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The Southern Cross Stakes is a Group 3 race run at Royal Randwick on Apollo Stakes Day in February during the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.

The race is open to horses aged three-years-old and over and the open quality handicap is run over a 1200m sprint distance. The event offers $160,000 in prize money and is run on the same day as the Group 2 Apollo Stakes (1400m) and the Group 2 Light Fingers Stakes (1200m), as well as the Group 3 Triscay Stakes (1200m).

Sprinters may come into the Southern Cross Stakes field via an earlier autumn run in the Group 2 Expressway Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill a fortnight before. Many Southern Cross Stakes graduates will go on to run in the Group 3 Liverpool City Cup (1300m) at Warwick Farm two weeks later.

Some of the better sprinters may head south for a shot at the Group 1 sprints of the Melbourne Autumn Racing Carnival such as the Group 1 Futurity Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Blue Diamond Stakes Day or the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington in March.

Later in Sydney the top horses could shoot for a run in April’s Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes (1200m) at Royal Randwick during ‘The Championships’.

The Southern Cross Stakes also provides a nice first-up autumn run for horses eyeing a start in the following month’s Group 1 Canterbury Stakes (1300m) on Randwick Guineas Day, a double last completed by Le Romain (2017).

In 2021 Masked Crusader won the Southern Cross Stakes before a next-up third in the Canterbury Stakes. He went on to win the Group 1 William Reid Stakes (1200m) after that at Moonee Valley and place second in the Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes (1200m) during that year’s ‘The Championships’. Masked Crusader further franked the autumn’s Southern Cross Stakes form over the spring, his campaign headlined by a second in the $15 million The Everest behind Nature Strip.

The Southern Cross Stakes 2022 runs on Saturday February 12, 2022. 

2022 Southern Cross Stakes
Date:	Saturday February 12, 2022
Track:	Royal Randwick Racecourse
Distance:	1200m
Race Type:	3YO&Up / Open / Qlty Hcp.
Status:	Group 3
Prize Money:	$160,000

2022 Southern Cross Stakes Results

• 1st: TBD
• 2nd: TBD
• 3rd: TBD

2022 Southern Cross Stakes Betting Odds

The latest Southern Cross Stakes 2022 odds and betting market links courtesy of Ladbrokes.com.au will be available right here once announced the week of Apollo Stakes Day.

Special Reward ($3 in 2020) and Masked Crusader ($2.25 in 2021) are the latest favourites in Southern Cross Stakes betting to salute for the punters.

2022 Southern Cross Stakes Field

The Southern Cross Stakes field attracts a quality line-up of usually local Sydney sprinters at the start of their autumn racing campaigns and is released by Racing NSW on the Wednesday before the race.

The official 2022 Southern Cross Stakes Field & Barriers are set for release on Wednesday February 9, 2022 and will be published in full below.

2022 Southern Cross Stakes Nominations

The Southern Cross Stakes nominations are a first look at the possible sprinters to run in the Apollo Stakes Day support act and close on the Monday before race day.

The Southern Cross Stakes 2022 nominations close on Monday February 7, 2022 and will be released below as soon as available.

Southern Cross Stakes History

The Southern Cross Stakes was first run in 1940 and won by Gold Rod. A number of genuine turf sprint stars have added their names to the Southern Cross Stakes winners’ list since then including Gunsynd (1972), Terravista (2014) and the previous year’s Randwick Guineas champ Le Romain (2017).

The race started out as a Principal race, gained Listed status in 1980 and has been run as a Group 3 event since 1989. It has gone by a number of different race names over the years including the Frederick Clissold Handicap, Anniversary Cup and has been known as the Southern Cross Stakes since 2009. The race has also been conducted at a number of Sydney’s racecourses including Canterbury Park and Rosehill Gardens.

Recent Southern Cross Stakes Winners

See below for a full list of Southern Cross Stakes winners and results going back to the year 2000.

Year	Place	Horse	Time
2022 Southern Cross Stakes	1st	TBD	TBD
	2nd	TBD
	3rd	TBD
2021 Southern Cross Stakes	1st	Masked Crusader	1 minute 10.62 seconds
	2nd	Southern Lad
	3rd	Victorem
2020 Southern Cross Stakes	1st	Special Reward	1 minute 10.02 seconds
	2nd	Cascadian
	3rd	Jungle Edge
2019 Southern Cross Stakes	1st	Eckstein	1 minute 9.16 seconds
	2nd	Dothraki
	3rd	Brutal
2018 Southern Cross Stakes	1st	Kaepernick	1 minute 10.53 seconds
	2nd	Dothraki
	3rd	Boss Lane
2017 Southern Cross Stakes	1st	Le Romain	1 minute 10.39 seconds
	2nd	Big Money
	3rd	Snippets Land
2016 Southern CrossStakes	1st	Big Money	1 minute 9.4 seconds
	2nd	Decision Time
	3rd	Rich Enuff
2015 Southern CrossStakes	1st	Heart Testa	1 minute 9.6 seconds
	2nd	Driefontein
	3rd	Territory
2014 Southern CrossStakes	1st	Terravista	1 minute 8.6 seconds
	2nd	Albrecht
	3rd	My Destiny
2013 Southern CrossStakes	1st	Skytrain	1 minute 13.5 seconds
	2nd	Streama
	3rd	Onthelookout
2012 Southern CrossStakes	1st	No Evidence Needed	1 minute 10.0 seconds
	2nd	Neeson
	3rd	Secret Admirer
2011 Southern CrossStakes	1st	Sister Madly	1 minute 8.5 seconds
	2nd	Pinwheel
	3rd	Cardinal Virtue
2010 Southern Cross Stakes	1st	Kenny’s World	1 minute 11.0 seconds
	2nd	Dreamscape
	3rd	Geared Up
2009 Southern CrossStakes	1st	Marchinski	1 minute 10.1 seconds
	2nd	Kenny’s World
	3rd	Raise
2008 Frederick Clissold Stakes	1st	Hoystar	1 minute 10.0 seconds
	2nd	Friday Creek
	3rd	Danleigh
2007 Frederick Clissold Stakes	1st	The Free Stater	1 minute 8.7 seconds
	2nd	The Jackal
	3rd	Century Serb
2006 Frederick Clissold Stakes	1st	Collate	1 minute 9.5 seconds
	2nd	Utzon
	3rd	Damigos
2005 Frederick Clissold Stakes	1st	Cool Front	1 minute 10.2 seconds
	2nd	Utzon
	3rd	Patezza
2004 Frederick Clissold Stakes	1st	Britt’s Best	1 minute 10.0 seconds
	2nd	Fiery Venture
	3rd	Shags
2003 Premier Express Freight Stakes	1st	Gordo	1 minute 10.2 seconds
	2nd	Presently
	3rd	Salgado
2002 Frederick Clissold Stakes	1st	Lord Essex	1 minute 10.3 seconds
	2nd	Crawl
	3rd	Dottoressa
2001 Frederick Clissold Stakes	1st	Ab Initio	1 minute 9.0 seconds
	2nd	Strabane
	3rd	Pittance
2000 Frederick Clissold Stakes	1st	Pimpala Prince	1 minute 9.8 seconds
	2nd	Spying
	3rd	Iglesia