G1 Race history
New Zealand 1000 Guineas
- Track
- Riccarton Park, Christchurch
- Distance
- 1600m
- Conditions
- Three-year-old fillies, set weights
- First run
- 1973
The Race
The race was first run in 1973, created when the New Zealand Derby and Oaks moved away from Riccarton.
From 2025 it swapped places with the New Zealand 2000 Guineas and is now run on the first Saturday of Christchurch Cup Week, four days after the Melbourne Cup.
Katie Lee, in 2009, is the only horse to win both the 1000 and 2000 Guineas.
Well Written won the 2025 running by two and a half lengths as the $1.50 favourite, giving trainer Stephen Marsh his first 1000 Guineas in his 24th season.
Well Written was the third unbeaten winner of the race in 20 years, after Legarto and Seachange.
Jamie Richards trained or co-trained three winners from 2015 to 2021 (Risque 2015, Kahma Lass 2020, The Perfect Pink 2021).
Winners
| Year | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Barrier | SP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Well Written | Stephen Marsh | Matt Cartwright | $1.50 | |
| 2024 | Captured By Love | Mark Walker & Sam Bergerson | Joshua Parr | ||
| 2023 | Molly Bloom | Lance O'Sullivan & Andrew Scott | Joe Doyle | ||
| 2022 | Legarto | Ken & Bev Kelso | Ryan Elliot | ||
| 2021 | The Perfect Pink | Jamie Richards | Opie Bosson | ||
| 2020 | Kahma Lass | Jamie Richards | Opie Bosson | ||
| 2019 | Loire | Tony Pike | Michael McNab | ||
| 2018 | Media Sensation | Peter & Dawn Williams | Michael Coleman | ||
| 2017 | Hasahalo | Stephen McKee | Sam Spratt | ||
| 2016 | La Diosa | Mandy & Matt Brown | Racha Cuneen |
A blank cell means we could not confirm it from a source, so we left it blank rather than guess.
Patterns, Rated
- Pub stat Opie Bosson rode back-to-back winners for Jamie Richards in 2020 and 2021 (n=10, 2 of 10)
- Pub stat Nine different trainers or partnerships won the last 10 runnings; only Jamie Richards won twice (2020, 2021) (n=10, 9 of 10)
- Pub stat 2026 is only the second running on the first Saturday of Cup Week, so 2016-2024 winners ran a week later in the carnival (n=10, 1 of 10)
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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