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Moonee Valley Cup
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Moonee Valley Cup
Date23 Oct 2026
TypeGroup 2
Distance2500m
LocationMoonee Valley racecourse
Winner 2025Onesmoothoperator
MOONEE VALLEY CUP PRIZE MONEY
Fast facts
Only five horses have won multiple Moonee Valley Cups – Precedence (2010, 2013), Valcurl (1945, 1946), Gilltown (1939, 1940), Gladwyn (1914, 1915) and Little Bob (1891, 1892).
Three Moonee Valley Cup winners have gone on to win the Melbourne Cup, while seven Moonee Valley Cup placegetters have triumphed at Flemington on the first Tuesday in November.
The most recent horse to complete the Moonee Valley Cup–Melbourne Cup double was Bart Cummings’s Kingston Rule in 1990.
The fastest Moonee Valley Cup (2500m) was the 2:34.43 minutes run by The United States in 2015.
A three-year-old hasn’t won the Moonee Valley Cup since Silvius in 1923.
The Moonee Valley Cup was first run in 1883, when it was won by Castaway.
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MOONEE VALLEY CUP RESULTS
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Moonee Valley Cup Winners
Here's a list of Moonee Valley Cup winners and runners-up from past years:
Year | Winner | Second | Third | Time |
2025 | Onesmoothoperator | Athabascan | Scary | 2:36.77 |
2024 | Okita Soushi | Serpentine | Sharp ‘N’ Smart | 2:34.77 |
2023 | Cleveland | Vow And Declare | Future History | 2:35.20 |
2022 | Francesco Guardi | Lunar Flare | Persan | 2:39.38 |
2021 | Lunar Flare | Floating Artist | Sound | 2:40.1 |
2020 | Miami Bound | Shared Ambition | Oceanex | 2:39.6 |
2019 | Hunting Horn | Mr Quickie | Downdraft | 2:39.4 |
2018 | Ventura Storm | Trap For Fools | Libran | 2:34.3 |
2017 | Who Shot The Bar Man | Libran | Cismontane | 2:37.3 |
2016 | Grand Marshal | Who Shot Thebarman | Pentathlon | 2:41.4 |
2015 | The United States | Prince Of Penzance | Bohemian Lily | 2:34.4 |
2014 | Prince Of Penzance | Le Roi | Au Revoir | 2:36.0 |
2013 | Precedence | Shoreham | Gotta Take Care | 2:36.9 |
2012 | Vatuvei | Reuben Percival | Ironstein | 2:35.7 |
2011 | Americain | Tullamore | Illo | 2:36.4 |
2010 | Precedence | Above Average | Capecover | 2:38.9 |
2009 | The Sportsman | Irazu | Think Money | 2:37.3 |
2008 | Gallopin | Baughurst | Ice Chariot | 2:36.5 |
2007 | Gallic | Lazer Sharp | Jukebox Johnny | 2:36.5 |
2006 | Zipping | Show Barry | Gallic | 2:38.9 |
2005 | Umbula | Bazelle | Kindjhal | 2:37.1 |
2004 | Another Warrior | Rizon | Hard To Get | 2:37.1 |
2003 | Frightening | Legible | County Tyrone | 2:38.5 |
2002 | Thong Classic | Rain Gauge | Mr Prudent | 2:40.9 |
2001 | Rain Gauge | Spirit Of Westbury | Big Pat | 2:37.6 |
2000 | Yippyio | Brew | Cronus | 2:41.3 |
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