Australian Cup Winners
From the race’s inauguration back in 1863, all the way up to 2025, we have all of the Australian Cup winners listed from past race meets. Included are finishing times, weights and more details on the past winners of the Australian Cup Group 1 Flemington autumn feature.

Barwon was the inaugural Australian Cup winner back in 1863.
Woodman (1865-1866) was the first dual Australian Cup champion.
Multiple Australian Cup winners: Cascadian (2023 & 204), Harlem (2018 & 2019), Northerly (2001 & 2003), Vo Rogue (1989 & 1990), Ming Dynasty (1978 & 1980), Craftsman (1965 & 1966), Welkin (1962 & 1963), and Woodman (1865 & 1866).
Tim Whiffler (1867) was the first horse to complete the Australian Cup – Melbourne Cup interstate double.
Triple Melbourne Cup hero Makybe Diva holds the current Australian Cup record winning in 2005 in a time of 1 minute 58:73 seconds.
In 2014 Fiorente and Green Moon became the first two Melbourne Cup winners to run the Australian Cup quinella since 1873.
There were officially two Australian Cup winners in 1969 when Yootha and Cyron dead-heated for first and again in with 1912 Prizefighter and Saxonite also crossing the finishing line together.
Super Cool (2013) was the last three-year-old Australian Cup winner.
No filly has won the Australian Cup since the distance was changed to 2000m.
Trainer Bart Cummings incredibly prepared 13 Australian Cup winners throughout his career starting with Arctic Coast (1968) and finishing with Sirmione (2008).
Other notable Australian Cup winners throughout history include Malua (1886), Spearfelt (1927), Gay Icarus (1971), Leilani (1975), Dulcify (1979), Hyperno (1981), Bonecrusher (1987), Better Loosen Up (1991), Let’s Elope (1992), Veandercross (1993), Saintly (1996), Octagonal (1997), Lonhro (2004), Shocking (2011), and Fiorente (2014).
The 2022 Australian Cup winner Duais enjoyed a return to form third-up in Melbourne for trainer Edward Cummings and jockey Josh Parr to become the first mare since Makybe Diva (2005) to win.
The Australian Cup 2023 winner Cascadian won the event as the $4 favourite for the Godolphin stable with the evergreen eight-year-old celebrating his third Group 1 success on the back of a good lead-up All-Star Mile second.
The 2024 Australian Cup winner Cascadian ($7.50) became the first two-time hero since Harlem (2018-19) with a grinding late run to wear down the All-Star Mile winning mare Pride Of Jenni and turn the tables on his last start conqueror.
The 2025 Australian Cup winner is TBC and will be known when the Group 1 runs at Flemington Racecourse on Saturday the 29th of March 2025.
COMPLETE LIST OF PAST australian cup WINNERS
Year | Winner | Colour | Sex | Age | Weight | Time | Starting Price |
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2025 | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
