From the race’s inauguration in 1964, all the way up to 2024 we have a comprehensive list of BTC Cup winnersKingsford Smith Cup winners from past Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival race meets.

View additional details of the more recent Kingsford Smith Cup winners going back to the year 2000 including the winning jockeys, trainers and times before a complete list of every previous champion found further down the page.

Rashlore was the inaugural Kingsford Smith Cup winner back in 1964 when the event first ran as the J.T. Delaney Quality Handicap (1964-1982).

2021 Kingsford Smith Cup winner Vega One
2021 Kingsford Smith Cup winner Vega One (pictured at the Gold Coast). Photo: Steve Hart.

The former BTC Cup race over 1200m was changed to the Kingsford Smith Cup in 2017 with an amended venue, date and distance.

A number of notable sprinters won the event when it ran as the BTC Cup including Apache Cat (2008) and the undefeated queen of the turf, Black Caviar (2011).

Black Caviar (2011) is also the last Kingsford Smith Cup winning mare.

Your Song (2013) was the last three-year-old Kingsford Smith Cup winner, while the last filly to win was Sea Siren (2012) the previous year.

There have been two dual Kingsford Smith Cup winners throughout history with Falvelon (2000, 2003) and Buck’s Pride (1993, 1994) both saluting in the event twice.

The Bostonian holds the current Kingsford Smith Cup record over the 1300m winning in 2001 in at time of 1 minute 15:51 seconds.

The first official Kingsford Smith Cup winner of the new-look race was Clearly Innocent.

The 2022 Kingsford Smith Cup winner Apache Chase handed local trainer Desleigh Forster her first Group 1 victory with a narrow all-the-way upset win over the Godolphin-raced three-year-old Paulele.

The Kingsford Smith Cup 2023 winner was the Joe Pride-trained four-year-old Think About It ($5.50) who took his improving record up to eight wins from nine starts with a big victory in his Group 1 debut.

After winning the 2023 Kingsford Smith Cup, Think About It went on to claim the Stradbroke Handicap at his next start before returning to Sydney for huge spring headlined by a win in the world’s richest turf race – The Everest.

The 2024 Kingsford Smith Cup winner was the Peter Moody & Katherine Coleman-trained I Wish I Win ($3.90 EF) who improved on his lead-up Doomben 10,000 second to turn the tables on Bella Nipotina in a reverse order of the quinella.

Note: There was no race held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

kingsford smith cup WINNERS 2000 – the present

complete list of past BTC Cup / Kingsford Smith Cup winners

Year Winner
2024 I Wish I Win
2023 Think About It
2022 Apache Chase
2021 Vega One
2020 Race not held due to COVID-19
2019 The Bostonian
2018 Impending
2017 Clearly Innocent
2016 Malaguerra
2015 Hot Snitzel
2014 Famous Seamous
2013 Your Song
2012 Sea Siren
2011 Black Caviar
2010 Albert The Fat
2009 Duporth
2008 Apache Cat
2007 Bentley Biscuit
2006 Gee I Jane
2005 Spark Of Life
2004 Thorn Park
2003 Falvelon
2002 Lord Essex
2001 Fritz
2000 Falvelon
1999 Staging
1998 General Nediym
1997 Accomplice
1996 Chief De Beers
1995 Seawinne
1994 Buck’s Pride
1993 Buck’s Pride
1992 Barrosa Boy
1991 St. Jude
1990 Gypsy Rogue
1989 High Regard
1988 Cool Report
1987 Broad Reach
1986 Goldorme
1985 Sports Ruler
1984 Mr. Illusion
1983 Strawberry Road
1982 Todonic
1981 Grand Rocky
1980 Vinegar Joe
1979 Stylee
1978 March Legend
1977 Innisfree
1976 Ima Shadow
1975 Martindale
1974 Tontonan
1973 Triton
1972 Charlton Boy
1971 Ricochet
1970 Cabochon
1969 Dual Control
1968 Prince Gauntlet
1967 Eye Liner
1966 Flying Fancy
1965 Todwana
1964 Rashlore

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