The Geelong Cup is a Group 3 feature for stayers held on a Wednesday in late October days before the premier 2040m Cox Plate during the annual Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.
The Geelong Cup field features stayers possibly coming out of the quick five day back-up out of the Caulfield Cup and heading towards November’s iconic Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) run over the two miles at Flemington on the first Tuesday of November.
Run at Geelong Racecourse over 2400m the open handicap offers prize money of $500, 000 as of 2022 and runs the Wednesday after Caulfield Cup Day, around a fortnight before Melbourne Cup Day, and has done so since 1947. First held back in 1872 when Flying Scud saluted, the Geelong Cup has been run over a host of different distances including originally over the same two miles (3200m) as the Melbourne Cup.
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It has held Group 3 status since 2002 and notable Geelong Cup winners in recent years include Media Puzzle (2002), Americain (2010) and Dunaden (2011) who all went on to win the ‘race that stops a nation’ saluting in that year’s Melbourne Cup.
More recently the 2019 Geelong Cup winner Prince Of Arran backed-up to run second to Vow And Declare in that year’s Melbourne Cup results.
This year the Geelong Cup ran on Wednesday October 19, k2022 as a lead-up into the Melbourne Cup field and saw the Michael Moroney-trained Emissary ($18) make up ground for an upset victory.
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The official Geelong Cup 2022 Results & Finishing Order will be published below once the race takes place on Wednesday October 19, k2022.
A perfectly-timed ride by jockey Blake Shinn allowed the Michael Moroney-trained six-year-old Emissary ($18) to come from second last on the turn to win score an upset in the Geelong Cup 2022 results ahead of his shot at the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday November 1.
Geelong Cup betting is traditionally led by stayers with form over the distance who are heading into the Melbourne Cup. Internationals have featured prominently in the Geelong Cup odds since the success of French visitors Americain and Dunaden in successive years.
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Before the 2019 victory by Prince Of Arran in an all-international Geelong Cup trifecta, Qewy had been the last raider to salute in the Geelong Cup in 2016 and was the second elect to salute, while in 2017 the Michael Moroney-trained import Vengeur Masque broke his maiden status down under winning at Geelong Cup odds of $15 ahead of the short-priced favourite. The following year in 2018 Runaway saluted at similar Geelong Cup odds of $16.
Favourites though do have a good record in the Geelong Cup so check the form on the horses at the top of the markets. Prince Of Arran ($4.20 in 2019) followed by Steel Prince ($3.50 in 2020) and Tralee Rose ($2.60 in 2021) are the latest favourites in Geelong Cup betting to salute.
The season’s updated Geelong Cup 2022 odds and links to our markets on the key Melbourne Cup form race will be detailed below over the spring so stay tuned for the best Geelong Cup betting offers.
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Geelong Cup tips are usually dominated by proven staying types that are heading into the Melbourne Cup over 3200m. Classy city horses with form over 2400m or further or that ran solidly in the Caulfield Cup the previous week are a good tip, as are those not weighted too heavily in the handicap showdown.
Any strong international horses contesting the race also make a good Geelong Cup betting tip with the raiders boasting a dominant recent record in the event, as do graduates out of the Herbert Power Stakes roughly a fortnight prior.
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Our ’ insider Geelong Cup 2022 betting tips and exotic selections will be detailed in full below the week of the race so bookmark this page for the stayers to back and sack in the important spring event.
Going for an upset in the Geelong Cup with Grove Ferry out to atone for his last on Heavy going in the Group 1 The Metropolitan. Luckless in that when eight lengths beaten and will relish getting back on firmer ground. Won the Group 3 Colin Stephen on Good going the start before carrying 55kg and is in okay weight-wise with 55.5kg here. Proven at the distance and the Sydney form is holding. The Metropolitan provided the weekend’s Caulfield Cup champion Durston (6th) and this horse looks overs to do something similar.
The Geelong Cup field is released two days before the race runs on Geelong Cup Day that Wednesday, which is a public holiday in Geelong, with nominations closing the previous week. A host of the season’s premier stayers, both local hopes and interstate raiders, feature in the final Geelong Cup acceptances for the mile and a half handicap that has produced three Melbourne Cup winners since 2002 including the two French-trained winners of the world’s richest handicap.
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Plenty of horses in the Geelong Cup field also come out of the previous Saturday’s Caulfield Cup field, while the Group 2 Herbert Power Stakes (2400m) over the same track / distance as the Group 1 Caulfield Cup a week earlier is another good lead-up into the Geelong Cup race.
The official Geelong Cup 2022 Final Field & Barriers will be announced on the Monday of race week and detailed in full below so stay tuned to see what spring stayers make the starting line-up on way to the Melbourne Cup.
The 2022 Geelong Cup field features a line-up of Melbourne Cup-bound stayers led in betting by Interpretation coming off a placing in the Group 3 The Bart Cummings and Rodrigo Diaz drawn out wide.
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The 2022 Geelong Cup nominations attracted forty-eight potential Melbourne Cup horses this spring with pre-field betting markets led by the Ciaron Maher & David Eustace-trained Irish import Interpretation and the British raider Rodrigo Diaz yet to make his Australian race debut.
The Geelong Cup form guide has all the basic information like the trainers and jockeys of all the runners plus extra details like the lead-up runs, weight and barriers for each starter. Looking for a well-weighted runner that comes out of the Caulfield Cup on the Geelong Cup form guide is important, as is seeking out the in-form international visitors heading towards the Melbourne Cup.
The Geelong Cup form has stacked up plenty of times on the first Tuesday of November in the Melbourne Cup results, so watching the form out of the Group 3 as an early guide to Melbourne Cup betting is crucial for savvy spring punters.
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The Geelong Cup results show the winner and exact finishing order of all the runners plus the winning time and margin, and starting price of all the horses. It can also reveal the value in the upcoming Melbourne Cup betting markets heading into November’s famous Flemington showdown.
Notable recent Geelong Cup winners include Bauer (2008), French raiders Americain (2010) and Dunaden (2011) who both did the Geelong Cup – Melbourne Cup double, and Qewy (2016) who ran fourth in the Melbourne Cup next race before winning the Sandown Cup as the odds-on favourite over the two miles.Former champion jockey Corey Brown knows what it takes to win Australia’s greatest race, having won on Shocking in 2009 and Rekindling in 2017 before retiring this year. Here’s his guide to Tuesday’s race that stops the nation.
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People have said he can’t win with 58kg after carrying 55.5kg last year to take it out. But let’s remember, he’s got that weight because there’s not a lot of depth to the race, so don’t underestimate the class factor. But that said, while Jye produced a great front-running ride to win on him last year, I’m not sure that’ll happen again this time. Jye will have the 58kg in the back of his mind and because of that, he won’t set him the task that he did last year. But more importantly, he just won’t get the same comfortable race. The other jockeys know what he did last year, and they won’t leave him alone in front as much; a lot of smart riders won’t let him lead as comfortably as he did, and there’ll be more pressure for the first half of the race this year. Still, I can see him running top four.
I’ll be honest, I didn’t think he was that impressive in his first win in Melbourne, in the Makybe Diva over 1600 metres. But I’m good mates with Brett Prebble and he told me the horse was a superstar. It’s just something you can feel underneath you. The difference between riding an average horse and a star – it’s like driving a Mini Minor all week and then you get into a Lexus on the weekend. You feel how many different gears these good horses have.
The penny dropped for me with his Caulfield Cup win.