Ladbrokes Tip: The Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude form has held up in the Group 1 Blue Diamond plenty in recent years
The latest edition of the Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude took place on Saturday February 8, 2025 as part of CF Orr Stakes Day at Caulfield Racecourse and was won in an impressive one-length upset by new Blue Diamond favourite Palm Angel ($7.50).
2025 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Results
The official Blue Diamond Prelude Results for the fillies’ race will be known on Saturday February 8, 2025 and published in full below.
2025 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude winner Palm Angel has shot to the top of Blue Diamond betting. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.
- 1st: #3 Palm Angel
- 2nd: #1 My Gladiola
- 3rd: #4 Wiltshire Square
The 2025 Blue Diamond Stakes on February 22 is calling for Jason Warren’s progressive Starspangledbanner filly Palm Angel ($7.50) who was impressive coming off the back of the odds-on favourite My Gladiola to secure a one-length upset in Saturday’s Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude results at Caulfield.
2025 Blue Diamond Prelude (Fillies) Odds
The updated Blue Diamond Prelude 2025 odds for the Group 2 fillies’ edition will be available below once markets are released.
Early market betting odds on the 2025 Blue Diamond Prelude (Fillies) will be displayed below once available. Odds are subject to fluctuation. For current odds on all of our live markets, please visit ladbrokes.com.au.
The Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude is one of three Group 2 support races one of the Melbourne Autumn Racing Carnival’s earliest and biggest meetings – C.F. Orr Stakes Day. The meeting runs at Caulfield Racecourse on a Saturday in mid-February each year and is headlined by the Group 1 C.F. Orr Stakes (1400m).
2024 Blue Diamond treble winner Hayasugi. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.
Recently upgraded from a Group 3 to a Group 2 event, the Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude is also a highlight on the bill and offers $300,000 in total prize money. A set weights race open only to two-year-old fillies, the Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude is run over 1100m on the same day as the Group 3 Blue Diamond Colts & Geldings Prelude for the boys.
It is obviously a traditional lead-up to the classic Group 1 $2 million Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) back at the track a fortnight later and the double was recently completed by Hayasugi (2024), Lyre (2019), Catchy (2017), Earthquake (2014), and Samaready (2012).
Just two fillies have managed to win the Blue Diamond Preview – Blue Diamond Prelude – Blue Diamond Stakes treble with Midnight Fever (1987) and Hayasugi (2024) claiming all three events in their two-year-old seasons.
Blue Diamond Prelude (Fillies) Race Info
- Date: Saturday February 8, 2025
- Track: Caulfield Racecourse
- Distance: 1100m
- Conditions: Set Weights – 2YO Fillies
- Status: Group 2
- Prize Money: $350,000
- First Run: 1982
Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Betting
Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude betting markets open after the final acceptances are out on the Wednesday before the race runs on CF Orr Stakes Day, the opening Group 1 race meeting of the Melbourne Festival of Racing each autumn.
The fillies that ran well in the Blue Diamond Fillies Preview the month before over 100m less in Melbourne usually dominated the Blue Diamond Prelude (Fillies) odds. The Blue Diamond Fillies Preview – Prelude double was most recently achieved by Fontiton (2015) followed by Hayasugi (2024).
Palm Angel (5th in 2025) meanwhile was the last Prelude winning filly to come out of the Preview.
2023 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude winner Exploring was good leading all-the-way for her upset win. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.
The results of the Prelude always have an impact on the upcoming Blue Diamond Stakes odds as well and the double is a popular one with punters each year.
Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Field
The Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude race field attracts the best young female sprinters getting about for the season.
The majority of the two-year-old fillies in the mix are looking to back-up two weeks later in the Blue Diamond Stakes over 100m further, and most come off an earlier autumn run in the Group 3 Blue Diamond Fillies Preview (1000m) in late January.
If not the Blue Diamond Preview, the fillies lining-up in the Blue Diamond Prelude (Fillies) field are first-up for the season or perhaps are even on debut.
The Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude nominations are taken the Monday before the race runs on the Saturday with the final field and barrier draw out on the Wednesday.
2025 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Field
The Blue Diamond Prelude (Fillies) final field and barrier draw for 2025 will be released on the Wednesday before CF Orr Stakes Day and published below.
The Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude 2025 final field features a smart line-up of Blue Diamond bound fillies led in betting by the Preview winner My Gladiola.
