Australian Guineas 2025

Ladbrokes Tip: Only three Australian Guineas winner has jumped from a double-digit barrier in over 30 years

The latest edition of the Australian Guineas ran on Saturday March 1, 2025 at Flemington Racecourse and saw the Dominic Sutton trained Feroce ($14) score in a fierce upset to become a Group 1 winner!

2025 Australian Guineas Results

The 2025 Australian Guineas Results & Finishing Order will be published as soon as the race runs on Saturday March 1, 2025.

2025 Australian Guineas winner Feroce was huge late for his upset win in the Flemington Group 1. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

• 1st: #3 Feroce
• 2nd: #2 Savaglee
• 3rd: #1 Goldrush Guru

The Group 1 All-Star Mile on March 8 is calling for the Dominic Sutton trained Feroce ($14) who charged up the outside late to run down the Kiwi Savaglee and score an impressive three-quarter length upset in the 2025 Australian Guineas results at Flemington to hand his trainer his first Group 1 success.

2025 Australian Guineas Odds

The Australian Guineas 2025 odds will be listed below for this Flemington Group 1 mile clash.

The Australian Guineas is a Group 1 race for three-year-old runners held at the famous Flemington Racecourse on a Saturday in early March during the Melbourne Autumn Racing Carnival.

2022 Australian Guineas winner Hitotsu. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

It is the sole elite level feature on the Flemington card at the meeting that is held a week before Newmarket Handicap Day back at the track that is host to the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) and, as of 2025, the now Group 1 The All-Star Mile (1600m). 

Run over 1600m the Australian Guineas is open to both the colts and geldings as well as the fillies and is a set weights race. The mile classic offers a total of $1 million in prize money including $600,000 to the Australian Guineas winner and connections.

Australian Guineas Day is also host to the Restricted $1 million Inglis Sprint (1200m) and the Group 2 Blamey Stakes (1600m). 

Australian Guineas Race Info

• Date: Saturday March 1, 2025
• Track: Flemington Racecourse
• Distance: 1600m
• Conditions: 3YO – Set Weights
• Status: Group 1
• Prize Money: $1 million
• First Run: 1986

Australian Guineas Betting

Australian Guineas odds and betting traditionally favour proven gallopers that have winning form over the distance.

Favourites in Australian Guineas betting only have a fair recent record in the race with just five winners from 2007 – 2025 including the latest Hey Doc (2017) who broke a favourites’ drought in the race going back to 2008 followed by gun filly Mystic Journey ($4 in 2019) and then Alligator Blood ($2.70 in 2020).

In 2021 Lunar Fox ($301) made history as the country’s longest-priced Group 1 winner with his upset Australian Guineas victory at the blowout odds.

In 2023 another triple-figure roughie, Japanese Emperor ($101), ran third in the Australian Guineas trifecta.

There was yet another upset Australian Guineas result in 2024 with Southport Tycoon good winning at a big price of $19, and again in 2025 with Feroce at $14. 

Previous Group 1 winners are usually high up the Australian Guineas markets as are those drawn well with just three winners in over 30 years getting the job done from a barrier wider than 9 when Mosheen won from 16 of 16 in 2012, Palentino won from 15 of 15 in 2016, and Grunt scored from the outside gate 16 of 16 in 2018.

Last start winners have a good record in the Australian Guineas and a good lead-up races include the Group 3 CS Hayes Stakes (1200) for the colts and geldings, and the Group 3 The Vanity (1200m) for the fillies both held at Flemington two weeks earlier.

Futures Australian Guineas betting offering all-in prices open as soon as the nominations are out over a month before Australian Guineas Day and offer punters top early prices for their favourite three-year-olds!

Australian Guineas Field

Ferlax (2013) won the Australian Guineas in an upset at odds of 16/1. Photo: Sarah Ebbett.

The Australian Guineas race field has a capacity of 16 starters plus four emergencies and attracts the season’s most promising three-year-old milers.

The race was run at capacity in 2017 when Hey Doc saluted on the back of a lead-up CS Hayes Stakes victory at the track, in 2018 when Grunt defeated 15 rivals to also do the CS Hayes – Australian Guineas double and again in 2019 when Mystic Journey became the first Tasmanian-trained Group 1 winner in over 100 years.

The smallest Australian Guineas field in recent history was six starters in 1999 with Dignity Dancer won as the race favourite. Australian Guineas nominations close in late January each year followed by first acceptances a month later in February.

One of the first early lead-up races into the Australian Guineas field is the Group 3 Manfred Stakes (1200m) with Mosheen (2012) the only runner to do the double to date.

In 2024 Southport Tycoon improved on a lead-up second in the Group 2 Autumn Stakes (1400m) to become the first Australian Guineas winner since Heart Of Dreams (2009) 15 years earlier to come via that lead-up run at Caulfield.

2025 Australian Guineas Field

The official Australian Guineas 2025 Final Field is set for release at 9:30am (local time) on the Wednesday of race week.

The Australian Guineas 2025 final field features a capacity line-up of three-year-olds led in betting by Clinton McDonald’s first-up Autumn Stakes winner Angel Capital.

