From the race’s inauguration back in 1955 right through until 2025 we have a complete list of past Black Caviar Lightning winners listed of the Group 1 sprint race at Flemington that is registered as the Lightning Stakes.

2022 Black Caviar Lightning Winner Home Affairs
2022 Black Caviar Lightning winner Home Affairs beating his star stablemate Nature Strip. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

View every previous Black Caviar Lightning Stakes champion throughout history, plus extra details including the age, gender and weight carried to victory of the Black Caviar Lightning winners going back to the year 2000.

Gay Vista was the inaugural Lighting Stakes winner back in 1955.

Sky High (1961, 1962) and Wenona Girl (1963, 1964) both enjoyed back-to-back wins as the first multiple Lighting Stakes winners.

Other two-time Lightning Stakes winners include Maybe Mahal in 1977-78, River Rough in 1984-85, Schillaci in 1992-93, and Mahogany in 1995-1997.

The event’s most notable winner is three-time champion and the race’s now namesake Black Caviar (2011-13).

Todman (1960) won the Lightning Stakes three years after winning the inaugural Golden Slipper race in 1957.

The late ‘Cups King’ Bart Cummings holds the training record having prepared eight Lightning Stakes winners with Storm Queen in 1967, Century in 1974, Cap D’antibes in 1975, Maybe Mahal in 1977-78, Demus in 1983, Hula Chief in 1986, and Shaftsbury Avenue in 1991.

The 2021 Black Caviar Lightning winner Nature Strip went on to famously win that spring’s edition of the world’s richest turf race, the now $20 million The Everest in Sydney.

Both Nature Strip (2021) and Chautauqua (2016) are former Black Caviar Lightning winners that also co-hold the record of having won Sydney’s Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes (1200m) on three occasions.

The 2022 Black Caviar Lightning winner was the Chris Waller-trained Home Affairs who beat his star stablemate and last year’s champion Nature Strip in a close finish.

Home Affairs was also the first three-year-old Lightning Stakes winner since Fastnet Rock (2005) 17 years prior.

The 2023 Black Caviar Lightning winner was the Ciaron Maher & David Eustace-trained 1000m specialist filly Coolangatta ($9) who won the event fresh to become the first successful filly in 19 years.

The Black Caviar Lightning 2024 winner was the hugely successful Mark Walker-trained mare Imperatriz ($1.60F) who won the race after a fighting finish with Private Eye to post her ninth Group 1 win and kick off her autumn with style.

The 2025 Black Caviar Lightning winner was the Mitchell Freedman trained four-year-old Exosphere mare Skybird ($26) who drove through from last to first to become the race’s longest-priced winner in the 71-year history of the event.

black caviar lightning STAKES WINNERS 2000 – the present

COMPLETE LIST OF PAST black Caviar lightning STAKES WINNERS

Year Winner
2025 Skybird
2024 Imperatriz
2023 Coolangatta
2022 Home Affairs
2021 Nature Strip
2020 Gytrash
2019 In Her Time
2018 Redkirk Warrior
2017 Terravista
2016 Chautauqua
2015 Lankan Rupee
2014 Snitzerland
2013 Black Caviar
2012 Black Caviar
2011 Black Caviar
2010 Nicconi
2009 Scenic Blast
2008 Apache Cat
2007 Miss Andretti
2006 Takeover Target
2005 Fastnet Rock
2004 Regimental Gal
2003 Choisir
2002 Spinning Hill
2001 Sports
2000 Testa Rossa
1999 Isca
1998 General Nediym
1997 Mahogany
1996 Gold Ace
1995 Mahogany
1994 Keltrice
1993 Schillaci
1992 Schillaci
1991 Shaftesbury Avenue
1990 Redelva
1989 Zeditave
1988 Special
1987 Placid Ark
1986 Hula Chief
1985 River Rough
1984 River Rough
1983 Demus
1982 He’s A Haze
1981 Countess Marizza
1980 Sportscast
1979 The Judge
1978 Maybe Mahal
1977 Maybe Mahal
1976 Desirable
1975 Cap D’antibes
1974 Century
1973 Make Mine Roses
1972 Zambari
1971 Dual Choice
1970 Black Onyx
1969 Mister Hush
1968 Begonia Belle
1967 Storm Queen
1966 Citius
1965 Marmion
1964 Wenona Girl
1963 Wenona Girl
1962 Sky High
1961 Sky High
1960 Todman
1959 Ritmar
1958 Misting
1957 Copper Year
1956 Apple Bay
1955 Gay Vista

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