2024 | Cascadian | chestnut | gelding | 9 years | 59 kg | 2:00.05 | $7.50 |
2023 | Cascadian | chestnut | gelding | 8 years | 59 kg | 2:01.43 | $4 |
2022 | Duais | bay | mare | 4 years | 57 kg | 2:00.82 | $7 |
2021 | Homesman | brown | gelding | 7 years | 59 kg | 2:01.47 | $26 |
2020 | Fifty Stars | bay | stallion | 5 years | 59 kg | 2:02.18 | $7.00 |
2019 | Harlem | bay/brown | gelding | 7 years | 59 kg | 2:01.50 | $31.00 |
2018 | Harlem | bay/brown | gelding | 6 years | 59 kg | 2:00.4 | $61.00 |
2017 | Humidor | bay | gelding | 4 years | 59 kg | 2:01.07 | $N/A |
2016 | Preferment | bay | horse | 4 years | 59 kg | 2:03.96 | $7.00 |
2015 | Spillway | bay | horse | 5 years | 59 kg | 2:00.09 | $13.00 |
2014 | Fiorente | brown | horse | 6 years | 59 kg | 2:03.64 | $1.95 |
2013 | Super Cool | b | gelding | 3 years | 54.5 kg | 2:00.93 | $5.00 |
2012 | Manighar | grey | gelding | 6 years | 59 kg | 2:01.22 | $7.00 |
2011 | Shocking | bay | horse | 5 years | 59 kg | 2:00.95 | $8.50 |
2010 | Zipping | bay | gelding | 8 years | 59 kg | 2:03.69 | $6.00 |
2009 | Niconero | bay | gelding | 7 years | 59 kg | 2:03.14 | $13.00 |
2008 | Sirmione | bay | gelding | 4 years | 59 kg | 2:00.82 | $3.80 |
2007 | Pompeii Ruler | chestnut | gelding | 4 years | 59 kg | 2:01.53 | 4-1 |
2006 | Roman Arch | bay | gelding | 7 years | 58 kg | 2:02.87 | 50-1 |
2005 | Makybe Diva | bay | mare | 6 years | 55.5 kg | 1:58.73 | 15-8 |
2004 | Lonhro | brown | horseorse | 5 years | 58 kg | 2:01.67 | 1-1 |
2003 | Northerly | bay | gelding | 6 years | 58 kg | 2:01.47 | 8-11 |
2002 | Old Comrade | bay | gelding | 4 years | 58 kg | 1:59.8 | 9-1 |
2001 | Northerly | bay | gelding | 4 years | 58 kg | 1:59.46 | 9-2 |
2000 | Intergaze | chestnut | horse | 6 years | 58 kg | 2:00.9 | 9-2 |
1999 | Istidaad | bay | horse | 7 years | 58 kg | 1:59.4 | 5-1 |
1998 | Dane Ripper | bay | mare | 4 years | 55.5 kg | 2:02.41 | 7-4 |
1997 | Octagonal | brown | horse | 4 years | 57 kg | 2:01.0 | 13-4 |
1996 | Saintly | chestnut | gelding | 3 years | 52.5 kg | 2:02.1 | 11-2 |
1995 | Starstruck | brown | mare | 5 years | 56.5 kg | 2:00.4 | 16-1 |
1994 | Durbridge | chestnut | horse | 6 years | 58 kg | 2:02.20 | 4-1 |
1993 | Veandercross | bay | gelding | 4 years | 57 kg | 2:01.30 | 4-11 |
1992 | Let’s Elope | chestnut | mare | 4 years | 55.5 kg | 2:00.0 | 2-1 |
1991 | Better Loosen Up | bay | gelding | 5 years | 58 kg | 2:01.6 | 8-11 |
1990 | Vo Rogue | bay | gelding | 6 years | 58 kg | 2:00.9 | 12-1 |
1989 | Vo Rogue | bay | gelding | 5 years | 58 kg | 2:01.60 | 8-13 |
1988 | Dandy Andy | brown | gelding | 4 years | 57 kg | 2:01.5 | 125-1 |
1987 | Bonecrusher | chestnut | gelding | 4 years | 57 kg | 2:05.6 | 4-9 |
1986 | Playful Princess | bay | mare | 5 years | 53 kg | 2:04.5 | 4-1 |
