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The Sydney Stakes is a lucrative $500,000 Group 3 sprint held on The Everest Day at Royal Randwick in Sydney during mid-October.

There is now a battle for the punters’ attention that takes place on The Everest date with Sydney hosting the world’s richest turf race supported by the likes of the Sydney Stakes on the same day Melbourne’s Caulfield Cup Day meeting is held.

There are only 12 slots up for grabs in the $15 million The Everest field and the Sydney Stakes, upgraded to a Group 3 event for the first time in 2018, offers a nice consolation prize for sprinters that did not secure a start in the feature race of the day.

Contested over the same distance (1200m) as The Everest race, the Sydney Stakes is a weight-for-age event that has a field capacity of 18 starters.

Horses in the Sydney Stakes field may also be named as one of the six The Everest emergencies and must run in The Everest field should there be a scratching.

The Sydney Stakes also serves as a nice lead-up into the $1 million Winners Stakes – a race renamed each year in honour of the previous season’s The Everest winner. In 2019 the event was known as the Redzel Stakes and saw the Sydney Stakes winner Deprive run fourth.

The 2021 Sydney Stakes ran on Saturday October 16, 2021 as part of The Everest Day line-up at Randwick and was won by the favourite Big Parade ($2.40F).  

Sydney Stakes 2021
Date:	Saturday October 16, 2021
Track:	Royal Randwick Racecourse
Distance:	1200m
Race Type:	Weight-for-age
Status:	Group 3
Prize Money:	$500,000

2021 Sydney Stakes Results

• 1st: #5 Big Parade ($2.40F)
• 2nd: #3 Standout
• 3rd: #6 Prime Candidate

Big Parade ($2.40F) continued his outstanding Randwick strike-rate saluting for the punters in the 2021 Sydney Stakes results on The Everest Day.

	Finish	No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Bar.	Weight	Penalty	Starting Price
	1	5	BIG PARADE	Mark Newnham	Joshua Parr		5	58.5kg		$2.40F
	2	3	STANDOUT	Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou	Kerrin McEvoy	1.23L	3	58.5kg		$11
	3	6	PRIME CANDIDATE	Bjorn Baker	Tim Clark	1.3L	4	58.5kg		$26
	4	1	KEMENTARI	James Cummings	Hugh Bowman	1.46L	7	58.5kg		$5.50
	5	2	SIGNORE FOX	Peter & Paul Snowden	James McDonald	2L	10	58.5kg		$6.50
	6	11	FITUESE	John Thompson	Ms Rachel King	3.73L	12	56.5kg		$9.50
	7	9	WHEELHOUSE	Chris Waller	Tommy Berry	3.86L	11	58.5kg		$41
	8	4	CHAT	John Thompson	Nash Rawiller	3.94L	9	58.5kg		$18
	9	12	ENCHANTED HEART	Kris Lees	Jason Collett	5.24L	2	56.5kg		$26
	10	10	FLAT HEAVEN (FR)	Bjorn Baker	Ms Alysha Collett	5.54L	1	58.5kg		$51
	11	7	ROCKETING BY	Matthew Dunn	Sam Clipperton	6.17L	8	58.5kg		$31
	12	8	LUVOIR	Richard & Michael Freedman	Regan Bayliss	6.53L	6	58.5kg		$101

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

2021 Sydney Stakes Odds

Betting odds on the Sydney Stakes 2021 are out the week of the race and are led by horses that were on The Everest path but did not secure a slot in the $15 million feature.

The latest 2021 Sydney Stakes odds will be provided below once released with market links to Ladbrokes.com.au.

Big Parade ($2.40 in 2021) was the last favourite in Sydney Stakes betting to win.

2021 Sydney Stakes Field

The Sydney Stakes field attracts a quality line-up of sprinters, many of which failed to gain a run in the $15 million The Everest held at the same meeting.

Horses may come into the Sydney Stakes field via a number of spring lead-ups including the Group 2 Premiere Stakes on Epsom Handicap Day or the Group 2 Golden Pendant for the mares.

The official Sydney Stakes 2021 Final Field and Barriers are announced the Wednesday of race week and will be published in full below.

The 2021 Sydney Stakes field features a quality line-up of weight-for-age sprinters led in betting by Big Parade coming off a last start win at the track and distance carrying 61kg.

