G1 Race history
VRC Oaks (Crown Oaks)
- Track
- Flemington
- Distance
- 2500m
- Conditions
- Three-year-old fillies, set weights
The Race
The Oaks is run at Flemington over 2500m for three-year-old fillies at set weights.
It has been a Group 1 race since 1979, having been classed a Principal Race before that.
Briseis won the 1876 Victoria Derby and then the Oaks in the same week.
Lasqueti Spirit won at 100/1 in 2016, the longest-priced winner of the ten runnings from 2016 to 2025.
Favourites won four runnings in a row, from 2021 to 2024.
Damien Oliver rode three consecutive winners, Miami Bound (2019), Personal (2020) and Willowy (2021).
Strictly Business ran 2:36.50 in 2025, the fastest time among the ten winners from 2016 to 2025, and won from the outside barrier, 13 of 13.
Race-day attendance peaked at 110,677 in 2004.
Winners
| Year | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Barrier | SP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Strictly Business | John Allen | 13 | $7.50 | |
| 2024 | Treasurethe Moment | Matt Laurie | Damian Lane | 12 | $3.10 |
| 2023 | Zardozi | James Cummings | James McDonald | 5 | $2.70 |
| 2022 | She's Extreme | Anthony Cummings | Tommy Berry | 1 | $2.30 |
| 2021 | Willowy | James Cummings | Damien Oliver | 2 | $3.70 |
| 2020 | Personal | Tom Dabernig & Ben Hayes | Damien Oliver | 10 | $6.00 |
| 2019 | Miami Bound | Danny O'Brien | Damien Oliver | 7 | $4.20 |
| 2018 | Aristia | Mathew Ellerton & Simon Zahra | Damian Lane | 4 | $5.50 |
| 2017 | Pinot | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | Stephen Baster | 6 | $5.50 |
| 2016 | Lasqueti Spirit | Lee Curtis | Brenton Avdulla | 9 | $101.00 |
A blank cell means we could not confirm it from a source, so we left it blank rather than guess.
Patterns, Rated
- Interesting OLBG counts 7 of the last 10 winners as coming from the Wakeful Stakes at Flemington five days earlier; all seven ran first or second there and four won it (n=10, 7 of 10)
- Interesting 9 of the last 10 winners started at $7.50 or shorter; the exception was Lasqueti Spirit at 100/1 (n=10, 9 of 10)
- Pub stat 4 of the last 10 winners started favourite, all in a row from 2021 to 2024 (n=10, 4 of 10)
- Pub stat Damien Oliver rode 3 of the last 10 winners (2019, 2020, 2021); Damian Lane 2 (2018, 2024); James Cummings trained 2 (2021, 2023) (n=10, 3 of 10)
- Pub stat The 2024 and 2025 winners drew 12 and 13, after winners from barriers 1, 2 and 5 in 2021-2023 (n=10, 2 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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