1985 | Noble Peer | grey | colt | 3 years | 49.5 cd 50 kg | 2:01.5 | 13-4 eq |
1984 | Admiral Lincoln | bay/brown | horse | 4 years | 52 kg | 2:02.4 | 9-1 |
1983 | Spectrum | brown | gelding | 5 years | 52.5 kg | 2:02.3 | 12-1 |
1982 | Kip | chestnut | mare | 5 years | 56.5 kg | 2:06.1 | 14-1 |
1981 | Hyperno | bay/brown | gelding | 7 years | 58 kg | 2:04.5 | 11-8 |
1980 | Ming Dynasty | chestnut/grey | gelding | 6 years | 58 kg | 2:02.1 | 25-1 |
1979 | Dulcify | bay | gelding | 3 years | 52.5 kg | 2:01.2 | 80-1 |
1978 | Ming Dynasty | chestnut/grey | gelding | 4 years | 58 kg | 2:02.6 | 7-2 |
1977 | Ngawyni | bay | horse | 4 years | 55.5 kg | 2:00.9 | 6-1 |
1976 | Lord Dudley | chestnut | colt | 3 years | 53 kg | 2:01.1 | 11-2 |
1975 | Leilani | brown | mare | 4 years | 58.5 kg | 2:02.9 | 7-4 |
1974 | Bush Win | brown | gelding | 3 years | 50.5 kg | 2:00.9 | 3-1 |
1973 | Gladman | grey | gelding | 3 years | 48.5 kg | 2:01.6 | 8-1 |
1972 | Jan’s Beau | bay | gelding | 4 years | 8.8 kg | 2:02.0 | 25-1 |
1971 | Gay Icarus | bay | gelding | 3 years | 7.1 | 2:02.1 | 9-4 |
1970 | Crewman | bay | horse | 4 years | 8.12 | 2:01.9 | 13-4 |
1969 | Yootha | bay | gelding | 7 years | 8.4 | 2:02.3 | 9-1 |
1968 | Arctic Coast | chestnut | gelding | 4 years | 7.7 | 2:02.3 | 12-1 |
1967 | Bore Head | bay | gelding | 7 years | 8.13 | 2:01.5 | 7-1 |
1966 | Craftsman | brown | gelding | 5 years | 9.5 | 2:02.1 | 5-1 |
1965 | Craftsman | brown | gelding | 4 years | 8.13 | 2:02.4 | 7-4 |
1964 | Grant Print | bay | gelding | 6 years | 8.1 | 2:01.3 | 7-1 |
1963 | Welkin Prince | bay/brown | gelding | 5 years | 7.11 | 2:56.4 | 12-1 |
1962 | Welkin Prince | bay/brown | gelding | 4 years | 7.8 | 3:45.0 | 3-1 |
1961 | Dream King | bay | gelding | a | 7.11 | 3:41.25 | 10-1 |
1960 | Illoura | bay | gelding | a | 7.5 cd 7.7 | 3:43.0 | 25-1 |
1959 | Gaybao | chestnut | gelding | 4 years | 8 | 3:53.5 | 7-1 |
1958 | Dream | bay | gelding | 4 years | 7.5 cd 7.7 | 3:44.75 | 10-1 |
1957 | Miss High Caste | bay | mare | 6 years | 7.6 cd 7.8 | 3:47.5 | 16-1 |
1956 | Pushover | bay | mare | 5 years | 8.2 | 3:41.5 | 8-1 |
1955 | Hellion | black | horse | 4 years | 8.8 | 3:52.25 | 3-1 |
1954 | Sunish | chestnut | gelding | 4 years | 8.9 | 3:43.25 | 4-1 |
1953 | Arbroath | bay | colt | 3 years | 8 | 3:44.25 | 7-1 |
1952 | Murray Glen | brown | gelding | 5 years | 7.6 | 3:53.5 | 20-1 |
1951 | Bold Belle | brown | mare | 5 years | 7 | 3:43.25 | 11-4 |
1950 | Bold John | black | gelding | 5 years | 7.1 | 3:42.75 | 12-1 |
1949 | New Cashmere | brown | gelding | 6 years | 7.12 cd 7.13 | 3:43.5 | 7-1 |
1948 | Bannerette | brown | mare | 5 years | 8.3 cd 8.4 | 3:46.0 | 10-1 |
1947 | Sydney James | brown | gelding | a | 7.2 | 3:50.25 | 9-1 |
1946 | Knockarlow | bay | mare | 5 years | 7.7 | 3:48.25 | 8-1 |
