The Coongy Cup (formerly known as the David Jones Cup) is a 2000m staying event held at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne on the Wednesday prior to the iconic Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m).

2024 Coongy Cup Results

• 1st: #8 Kingswood ($2.60F)
• 2nd: #1 Berkeley Square
• 3rd: #9 Star Vega

Gavin Bedggood’s classy grey import Kingswood ($2.60F) made it back-to-back wins with the progressive son of Roaring Lion unbeaten down under after destroying his rivals with a dominant victory as the favourite in Wednesday’s 2024 Coongy Cup results.

An open handicap, the Group 3 Coongy Cup pays $200,000 in total prize money and now offers a Caulfield Cup ballot exemption to the winner should they be among the latest round of acceptors for the $5 million feature.

Previously held on Caulfield Cup Day, the Coongy Cup is now contested three days earlier on its own mid-week feature meeting giving connections of spring stayers an 11th hour shot at making the Caulfield Cup field.

Many of the horses who target the Coongy Cup will go on to run in events such as the Group 2 Moonee Valley Cup (2500m) or Group 3 VRC Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2600m).

The most notable Coongy Cup form in recent years was Shocking (2nd in 2009) who went on to do the Lexus Stakes – Melbourne Cup double during that spring’s Melbourne Cup Carnival.

More recently in 2018 Best Of Days ran a dead heat for first with Mask Of Time in the Coongy Cup before winning the Group 1 Cantala Stakes – now the Champions Stakes – next start.

The Coongy Cup 2021 form was franked with the 10/1 winner Duais going on to win the Group 1 Australian Cup – Tancred Stakes double in the autumn of 2022.

In 2022 the Coongy Cup third placegetter Aurora’s Symphony franked the form the following autumn returning in 2023 to win the Group 3 Launceston Cup in Tasmania before a second in that year’s Group 2 Adelaide Cup (3200m) at Morphettville.

In 2023 Muramasa won the Coongy Cup – VRC Queen Elizabeth Stakes double.

The 2024 Coongy Cup ran on Wednesday October 16, 2024 and saw the Gavin Bedggood-trained favourite Kingswood ($2.60F) easily account for his rivals with a big win for the punters. 

2024 Coongy Cup Finishing Order

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2024 Coongy Cup Betting

The latest Coongy Cup 2024 betting odds will be listed here at Races.com.au with fixed win Coongy Cup odds provided by Ladbrokes.com.au complete with links so you can back your Coongy Cup tips at the right price this Caulfield Cup Carnival.

Wolfe ($3.50 in 2019), Nonconformist ($3.30 in 2020), Gunstock ($2.45 in 2022), and Kingswood ($2.60 in 2024) are the latest favourites in Coongy Cup betting to win.

2024 Coongy Cup Form

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2024 Coongy Cup Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Coongy Cup 2024 Tips on the final Caulfield Cup lead-up race this October.

• To Win: #8 Kingswood ($2.80 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Small field and a few genuine winning hopes but sticking with the favourite at this weight. Kingswood, a nicely bred Roaring Lion entire, is an in-form grey coming off a nice Sandown win over 1800m. The Gavin Bedggood-trained grey carted 58.5kg to a 2.25 length win there fresh and presents fit and ready to fire again. This progressive import will relish the 2000m now and should be very hard to beat flying with just 54kg and John Allen retaining the ride.

2024 Coongy Cup Field

The Coongy Cup field attracts stayers from a range of preparations, including some eyeing the Caulfield Cup ballot exemption on offer to the winner for that Saturday’s Group 1 classic. A number of Victorian horses run in the Coongy Cup field, and often you’ll see some foreign raiders getting some staying preparation in leading up to bigger events.

Horses may back-up out of the Coongy Cup field and chase glory in the iconic Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) over the two miles at Flemington on the first Tuesday of November, a race Shocking won after an earlier Coongy Cup second in 2009.

The official Coongy Cup 2024 Field & Barriers are announced on the Monday of race week and will be published in full below once released.

The 2024 Coongy Cup final field is now out with markets on the last at Caulfield on Wednesday led by the Gavin Bedggood-trained import Kingswood coming off a big Sandown win first-up.

2024 Coongy Cup Nominations

Nominations for the Coongy Cup in 2024 close the Thursday prior to the race and will be published below once announced.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Coongy Cup History

Established in 1898, the Coongy Cup boasts well over a century of classy racing. Between its inauguration and 2007, the Coongy Cup was known as the David Jones Cup until a recent sponsorship change. It is still registered under that name.

Up until 1997, the Coongy Cup ran on the second day of the Caulfield Cup Carnival. It has almost always been held at Caulfield Racecourse. However, during the second World War it was held at Flemington Racecourse. In 1997 and 1998 it was briefly held at Sandown Racecourse on a Sunday.

A Principal race until 1978, it received Group 3 status immediately. The distance of the Coongy Cup has changed multiple times throughout the years. This is illustrated in the table below. Keep in mind that all values given prior to 1973 are approximates, as race distances were then measured in furlongs and miles rather than metres.

The Coongy Cup changed dates in recent years having previously been held on Caulfield Cup Day, now taking place three days earlier and offering the winner a Caulfield Cup ballot exemption.

Coongy Cup Race Distance History

There have only been three dead heats in the race history. In 1940, Lanarus and Morvren crossed the line together, and in 1954 the same happened with Sunish and Te Totara. More recently, Best Of Days and Mask Of Time were declared dead heat winners in 2018. In 2009, Baughurst became the first horse to win the race two years in succession (2008, 2009).

Notable Coongy Cup winners include Hymettus (1898), Vanity Fair (1902), Britisher (1948), La Mer (1978), Rose Of Kingston (1982), Maybe Better (2006), Foreteller (2011), and Duais (2021).

Coongy Cup results and winning times since 2000 are listed below.

Coongy Cup Results

*Dead Heat