Kennedy Champions Mile Race Guide

Everything that does not change about the Kennedy Champions Mile: how the race works, how to bet it, its history and its past winners. For this year’s field, tips and best bets, see the Kennedy Champions Mile race page.

Kennedy Champions Mile Tips

Looking for the winner of the Kennedy Champions Mile can be a daunting task, but keeping some important factors on your side can help you.

Our experts assess all the Kennedy Champions Mile runners, their form, barrier draws, speedmap and more to help come up with our betting pointers and tips to help you back the winner.

 

Kennedy Champions Mile Live Stream

Dabble customers are able to live stream the Kennedy Champions Mile free of charge courtesy of Sky Racing vision.

You can watch the Kennedy Champions Mile at Flemington live from your mobile device from wherever you are.

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Kennedy Champions Mile Odds

Leading bookmakers Ladbrokes, Neds, bet365 & Palmerbet have the latest Kennedy Champions Mile betting odds available. There will be plenty of movements in the betting markets in the days leading up to the race.

Kennedy Cantala History

The Kennedy Cantala is a Group 1 handicap event run during the Melbourne Cup Carnival in late October or early November.

The race is run over 1600 metres and carries prizemoney of $1,500,000.

In a change to the Melbourne Cup Carnival’s racing program, the Victorian Racing Club (VRC) announced that the Emirates Stakes (held on the final day of the carnival) would become known as the Kennedy Cantala and moved to be run on Derby Day, while the Group 1 Mackinnon Stakes would be renamed to the Emirates Stakes and moved to the final day, Stakes Day.

In recent years, the Kennedy Cantala has increased significantly in prizemoney and is widely regarded as one of the richest mile races in the country. It rates just as high as the Autumn Carnival equivalent, the Doncaster Mile.

The race holds a honour roll of winners which reads as a who’s who of mile performers. Names such as Storm Queen (1966), Vain (1969), Family Of Man (1978) Better Loosen Up (1989) and Shaftsbury Avenue (1990) have taken out the race.

In more recent years, winners such as Testa Rossa (2000), Desert Eagle (2001), Happy Trails (2012), Boban (2013), Turn Me Loose (2015), Le Romain (2016) and Shillelagh (2017) have also won the event.

Lead-up races to consider are the Group 1 Toorak Handicap over 1600 metres run on Caulfield Stakes day and the Group 2 Crystal Mile run two weeks later at Moonee Valley. A select few may also come through the Group 1 Cox Plate over 2040 metres run the same day.

Kennedy Cantala Winners (Since 2000)

TOP 5 Kennedy Cantala Winners

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FLEMINGTON RACECOURSE

Flemington first opened in 1840 and was known originally known as Melbourne Racecourse. The original approach road to the racecourse passed through a property owned by James Watson.

He named his property Flemington after his wife’s hometown of Flemington in Morayshire, Scotland and it is believed that this is how the racecourse’s name was first introduced.

Since then, the track has become the centre-point of Australian thoroughbred horse racing. It was added to the Australian National Heritage list in November 2006 and the site is also listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.

The land in which Flemington racecourse now stands was owned by Robert Fleming who intended to use the area for farming cattle and sheep, along with running a butchery in the early 1800’s.

In 1864, the Victoria Racing Club was introduced to Flemington and up until 2001 acted as the principal authority responsible for managing the racing at the track and across Victoria, Australia.

Flemington hosts a total of 14 Group 1s throughout the Australian racing year, headed by the Melbourne Cup and Victoria Derby in the Spring Carnival in October and November.

The Melbourne Cup has been the centrepiece throughout the history of Flemington Racecourse. The two-mile handicap contest is the richest in the Australian racing calendar and routinely draws hundred of thousands of racegoers to the course each November.

Since its first running in 1861, the Melbourne Cup has produced a vast variety of longing memories at Flemington, both on and off of the track. The blend of over 100,000 attendees and world class thoroughbred racing adds further gloss to Flemington’s already rich history.

In 1875, the Melbourne Cup was awarded public holiday status due to the demand for Australian citizens to witness the unparalleled experience that the raceday provides.

FLEMINGTON TRACK DESCRIPTION

Flemington racecourse boasts a large pear shaped course with a circumference of 2,400 metres. It also has a straight six-furlong home-straight known as ‘The Straight Six’ which hosts many of Australia’s most valuable sprint contests including the Darley Classic.

Racing at Flemington is run in an anticlockwise direction making it a left-handed track with a long, sweeping final turn before the straight.

The track itself underwent a number of improvements during the early 21st century, including a new $45 million grandstand which opened in 2000.

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