1945 | Spectre | grey | mare | 5 years | 6.11 cd 7.0 | 3:49.0 | 33-1 |
1944 | Similar | brown | gelding | 6 years | 7.9 | 3:48.5 | 6-1 |
1943 | Taramoa | bay | gelding | 5 years | 6.13 cd 7.2 | 3:47.0 | 10-1 |
1942 | Wise Counsel | black | gelding | 6 years | 6.7 cd 7.1 | 3:58.0 | 10-1 |
1941 | Saul | black/brown | gelding | 5 years | 8.0 cd 8.2 | 3:50.5 | 10-1 |
1940 | Indignity | brown | gelding | 5 years | 7.5 cd 7.7 | 3:51.25 | 25-1 |
1939 | Pageant | brown | horse | 4 years | 7.8 | 3:52.0 | 8-1 |
1938 | Marauder | bay/brown | gelding | 5 years | 6.12 cd 7.4 | 3:47.25 | 3-1 |
1937 | Mutable | brown | gelding | 4 years | 7.2 cd 7.3 | 3:51.0 | 33-1 |
1936 | Amalia | bay | mare | 5 years | 8.3 | 3:56.0 | 9-2 |
1935 | Sylvandale | bay | colt | 3 years | 8.9 | 3:51.0 | 5-1 |
1934 | Heroic Prince | chestnut | gelding | 5 years | 8.5 | 3:55.25 | 8-1 |
1933 | Topical | bay | gelding | 4 years | 9.8 | 3:52.5 | 9-1 |
1932 | Madstar | bay | gelding | 5 years | 7.3 | 3:52.75 | 25-1 |
1931 | Carry On | bay | filly | 3 years | 7.2 cd 7.3 | 3:53.5 | 10-1 |
1930 | Nadean | chestnut | mare | 5 years | 7.5 | 3:50.5 | 20-1 |
1929 | Some Quality | chestnut | mare | 4 years | 7.5 | 3:55.25 | 7-1 |
1928 | Sea Money | chestnut | gelding | 5 years | 6.9 cd 6.10 | 3:53.0 | 10-1 |
1927 | Spearfelt | brown | horse | 5 years | 9.13 | 3:51.25 | 11-2 |
1926 | Pilliewinkie | brown | gelding | 6 years | 9.6 | 3:51.75 | 5-2 |
1925 | Answer | black | gelding | 5 years | 6.7 cd 6.8 | 3:53.5 | 50-1 |
1924 | Accarak | bay | gelding | 5 years | 7.8 | 3:53.75 | 11-2 |
1923 | Prince Cox | brown | gelding | 4 years | 7.13 | 3:56.0 | 2-1 |
1922 | Harvest King | brown/black | colt | 3 years | 7.9 cd 7.10 | 3:54.0 | 14-1 |
1921 | The Rover | chestnut | gelding | 5 years | 7.2 | 3:53.75 | 4-1 |
1920 | MacAdam | chestnut | horse | 4 years | 6.13 cd 7.1 | 3:57.75 | 8-1 |
1919 | New Tipperary | bay | gelding | a | 7.5 cd 7.7 | 3:59.25 | 20-1 |
1918 | Defence | bay | gelding | 8 years | 7.11 | 3:59.0 | 6-1 |
1917 | Harriet Graham | chestnut | mare | 4 years | 6.12 | 3:53.25 | 10-1 |
1916 | Cherubini | bay | horse | 5 years | 8.1 | 3:55.0 | 50-1 |
1915 | Lempriere | chestnut | gelding | 5 years | 7.4 | 3:58.25 | 3-1 |
1914 | Wallalo | chestnut | gelding | 5 years | 7.9 cd 7.10 | 3:56.0 | 9-2 |
1913 | Almissa | bay | horse | 5 years | 7.12 | 4:02.0 | 10-1 |
1912 | Saxonite | brown | gelding | 5 years | 7.8 | 3:57.75 | 15-1 |
1911 | The Parisian | brown | gelding | 5 years | 7.7 | 3:57.25 | 7-2 |
1910 | Orline | chestnut | horse | 6 years | 6.12 | 3:57.5 | 33-1 |
1909 | Pendil | bay | colt | 3 years | 7.1 | 4:00.25 | 6-4 |
1908 | Peru | brown | colt | 3 years | 7.1 | 4:00.25 | 9-2 |
1907 | Realm | brown | gelding | 6 years | 6.13 cd 7.0 | 4:08.5 | 9-1 |
1906 | Tartan | brown | horse | 5 years | 9 | 3:58.75 | 4-5 |