2025 Australian Guineas Update: Angel Capital has been scratched due to a dirty scope elevating Sepals to the top of betting. Click here for the full story from Races.com.au. 

Australian Guineas 2025 Scratchings: 

2025 Australian Guineas Nominations

The 2025 Australian Guineas nominations are taken the Monday of race week with the official early entries to be updated below.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Australian Guineas Tips

Australian Guineas tips include looking for previous Group 1 winners, horses coming off good lead-up form in races like the CS Hayes Stakes or The Vanity, looking at the form for runners proven over the mile and backing the colts and geldings as the fillies have a poor record over the boys.

In 2023 Legarto became just the sixth filly in history to win the Australian Guineas and the first since Mystic Journey (2019).

2023 Australian Guineas winning filly Legarto. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

2025 Australian Guineas Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ exclusive Australian Guineas 2025 betting tips and exotic selections on the three-year-olds’ feature in Melbourne this autumn will be available the week of the race so stay tuned for the gallopers to back and sack.

With Angel Capital scratched on race morning the Australian Guineas betting markets have been thrown wide open. Plenty of potential winners now including new favourite Sepals, the rails-drawn Point And Shoot, and VRC Derby champ Goldrush Guru. However, looking to uncover the value we’ve gone with the Kiwi visitor Savaglee who is somewhat forgotten in the markets at $10 at time of publish despite being a proven miler and coming off strong New Zealand form lines. The nicely bred Savabeel colt from Matamata won the Group 1 NZ 2000 Guineas at this distance last November by nearly three lengths. Won again at his next start fresh in a Group 2 over 1400m by a big margin in January before losing few admirers taking on the older horses in the Group 1 BCD Group Sprint (1400m) at Te Rapa to run a brave third behind Here To Shock. Travels down under now and looks well placed back against his own age up to the 1600m fit and ready to fire from barrier six with Michael Dee in the saddle.

Australian Guineas Form Guide

The Australian Guineas form guide lists all of the crucial information punters need to know before placing a bet including saddlecloth numbers, lead-up runs, jockeys, trainers and the barriers for all the horses in the field.

Important Australian Guineas form facts to note include the poor record of fillies in the race, the fact just three runners have jumped from wider than barrier nine to win the race in 30 years, and that just five favourites saluted from 2007 – 2021 most recently Alligator Blood ($2.70 in 2020).

Local runners from Melbourne have a strong record as the Sydney-trained three-year-olds usually opt to stay at home to contest the Group 1 Randwick Guineas (1600m) held the Saturday after.

The Australian Guineas 2023 form was franked with the winner Hitotsu, the VRC Derby winner who made history as the inaugural first-up winner of the Australian Guineas, going on to claim the Group 1 Australian Derby next start over 2400m in Sydney.

The 2023 Australian Guineas form was franked by the second placegetter Attrition who returned to win the spring’s Group 1 Toorak Handicap (1600m) that year.

The 2024 Australian Guineas form was franked with the winner Southport Tycoon going on to win that year’s Group 1 Manikato Stakes in the spring, while the runner-up Veight won Sydney’s Group 1 George Ryder Stakes at his next start.

The form was further boosted with third placegetter Riff Rocket improving to complete the Rosehill Guineas – Australian Derby double that autumn!

Australian Guineas Form Facts

• Australian Guineas betting favourites have an improving record in the race over the past decade with Hey Doc (2017) the first since Light Fantastic (2008) to salute for the punters followed by Mystic Journey (2019) and then Alligator Blood (2020).
• Three-year-olds coming off a top four finish have dominated the Australian Guineas winners’ list over the past 20 years.
• The CS Hayes Stakes produced four straight Australian Guineas champions from 2015-18 including Wandjina (2015), Hey Doc (2017) and Grunt (2018) who all did the double; Alligator Blood (2020) also recently completed the CS Hayes – Australian Guineas double while in 2021 Lunar Fox won the Group 1 at 300/1 improving on a CS Hayes 12th. Feroce (3rd in 2025) was the last CS Hayes graduate to go on and win the Australian Guineas. 

2025 Australian Guineas Form Guide

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

Australian Guineas Results

Double figure winners feature highly in the Australian Guineas race results over the past decade or so with the longest priced to win in recent years being shock champion Lunar Fox ($301 in 2021).

Notable recent Australian Guineas winners include the visiting Kiwi filly Legarto (2023), Hitotsu (2022), Alligator Blood (2020), Mystic Journey (2019), Mosheen (2012), Heart Of Dreams (2009), Miss Finland (2007), and Apache Cat (2006).

Recent Australian Guineas Winners

Past Australian Guineas winners and placegetters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.

FAQ

Who won the 2025 Australian Guineas?

The 2025 Australian Guineas was won by Feroce at $14 for trainer Dominic Sutton with jockey Billy Egan aboard on 57kg from barrier 9 to win by 0.75 lengths in a time of 1:35.46.

When is the Australian Guineas 2025?

What is the prize money for the Australian Guineas 2025?

$1,000,000

Where is the Australian Guineas 2025?

Flemington Racecourse, 448 Epsom Rd, Flemington VIC 3031.