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The Southern Cross Stakesis a Group 3 sprint held at Royal Randwick on Apollo Stakes Day in February during the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.
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).
The Southern Cross Stakes 2021 runs on Saturday February 13, 2021.
2021 Southern Cross Stakes | |
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Date: | Saturday February 13, 2021 |
Track: | Royal Randwick Racecourse |
Distance: | 1200m |
Race Type: | 3YO&Up / Open / Qlty Hcp. |
Status: | Group 3 |
Prize Money: | $160,000 |
The latest Southern Cross Stakes 2021 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) was the last favourite in Southern Cross Stakes betting to salute for the punters.
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 2021 Southern Cross Stakes Field & Barriers are set for release on Wednesday February 10, 2021 and will be published in full below.
The Southern Cross Stakes 2021 final field is down to nine after the early scratching of Subpoenaed (7) with betting led by the returning Hawkes Racing-trained Masked Crusader.
No | Last 10 | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Barrier | Weight | Probable Weight | Penalty | Hcp Rating |
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1 | 814x2x010x | VICTOREM | Jenny Graham | James McDonald | 6 | 59kg | 107 | ||
2 | 4134x3240x | GEM SONG | Kris Lees | Nash Rawiller | 8 | 57.5kg | 104 | ||
3 | x160x5528x | STANDOUT | Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou | Kerrin McEvoy | 2 | 57.5kg | 104 | ||
4 | 75x1219x13 | ROHERYN | James Cummings | Jason Collett | 3 | 57kg | 103 | ||
5 | 232355×254 | SOUTHERN LAD | John O’Shea | Regan Bayliss | 10 | 54kg | 91 | ||
6 | 929×606232 | BRAVE SONG | Peter & Paul Snowden | Robbie Dolan | 4 | 53.5kg | 96 | ||
7 | 51x11x238x | MASKED CRUSADER | Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes | Tommy Berry | 9 | 53.5kg | 79 | ||
8 | 243x46160x | SUBPOENAED (NZ) | Chris Waller | 7 | 53kg | 99 | |||
9 | 3x11086x66 | HIGHTAIL | Peter & Paul Snowden | Ms Rachel King | 1 | 53kg | 94 | ||
10 | 68x8675x22 | ALBUMIN | Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou | Jay Ford | 5 | 53kg | 87 |
Table Credit: Racing Australia.
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 2021 nominations close on Monday February 8, 2021 and will be released below as soon as available.
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.
See below for a full list of Southern Cross Stakes winners and results going back to the year 2000.
Year | Place | Horse | Time |
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2021 Southern Cross Stakes |
1st | TBD | TBD |
2nd | TBD | ||
3rd | TBD | ||
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 |