From the race’s inauguration back in 1948 right through until 2024 we have a complete list of past Makybe Diva Stakes winners. View every previous Makybe Diva Stakes champion throughout history, plus extra details including the age, gender and weight carried to victory of the Makybe Diva Stakes winners going back to the year 2000.

Incentivise | Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos | Neds
The 2021 Makybe Diva Stakes winner Incentivise went on to win that year’s Caulfield Cup. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

The event was previously known as the Craiglee Stakes up until 2006.

The inaugural Makybe Diva Stakes winner from 1948 was Lungi.

Southern Speed (2012) was the last Makybe Diva Stakes winning mare, with Saleous (1996) the other most recent mare to win the event.

The only three-year-old Makybe Diva Stakes winner in history was Acramitis (1954).

Gatting ($101 in 2019) is the longest priced Makybe Diva Stakes winner in recent history.

Dual Choice holds the current 1600m Makybe Diva Stakes race record winning in 1971 in 1 minute 31:9 seconds.

Multiple Makybe Diva Stakes winners: Mr Brightside (2023 & 2024); Sailor’s Guide (1956 & 1957); Chicquita (1950 & 1951).

Other notable Makybe Diva Stakes winners: Comic Court (1949); Light Fingers (1965); Tobin Bronze (1966); dual Caulfield Cup champ Ming Dynasty (1977); Rose Of Kingston (1982); Zabeel (1990); Mahogany (1994); Northerly (2002); and Shocking (2010).

The 2021 Makybe Diva Stakes winner Incentivise went on to complete the Turnbull Stakes – Caulfield Cup double before a second to Verry Elleegant in the world-famous Melbourne Cup race that spring.

The 2022 Makybe Diva Stakes winner I’m Thunderstruck went on to place in a host more Group 1 races including his Cox Plate second before sadly being euthanised in March of 2023 following arthroscopic fetlock surgery.

The 2023 Makybe Diva Stakes winner Mr Brightside completed the Memsie Stakes – Makybe Diva Stakes double for the first time since Dissident (2014) and saluted for the punters by 1.5 lengths with a big win as the $1.85 odds-on favourite on way to the spring majors.

The 2024 Makybe Diva Stakes winner was Mr Brightside ($3.50) who chased down the front running Pride Of Jenni to secure a narrow but impressive second-up win to become the first dual champion since Sailor’s Guide back in 1956-57.

makybe diva STAKES WINNERS 2000 – the present

COMPLETE LIST OF PAST makybe diva STAKES WINNERS

Year Winner
2024 Mr Brightside
2023 Mr Brightside
2022 I’m Thunderstruck
2021 Incentivise
2020 Fierce Impact
2019 Gatting
2018 Grunt
2017 Humidor
2016 Palentino
2015 Fawkner
2014 Dissident
2013 Foreteller
2012 Southern Speed
2011 Littorio
2010 Shocking
2009 Vigor
2008 Weekend Hussler
2007 Marasco
2006 Pompeii Ruler
2005 Confectioner
2004 Hug’s Dancer
2003 Pentastic
2002 Northerly
2001 Native Jazz
2000 Go Flash Go
1999 Sky Heights
1998 Umrum
1997 Marble Halls
1996 Saleous
1995 Jeune
1994 Mahogany
1993 Mannerism
1992 Star Of The Realm
1991 Durbridge
1990 Zabeel
1989 Apollo Run
1988 High Regard
1987 Military Plume
1986 King Phoenix
1985 Fine Offer
1984 Prolific
1983 Pleach
1982 Rose Of Kingston
1981 Sovereign Red
1980 Big Print
1979 Dulcify
1978 Family Of Man
1977 Ming Dynasty
1976 How Now
1975 Tontonan
1974 All Shot
1973 Gay Icarus
1972 Gossiper
1971 Dual Choice
1970 Gay Poss
1969 Rain Lover
1968 Lowland
1967 Star Belle
1966 Tobin Bronze
1965 Light Fingers
1964 Sir Dane
1963 Havelock
1962 Aquanita
1961 Lord
1960 Nilarco
1959 Vogel
1958 White Hills
1957 Sailor’s Guide
1956 Sailor’s Guide
1955 Cromis
1954 Acramitis
1953 Aldershot
1952 Great Western
1951 Chicquita
1950 Chicquita
1949 Comic Court
1948 Lungi

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