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The Up And Coming Stakes is a Group 3 event held at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney during August each year. Previously held as part of the Winx Stakes Day program, in 2020 the event was moved forward a week to run as the feature event on its own race meeting in mid-August.

Offering $160,000 in total prize money, the Up And Coming Stakes is a nice early Sydney Spring Racing Carnival lead-up for youngsters heading towards tougher runs.

Raced over 1300m, the Up And Coming Stakes is open only to three year old horses and is run under quality handicap conditions. Prior to 2014, the race was restricted to colts and geldings only and ran under set weights plus penalties conditions, essentially acting as a complementing race to the Toy Show Quality, which is restricted to fillies and mares.

Horses that compete in the Up And Coming Stakes could be kicking off their spring preps or be coming off a lead-up run in a winter event at Rosehill.

Later events that horses out of the Up And Coming Stakes field could go on to contest include the Group 2 Stan Fox Stakes (1500m) in early September.

It has also proved a decent guide to the following month’s $1 million Group 1 Golden Rose Stakes (1400m) in recent years.

The Up And Coming Stakes 2020 ran on Saturday August 15, 2020 and saw the odds-on favourite North Pacific ($1.85) relishing the wet conditions for a five length win. 

Up And Coming Stakes
Date:	Saturday August 15, 2020
Track:	Royal Randwick
Distance:	1300m
Race Type:	Quality Handicap
Status:	Group 3
Prize Money:	$160,000

2020 Up And Coming Stakes Results

• 1st: #2 North Pacific
• 2nd: #4 Bazooka
• 3rd: #7 Marsannay

The official Up And Coming Stakes 2020 Results on the potential Golden Rose Stakes lead-up race will be available below once the race runs on Saturday August 15, 2020.

The Hawkes Racing-trained North Pacific ($1.85) shot to the top of futures betting on the Golden Rose Stakes after his five length romp home in the wet to salute for the punters as the odds-on favourite in the 2020 Up And Coming Stakes results.

Colour	Finish	No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Bar.	Weight	Penalty	Starting Price
	1	2	NORTH PACIFIC	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	James McDonald		1	56.5kg		$1.85F
	2	4	BAZOOKA	David Payne	Jason Collett	5.3L	6	54kg		$26
	3	7	MARSANNAY	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Glen Boss	5.5L	5	53kg		$11
	4	9	OSCAR ZULU	Chris Waller	Ms Kathy O’Hara	6.6L	7	53kg		$51
	5	6	YARDSTICK	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Tim Clark	6.8L	4	53kg		$11
	6	1	HOLYFIELD	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Tommy Berry	7.3L	8	59kg		$21
	7	3	SMART IMAGE	Peter & Paul Snowden	Kerrin McEvoy	8.1L	3	54.5kg		$4.80
	8	8	BRAVADO	John O’Shea	Ms Rachel King	11.1L	2	53kg		$10
		5	SAUVESTRE	Chris Waller	Brenton Avdulla		0

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2020 Up And Coming Stakes Odds

The Up And Coming Stakes 2020 odds will be available below leading-up to the event as soon as betting opens at Ladbrokes.com.au.

North Pacific ($1.85 in 2020) was the last favourite in the Up And Coming Stakes odds to salute for the punters.

2020 Up And Coming Stakes Field

The Up And Coming Stakes 2020 final field and barriers will be published in full below once acceptances on the race are taken on the Wednesday leading-up to the event.

The 2020 Up And Coming Stakes field features just the nine spring hopefuls led in betting by the Hawkes Racing-trained North Pacific drawn the rails and the undefeated Smart Image in gate four chasing a third win on the trot for Peter & Paul Snowden.

