From the race’s inauguration back in 1881 right through until 2024 we have a complete list of past Toorak Handicap winners. View every previous Toorak Handicap champion throughout history, plus extra details including the age, gender, jockeys and weights carried to victory by the Toorak Handicap winners going back to the year 2000.

The Toorak Handicap was first run in 1881 and the inaugural winner was Josephine.

2021 Toorak Handicap Winner I'm Thunderstruck
2021 Toorak Handicap Winner I’m Thunderstruck. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

More Joyous in 2010 was the last Toorak Handicap winning mare.

Solzhenitsyn (2012, 2013) was the last dual Toorak Handicap winner.

Five horses have completed the Toorak Handicap – Caulfield Cup double in the same year: The Trump (1937), Royal Gem (1946), Galilee (1966), Tobin Bronze (1967), Leilani (1974), and Cole Diesel (1989).

Tobin Bronze (1976) also won that year’s Cox Plate at weight-for-age.

The Trump (1937) also won that year’s Melbourne Cup completing the coveted Spring Cups’ double.

Trust In A Gust in 2014 was the first horse to do the Sir Rupert Clarke – Toorak Handicap double since Barely A Moment in 2005.

Other notable Toorak Handicap winners throughout history include Gunsynd (1971), Royal Gem (1946), and Mr Quickie (2020).

The 2021 Toorak Handicap winner I’m Thunderstruck went on to win the $7.5 million The Golden Eagle next start, a lucrative race for four-year-olds now worth $10 million!

The 2022 Toorak Handicap winner Tuvalu jumped at odds of $9.50 improving on a lead-up third in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes to win the mile feature.

The 2023 Toorak Handicap winner was Mitchell Freedman’s Australian Guineas runner-up Attrition ($26) who fought hard to hold out Antino by a nose, while 200/1 roughie Bankers Choice rounded out the trifecta in third.

The 2024 Toorak Handicap winner was the Tony Gollan-trained Queenslander Antino ($4.80) who looped the field off a bold Blake Shinn ride to salute by a powerhouse 6.5 lengths improving on his second to Attrition in the same race 12 months earlier.

toorak handicap WINNERS 2000 – the present

COMPLETE LIST OF PAST toorak handicap WINNERS

Year Horse
2024 Antino
2023 Attrition
2022 Tuvalu
2021 I’m Thunderstruck
2020 Mr Quickie
2019 Fierce Impact
2018 Land Of Plenty
2017 Tosen Stardom
2016 He’s Our Rokkii
2015 Lucky Hussle
2014 Trust In A Gust
2013 Solzhenitsyn
2012 Solzhenitsyn
2011 King Mufhasa
2010 More Joyous
2009 Allez Wonder
2008 Alamosa
2007 Divine Madonna
2006 Red Dazzler
2005 Barely A Moment
2004 Regal Roller
2003 Roman Arch
2002 Shot Of Thunder
2001 Show A Heart
2000 Umrum
1999 Umrum
1998 Marble Halls
1997 Penghulu
1996 Poetic King
1995 Sober Suit
1994 Oppressor
1993 Golden Sword
1992 Ready To Explode
1991 Comrade
1990 Ricochet Rosie
1989 Cole Diesel
1988 Planet Ruler
1987 Caledonian Boy
1986 Canny Lass
1985 King Phoenix
1984 Mr. Ironclad
1983 Showmeran
1982 Magari
1981 Penny Edition
1980 Torbek
1979 Manaroa
1978 Salamander
1977 Nunkalowe
1976 Visit
1975 Plush
1974 Leilani
1973 Princess Eulogy
1972 All Shot
1971 Gunsynd
1970 Tauto
1969 Crewman
1968 Tried And True
1967 Tobin Bronze
1966 Galilee
1965 Ripa
1964 Nicopolis
1963 Nicopolis
1962 Gay Filou
1961 Anonyme
1960 Gabonia
1959 Smokey Jane
1958 Tudor Hill
1957 Mac’s Amber
1956 Farquhar
1955 Harmonist
1954 Plato
1953 Desert Breeze
1952 Desert Breeze
1951 Jovial Lad
1950 Grey Boots
1949 Saxony
1948 Saxony
1947 Don Pedro
1946 Royal Gem
1945 Huntingdale
1944 The Bohemian
1943** ‡ Burberry / Counsel
1942 Crojick
1941 Sun Valley
1940 Gold Salute
1939 Hilton
1938* El Golea / Ena
1937 The Trump
1936 The Chanter
1935* Epigram / Journal
1934 Sir Simper
1933 Chilperic
1932 K. Cid
1931 Glenanton
1930 The Gay Mutineer
1929 Highland
1928 Kalloni
1927 Textile
1926 Abdera
1925 Metellus
1924 Soorak
1923 Sonora
1922 The Tyrant
1921 Stare
1920 Lord Setay
1919 St. Mira
1918 Prince Royal
1917 King’s Bounty
1916 Rael Locin
1915 Miss Meadows
1914 Rathlea
1913 Valido
1912 Uncle Sam
1911 Motoa
1910 Sequarious
1909 Irishman
1908 Soultline
1907 True Scot
1906 Iolaire
1905 Dandalla
1904 Ossian
1903 F.J.A.
1902 Kinglock
1901 Bonnie Chiel
1900 Lochaber
1899 Alva
1898 Massinissa
1897 Paul Pry
1896 Hopscotch
1895 Mostyn
1894 Devon
1893 Titan
1892 Fortunatus
1891 Zalinski
1890 Precedence
1889 Maelstrom
1888 Bothwell
1887 Dufferin
1886 Middlemarch
1885 Mentmore
1884 Precious Stone
1883 Bar One
1882 Verdure
1881 Josephine

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*Dead Heat

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