From the race’s inauguration back in 1865 right through until 2024 we have a complete list of past Turnbull Stakes winners. View every previous Turnbull Stakes champion throughout history, plus extra details including the age, gender and weight carried to victory of the Turnbull Stakes winners going back to the year 2000.

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

First known as the VRC Royal Park Stakes, the Turnbull Stakes was inaugurated in 1865 and won by The Sign.

One of the earliest champions to win was The Barb in 1868 who had won the iconic Melbourne Cup race two years earlier in 1866.

The most famous Melbourne Cup winner to win the Turnbull Stakes was three-time hero of the world’s richest two mile handicap, Makybe Diva, who took out the 2005 Turnbull.

The 2021 Turnbull Stakes winner Incentivise went on to win that year’s Caulfield Cup before a second to Verry Elleegant in the Melbourne Cup results.

Chris Waller’s champion mare Verry Elleegant won the 2020 Turnbull Stakes, heading an all-Waller trifecta, and finished fourth in 2021 ahead of her famous Melbourne Cup triumph in 2021.

Waller also prepared one of the most famous Turnbull Stakes winners in history with his historic four-time Cox Plate hero Winx going back-to-back in 2017 and 2018.

In fact, from 2015-2021 Waller trained five of the seven Turnbull Stakes winners. His other champions were Preferment (2015) and Kings Will Dream (2019). Kings Will Dream’s Turnbull triumph was significant as he came back from breaking his pelvis during his run behind Winx in the 2018 Cox Plate less than 12 months earlier.

Waller would go on to prepare his sixth Turnbull Stakes winner in 10 years in 2024 with Via Sistina beating stablemate Buckaroo.

Multiple Turnbull Stakes Winners: Trenton (1865, 1866); Gladsome (1904, 1905); Tangalooma (1921, 1922); Whittier (1923, 1924); Viol D’Amour (1931, 1932); Ajax (1938, 1940); Comic Court (1949, 1950); Vo Rogue (1987, 1988); and Winx (2017, 2018).

Other notable Turnbull Stakes winners include Don Juan (1873), Wakeful (1903), Eurythmic (1920), Manfred (1926), Hall Mark (1934), Bernborough (1946), Rising Fast (1954), Tobin Bronze (1966), Leilani (1974), Dulcify (1979), Super Impose (1989), Let’s Elope (1991), Doriemus (1996), Northerly (2002), Efficient (2009), and Green Moon (2012).

The 2022 Turnbull Stakes winner Smokin’ Romans scored an upset at $21 odds on the back of a Group 3 Naturalism Stakes victory.

The Turnbull Stakes 2023 winner was reigning Melbourne Cup champion Gold Trip who returned to winning form with a barnstorming run down the outside to bolt home in an impressive upset at $19 for trainers Ciaron Maher & David Eustace.

The 2024 Turnbull Stakes winner was the Chris Waller-trained mare Via Sistina ($4) who narrowly accounted for her Underwood Stakes winning stablemate Buckaroo to hand Waller his sixth win in 10 years ahead of a likely Cox Plate bid on October 26.

turnbull STAKES WINNERS 2000 – the present

complete list of past turnbull STAKES WINNERS

Year Horse
2024 Via Sistina
2023 Gold Trip
2022 Smokin’ Romans
2021 Incentivise
2020 Verry Elleegant
2019 Kings Will Dream
2018 Winx
2017 Winx
2016 Hartnell
2015 Preferment
2014 Lucia Valentina
2013 Happy Trails
2012 Green Moon
2011 December Draw
2010 Zipping
2009 Efficient
2008 Littorio
2007 Devil Moon
2006 Sphenophyta
2005 Makybe Diva
2004 Elvstroem
2003 Studebaker
2002 Northerly
2001 Sunline
2000 Fairway
1999 Sky Heights
1998 Aerosmith
1997 Marble Halls
1996 Doriemus
1995 All Our Mob
1994 Redding
1993 The Phantom Chance
1992 Naturalism
1991 Let’s Elope
1990 Better Loosen Up
1989 Super Impose
1988 Vo Rogue
1987 Vo Rogue
1986 Just Now
1985 Lacka Reason
1984 Al Dwain
1983 Chez Nous
1982 Birchwood
1981 No Peer
1980 Amarla
1979 Dulcify
1978 Lefroy
1977 Salamander
1976 Denise’s Joy
1975 Analight
1974 Leilani
1973 Australasia
1972 Sharif
1971 Igloo
1970 Arctic Symbol
1969 Fileur
1968 Galilee
1967 Star Belle
1966 Tobin Bronze
1965 Craftsman
1964 Sir Dane
1963 Sometime
1962 Aquanita
1961 Blue Lodge
1960 Aircraft
1959 Mac
1958 Pandie Sun
1957 Syntax
1956 Pushover
1955 Redcraze
1954 Rising Fast
1953 Petrograd
1952 Aldershot
1951 Morse Code
1950 Comic Court
1949 Comic Court
1948 Beau Gem
1947 Sea Monarch
1946 Bernborough
1945 Lawrence
1944 Counsel
1943 Amana
1942 Great Britain
1941 Panka
1940 Ajax
1939 Manrico
1938 Ajax
1937 John Wilkes
1936 Prince Quex
1935 Cardinal
1934 Hall Mark
1933 Middle Watch
1932 Viol D’Amour
1931 Viol D’Amour
1930 Amounis
1929 High Syce
1928 Highland
1927 Royal Charter
1926 Manfred
1925 Fujisan
1924 Whittier
1923 Whittier
1922 Tangalooma
1921 Tangalooma
1920 Eurythmic
1919 Night Watch
1918 King Offa
1917 Lanius
1916 Greencap
1915 Lavendo
1914 Aleconner
1913 Mountain Princess
1912 Lady Medallist
1911 Flavian
1910 Captain White
1909 Iolaire
1908 Pink ‘Un
1907 Subterranean
1906 Ellis
1905 Gladsome
1904 Gladsome
1903 Wakeful
1902 Strata Florida
1901 Haymaker
1900 Hautboy
1899 Mora
1898 Bobadil
1897 Ayrshire
1896 Resolute
1895 Hova
1894 Fortunatus
1893 Vakeel
1892 Donation
1891 Marvel
1890 Megaphone
1889 Prince Consort
1888 Mentor
1887 Carlyon
1886 Trenton
1885 Trenton
1884 David
1883 Legrand
1882 Darebin
1881 Sweetmeat
1880 Progress
1879 First King
1878 Warlock
1877 Robinson Crusoe
1876 Tocal
1875 Robin Hood
1874 Dagworth
1873 Don Juan
1872 King Of The Ring
1871 Warrior
1870 Tim Whiffler
1869 Peeress
1868 The Barb
1867 Warwick
1866 Volunteer
1865 The Sign

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