No	Last 10	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Probable Weight	Penalty	Hcp Rating
1	11919x	HOLYFIELD	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Tommy Berry	9	59kg			80
2	3×1	NORTH PACIFIC	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	James McDonald	1	56.5kg			75
3	11	SMART IMAGE	Peter & Paul Snowden	Kerrin McEvoy	4	54.5kg			71
4	551×825	BAZOOKA	David Payne	Jason Collett	7	54kg			65
5	1x	SAUVESTRE	Chris Waller	Brenton Avdulla	3	54kg			64
6	1	YARDSTICK	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Tim Clark	5	53kg			64
7	5×611	MARSANNAY	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Glen Boss	6	53kg			63
8	13	BRAVADO	John O’Shea	Ms Rachel King	2	53kg			62
9	17	OSCAR ZULU	Chris Waller	Ms Kathy O’Hara	8	53kg			60

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Up And Coming Stakes History

Inaugurated in 1979, with Spear taking out the first edition, the Up And Coming Stakes has a storied history of quality sprinting. Originally a competition strictly for colts and geldings, as of 2014 the Up And Coming Stakes has been open to both sexes. However, in the past it was an exciting competition of male horses competing for supremacy and provided fantastic form insight as to how horses perform against their stronger peers.

Named after famed Warwick Stakes winner Up And Coming (1959), the Up And Coming Stakes has a long association with the Warwick Stakes. Originally raced over 1200m, the distance was dropped for a year in 1989 to 1160m. Between 1990 and 2010 it was again 1200m. In 2011, the race began to be run over 1300m.

In 1979 the race was classified as listed, and retained that status for exactly 1 year. The Up And Coming Stakes was a Group 3 event between 1980 and 1992 prior to an upgrade to Group 2. This upgrade lasted from 1993 to 2004, then in 2005 the race ran as a Group 3 event. It returned to Group 2 for one year in 2013, but in 2014 was ran as a Group 3 event.

The race venue has changed regularly between Warwick Farm, where it was originally held, and Royal Randwick and Canterbury Park racecourses.

Notable Up And Coming Stakes winners include Royal Troubador (1984), Mahogany (1993), General Nediym (1997), Exceed And Excel (2003), Court Command (2006) and Manawanui (2011). Up And Coming Stakes results since 2000 are listed below.

Up And Coming Stakes Results

Year	Place	Horse	Time
2020 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	North Pacific	1 minute 21.81 seconds
	2nd	Bazooka
	3rd	Marsannay
2019 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	True Detective (on protest)	1 minute 15.59 seconds
	2nd	Superium
	3rd	Lucicello
2018 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	Master Ash	1 minute 16.9 seconds
	2nd	Danawi
	3rd	Smart Elissim
2017 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	Dracarys	1 minute 14.7 seconds
	2nd	Gold Standard
	3rd	Sanctioned
2016 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	Divine Prophet	1 minute 16.6 seconds
	2nd	Derryn
	3rd	Thronum
2015 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	Shards	1 minute 16.3 seconds
	2nd	Voilier
	3rd	Sebring Sun
2014 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	Scissor Kick	1 minute 18.8 seconds
	2nd	Panzer Division
	3rd	Valentia
2013 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	War	1 minute 16.6 seconds
	2nd	Drago
	3rd	Vilanova
2012 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	Albrecht	1 minute 16.2 seconds
	2nd	Toydini
	3rd	Tatra
2011 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	Manawanui	1 minute 20.0 seconds
	2nd	Queenian
	3rd	Detours
2010 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	Blackball	1 minute 10.9 seconds
	2nd	Buffering
	3rd	Sea Lord
2009 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	Rarefied	1 minute 09.9 seconds
	2nd	Shellscrape
	3rd	Offhanded
2008 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	Dreamscape	1 minute 11.8 seconds
	2nd	Aichi
	3rd	Duporth
2007 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	Race Not Held	–
	2nd	–
	3rd	–
2006 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	Court Command	1 minute 10.7 seconds
	2nd	Stormpede
	3rd	Diego Garcia
2005 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	Snitzel	1 minute 09.8 seconds
	2nd	Stratum
	3rd	Denmarket
2004 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	Fastnet Rock	1 minute 10.2 seconds
	2nd	Dane Shadow
	3rd	Public Opinion
2003 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	Exceed And Excel	1 minute 11.8 seconds
	2nd	Danbird
	3rd	Hipwell
2002 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	Snowland	1 minute 06.9 seconds
	2nd	Star Of Florida
	3rd	Eastwest Success
2001 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	Newquay	1 minute 11.2 seconds
	2nd	Perfect Crime
	3rd	Excellerator
2000 Up And Coming Stakes	1st	Zariz	1 minute 09.4 seconds
	2nd	Century Kid
	3rd	Kootoomootoo