Let’s Elope Stakes Winners
From the race’s inauguration 1987, all the way up to the latest edition of the Group 2 spring feature, we have a comprehensive list of Let’s Elope Stakes winners from past race meets. See below to see what mares have won the Let’s Elope Stakes throughout history.

View additional details of the Let’s Elope Stakes winners dating back to the year 2003 including the winning jockeys, trainers, and barriers before a comprehensive list of all previous Let’s Elope Stakes champions.
Take My Picture was the inaugural Let’s Elope Stakes winner from 1987 when the event was first known as the Milady Stakes.
The Let’s Elope Stakes was renamed in 1994 in honour of the 1991 Caulfield and Melbourne Cup winner Let’s Elope.
Mannerism won the Let’s Elope Stakes in 1992 and would continue on to salute in the Caulfield Cup that year.
Pinker Pinker is perhaps the best known Let’s Elope Stakes winner from 2011 having gone on to win that year’s Group 1 Cox Plate (2040m).
Commanding Jewel (2013-14) is the latest dual Let’s Elope Stakes winner.
The 2023 Let’s Elope Stakes winner Amelia’s Jewel won the race first-up in her interstate debut as the $1.95 odds-on favourite fresh having placed second in the inaugural $4 million The Quokka race at home in Perth at her last start during the autumn.
The 2024 Let’s Elope Stakes winner was the Danny O’Brien-trained Grinzinger Belle ($15) who relished a Heavy (9) track to defeat See You In Heaven by an emphatic four length margin at big odds on Makybe Diva Stakes Day.
let’s elope STAKES WINNERS 2003 – THE PRESENT
Year | Winner – Age/Gender | Jockey | Weight (kgs) | Trainer/s | Barrier |
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GRINZINGER BELLE (NZ) 4M | D LANE | 57 | DANNY O’BRIEN | 13 | |
AMELIA’S JEWEL (AUS) 4M | D LANE | 58.5 | SIMON A MILLER | 14 | |
KISSONALLFORCHEEKS (AUS) 5M | M J ZAHRA | 57.0 | NICK RYAN | 13 | |
TURAATH (GB) 4F | DAMIAN LANE | 55.0 | MADDIE RAYMOND | 6 | |
PRETTY BRAZEN (AUS) 4M | L CURRIE | 58.0 | T & C MCEVOY | 9 | |
SPANISH WHISPER (AUS) 4M | M J ZAHRA | 58.0 | D & B HAYES & T DABERNIG | 4 | |
I AM A STAR (NZ) 5M | B MELHAM | 58.0 | SHANE NICHOLS | 12 | |
SWORD OF LIGHT (AUS) 4M | DAMIAN LANE | 56.0 | MATHEW ELLERTON & SIMON ZAHRA | 12 | |
DON’T DOUBT MAMMA (AUS) 4M | D DUNN | 58.0 | TONY MCEVOY | 1 | |
AMICUS (AUS) 4M | C NEWITT | 58.0 | CHRIS WALLER | 13 | |
COMMANDING JEWEL (AUS) 5M | DAMIEN OLIVER | 59.0 | Leon & Troy Corstens | 7 | |
COMMANDING JEWEL (AUS) 4M | B MELHAM | 57.0 | LEON CORSTENS | 3 | |
ZURELLA (NZ) 4M | C NEWITT | 55.0 | SHAUNE RITCHIE | 4 | |
PINKER PINKER (AUS) 4M | G BOSS | 56.5 | GREG EURELL | 5 | |
NO EVIDENCE NEEDED (AUS) 4M | J WINKS | 53.5 | JOHN P THOMPSON | 11 | |
CATS WHISKER (AUS) 4M | STEVEN KING | 54.5 | MARK KAVANAGH | 9 | |
MIMI LEBROCK (AUS) 4M | M RODD | 56.5 | BART CUMMINGS | 5 | |
DEVIL MOON (AUS) 4M | M RODD | 55.5 | MARK KAVANAGH | 16 | |
REWAAYA (NZ) 4M | D DUNN | 53.0 | D A HAYES | 2 | |
DEA (AUS) 5M | S BASTER | 57.0 | K CORSTENS | 2 | |
BEAUTIFUL GEM (AUS) 4M | NICK RYAN | 55.5 | D L FREEDMAN | 10 | |
AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ (AUS) 4M | DAMIEN OLIVER | 57.0 | BARBARA JOSEPH | 7 |
complete list of past let’s elope stakes winners
Year | Winner | Time |
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2024 | Grinzinger Belle | 1:25.37 |
2023 | Amelia’s Jewel | 1:23.3 |
2022 | Kissonallforcheeks | 1:25.3 |
2021 | Turaath | 1:23.6 |
2020 | Pretty Brazen | 1:22.8 |
2019 | Spanish Whisper | 1:22.2 |
2018 | I Am A Star | 1:23.1 |
2017 | Sword Of Light | 1:23.5 |
2016 | Don’t Doubt Mamma | 1:24.5 |
2015 | Amicus | 1:23.0 |
2014 | Commanding Jewel | 1:23.6 |
2013 | Commanding Jewel | 1:22.5 |
2012 | Zurella | 1:23.3 |
2011 | Pinker Pinker | 1:23.8 |
2010 | No Evidence Needed | 1:26.8 |
2009 | Cats Whisker | 1:25.0 |
2008 | Mimi Lebrock | 1:28.2 |
2007 | Devil Moon | 1:23.4 |
2006 | Rewaaya | 1:24.2 |
2005 | Dea | 1:23.3 |
2004 | Beautiful Gem | 1:24.4 |
2003 | Ain’t Seen Nothin | 1:24.4 |
2002 | Purple Groove | 1:24.9 |
2001 | Flushed | 1:24.5 |
2000 | Tickle My | 1:28.4 |
1999 | Zapeace | 1:25.3 |
1998 | Skyrocket | 1:23.4 |
1997 | Derobe | 1:24.3 |
1996 | Rose Of Portland | 1:25.1 |
1995 | Tolanda | 1:22.8 |
1994 | Amuse Us | 1:24.3 |
1993 | Rose of Marizza | 1:25.7 |
1992 | Mannerism | 1:25.9 |
1991 | Shavano Miss | 1:25.5 |
1990 | Natural Wonder | 1:25.6 |
1989 | Rancheetah | 1:25.6 |
1988 | Riva Gleam | 1:25.6 |
1987 | Take My Picture | 1:23.0 |