Verry Elleegant Stakes Barrier Draw Stats & Info
Verry Elleegant Stakes Barrier Draw Stats & Info 2025
The Group 1 Verry Elleegant Stakes (formerly the Chipping Norton Stakes) (1600m) barrier draw and final field will be revealed at 9am on Wednesday, February 26, 2025.
Verry Elleegant Stakes Nominations
Nominations for the $600,000 Verry Elleegant Stakes will be announced on Monday, February 24, 2025.
This list of entries will be available shortly after 11am.
The Verry Elleegant Stakes is a weight-for-age race held over 1600m at Royal Randwick Racecourse. One or more of Sydney’s superstar horses will often compete in the race; most recently champions such as Winx and Verry Elleegant captured the race with Winx winning it four-straight times.
Verry Elleegant Stakes Barrier Draw – When, Where And How Does It Work?
The barrier draw for the 2025 Verry Elleegant Stakes is conducted with the simple click of a button on a computer. The final field and barrier draw is then uploaded to Racing Australia as they are revealed slightly after 9am on Wednesday, February 26, 2025.
In recent times, the Verry Elleegant Stakes final field has been around 10 runners.
It is a nice lead up to races such as the Ranvet Stakes, George Ryder Stakes, Tancred Stakes and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
Verry Elleegant Stakes Barrier Statistics – Winners From The Past 20 Years
Year | Horse | Barrier | Weight |
2024 | Think It Over | 2 | 59kg |
2023 | Anamoe | 3 | 59kg |
2022 | Verry Elleegant | 3 | 57kg |
2021 | Verry Elleegant | 4 | 57kg |
2020 | Te Akau Shark | 12 | 59kg |
2019 | Winx | 4 | 57kg |
2018 | Winx | 6 | 57kg |
2017 | Winx | 4 | 57kg |
2016 | Winx | 8 | 57kg |
2015 | Contributer | 4 | 59kg |
2014 | Boban | 4 | 59kg |
2013 | Shoot Out | 2 | 59kg |
2012 | Shoot Out | 5 | 59kg |
2011 | Danleigh | 8 | 59kg |
2010 | Theseo | 1 | 59kg |
2009 | Tuesday Joy | 8 | 57kg |
2008 | Casino Prince | 2 | 59kg |
2007 | He’s No Pie Eater | 4 | 56kg |
2006 | Desert War | 2 | 58kg |
2005 | Grand Armee | 7 | 58kg |
2004 | Starcraft | 3 | 55kg |
2003 | Lonhro | 4 | 58kg |
Is There A Draw Bias in the Verry Elleegant Stakes?
Single-digit barriers are the most desirable in the Verry Elleegant Stakes and the one that everyone wants to draw is barrier four which seems to have been a lucky barrier since 1996.
A total of 10 winners have come from barrier four in the past 20-odds years and both Winx and Tie The Knot won two of their four Verry Elleegant Stakes apiece from that draw.
In 2020, New Zealand horse Te Akau Shark bucked the trend by winning the race from barrier 12.
Most Successful Verry Elleegant Stakes Barriers
Barrier | Wins |
4 | 10 |
2 | 3 |
6 | 3 |
8 | 3 |
3 | 3 |
Last updated for 2024 Verry Elleegant Stakes Results
Please note that barrier statistics only include races from 1996 onwards.
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