Wenona Girl Handicap

The Group 3 Wenona Girl Handicap is held each autumn in Sydney on Randwick Guineas Day.

2024 Wenona Girl Handicap Results

  • 1st: #13 Tintookie
  • 2nd: #3 C'est Magique
  • 3rd: #6 Wee Nessy



The Wenona Girl Handicap is a Group 3 sprint race run in early to mid March during the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.

Contested over 1200m the quality handicap event offers $250,000 in total prize money as of 2024 and is only open to mares aged four-years-old and above.

The Wenona Girl Handicap is one of a host of Group status races run at Royal Randwick Racecourse on Randwick Guineas Day. The meeting is headlined by the Group 1 Randwick Guineas (1600m) for three-year-olds and the weight-for-age Group 1 Canterbury Stakes (1300m).

Many mares in the Wenona Girl Handicap field may have had a previous Randwick run in February’s Group 3 Triscay Stakes (1200m). A nice next-up option is Rosehill’s Group 3 Birthday Card Stakes (1200m) a fortnight after the Wenona Girl Handicap or possibly the previous week’s Group 1 Coolmore Classic (1500m).

The 2022 Wenona Girl Handicap form was franked with the winner Belluci Babe going on to run a solid fourth in both the Group 1 The Galaxy (1100m) and Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes (1200m) that autumn.

The Wenona Girl Handicap 2024 ran at Randwick on Saturday March 9, 2024 as part of Sydney’s Randwick Guineas Day card and was won by Brad Widdup’s progressive favourite Tintookie ($4.40F).

2024 Wenona Girl Handicap
Date: Saturday March 9, 2024
Track: Royal Randwick Racecourse
Distance: 1200m
Race Type: Quality Handicap / Mares 4YO&Up
Status: Group 3
Prize Money: $250,000

2024 Wenona Girl Handicap Results

  • 1st: #13 Tintookie ($4.40F)
  • 2nd: #3 C’est Magique
  • 3rd: #6 Wee Nessy

Brad Widdup’s up-and-coming Winning Rupert mare Tintookie ($4.40F) handled a notable rise in grade to continue her strong recent form with a win for the punters to lead the 2024 Wenona Girl Handicap results in the last on Randwick Guineas Day.

Finish No. Horse Trainer Jockey Margin Bar. Weight Penalty Starting Price
1 13 TINTOOKIE Brad Widdup Kerrin McEvoy 6 53kg $4.40F
2 3 C’EST MAGIQUE Grahame Begg Tim Clark 0.9L 2 56.5kg $6.50
3 6 WEE NESSY Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr) Tommy Berry 1.63L 4 54kg (cd 54.5kg) $10
4 15 RAINBIEL Joseph Pride Tyler Schiller 2.33L 5 53kg $8
5 14 POWERFUL PEG Kris Lees Dylan Gibbons (a) 2.49L 15 53kg $31
6 11 MISS HELLFIRE Peter & Paul Snowden Tom Sherry 2.81L 7 53kg $5.50
7 1 QUEEN OF THE BALL Michael Freedman Ms Rachel King 2.83L 1 58kg $14
8 7 DIAMOND DEALER Bjorn Baker Sam Clipperton 3.26L 8 54kg (cd 55kg) $26
9 12 EAGLE NEST Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou Jay Ford 3.81L 12 53kg $13
10 4 PO KARE KARE (NZ) Bryce Heys Zac Lloyd (a) 4.01L 13 55.5kg $26
11 2 SHE’S ALL CLASS Ciaron Maher Tom Marquand 4.36L 14 57kg $101
12 8 RAZETA Kris Lees Jason Collett 4.59L 3 54kg $17
13 16 STREET GOSSIP Joseph Pride Reece Jones 5.53L 9 53kg $101
14 5 CALL DI Joseph Pride Regan Bayliss 8.43L 11 54.5kg $14
15 10 BYRON BELLE John Sargent Ms Molly Bourke (a) 9.16L 10 54kg $101
9 OVERRIDING Nathan Doyle 0

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2024 Wenona Girl Handicap Betting Odds

The updated Wenona Girl Handicap 2024 odds and betting market links to Ladbrokes.com.au will be updated the week of the race below.

Fasika ($2.30 in 2020), Belluci Babe ($3 in 2022), and Tintookie ($4.40 in 2024) are the latest favourites in Wenona Girl Handicap betting to salute for the punters.

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2024 Wenona Girl Handicap Form Guide

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2024 Wenona Girl Handicap Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Wenona Girl Handicap 2024 Tips on the Randwick Guineas Day support act this autumn.

  • To Win: #5 Call Di ($4.80 at time of publish) – BET NOW

The now Joe Pride-trained four-year-old Frankel mare Call Di appears poised for victory in the Wenona Girl Stakes after Pride opted to withdraw her from a tougher tussle with her stablemates Think About It and Coal Crusher in the Group 1 Canterbury earlier on the card.  Drawn wide for the Group 3, she will carry a manageable weight of 54.5kg in her first-up run for her new trainer. The well-bred mare has built an impressive record, consistently placing in numerous races during her previous campaign. While often a bridesmaid, she now seeks a well-deserved Group victory. Her recent runner-up finish in the Group 2 Hot Danish Stakes at Rosehill back in November, coupled with her strong first-up record, suggests she is ready to capitalise on this opportunity. With a change of scenery under the guidance of Pride, the talented mare holds the potential to finally break through.

2024 Wenona Girl Handicap Field

The Wenona Girl Handicap field attracts a strong line-up of quality sprinting mares who could be eyeing tougher runs later in the autumn and is released by Racing NSW on the Wednesday before the race.

