From the race’s inauguration in 1851, all the way up to 2025, we have a comprehensive list of Queen Elizabeth Stakes winners from past race meets.

2022 Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Think It Over
2022 Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Think It Over. Photo: Steve Hart.

View additional details including finishing times, as well as the jockeys and weights carried to victory by the winners of the $5 million Queen Elizabeth Stakes in Sydney dating back to 1954.

A complete list of all past Queen Elizabeth Stakes winners can then be found further down the page.

The race first ran as the Queen’s Plate from 1851 – 1873 and as such winners during that time are listed below as Queen’s Plate winners.

Cossack (1851-52) won the opening two editions of the Queen’s Plate. There was a second back-to-back Queen’s Plate winner the following two years with Sportsman (1853-54) repeating the feat. Incredibly Cossack would return over a decade later and win the race for a third time in 1866.

In 1873 there were originally two Queen’s Plate winners listed with Dagworth and Reprieve running a dead-heat for first, before Dagworth was found to be victorious by a short neck in a second rerun.

The inaugural and dual Melbourne Cup winner in 1861 and 1862, Archer also won the Queen’s Plate in 1862 between his two victories in what is now the world’s richest handicap race.

In 1868 The Barb was first past the post in the official Queen’s Plate results, but was disqualified for not carrying the correct assigned weight and the victory went to Tim Whiffler. Tim Whiffler would go on to win the race twice more in 1870 and 1871.

Between 1874 and 1954 the now Queen Elizabeth Stakes ran as AJC plate and winners of the event between that time are officially listed below as the AJC Plate winners.

During that time there were a host of quality winners including three-time champion Carbine (1889-91), Wakeful (1902), Poseidon (1908), Phar Lap (1930), Peter Pan (1933), Flight (1946), and Russian (1974-75) to name a few.

The first horse to win the race as the Queen Elizabeth Stakes was Blue Ocean in 1954.

Some of the most recent Melbourne Cup winners to take out the Queen Elizabeth Stakes race include Might and Power (1998), Doriemus (1996), and Jeune (1995).

Intergaze (1997) was the last three-year-old Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner. No filly has won the race to date.

Intergaze also currently holds the Queen Elizabeth Stakes race record over the 2000m winning in 1997 in a time of 2 minutes 01:22 seconds.

Super mare Winx, historic four-time winner of Melbourne’s Cox Plate, is one of the more famous recent Queen Elizabeth Stakes winners saluting three years straight from 2017-2019. Winx for her third in 2019 was also the last Queen Elizabeth Stakes winning mare.

There was a dual international Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner in the William Haggas-trained Addeybb from the UK in 2020 and 2021.

The 2022 Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Think It Over scored a huge upset off a bold tactical ride by jockey Nash Rawiller to defeat a star-studded field as a $41 roughie.

The Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2023 winner was UK raider Dubai Honour ($2.30F) who saluted for the punters by 2.45 lengths on the back of a runaway Ranvet Stakes victory to become the third William Haggas-trained international in four years to take out the event.

The 2024 Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Pride Of Jenni ($7) made history leading throughout by up to 30 lengths before saluting by an easy 6.5 length winning margin on the line.

The 2025 Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner is TBC and will be known when the exciting, $5 million Group 1 autumn feature runs at Randwick on Day 2 of The Championships, Saturday the 12th of April 2025.

