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The Five Diamonds is a brand new Special Conditions feature race held in early November during the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival.

Open only to five-year-old horses, the $2 million showdown runs at Rosehill Gardens as part of Golden Gift Day. The meeting takes place on the Saturday after the Melbourne Cup and runs on the same date as VRC Champions Stakes Day (formerly Mackinnon Stakes Day) at Flemington.

Along with the $1 million Golden Gift (1100m) for two-year-olds, the other feature on the card is the Group 2 $500,000 Hot Danish Stakes (1400m).

The Five Diamonds took place for the first time in 2022 and was added to the Sydney spring line-up at the same time as the now $3 million The Big Dance (1600m), which runs on Melbourne Cup Day on the first Tuesday of November each year.

In 2022 Sibaaq ran third in the first edition of The Big Dance before a second in The Five Diamonds results.

Run over 1800m, The Five Diamonds is run at set weights plus penalties and serves as a nice attraction for five-year-old horses that may otherwise have been retired.

The race also follows on from the $10 million The Golden Eagle (1500m) for four-year-olds run in the spring.

The $1 million Five Diamonds Prelude (1500m) held at Rosehill in October on the same day as Melbourne’s Caulfield Cup Day card is the key lead-up into the race.

Ellsberg in 2022 became the inaugural winner of the Five Diamonds Prelude – The Five Diamonds race double.

He also won the Group 1 Epsom Handicap (1600m) at Royal Randwick earlier that spring.

The Five Diamonds 2022 form was franked with the third place-getter Laws Of Indices heading overseas next start to run third in the Group 1 Hong Kong Mile (1600m) that December.

The second edition of The Five Diamonds ran on Saturday November 11, 2023 at Rosehill on the same day as Melbourne’s VRC Champions Stakes Day at Flemington and was won in a late burst by the Peter & Paul Snowden-trained Unspoken ($7.50). 

The Five Diamonds 2023
Date:	Saturday November 11, 2023
Track:	Rosehill Racecourse
Distance:	1800m
Race Type:	Set Weights + Penalties – 5YOs only
Status:	Special Condition
Prize Money:	$2 million

2023 The Five Diamonds Results

• 1st: #12 Unspoken ($7.50)
• 2nd: #9 Zoumon
• 3rd: #11 Detonator Jack

The Peter & Paul Snowden-trained Unspoken ($7.50) was too strong late wearing down the front-runner Zoumon to score a narrow victory in The Five Diamonds 2023 results and take his winning streak up to four on the trot.

Click here to read more on the thrilling narrow win by Unspoken in the 203 The Five Diamonds race results.

2023 The Five Diamonds Results & Finishing Order

	Finish	No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Bar.	Weight	Penalty	Starting Price
	1	12	UNSPOKEN (IRE)	Peter & Paul Snowden	Tom Sherry		5	56kg		$7.50
	2	9	ZOUMON	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Ms Rachel King	0.15L	4	56kg		$21
	3	11	DETONATOR JACK (NZ)	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Jason Collett	0.53L	6	56kg		$11
	4	7	DEMOCRACY MANIFEST	Chris Waller	Nash Rawiller	0.7L	8	57kg		$10
	5	13	WATERFORD (IRE)	Chris Waller	Tommy Berry	2.29L	14	56kg		$21
	6	1	CONVERGE	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Zac Lloyd (a)	2.44L	1	59kg		$41
	7	2	PALMETTO (NZ)	John Sargent	Koby Jennings	3.55L	3	58kg		$31
	8	4	HOO YA MAL (GB)	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Adam Hyeronimus	3.86L	11	57kg		$16
	9	8	HOPE IN YOUR HEART	Kerry Parker	Joshua Parr	4.39L	13	56kg		$10
	10	3	ANTINO (NZ)	Tony Gollan	Sam Clipperton	5.07L	2	57kg		$2.20F
	11	17e	ST LAWRENCE (NZ)	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Regan Bayliss	6.3L	7	56kg		$41
	12	6	JIMI HENDRIX (IRE)	Annabel Neasham	Brett Prebble	7.99L	9	57kg		$26
	13	16e	FAWKNER PARK (IRE)	Annabel Neasham	Chad Schofield	9.14L	12	56kg		$21
	14	15e	REGAL LION (NZ)	Annabel Neasham	Dylan Gibbons (a)	13.27L	10	56kg		$101
		18e	TOURISTIC (GB)	Peter & Paul Snowden			0
		5	HINGED	Chris Waller	Regan Bayliss		0
		14	THALASSOPHILE	Chris Waller	Chad Schofield		0
		10	FORGOT YOU (NZ)	Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young	Dylan Gibbons (a)		0

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

The official The Five Diamonds 2023 race results and finishing order will be updated below following the second running of the $2 million event in Sydney this November.

