Australasian Oaks 2025

Ladbrokes Tip: The Auraria Stakes held at the same track earlier in the autumn is the key lead-up to the Australasian Oaks

The latest edition of the $1 million Australasian Oaks ran on Saturday April 26, 2025 at Morphettville Racecourse on Robert Sangster Stakes Day and saw the Glen Thompson trained favourite Benagil ($3.10F) salute for the punters with an impressive victory. 

2025 Australasian Oaks Results

The official Australasian Oaks 2025 Results & Finishing Order will be available below once the race is run and won on Saturday April 26, 2025.

2025 Australasian Oaks winner Benagil. Photo: Jenny Barnes.

• 1st: #2 Benagil 
• 2nd: #15 Sweltering
• 3rd: #9 Polymnia

Glen Thompson’s classy Manhattan Rain filly Benagil ($3.10F) franked the form from Sydney coming off a Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes second to go one better and salute for the punters in the 2025 Australasian Oaks results.

Jockey Mark Zahra gave her a perfectly timed ride, cruising up wider out at the 300m before racing up to take the lead a furlong out from the line and drawing away for an impressive 1.29 length victory.

2025 Australasian Oaks Odds

The season’s top Australasian Oaks odds online will be available here as soon as Australasian Oaks betting 2025 is open so stay tuned to see the price on your selections for the Group 1 in Adelaide.

The Australasian Oaks – formerly known as the Schweppes Oaks due to sponsorship – runs as one of two Group 1 races held at Morphettville Racecourse on Robert Sangster Stakes Day during the Adelaide Autumn Racing Carnival in late April or early May along with the Robert Sangster Stakes.

2022 Australasian Oaks winner Glint Of Hope. Photo: Jenny Barnes.

Open to three-year-old fillies the set weights race is conducted over 2000m and attracts a field of both local and interstate talent each season.

Offering $1 million in total prize money, the Australasian Oaks has been dominated by favourites in recent years and has a capacity of 16 starters.

The Group 3 Auraria Stakes (1800m) held over 200m shorter a fortnight earlier also at Adelaide’s premier track is the key lead-up providing a host of recent Australasian Stakes winners. Sopressa (2018) was the last filly to complete the double.

Australasian Oaks Race Info

• Date: Saturday April 26, 2025
• Track: Morphettville Racecourse
• Distance: 2000m
• Conditions: 3YO Fillies – Set Weights
• Status: Group 1
• Prize Money: $1,000,000
• First Run: 1982

Australasian Oaks Betting

Favourites have a strong recent record with the shortest-priced in Australasian Oaks betting saluting eight times from 2006 – 2025 most recently Benagil ($3.10 in 2025), Toffee Tongue ($5 in 2020) and Princess Jenni ($3.30 in 2019).

There was a huge upset in 2021 however with Media Award ($61) becoming the first double-figure winner in the race since 2010, while in 2022 Glint Of Hope won at 12/1 while the favourite My Whisper ($2.70) ran third.

Australasian Oaks odds are traditionally dominated by fillies coming off a top four run in the lead-up with the last winner to run worse than fourth in her final start being Anamato (2007) who improve on a 12th in Sydney’s Group 1 Doncaster Mile (1600m).

Interstate visitors have a strong record against the locals and often feature highly in Australasian Oaks betting markets, including in 2018 when the Darren Weir-trained Sopressa led an all-Victorian Australasian Oaks trifecta and in 2020 with Chris Waller enjoying his second victory with Toffee Tongue.

The Victorians were on top again in 2024 with the Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr-trained Vibrant Sun saluting on the back of a lead-up Group 3 victory at Moonee Valley.

Flemington horseman Glen Thompson prepared the 2025 Australasian Oaks winner Benagil who also enjoyed a successful raid in South Australia. 

Australasian Oaks Field

Australasian Oaks winner Delicacy (2015) went on to beat the boys in that year’s SA Derby. Photo Credit: Jenny Barnes.

The Australasian Oaks race field has a capacity of 16 starters and from 2003 – 2025 was run under capacity just four times.

The only time the Australasian Oaks field was run with under 10 starters in the past 30 years was when Episode defeated just eight rivals back in 1999.

Australasian Oaks nominations close the week prior, with the final field of acceptances and barrier draw released on the Tuesday of race week.

Plenty of interstate talent features in the Australasian Oaks field each year and visiting mares from outside of Adelaide boast an excellent record in the race including the 2017 win by the Sydney-trained Egg Tart for trainer Chris Waller, the 2018 victory of the Darren Weir-trained Sopressa who backed-up from a lead-up win in Adelaide’s Group 3 Auraria Stakes (1800m), Waller posting his second success in 2020 with Toffee Tongue, the upset 2021 Australasian Oaks winner Media Award hailing from Geelong in Victoria, and the 2022 victory by the Cranbourne-trained Glint Of Hope from the Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young stable. 

In 2023 another interstate-trained filly saluted in the Australasian Oaks results with the Ciaron Maher & David Eustace-trained Affaire A Suivre making it two-from-two at the track on the back of her lead-up success in the Listed Port Adelaide Guineas.