queen elizabeth stakes winners 1954 – the present

Year Winner Jockey Weight Time
2025 TBD TBD TBD TBD
2024 Pride Of Jenni D. Bates 57 kg 2:02.02
2023 Dubai Honour T. Marquand 59 kg 2:07.72
2022 Think It Over N. Rawiller 59 kg 2:10.87
2021 Addeybb T. Marquand 59 kg 2:05.05
2020 Addeybb T. Marquand 59 kg 2:06.92
2019 Winx H. Bowman 57 kg 2:02.54
2018 Winx H. Bowman 57 kg 2:01.65
2017 Winx H. Bowman 57 kg 2:07.22
2016 Lucia Valentina D. Oliver 57 kg 2:04.82
2015 Criterion C. Williams 59 kg 2:05.35
2014 It’s A Dundeel J. B McDonald 59 kg 2:03.72
2013 Reliable Man H. Bowman 59 kg 2:01.80
2012 More Joyous N. Rawiller 57 kg 2:05.33
2011 My Kingdom of Fife N. Rawiller 59 kg 2:07.77
2010 Road to Rock D. Oliver 59 kg 2:03.89
2009 Pompeii Ruler C. Newitt 59 kg 2:07.12
2008 Sarrera D. Oliver 59 kg 2:03.50
2007 Desert War D. Oliver 59 kg 2:04.20
2006 Eremein G. Boss 58 kg 2:02.49
2005 Grand Armee D. Beasley 58 kg 2:02.66
2004 Grand Armee D. Beasley 58 kg 2:03.26
2003 Lonhro D. Beadman 58 kg 2:04.80
2002 Defier D. Oliver 58 kg 2:04.34
2001 Shogun Lodge G. Boss 58 kg 2:05.59
2000 Georgie Boy L. Beasley 58 kg 2:07.76
1999 Intergaze C. Carmody 58 kg 2:03.80
1998 Might And Power (NZ) B. York 57 kg 2:05.15
1997 Intergaze C. Carmody 53.5 kg 2:01.22
1996 Doriemus R.S. Dye 58 kg 2:01.30
1995 Jeune W. Harris 58 kg 2:02.90
1994 Durbridge S. Marshall 58 kg 2:03.90
1993 Veandercross J. Walker 57 kg 2:01.70
1992 Rough Habit J. Cassidy 58 kg 2:03.80
1991 Stylish Century K. Moses 57 kg 2:02.90
1990 Sydeston L. Dittman 57 kg 2:17.00
1989 Our Poetic Prince N.G. Harris 57 kg 2:10.30
1988 Authaal D. Beadman 58 kg 2:13.20
1987 Dinky Flyer P. Cook 57 kg 2:05.10
1986 Tristarc W. Treloar 55.5 kg 2:07.20
1985 Rising Prince K. Langby 57 kg 2:03.30
1984 Chiamare P. Cook 57 kg 2:07.20
1983 Fountaincourt P.B. Smith 57 kg 2:13.90
1982 Prince Majestic N. Tiley 57 kg 2:01.90
1981 My Blue Denim P. Cook 57 kg 2:01.70
1980 Iko M. Johnston 58 kg 2:03.30
1979 Shivaree R. Lang 57 kg 2:03.50
1978 Ming Dynasty J. Duggan 57 kg 2:43.50
1977 Ngawyni R. Higgins 57 kg 2:29.20
1976 Taras Bulba K. Langby 57 kg 2:28.60
1975 Jandell B. Wood 56 kg 2:31.30
1974 Battle Heights G. Willetts 58.5 kg 2:46.00
1973 Apollo Eleven J. Duggan 58.5 kg 2:28.90
1972 Tails G. Howard 9 3 stone 3:03.80
1971 Gay Icarus R. Mallyon 9 4 stone 2:31.80
1970 Panvale P. Cook 7 7 stone 2:35.10
1969 Lowland R. Higgins 8 12 stone 2:58.00
1968 General Command G. Moore 9 0 stone 3:04.60
1967 Garcon A. Mulley 8 2 stone 2:59.10
1966 Prince Grant G. Moore 8 4 stone 2:58.00
1965 Fair Patton G. Moore 9 3 stone 3:04.00
1964 Summer Regent J. Thompson 9 3 stone 2:57.40
1963 Burgos G. Moore 9 0 stone 2:58.80
1962 Nilarco T. Hill 9 3 stone 3:03.20
1961 Tulloch G. Moore 9 3 stone 2:57.40
1960 Tulloch N. Sellwood 9 3 stone 2:58.20
1959 Caesar N. Sellwood 9 0 stone 3:04.10
1958 Tulloch G. Moore 8 4 stone 3:09.70
1957 Empire Link N. Sellwood 9 0 stone 2:56.90
1956 Beaupa G. Podmore 8 11 stone 3:01.60
1955 Prince Cortauld N. Sellwood 9 0 stone 3:06.50
1954 Blue Ocean A. Podmore 7 0 stone 2:27.70

ajc plate winners 1874 -1954

Year Winner
1954 Lancaster
1953 Jan
1952 Aristocrat
1951 Playboy
1950 Hurry Up
1949 Carbon Copy
1948 Russia
1947 Russia
1946 Flight
1945 Craigie
1944 Katanga
1943 (Race not held)
1942 (Race not held)
1941 Beau Vite
1940 Mosaic
1939 Defaulter
1938 Old Rowley
1937 Allunga
1936 Silver Ring
1935 Master Brierly
1934 Rogilla
1933 Peter Pan
1932 Veilmond
1931 The Dimmer
1930 Phar Lap
1929 Strephon
1928 Limerick
1927 Limerick
1926 Windbag
1925 Windbag
1924 Rapine
1923 David
1922 David
1921 David
1920 Poitrel
1919 Poitrel
1918 Lanius
1917 Kandos
1916 Greencap
1915 Ulva’s Isle
1914 Cagou
1913 Harpist
1912 Trafalgar
1911 Trafalgar
1910 Prince Foote
1909 Trafalgar
1908 Poseidon
1907 Dividend
1906 Tartan
1905 Emir
1904 Lord Cardigan
1903 The Victory
1902 Wakeful
1901 La Carabine
1900 La Carabine
1899 Merloolas
1898 Amberite
1897 Newhaven
1896 The Harvester
1895 Havoc
1894 Light Artillery
1893 The Admiral
1892 La Tosca
1891 Carbine
1890 Carbine
1889 Carbine
1888 Abercorn
1887 Trident
1886 Matchlock
1885 Reginald
1884 Legrand
1883 Plunger
1882 The Drummer
1881 Progress
1880 Caspian
1879 Chester
1878 Chester
1877 Robinson Crusoe
1876 Robin Hood
1875 Lurline
1874 Dagworth

queen’s plate winners 1851 -1873

Year Winner
1873 Dagworth
1872 Hamlet
1871 Tim Whiffler
1870 Tim Whiffler
1869 The Barb
1868 Tim Whiffler
1867 Fishhook
1866 Cossack
1865 Canobie
1864 Tarragon
1863 Tarragon
1862 Archer
1861 Talleyrand
1860 Gratis
1859 Strop
1858 Zoe
1857 Veno
1856 Cooramin
1855 Vanguard
1854 Sportsman
1853 Sportsman
1852 Cossack
1851 Cossack

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