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The Group 2 WA Guineas is one of the most anticipated events on the Western Australia racing calendar. Held at Ascot Racecourse in mid to late November, the WA Guineas is a 1600m middle distance event for three-year-olds at set weights worth a lucrative $500,000 in prize money. It is the first Group status race for three-year-olds held in Perth each season.

Runners in the WA Guineas may progress onto other Perth races run under the same conditions like the Listed Lee Steere Classic (1400m) a fortnight later in preparation for the premier set weights race held in Perth, the Group 1 WATC Derby (2400m) in March.

Alternatively, the better three-year-olds out of the WA Guineas that season could back-up against the older horses in the Group 1 Kingston Town Classic (1800m) – now known as the Northerly Stakes – on the same day as the Lee Steere Classic.

Star filly Arcadia Queen completed won the WA Guineas and Kingston Town Classic, the then three-year-old taking out the Guineas by three lengths before smashing her older rivals by 4.5 lengths in the 2018 Kingston Town Classic.

Fellow filly Amelia’s Jewel (2022) was the last three-year-old to complete the WA Guineas – Northerly Stakes double.

The 2021 WA Guineas form was franked with the third placed Devoted returning in the winter for three straight wins including in the Listed Belmont Guineas (1600m).

The 2023 WA Guineas winner Zipaway franked the form with a next up third in that summer’s Northerly Stakes trifecta.

The 2023 WA Guineas also produced the following year’s 2024 WATC Derby champion with the runner-up A Lot Of Good Men returning to go one better and win the autumn feature.

The brand-new Group 3 $1.5 million The Gold Rush (1400m), held for the first time in 2022, run at Ascot in mid-December is also a potential target for three-year-olds out of the WA Guineas field each summer.

The 2022 WA Guineas form was further franked by the subsequent Group 1 Northerly Stakes winner Amelia’s Jewel who also continued on to win the Group 3 Roma Cup and run second in the inaugural $4 million The Quokka race in the autumn of 2023. She then went to Melbourne in the spring and won the Group 2 Let’s Elope Stakes – Stocks Stakes double.

The 2024 WA Guineas runs on Railway Stakes Day, Saturday November 23, 2024. 

2024 WA Guineas Results

2024 WA Guineas Betting

The latest WA Guineas 2024 odds will be available at Ladbrokes.com.au and updated here at Races.com.au for you to back your W.A. Guineas Betting Tips at the right price this summer racing season.

In 2019 War Saint ($31) scored one of the biggest recent upsets.

Arcadia Queen ($1.90 in 2018), Treasured Star ($2.90 in 2021) and Amelia’s Jewel ($1.90 in 2022) are the latest favourites in WA Guineas betting to salute for the punters.

2024 WA Guineas Form Guide

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2024 WA Guineas Tips

Stay tuned for our exclusive WA Guineas 2024 Tips on the Railway Stakes Day support act this summer racing season.

2024 WA Guineas Field

The Western Australian Guineas field attracts a quality line-up of mainly locally-trained Perth three-year-olds. Good lead-up races into the WA Guineas field including the Listed Fairetha Stakes (1400m) run at Ascot a fortnight prior or for the fillies, the Listed Burgess Queen Stakes (1400m).

In 2018 Arcadia Queen ran third in the Burgess Queen Stakes before taking out the WA Champion Fillies Stakes – WA Guineas – Kingston Town Classic treble. The 2022 Burgess Queen runner-up returned to winning form in the WA Guineas with Amelia’s Jewel saluting as the odds-on favourite.

Watch Me Dance (2020) is the last filly to complete the WA Champion Fillies Stakes – WA Guineas double.

The 2024 W.A. Guineas final field is released on the Monday of race week and will be published below.

2024 WA Guineas Nominations

The WA Guineas nominations usually attract some fairly top-quality horses from local stables, and a few from eastern states.

The 2024 WA Guineas nominations will be provided below once released by Perth Racing around a month before the Group 2 support act on Railway Stakes Day.

The WA Guineas 2024 nominations attracted 87 promising hopefuls led in all-in betting by Neville Parnham’s Playing God colt September Born who won the Fairetha Stakes in early November.

WA Guineas History

The inaugural winner of the WA Guineas was Footmark in 1937. The event originated as a principal race of eight furlongs and remained the same until 1972 when the distance was converted to 1600m. The race reached Group 3 status in 1979 and then became a Group 2 event only two years later in 1981.

In 2003 the WA Guineas was held at Belmont Park Racecourse, which is the other major track in Perth.

A host of outstanding subsequent Group 1 winners won the WA Guineas during their three-year-old seasons including Playing God (2010), Ihtsahymn (2013), Arcadia Queen (2018), and Amelia’s Jewel (2022) who all beat home the older horses next-up in the Kingston Town Classic (now Northerly Stakes).

Recent WA Guineas Winners