FEATURE RACES
The Cranbourne Cup is the Cranbourne Turf Club's feature race: a Listed 1600-metre handicap worth $500,000, run late in the Melbourne spring carnival.
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The Cranbourne Cup is the Cranbourne Turf Club's feature race: a Listed 1600-metre handicap worth $500,000, run late in the Melbourne spring carnival.
The cup was a 2025-metre race until 2021, when it was cut to 1600 metres and its prize money raised to $500,000; King Magnus won the first running at the new distance. Cranbourne is about 50 kilometres south-east of Melbourne.
The 2004 winner, On A Jeune, ran second to Makybe Diva in the following year's Melbourne Cup. Sabaj won in 2025.
The Cranbourne Cup is the Cranbourne Turf Club's feature race: a Listed 1600-metre handicap worth $500,000, run late in the Melbourne spring carnival.
