G1 Race history
The Golden Eagle
- Track
- Randwick
- Distance
- 1500m
- Conditions
- Four-year-olds, set weights
- First run
- 2019
The Race
The Golden Eagle was first run in 2019 at Rosehill, and Kolding won it for Chris Waller and Glen Boss.
The race is for four-year-olds only, at set weights over 1500m.
It ran as a special-conditions race without black type from 2019 to 2025 and was upgraded to Group 1 for 2026.
The race moved from Rosehill to Randwick in 2025.
The 2026 running is worth $10 million.
Japanese-trained Obamburumai won in 2023 for Keiji Yoshimura, and English trainer William Haggas won in 2024 with Lake Forest.
Colette won the 2020 running on a Heavy 9 track, in the slowest time of the seven runnings (1:32.67).
The fastest winning time is I'm Thunderstruck's 1:27.90 in 2021, as listed on Wikipedia (no official race record found).
Winners
| Year | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Barrier | SP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Autumn Glow | Chris Waller | James McDonald | ||
| 2024 | Lake Forest | William Haggas | Cieren Fallon | ||
| 2023 | Obamburumai | Keiji Yoshimura | Joshua Parr | ||
| 2022 | I Wish I Win | Peter Moody | Luke Nolen | ||
| 2021 | I'm Thunderstruck | Mick Price & Michael Kent Jr | Hugh Bowman | ||
| 2020 | Colette | James Cummings | Koby Jennings | ||
| 2019 | Kolding | Chris Waller | Glen Boss |
A blank cell means we could not confirm it from a source, so we left it blank rather than guess.
Patterns, Rated
- Pub stat Chris Waller has trained 2 of the 7 winners (Kolding 2019, Autumn Glow 2025) (n=7, 2 of 7)
- Interesting Overseas stables won 2 of the 7 runnings, back to back (Japan's Keiji Yoshimura 2023, England's William Haggas 2024) (n=7, 2 of 7)
- Pub stat Mares have won 2 of the 7 runnings (Colette 2020, Autumn Glow 2025) (n=7, 2 of 7)
- Pub stat 2026 is only the second running at Randwick; the first five were at Rosehill (n=7, 1 of 7)
Strong signal: enough runnings and a racing reason behind it. Interesting: worth knowing, not worth betting on alone. Pub stat: fun at the bar, useless at the window.
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