Bill Stutt Stakes

Winners and Past Results

The Bill Stutt Stakes is a Group 2 event hosted by Moonee Valley Racing Club as part of their Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. The event for horses aged three years and above is run under set weight conditions, with horses negotiating 1600 metres at Moonee Valley Racecourse. The race is usually hosted in late September on the same day as the Group 1 Manikato Stakes, with $ 200,000 in prize money. Free $200 Bet

Established in 1934, as a Principle Race known as Moonee Valley Stakes, it was upgraded to a Group 2 race in 1979, and renamed as “Bill Stutt Stakes” in 1990, in honour of Moonee Valley Racing Club's former chairman, Bill Stutt.

It is the first Group event of the Melbourne Spring Season run over 1600 meters. It is considered as a specialized lead up event to the $1,000,000, Group 1 Caulfield Guineas at Caulfield Racecourse, which is run under the same distance and conditions, except for the track, a fortnight later. Some of the top talent aiming for the Caulfield Guineas might go though the Caulfield Guineas Prelude. Horses who do mange to win the Caulfield Guineas, would have won a blue ribbon event.

Whobegotyou was the most recent double winner of the Bill Stutt Stakes, and the Caulfield Guineas. He achieved this in 2008, after which he went on to win the Group 2 AAMI Vase and place second in the Victoria Derby. Winners and placers from the Bill Stutt Stakes are known to often to go on and finish in the money at the same events as Whobegotyou. Sometimes, they can go even further, like in 2005, when Maybe Better who placed third in this event, went on to place third in the Melbourne Cup after placing in a host of Group 2 events and winning a couple of Group 3 events.

The 2010 winner Hollowlea, came thirteenth in the Caulfield Guineas, but recovered and came third in the AAMI Vase. The runner-up for 2010, Run for Levi, achieved the same result at the Caulfield Guineas later in the year. The 2010 third place, Bullbars, went on to come 8th in the Caulfield Guineas, and then went on to win the Group 3 C S Hayes Stakes, and then placed 2nd in the Group 1 Australian Guineas.

The inaugural race was won by Titanium, and some of the notable winners have been Zabeel in 1989, Canny Lad in 1990 and 1996 champion Encosta De Lago.

2010 Stutt Stakes result

1. $10.00 Hollowlea 57.0 B Shinn
2. $17.00 Run For Levi 57.0 C Newitt
3. $4.40 Bullbars 57.0 M Zahra

then followed
4. $10.00 Censor 57.0 D Oliver
5. $6.00 Liveandletdie 57.0 M Rodd
6. $9.50 Servant 57.0 L Nolen
7. $21.00 Domesky 57.0 Craig Williams
8. $9.00 The Ruffian 57.0 D Nikolic
9. $12.00 Epic Dragon 57.0 Brent Stanley
10. $9.00 Maraaseem 55.0 S W Arnold
11. $20.00 Muchos Respectos 57.0 J Winks
12. $41.00 Eikept 57.0 S R King
13. $31.00 Ulundi 57.0 G Schofield

Margins: 1 1/2 len, nose
Time: 1:37.29