The Vibrant Sun from Victoria also won the 2024 race, while in 2025 Flemington based Benagil won on the back of a Sydney run when second in the Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes that year. 

Following a run in the Australasian Oaks field, many fillies may look to step-up in distance for a shot at the Group 3 SA Fillies Classic (2500m) on The Goodwood Day. Irish Darling (2005) was the last filly to complete the Australasian Oaks – SA Fillies Classic double in the same year.

2025 Australasian Oaks Field

The official Australasian Oaks 2025 field of fillies is set for release the Tuesday leading up to Australasian Oaks Day and will be available below so stay tuned.

The 2025 Australasian Oaks final field is now out featuring 16 classy fillies with the updated markets led by the rails-drawn Kiwi import Movin Out from the Chris Waller yard coming off a 2.5 length win at Mornington on Easter Saturday.

2025 Australasian Oaks Nominations

The early Australasian Oaks 2025 nominations are taken on a Thursday two weeks out from the event and will be listed below once closed.

The 2025 Australasian Oaks nominations attracted 29 fillies led in betting by Chris Waller’s last start Mornington winner Movin Out.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Australasian Oaks Form Guide

All of the essential information including jockeys, trainers and barriers are listed in the Australasian Oaks form guide each year. Looking for fillies coming off nice lead-up form at the track with the potential to run out a strong 2000m is important.

From 2009 – 2025 nine of the 17 winners jumped from a double-digit Australasian Oaks barrier including Affaire A Suivre (16 of 16 in 2023), Vibrant Sun (11 of 16 in 2024), and Benagil (13 of 16 in 2025), and since 1983 the most successful gate producing six winners is eight.

Damien Oliver has ridden three previous Australasian Oaks winners, but none since Tully Thunder (2002), while Lee Freedman has trained four winners with Grand Eschezeaux (2000) the most recent.

Barb Raider franked the 2022 Australasian Oaks form that winter in Brisbane with the runner-up winning the Group 2 The Roses and finishing second in the Group 1 Queensland Oaks results.

The 2024 Australasian Oaks form was franked with the third placegetter Coco Sun going on to beat home the boys in the Group 1 South Australian Derby (2500m).

Australasian Oaks Form Facts

• Last-start winners have dominated the Australasian Oaks results in the past decade including most recently Sopressa (2018), Princess Jenni (2019), Media Award (2021), Affaire A Suivre (2023), and Vibrant Sun (2024).
• The Auraria Stakes is the key lead-up to the Group 1 including producing four of the nine winners from 2012 – 2025 with Sopressa (2018) the latest to do the double.
• Single-figure hopes in Australasian Oakes betting make the best bet with double-figure upsets very uncommon.

2025 Australasian Oaks Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Australasian Oaks 2025 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Australasian Oaks Tips

Taking a filly coming off a top three run at the track is a top Australasian Oaks tip and from 2008 – 2025 12 of the 18 winners came off a win including Abbey Marie (2016), Egg Tart (2017), Sopressa (2018), Princess Jenni (2019), upset 60/1 winner Media Award (2021), Affaire A Suivre (2023), and Vibrant Sun (2024).

Some of the top lead-up races to consider when doing the Australasian Oaks tips in Adelaide include the Group 3 Auraria Stakes and Group 2 SA Fillies Classic both held at the same track earlier in the season.

Melbourne’s Group 2 Kewney Stakes (1400m) has also provided two Australasian Oaks winners in the past 10 years with Zarita (2008) and Gallica (2009) both completing the double.

2025 Australasian Oaks Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ exclusive Australasian Oaks tips 2025 and best bets on the fillies to back and sack in the Morphettville staying showdown will be detailed right here the week of the race.

Cracking edition of the Australasian Oaks but sticking with the deserving favourite Benagil who brings in strong form from her lead-up elite level performance at Rosehill. She took on Treasurethe Moment and was brave in defeat when runner-up in the Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes over this distance on April 1. The winner of that franked the form with an ATC Oaks victory next time out. She is fit now third-up and ready to fire. Has work to do wider out from gate 13 but is racing well, benefits from the booking of Mark Zahra and this looks her right distance. Can win.

Australasian Oaks Results

Favourites have a good recent strike rate in the Australasian Oaks race results however some upsets have occurred. The longest priced winners in the past 10 years are Irish Darling (2005) and Small Minds (2010) who both jumped at a $26 starting price.

Some of the most notable Australasian Oaks winners include Egg Tart (2017), Delicacy (2015), May’s Dream (2014), Lights Of Heaven (2011), and Zarita (2008).

Australasian Oaks Winners

Past Australasian Oaks winners and placegetters going back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.

FAQ

Who won the 2025 Australasian Oaks?

The 2025 Australasian Oaks was won by three-year-old Manhattan Rain filly Benagil at $3.10 favouritism for trainer Glen Thompson with jockey Mark Zahra aboard on 56kg from barrier 13 to win by 1.29 lengths in a time of 2:02.95.

When is the Australasian Oaks 2025?

What is the prize money for the Australasian Oaks 2025?

$1,000,000

Where is the Australasian Oaks 2025?

Morphettville Racecourse, 79 Morphett Road. Morphettville SA 5043