{"id":457550,"date":"2026-06-02T19:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/457550\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T19:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:11:19","slug":"2026-g1-queensland-oaks-barrier-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/457550\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 G1 Queensland Oaks \u2013 Barrier Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"

The $700,000 Group I BRC Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Eagle Farm this Saturday is the last G1 race of the season for three year-olds and has attracted a full field of 18, plus emergencies with last start G1 Australasian Oaks winner Panova drawing favourably in gate six.<\/p>\n

\"Panova<\/p>\n

She is one of three runners in the race for champion trainer Chris Waller, who will also saddle the up and comers Soverato (NZ) and Chispa (NZ), who are drawn in gates eight and 20.<\/p>\n

With champion jockey James McDonald suspended, Ben Melham will ride Panova with riders to be declared for Soverato and Chispa, who was super impressive with her last start win at Randwick.<\/p>\n

Panova will be looking emulate the achievement of Chris Waller trained filly Egg Tart, who the Australsian Oaks in 2017 and then added the Queensland Oaks to her resume.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

See below the final field and barrier draw for Saturday’s Queensland Oaks.<\/p>\n

GROUP 1 QUEENSLAND OAKS<\/p>\n

No \u2013 Horse (Sire) \u2013 Trainer \u2013 Jockey \u2013 Barrier \u2013 Weight<\/p>\n

1 \u2013 PANOVA (Trapeze Artist) \u2013 Chris Waller \u2013 Ben Melham \u2013 6 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

2 \u2013 SINGLE RED (NZ) (Vanbrugh) \u2013 Andrew Forsman \u2013 Jason Collett \u2013 21 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

3 \u2013 FIREBALL MISS (Bivouac) \u2013 Ciaron Maher \u2013 Declan Bates \u2013 18 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

4 \u2013 PALTROW MISS (NZ) (Circus Maximus (IRE) \u2013 Ciaron Maher \u2013 Craig Williams \u2013 22 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

5 \u2013 SILVASISTA (Toronado (IRE) \u2013 Tony & Calvin McEvoy \u2013 Billy Egan \u2013 10 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

6 \u2013 SOVERATO (NZ) (Vadamos (Fr) \u2013 Chris Waller \u2013 TBD \u2013 8 56.5kg<\/p>\n

7 \u2013 GRAND OMAHA (Omaha Beach (USA) \u2013 Matt Laurie \u2013 Mark Zahra \u2013 17 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

8 \u2013 CHISPA (NZ) (Savabeel)\u2013 Chris Waller \u2013 TBD \u2013 20 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

9 \u2013 FRINGES (NZ) (Niagara) \u00a0\u2013 Michael Hickmott \u2013 Tim Clark \u2013 16 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

10 \u2013 SOLID GOLD (NZ) (Savabeel) \u2013 Roger James & Robert Wellwood \u2013 Tommy Berry \u2013 4 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

11 \u2013 PARVENU (NZ) (Ardrossan) \u2013 Grahame Begg \u2013 Daniel Stackhouse \u2013 7 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

12 \u2013 ZULEIKA (North Pacific) \u2013 Henry Dwyer \u2013 Ben Thompson \u2013 9 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

13 \u2013 NORTY FORTY (Prince Fawaz) \u2013 Kevin Kemp \u2013 Kenji Yoshida \u2013 14 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

14 \u2013 PANDA’S SPECTRUM (Fiorente (IRE) \u2013 Ben, Will & JD Hayes \u2013 Luke Nolen \u2013 23 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

15 \u2013 HIGHGROVE ROSE (King\u2019s Legacy) \u2013 Jack Bruce \u2013 Rachel King \u2013 19 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

16 \u2013 TARNTANYA (Adelaide (IRE) \u2013 Chris Calthorpe \u2013 TBD \u2013 12 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

17 \u2013 SHEEZA DIVA (Pierro) \u2013 Mitchell & Desiree Kearney \u2013 5 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

18 \u2013 CRATHIE KIRK \u2013 (Ole Kirk) Kris Lees \u2013 Michael Rodd \u2013 11 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

19e \u2013 KICKUPHIGH (Better Than Ready ) \u2013 Desleigh Forster \u2013 Daniel Moor \u2013 15 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

20e \u2013 POLO (Cool Aza Beel) \u2013 Gary Portelli \u2013 Martin Harley \u2013 1 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

21e \u2013 PINK VIXEN (Brave Smash (Jpn)\u2013 Kevin Kemp \u2013 Chelsea Baker (a) \u2013 2 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

22e \u2013 SUNSPRITE (The Autumn Sun) \u00a0\u2013 Annabel & Rob Archibald \u2013 Tom Sherry \u2013 13 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n

23e \u2013 ANGEL CITY \u2013 Matthew Smith \u2013 Pierre Boudvillain \u2013 3 \u2013 56.5kg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The $700,000 Group I BRC Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Eagle Farm this Saturday is the last G1 race…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-457550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}