The official 2024 Wenona Girl Handicap field and barriers are set to be announced on Wednesday March 6, 2024 and will be published in full below.

The returning Call Di now with Joe Pride heads betting on the 2024 Wenona Girl Quality final field to round out Randwick Guineas Day in Sydney on Saturday.

No Last 10 Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight Probable Weight Penalty Hcp Rating
1 28x27415x0 QUEEN OF THE BALL Michael Freedman Ms Rachel King 1 58kg 98
2 x15840x0x8 SHE’S ALL CLASS Ciaron Maher Tom Marquand 15 57kg 96
3 62x43957x3 C’EST MAGIQUE Grahame Begg Tim Clark 2 56.5kg 95
4 x1616x999x PO KARE KARE (NZ) Bryce Heys Zac Lloyd (a) 14 55.5kg 93
5 349x22532x CALL DI Joseph Pride Regan Bayliss (late alt) 12 54.5kg 91
6 1x82224x0x WEE NESSY Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr) Tommy Berry 4 54kg 54.5kg 89
7 831440×156 DIAMOND DEALER Bjorn Baker Sam Clipperton (late alt) 9 54kg 55kg 87
8 9139x4080x RAZETA Kris Lees Jason Collett 3 54kg 83
9 7x1113x34x OVERRIDING Nathan Doyle 5 54kg 76
10 250x5030x1 BYRON BELLE John Sargent Ms Molly Bourke (a) 11 54kg 73
11 37122×3312 MISS HELLFIRE Peter & Paul Snowden Tom Sherry 8 53kg 85
12 1526x1114x EAGLE NEST Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou Jay Ford 13 53kg 84
13 36514×1225 TINTOOKIE Brad Widdup Kerrin McEvoy 7 53kg 82
14 x65116x246 POWERFUL PEG Kris Lees Dylan Gibbons (a) 16 53kg 81
15 x5x8264x63 RAINBIEL Joseph Pride Tyler Schiller 6 53kg 81
16 51136x450x STREET GOSSIP Joseph Pride Reece Jones 10 53kg 77

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2024 Wenona Girl Nominations

Early nominations on the Wenona Girl Handicap in 2024 will be provided below once announced by Racing NSW on the Monday ahead of the race.

Wenona Girl Handicap History

The Wenona Girl Handicap was first contested in 2006 and won by a mare called Wonderer. Over its short history the event has run at both Randwick Racecourse and Warwick Farm Racecourse. The race is named in honour of Wenona Girl who is in the Australian Racing Hall of Fame and won a host of majors during the 1960s including the Rosehill Guineas (1960) and CF Orr Stakes (1962).

Starting out as a Listed race it gained Group 3 status in 2014 and in 2014 was run as the Roy Higgins Tribute Quality honouring champion jockey Roy Higgins (1938-2014) who died the week of the race.

Quality mares including Beaded (2010), Griante (2015), and Savoureux (2016) have won the Wenona Girl Handicap over the past decade.

There was a protest upheld (3rd vs 1st) in the 2023 Wenona Girl Handicap results that saw Jal Lei elevated to the winner’s stall while Jump The Broom was relegated to third.

Recent Wenona Girl Handicap Winners

See below for the full list of Wenona Girl Handicap results and winners going back to its inauguration in 2006.

Year Place Horse Time
2024
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st Tintookie 1 minute 08.81 seconds
2nd C’est Magique
3rd Wee Nessy
2023
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st Jal Lei (on protest) 1 minute 09.83 seconds
2nd Tycoon Evie
3rd Jump The Broom (relegated)
2022
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st Belluci Babe 1 minute 12.97 seconds
2nd Tricky Gal
3rd Never Talk
2021
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st Vulpine 1 minute 08.10 seconds
2nd Seasons
3rd Emanate
2020
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st Fasika 1 minute 09.94 seconds
2nd I Am Excited
3rd Resin
2019
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st Winter Bride 1 minute 07.73 seconds
2nd Spright
3rd Resin
2018
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st Sugar Bella 1 minute 08.85 seconds
2nd Miss Que
3rd Perizada
2017
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st Rocket Commander 1 minute 13.87 seconds
2nd Hieroglyphics
3rd Zestful
2016
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st Savoureux 1 minute 09.5 seconds
2nd Private Secretary
3rd Flashing Speed
2015
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st Griante 1 minute 08.6 seconds
2nd I Love It
3rd Slots
2014
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st A Time For Julia 1 minute 09.9 seconds
2nd Lilliburlero
3rd Recoinage
2013
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st Choice Words (note: Arinosa disqualified) 1 minute 09.6 seconds
2nd Ladys Angel
3rd Cathay Lady
2012
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st Rose Of Peace 1 minute 10.5 seconds
2nd Quidnunc
3rd Alberton Park
2011
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st Ofcourseican 1 minute 8.9 seconds
2nd Flying Success
3rd Trim
2010
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st Beaded 1 minute 9.10 seconds
2nd Alverta
3rd Illuminates
2009
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st Belong To Many 1 minute 10.53 seconds
2nd Espurante
3rd Ugly Betty
2008
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st Litter 1 minute 11.05 seconds
2nd Danasierra
3rd A Country Girl
2007
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st Kakakakatie 1 minute 9.94 seconds
2nd Aunty Betty
3rd Storm Alert
2006
Wenona Girl Handicap
1st Wonderer 1 minute 10.91 seconds
2nd Radio Song
3rd One In A Million

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