Queensland's Summer Racing Carnival
Queensland’s Summer Racing Carnival is set to shine, with sun, surf, and heart-pounding thoroughbred racing lighting up the South East!
The 2025/26 Summer Carnival is set to deliver almost $20 million in prize money and bonuses, across 10 thrilling race meetings featuring Australia’s best thoroughbred racing talent.
It all gets underway on November 22 with the Mooloolaba Cup at the Sunshine Coast Turf Club, before the Tattersall's Listed Recognition Stakes and Tattersall’s Classic take centre stage at Doomben seven days later – kicking off six weeks of thoroughbred racing at the Brisbane Racing Club.
The Group 3 George Moore Stakes will feature some of the state’s top sprinters on December 6, alongside the Listed Phelan Ready for two-year-olds on a Magic Millions path.
The Gateway is back and bigger than ever, and once again open to both three and four-year-olds, offering an all-important ticket to the $3 million The Star Stradbroke Handicap.
The three-year-old staying programme has become a mainstay of the Summer Carnival, with Group 1 champions in recent years including the NZ thoroughbred horse Kovalica and Gypsy Goddess having emerged through the Group 3 Grand Prix Stakes – to be held on December 20.
On the Gold Coast, racing under lights will again be showcased as part of the Summer Carnival on December 19, which will host a $250,000 edition of Magic Millions The Debut, open to unraced two-year-old colts, geldings and fillies.
The reshaped twilight Magic Millions Gold Raceday on January 10 will feature the second running of the $3 million TAB Magic Millions Sunlight (3YO) slot race, before the iconic TAB Magic Millions Raceday on January 17 wraps things up, with $13.25 million in prize money across its 10-race line-up.
This is the summer you won’t want to miss – it's all about big races, big moments, and big wins. See you trackside!