2025 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Nominations
The early 2025 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Nominations close the Monday of race week and will be published in full below once announced by Racing Victoria.
| |
Last 10 |
Horse |
Sex |
Age |
Trainer |
Hcp Rating |
| 1 |
6x |
BEFUDDLE |
F |
2 |
John Sadler |
|
| 2 |
21 |
CAVALRY GIRL |
F |
2 |
Tom Dabernig |
|
| 3 |
|
EXCENIA |
F |
2 |
Tony & Calvin McEvoy |
|
| 4 |
|
EXIT |
F |
2 |
Ciaron Maher |
|
| 5 |
6 |
EXPULSION |
F |
2 |
Anthony & Sam Freedman |
|
| 6 |
|
FLIRT |
F |
2 |
Tony & Calvin McEvoy |
|
| 7 |
1 |
GIN SPIRIT |
F |
2 |
Ben, Will & JD Hayes |
|
| 8 |
5 |
GLIDING LIGHTENING |
F |
2 |
Peter G Moody & Katherine Coleman |
|
| 9 |
5 |
HEAVENLY CONQUEST |
F |
2 |
Ciaron Maher |
|
| 10 |
1x |
HIATUS |
F |
2 |
Tony & Calvin McEvoy |
|
| 11 |
9×005 |
INSAIN LADY |
F |
2 |
Adam & Dallas Simpson |
|
| 12 |
|
KERBER |
F |
2 |
Ciaron Maher |
|
| 13 |
2 |
LA REINE |
F |
2 |
Shane Nichols |
|
| 14 |
11 |
LA ROUX |
F |
2 |
Phillip Stokes |
|
| 15 |
0 |
MELROSE |
F |
2 |
Robbie Griffiths |
|
| 16 |
1×4 |
MISS CELINE |
F |
2 |
Ben, Will & JD Hayes |
|
| 17 |
|
MOON GODDESS |
F |
2 |
Nick Ryan |
|
| 18 |
1 |
MY GLADIOLA |
F |
2 |
John McArdle |
|
| 19 |
5x |
ODESSA |
F |
2 |
Tony & Calvin McEvoy |
|
| 20 |
15 |
PALM ANGEL |
F |
2 |
Jason Warren |
|
| 21 |
|
QUEEN CHRISTINE |
F |
2 |
Symon Wilde |
|
| 22 |
|
RED HOT ROSIE |
F |
2 |
Edward O’Rourke |
|
| 23 |
|
RING MY BELL |
F |
2 |
Anthony & Sam Freedman |
|
| 24 |
|
SUPERGRACE |
F |
2 |
Leon & Troy Corstens & Will Larkin |
|
| 25 |
23 |
WILTSHIRE SQUARE |
F |
2 |
Ciaron Maher |
Table Credit: Racing Australia.
Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Tips
Looking for the fillies that ran well in the BD Preview earlier in the autumn or that come off a good trial ahead of a new season return are good Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude tips.
Favourites also have a strong strike-rate in the race so looking for fillies at single figures in the markets that are proven in Melbourne are other Blue Diamond Prelude betting tips to take.
That said, upsets are not uncommon either with Letzbeglam ($31 in 2020) the longest-priced winner in recent years followed by the 2023 upset by Exploring ($15).
Arcaded ($2.70 in 2021) meanwhile was the most recent favourite to get the job done for the punters.
2025 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Tips
Our insider Blue Diamond Prelude Tips for Fillies in 2025 will be published below the week of the race so stay tuned.
- To Win: #2 Miss Celine ($11 at time of publish) – BET NOW
She needs to make up some five lengths to turn the tables on her last start conqueror in the Preview but think returning to Caulfield second-up will do the trick making Miss Celine lovely value in the Group 2 Prelude for fillies. Team Hayes’ daughter of Magnus won here on debut in the Listed Debutant Stakes last prep before resuming at Sandown to place fourth carrying 58kg. She meets My Gladiola equal in the weights now in a big plus for this underrated black-type winner who presents fitter for that run. She’ll get things her way from the inside alley, and Blake Shinn in the saddle is a plus. Can surprise.
Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Form Guide
The Blue Diamond Prelude Fillies form guide features all the must-know information for punters including the jockeys, trainers, barriers and lead-up runs of all the juveniles in the field.
Looking for the fillies dominant in betting, drawn an inside alley and coming off a nice lead-up in a race like the Blue Diamond Preview are all important form-wise.
The Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude form has also stacked up plenty of times in the subsequent Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) in recent years. In 2014 Earthquake won the BD Prelude – BD Stakes double before a second to Mossfun two runs later in the Group 1 Golden Slipper (1200m) in Sydney.
