TJ Smith Stakes Winners
From the race’s inauguration in 1997, all the way up to 2025, we have a comprehensive list of TJ Smith Stakes winners from past race meets. Included are finishing times, jockey and weights carried to victory by the winners of the TJ Smith Stakes during Sydney’s ‘The Championships’.

Victorian Derby – Australian Derby double champion Mahogany was the inaugural TJ Smith Stakes winner in 1997 when the event first ran as the Endeavour Stakes.
Melito (2010) was the last TJ Smith Stakes winning filly.
Recently the Chris Waller-trained Nature Strip became one of the most famous TJ Smith Stakes winners in recent history going scoring three straight victories from 2020-22. The super sprinter also won the 2021 edition of Sydney’s $15 million The Everest race.
Chautauqua (2015-17) is the other three-time TJ Smith Stakes winner.
Peter Moody’s undefeated mare Black Caviar (2011, 2013) is the other multiple TJ Smith Stakes winner having won the sprint twice over her illustrious 25-from-25 career.
Other notable TJ Smith Stakes winners include Apache Cat (2008), international star Takeover Target (2009) and Trapeze Artist (2018) who was the last three-year-old champion.
The 2023 TJ Smith Stakes winner was the Peter Moody-trained Golden Eagle hero from the spring, I Wish I Win, who scored a last-to-first upset third-up on a Heavy track at $9 defeating the reigning The Everest champion Giga Kick. Three-time defending champion Nature Strip jumped favourite, but could only manage to run fourth in the TJ Smith Stakes 2023 results.
The TJ Smith Stakes 2024 winner was the Peter Moody & Katherine Coleman-trained mare Chain Of Lightning ($21) who posted a thrilling upset to hand co-trainer Moody his fourth win in the classic. She beat home Bella Nipotina narrowly on the line, while Moody’s reining champ I Wish I Win ran a brave third off a luckless run out wide.
The 2025 TJ Smith Stakes winner is TBC and will be known when the Randwick Group 1 sprint classic takes place on Day 1 of Sydney’s The Championships on Saturday the 5th of April 2025.
COMPLETE LIST OF PAST tj smith STAKES WINNERS
Year | Winner | Jockey | Weight | Time |
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2025 | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
2024 | Chain Of Lightning | D. Lane | 56.5 kg | 1:10.40 |
2023 | I Wish I Win | L. Nolen | 58.5 kg | 1:11.79 |
2022 | Nature Strip | J. McDonald | 58.5 kg | 1:12.33 |
2021 | Nature Strip | J. McDonald | 58.5 kg | 1:10.09 |
2020 | Nature Strip | J. McDonald | 58.5 kg | 1:11.18 |
2019 | Santa Ana Lane | M. Zahra | 58.5 kg | 1:10.65 |
2018 | Trapeze Artist | T. Angland | 56.5 kg | 1:08.29 |
2017 | Chautauqua | T. Berry | 58.5 kg | 1:12.44 |
2016 | Chautauqua | T. Berry | 58.5 kg | 1:10.10 |
2015 | Chautauqua | T. Berry | 58.5 kg | 1:11.04 |
2014 | Lankan Rupee | C. Newitt | 58.5 kg | 1:12.14 |
2013 | Black Caviar | L. Nolen | 56.5 kg | 1:09.65 |
2012 | Master Of Design | C. Williams | 58.5 kg | 1:08.83 |
2011 | Black Caviar | L. Nolen | 56.5 kg | 1:08.71 |
2010 | Melito | B. Shinn | 54.5 kg | 1:09.21 |
2009 | Takeover Target | N. Rawiller | 58.5 kg | 1:09.09 |
2008 | Apache Cat | C. Brown | 58.5 kg | 1:11.80 |
2007 | Bentley Biscuit | N. Rawiller | 58.5 kg | 1:10.62 |
2006 | Red Oog | H. Bowman | 57.5 kg | 1:09.72 |
2005 | Shamekha | D. Beadman | 55 kg | 1:12.15 |
2004 | Dilly Dally | K. McEvoy | 53 kg | 1:09.95 |
2003 | Spinning Hill | D. Beasley | 55 kg | 1:10.76 |
2002 | Phoenix Park | B. York | 57.5 kg | 1:10.39 |
2001 | Century Kid | L. Beasley | 55.5 kg | 1:09.82 |
2000 | Shy Hero | J. Morris | 56 kg | 1:11.20 |
1999 | Ab Initio | L. Cassidy | 57.5 kg | 1:10.75 |
1998 | La Baraka | K. Moses | 54 kg | 1:11.67 |
1997 | Mahogony | G. Hall | 57 kg | 1:09.16 |