Sussex Stakes Betting Odds
The biggest race of Glorious Goodwood, the Sussex Stakes is the first contest to see the young and old of the miling division clash at the top level. Run over the twisting 1m course at the Sussex track, it is the first time that the Classic generation meet those aged four and upwards at the distance.
2026 Sussex Stakes Odds
Who are this year’s Sussex Stakes Favourites?
Three-year-olds get an 8lb weight allowance at this point of the season, and that age group could well dominate the 2026 renewal according to the betting. 2000 Guineas hero Bow Echo followed that Classic win with a victory in the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot. George Boughey’s charge got the better of Aidan O’Brien’s Gstaad, who won the Irish 2000 Guineas in between. The pair of three-year-olds head the betting for the Sussex Stakes in 2026.
Who are this Year’s Sussex Stakes Underdogs?
With a 150/1 winner last year, the underdogs can’t be discounted in the Sussex Stakes. Godolphin could have a strong challenge with some older horses. Notable Speech won this race in 2024 and could be back for another crack, while Opera Ballo could be another donning the iconic blue silks. More Thunder has become a top miler and could be another underdog that runs a big race.
Last Year’s Sussex Stakes Odds
Qirat was a shock 150/1 winner of the 2025 Sussex Stakes, as Ralph Beckett’s outsider edged out the well-fancied Rosallion in one of the surprises of the flat season.
Betting Strategies for the Sussex Stakes
Finding the winner of the Sussex Stakes may have seemed too easy for punters in the last two years, with Baaeed and Paddington going off at 1/6 and 4/9 respectively. Yet there would still have been ways to bet and study the form for all bettors depending on where they looked.
Outright Winner
You would only have made 0.6 points worth of profit across the last two renewals combined by finding the heavily odds-on winners. However, picking the winner is still the best form of validation in a big race, especially if this year’s were to go off at a bigger price.
Each Way
Speaking of bigger prices, each-way betting can sometimes prove the superior way to play the Sussex Stakes. The runner-ups in the previous two runnings have gone off at 12/1 and 11/1, earning each-way backers of those two a bigger profit for a level stake than those who backed the winners on the nose.
Draw Biases
Despite small fields, no winner of the Sussex Stakes since 2014 has emerged from stall 1. Like with races over long distances at Ascot, the inside draw can often result in runners being boxed in, and Goodwood is not the easiest track to find space from the back.
Sussex Stakes Odds of Past 10 Winners
The odds of the last ten winners point towards a heavily weighted race in favour of favourites, though with a level stake each year, you would still have lost money backing the favourites despite six winners out of ten. Here are the odds of all the recent winners.
| Year | Horse | Odds |
| 2016 | The Gurkha | 11/8F |
| 2017 | Here Comes When | 20/1 |
| 2018 | Lightning Spear | 9/1 |
| 2019 | Too Darn Hot | EvsF |
| 2020 | Mohaather | 3/1 |
| 2021 | Alcohol Free | 7/2 |
| 2022 | Baaeed | 1/6F |
| 2023 | Paddington | 4/9F |
| 2024 | Notable Speech | 3/1 |
| 2025 | Qirat | 150/1 |