The latest fillies to do the Blue Diamond Prelude – Blue Diamond Stakes double are Catchy for the David Hayes-led Lindsay Park stable in 2017 followed two years later by the Anthony Freedman-trained Lyre (2019) who also finished third in that season’s Golden Slipper results, and most recently Blue Diamond treble winner Hayasugi (2024).
Earthquake (2014) took out the Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude – Blue Diamond Stakes double. Photo Credit: Race Horse Photos Australia.
Earlier Guelph (2013) also won the Blue Diamond Prelude and later in the season won the Group 1 ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) – Group 1 Champagne Stakes (1600m) double at Royal Randwick Racecourse further franking the form.
The 2022 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude winner Revolutionary Miss franked the form with a second next start in that autumn’s Blue Diamond Stakes results. She was also good in the spring finishing runner-up in the Thousand Guineas (1600m).
2025 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Form Guide
A link to our comprehensive Blue Diamond Prelude (Fillies) 2025 Form Guide will be available below the week of the race.
Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Results
The Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude race results have been dominated by single figure hopes in recent years.
Notable Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude winners over the past decade include Hayasugi (2024), Lyre (2019), Catchy (2017), Earthquake (2014), Guelph (2013), and Samaready (2012).
Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude Winners
Past Blue Diamond Prelude winning fillies and placegetters going back to 2000 are detailed in the below table.
| Year |
Winner |
2nd |
3rd |
Time |
| 2025 |
Palm Angel |
My Gladiola |
Wiltshire Square |
1:04.61 |
| 2024 |
Hayasugi |
Kuroyanagi |
Matisse |
1:03.66 |
| 2023 |
Exploring |
Party For Two |
Extreme Threat |
1:03.49 |
| 2022 |
Revolutionary Miss |
Miss Roseiano |
English Riviera |
1:03.87 |
| 2021 |
Arcaded |
Scorched Earth |
Wolves |
1:04.55 |
| 2020 |
Letzbeglam |
Muntaseera |
Geist |
1:02.79 |
| 2019 |
Lyre |
Vinicunca |
Athiri |
1:04.39 |
| 2018 |
Enbihaar |
Oohood |
Seabrook |
1:05.22 |
| 2017 |
Catchy |
Limestone |
Arctic Angel |
1:03.64 |
| 2016 |
Samara Dancer |
Concealer |
Miss Nymeria |
1:03.1 |
| 2015 |
Fontiton |
Miss Gidget |
Flamboyant Lass |
1:02.8 |
| 2014 |
Earthquake |
Eloping |
Lumosty |
1:03.7 |
| 2013 |
Guelph |
Montsegur |
Godiva Rock |
1:03.8 |
| 2012 |
Samaready |
Formidable |
Sweetener |
1:03.3 |
| 2011 |
One Last Dance |
Glissade |
Hallowell Belle |
1:03.6 |
| 2010 |
Psychologist |
She’s Got Gears |
Jalsah |
1:02.6 |
| 2009 |
Rostova |
Corsaire |
Rose Darmore |
1.04:5 |
| 2008 |
Believe’n’succeed |
Sugar Babe |
Burgeis |
1:03.7 |
| 2007 |
Camarilla |
Belcentra |
Behind |
1:03.7 |
| 2006 |
Nediym’s Glow |
Satin Robes |
Anhinga |
1:03.4 |
| 2005 |
Doubting |
Amarazetti |
Street Smart |
1:04.2 |
| 2004 |
Alinghi |
Find The Cash |
Marie Madelaine |
1:03.6 |
| 2003 |
Halibery |
Rinky Dink |
Gaelic Princess |
1:03.2 |
| 2002 |
Brief Embrace |
Coupe |
Romantic Flyer |
1:05.2 |
| 2001 |
Faiza |
Titanic Rose |
Magic Heaven |
1:03.2 |
| 2000 |
Mannington |
Operettas |
Ponton Flyer |
1:04.9 |
FAQ
Who won the 2025 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude?
The 2025 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude was won by Palm Angel at $7.50 for Jason Warren with Ethan Brown in the saddle for the 1 length win in 1:04.61.
When is the Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude 2025?
Saturday February 8, 2025
What is the prize money for the Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude 2025?
$350,000
Where is the Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude 2025?
Caulfield Racecourse, Gate 22, Station St, Caulfield East VIC 3145.