1905 | Lord Ullin’s Daughter | bay | mare | 4 years | 7.4 | 3:57.25 | 11-2 |
1904 | Marmont | bay | gelding | 7 years | 6.12 | 4:04.5 | 2-1 |
1903 | Great Scot | chestnut | gelding | 3 years | 8.9 | 4:03.25 | 33-1 |
1902 | Blue Metal | brown | gelding | a | 8.11 | 4:08.75 | 20-1 |
1901 | Dreamland | brown | horse | a | 6.12 | 3:58.75 | 7-1 |
1900 | La Carabine | chestnut | mare | 5 years | 7.5 | 4:08.5 | 12-1 |
1899 | Bobadil | brown | colt | 3 years | 8.4 | 4:05.0 | 7-4 |
1898 | Ayrshire | brown | horse | 5 years | 8.3 | 4:03.25 | 16-1 |
1897 | Coil | chestnut | colt | 3 years | 8 | 4:04.25 | 9-2 |
1896 | Idolater | chestnut | horse | 6 years | 7.3 | 3:59.5 | 25-1 |
1895 | Havoc | brown | horse | 4 years | 8.7 | 4:11.75 | 4-1 |
1894 | Broken Hill | brown | horse | 4 years | 7 | 4:03.75 | 14-1 |
1893 | Portsea | bay | horse | 4 years | 8.1 | 4:00.75 | 7-2 eq |
1892 | Highborn | black | gelding | 6 years | 9.4 | 4:02.25 | 10-1 |
1891 | Vengeance | bay | horse | 5 years | 7.13 | 4:02.75 | 8-1 |
1890 | Dreadnought | chestnut | colt | 3 years | 8.6 | 3:59.5 | 4-7 |
1889 | Lochiel | brown | horse | 7 years | 8.7 | 4:09.5 | 6-4 |
1888 | Carlyon | bay | colt | 3 years | 8.2 | 4:05.25 | 3-1 |
1887 | Trident | chestnut | colt | 3 years | 8.7 | 4:02.25 | 3-1 |
1886 | Malua | bay | horse | 6 years | 9.9 | 4:00.25 | 10-1 |
1885 | Ringwood | bay | gelding | 6 years | 7.13 | 4:01.5 | 12-1 |
1884 | Morpeth | chestnut | horse | 4 years | 8.5 | 4:03.75 | 3-1 |
1883 | Navigator | black/brown | colt | 3 years | 8.3 | 4:02.0 | 2-1 |
1882 | Pollio | bay | horse | 5 years | 6.4 cd 6.7 | 4:00.5 | 12-1 |
1881 | First Water | chestnut | horse | 4 years | 7.6 | 4:01.5 | 7-2 |
1880 | Columbus | chestnut | horse | a | 8 | 4:06.0 | 20-1 |
1879 | Savanaka | brown-grey | horse | 5 years | 7.1 | 4:04.0 | 5-2 |
1878 | First King | bay | colt | 3 years | 8.5 | 4:02.5 | 5-2 |
1877 | Sibyl | brown | filly | 3 years | 6.12 | 4:04.5 | 10-1 |
1876 | Richmond | brown | colt | 3 years | 7.13 | 4:02.5 | 5-1 |
1875 | Lurline | brown | mare | 5 years | 8.1 | 4:25.0 | 10-1 |
1874 | Protos | bay | gelding | 6 years | 7.5 | 4:22.0 | 4-5 |
1873 | Warrior | bay | gelding | a | 8 | 4:06.0 | 4-1 |
1872 | Saladin | grey | gelding | a | 7.8 | 4:15.0 | 12-1 |
1871 | Nimblefoot | bay | gelding | 7 years | 8.4 | 4:11.0 | 4-5 |
1870 | Norma | bay | mare | 5 years | 6.13 | 4:11.0 | 2-1 eq |
1869 | Gasworks | bay | filly | 3 years | 8.5 | 4:14.0 | 1-1 |
1868 | Shenandoah | grey | mare | 7 years | 7.12 | 4:16.0 | 4-1 eq |
1867 | Tim Whiffler | bay | horse | 4 years | 8.2 | 4:20.0 | 3-1 eq |
1866 | Woodman | bay | gelding | a | 7.12 | 4:24.0 | 6-1 |
1865 | Woodman | bay | gelding | a | 6.10 cd 7.1 | 4:15.0 | 6-1 |
1864 | Nathalia | bay | filly | 3 years | 6.8 | 4:38.0 | 5-1 |
1863 | Barwon | bay | colt | 3 years | 7.8 | 4:27.0 | 2-5 |