 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Thankgodyou’rehere	1:35.31
	2nd	Glintz
	3rd	Kimillsy
2009 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Keeping The Dream	1:35.3
	2nd	Spinney
	3rd	Bernicia
2008 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Nuclear Sky	1:34.7
	2nd	Alverta
	3rd	Gergis
2007 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	race not held	–
	2nd	race not held
	3rd	race not held
2006 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Beauty Watch	1:34.4
	2nd	Friday Creek
	3rd	Prince Arthur
2005 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Wild Queen	1:38.0
	2nd	Verb
	3rd	Cateclipse
2004 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Court’s In Session	1:33.2
	2nd	Magsaya
	3rd	Salgado
2003 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Stoway	1:37.5
	2nd	Vital Agreement
	3rd	Takas
2002 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	This Manshood	1:33.1
	2nd	Huge Demand
	3rd	Evander
2001 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Carael Boy	1:34.1
	2nd	Play Station
	3rd	Ra Eclipse
2000 Hawkesbury Cup	1st	Huge Demand	1:33.8
	2nd	Grey And Gold
	3rd	Lanolin