2023 The Five Diamonds Betting Odds

The Five Diamonds 2023 betting odds and links to the latest prices at Ladbrokes.com.au will be available below as soon as all-in markets on the event open.

Ellsberg ($3.30 in 2022) won the inaugural The Five Diamonds as the race favourite carrying the equal 59kg top-weight to victory.

CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST 2023 FIVE DIAMONDS ODDS (Final Field)

2023 The Five Diamonds Form Guide

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL 2023 THE FIVE DIAMONDS FORM GUIDE

2023 The Five Diamonds Tips

Stay tuned for our insider The Five Diamonds 2023 Tips on the new $2 million event!

• To Win: #3 Antino ($3 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Tipping a return to winning form from the Tony Gollan-trained Queenslander who comes into the lucrative feature on the back of successive second place efforts. The Redwood gelding was good with 58kg in early October winning the Group 3 Sandown Stakes before a devastatingly close second a nostril flare off Attrition from a wide alley (16) in the Group 1 Toorak Handicap (1600m). Just denied again in the Group 2 Crystal Mile by classy Kiwi raider Prowess when carrying 59kg. 57kg here has him well-weighted, gets a gun run from barrier two. Can win.

2023 The Five Diamonds Field

The confirmed The Five Diamonds 2023 field of five-year-old contenders is announced on Wednesday before the race and will be published in full below.

The Five Diamonds field has a 14-starter limit.

The 2023 The Five Diamonds final field features a capacity line-up of hopeful five-year-olds including recent Toorak Handicap runner-up Antino drawn well in gate two, John Sargent’s Prelude winner Palmetto, and the Team Snowden-trained Unspoken chasing a fourth win on the trot. 

Click here to read more on the key runners in The Five Diamonds 2023 field and betting markets.

No	Last 10	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Probable Weight	Penalty	Hcp Rating
1	x73027x400	CONVERGE	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Zac Lloyd (a)	1	59kg			104
2	x3110x7261	PALMETTO (NZ)	John Sargent	Ms Kathy O’Hara	3	58kg			103
3	x1111x4122	ANTINO (NZ)	Tony Gollan	Sam Clipperton	2	57kg			108
4	23180×5720	HOO YA MAL (GB)	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Adam Hyeronimus	15	57kg			107
5	26844×4078	HINGED	Chris Waller	Regan Bayliss	13	57kg			105
6	05x018135x	JIMI HENDRIX (IRE)	Annabel Neasham	Brett Prebble	12	57kg			104
7	x1761x0154	DEMOCRACY MANIFEST	Chris Waller	Nash Rawiller	11	57kg			101
8	x1442x3689	HOPE IN YOUR HEART	Kerry Parker	Joshua Parr	17	56kg			108
9	165x2111x0	ZOUMON	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Ms Rachel King	4	56kg			106
10	430×762931	FORGOT YOU (NZ)	Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young	Dylan Gibbons (a)	5	56kg			101
11	12123×4372	DETONATOR JACK (NZ)	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Jason Collett	8	56kg			98
12	1x2924x111	UNSPOKEN (IRE)	Peter & Paul Snowden	Tom Sherry	7	56kg			98
13	1x520x3393	WATERFORD (IRE)	Chris Waller	Tommy Berry	18	56kg			98
14	127435×942	THALASSOPHILE	Chris Waller	Chad Schofield	6	55kg			97
15e	9437x0169x	REGAL LION (NZ)	Annabel Neasham		14	56kg			96
16e	1x111120x5	FAWKNER PARK (IRE)	Annabel Neasham	Chad Schofield	16	56kg			91
17e	x113x11546	ST LAWRENCE (NZ)	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Regan Bayliss	9	56kg			90
18e	4x243133x4	TOURISTIC (GB)	Peter & Paul Snowden		10	56kg			78

Table Credit: Racing Australia.