From the race’s inauguration back in 1924 right through until 2024 we have a complete list of past Underwood Stakes winners. View every previous Underwood Stakes champion throughout history, plus extra details including the age, gender and weight carried to victory of the Underwood Stakes winners going back to the year 2000.

Zaaki | Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos | Neds
Zaaki saluted for the punters as the odds-on favourite in the 2021 Underwood Stakes results. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

Whittier won the opening two editions of the Underwood Stakes in 1924 and 1925. He also won back-to-back editions of the Caulfield Cup the same two years.

Triple champion Ajax (1938-40) made history winning the Underwood Stakes on three consecutive years.

Zaaki won the 2021 Underwood Stakes as the odds-on favourite before being scratched from that year’s Cox Plate as the top elect on race day morning.

Bonneval (2017) was the first Underwood Stakes winning mare since Tristarc back in 1985.

After winning the race for the first time in 2016, Black Heart Bart made history returning three years later to salute as a nine-year-old in 2019.

In 2020 Russian Camelot became the latest three-year-old Underwood Stakes winner.

Multiple Underwood Stakes winners: Whittier (1924-25), Highland (1928-29), Hall Mark (1933-34), Young Idea (1935, 1937), Ajax (1938-40), Attley (1946-47), Beau Gem (1949, 1950), Flying Halo (1953-54), Lord (1958, 1960), Aquanita (1961-62), Future (1965, 1967), Northerly (2001-02), Black Heart Bart (2016, 2019), Alligator Blood (2022-23).

Other notable Underwood Stakes winners include Phar Lap (1931), Bonecrusher (1986), Tie The Knot (1998), So You Think (2010), and It’s A Dundeel (2013).

The 2022 Underwood Stakes winner Alligator Blood was enormous in his first 1800m assignment leading all-the-way before finding another gear to hold off the challengers including the previous year’s champion, Zaaki, who could only mange to run third in his title defence.

The 2023 Underwood Stakes winner Alligator Blood returned to go back-to-back as the $3.60 favourite on the short turnaround off a Makybe Diva Stakes second the Saturday prior and was ridden to victory by jockey Damien Oliver during his swansong spring in the saddle.

The 2024 Underwood Stakes winner Buckaroo was excellent third-up off a Group 2 Chelmsford Stakes win in Sydney to put 3.5 lengths on his rivals as a $9 shot in betting for trainer Chris Waller.

underwood STAKES WINNERS 2000 – the present

COMPLETE LIST OF PAST underwood STAKES WINNERS

Year Winner
2024 Buckaroo
2023 Alligator Blood
2022 Alligator Blood
2021 Zaaki
2020 Russian Camelot
2019 Black Heart Bart
2018 Homesman
2017 Bonneval
2016 Black Heart Bart
2015 Mourinho
2014 Foreteller
2013 It’s a Dundeel
2012 Ocean Park
2011 Lion Tamer
2010 So You Think
2009 Heart Of Dreams
2008 Weekend Hussler
2007 Rubiscent
2006 El Segundo
2005 Perlin
2004 Elvstroem
2003 Mummify
2002 Northerly
2001 Northerly
2000 Oliver Twist
1999 Intergaze
1998 Tie the Knot
1997 Always Aloof
1996 Octagonal
1995 Sharscay
1994 Jeune
1993 Runyon
1992 Prince Salieri
1991 Dr. Grace
1990 The Phantom
1989 Almaarad
1988 Authaal
1987 Rubiton
1986 Bonecrusher
1985 Tristarc
1984 Bounty Hawk
1983 Trissaro
1982 Fearless Pride
1981 Sovereign Red
1980* My Brown Jug / Waitangirua
1979 Valley Of Georgia
1978 So Called
1977 Denise’s Joy
1976 How Now
1975 Taras Bulba
1974 Frozen Section
1973 Scotch And Dry
1972 Sobar
1971 Gay Icarus
1970 Big Philou
1969 Rain Lover
1968 Lowland
1967 Future
1966 Tobin Bronze
1965 Future
1964 Contempler
1963 Havelock
1962 Aquanita
1961 Aquanita
1960 Lord
1959 Trellios
1958 Lord
1957 Syntax
1956 Ray Ribbon
1955 Cromis
1954 Flying Halo
1953 Flying Halo
1952 Ellerslie
1951 Laurie Hussar
1950 Beau Gem
1949 Beau Gem
1948 Royal Gem
1947 Attley
1946 Attley
1945 St. Fairy
1944** Amana / Tea Cake
1943 Gay Revelry
1942 race not held
1941 Sun Valley
1940 Ajax
1939 Ajax
1938 Ajax
1937 Young Idea
1936 Peter Fils
1935 Young Idea
1934 Hall Mark
1933 Hall Mark
1932 Liberal
1931 Phar Lap
1930 Waterline
1929 Highland
1928 Highland
1927 Royal Charter
1926 Heroic
1925 Whittier
1924 Whittier

*1980:  Dead Heat

**1944: Run in divisions

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