No	Last 10	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Probable Weight	Penalty	Hcp Rating
1	381x6602x1	KEMENTARI	James Cummings	Hugh Bowman	7	58.5kg			109
2	730x15433x	SIGNORE FOX	Peter & Paul Snowden	James McDonald	10	58.5kg			105
3	5528x00x62	STANDOUT	Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou	Kerrin McEvoy	3	58.5kg			104
4	2355×12715	CHAT	John Thompson	Nash Rawiller	9	58.5kg			103
5	1x6131x131	BIG PARADE	Mark Newnham	Joshua Parr	5	58.5kg			101
6	15149x60x3	PRIME CANDIDATE	Bjorn Baker	Tim Clark	4	58.5kg			94
7	111x5574x4	ROCKETING BY	Matthew Dunn	Sam Clipperton	8	58.5kg			94
8	215x16233x	LUVOIR	Richard & Michael Freedman	Regan Bayliss	6	58.5kg			86
9	22x144509x	WHEELHOUSE	Chris Waller	Tommy Berry	11	58.5kg			85
10	195x60424x	FLAT HEAVEN (FR)	Bjorn Baker	Ms Alysha Collett	1	58.5kg			81
11	129x55x125	FITUESE	John Thompson	Ms Rachel King	12	56.5kg			103
12	22x19168x5	ENCHANTED HEART	Kris Lees	Jason Collett	2	56.5kg			97

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

2021 Sydney Stakes Nominations

Early nominations for the Sydney Stakes in 2021 are taken the Monday leading-up to the race and will be published here once confirmed.

	Last 10	Horse	Sex	Age	Trainer	Hcp Rating
1	1x6131x131	BIG PARADE	G	5	Mark Newnham	101
2	2355×12715	CHAT	G	5	John Thompson	103
3	30x177x223	EMBRACER	G	6	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	102
4	22x19168x5	ENCHANTED HEART	M	5	Kris Lees	97
5	129x55x125	FITUESE	M	5	John Thompson	103
6	195x60424x	FLAT HEAVEN (FR)	G	7	Bjorn Baker	81
7	1x27311x32	GRAVINA	H	4	James Cummings	82
8	381x6602x1	KEMENTARI	G	7	James Cummings	109
9	215x16233x	LUVOIR	G	5	Richard & Michael Freedman	86
10	260x634x86	MADAM ROUGE	M	6	Chris Waller	105
11	15149x60x3	PRIME CANDIDATE	G	7	Bjorn Baker	94
12	16x11x0x41	QUANTICO	G	5	John O’Shea	78
13	111x5574x4	ROCKETING BY	H	4	Matthew Dunn	94
14	00x735220x	RUBISAKI	M	5	Patrick Payne	98
15	730x15433x	SIGNORE FOX	H	6	Peter & Paul Snowden	105
16	5025x009x9	SPECIAL REWARD	G	6	Kris Lees	99
17	5528x00x62	STANDOUT	H	5	Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou	104
18	71x11x	VALIANT	G	6	Steven Wise	70
19	22x144509x	WHEELHOUSE	G	4	Chris Waller	85

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

2021 Sydney Stakes History

The Sydney Stakes was first run in 1968 as a Principal race called City Tattersall’s Lightning Handicap. The sprint was upgraded to a Listed Black-Type race in 1978 before becoming a Group 3 feature in 2018.

In 2017 the race was renamed as the Sydney Stakes and with a notable increase in prize money became targeted as an event for sprinters that did not make The Everest field on the same day.

Originally run over 1000m then 1100m, the Sydney Stakes distance was also increased to 1200m in 2017.

A number of quality racehorses have won the event including Shogun Lodge (2003), dual winner Famous Seamus (2012-13), Group 1 winning mare In Her Time (2017) and Pierata (2018).

Sydney Stakes Results

Year	Place	Horse	Time
2021 Sydney Stakes	1st	Big Parade	1 minute 09.51 seconds
	2nd	Standout
	3rd	Prime Candidate
2020 Sydney Stakes	1st	Trumbull	1 minute 09.79 seconds
	2nd	Standout
	3rd	Singore Fox
2019 Sydney Stakes	1st	Deprive	1 minute 08.62 seconds
	2nd	Champagne Cuddles
	3rd	Brutal
2018 Sydney Stakes	1st	Pierta	1 minute 10.82 seconds
	2nd	Jungle Edge
	3rd	Clearly Innocent
2017 Sydney Stakes	1st	In Her Time	1 minute 8.26 seconds
	2nd	Impending
	3rd	Ball Of Muscle
2016 Sydney Stakes	1st	Spieth	1 minute 3.24 seconds
	2nd	Kaepernick
	3rd	Le Cordon Bleu
2015 Sydney Stakes	1st	Dothraki	1 minute 2.44 seconds
	2nd	That’s A Good Idea
	3rd	Artlee
2014 Sydney Stakes	1st	Deep Field	1 minute 3.39 seconds
	2nd	That’s A Good Idea
	3rd	Shamalia
2013 Sydney Stakes	1st	Famous Seamus	1 minute 3.52 seconds
	2nd	Ichihara
	3rd	Rarefield
2012 Sydney Stakes	1st	Famous Seamus	1 minute 1.96 seconds (R)
	2nd	Too Many Reds
	3rd	Zaratone
2011 Sydney Stakes	1st	Title	1 minute 4.59 seconds
	2nd	Rarefield
	3rd	Midnight At Ascot
2010 Sydney Stakes	1st	Whitefriars	1 minute 2.22 seconds (R)
	2nd	De Lightning Ridge
	3rd	Cardinal Virtue
2009 Sydney Stakes	1st	News Alert	1 minute 2.77 seconds
	2nd	Black Prince
	3rd	Wasted Emotions