Coolmore Classic 2025

Ladbrokes Tip: Coolmore Classic favourites have a poor recent record in the race

The latest edition of the Coolmore Classic took place on Saturday March 15, 2025 at Rosehill and saw Chris Waller’s gun filly Lady Shenandoah ($2.60F) secure her third career Group 1 success with a narrow win for the punters.  

2025 Coolmore Classic Results

The full 2025 Coolmore Classic results, winner and finishing order will be known on Saturday March 15, 2025 and published right here.

2025 Coolmore Classic winning filly Lady Shenandoah. Photo: © 2025 – Bradley Photos.

• 1st: #4 Lady Shenandoah 
• 2nd: #9 Firestorm
• 3rd: #6 Lady Of Camelot 

Chris Waller’s brilliant Surround Stakes winning filly Lady Shenandoah ($2.60F) held off her fast-finishing stablemate Firestorm ($14) to score her third career Group 1 success in a narrow win for the punters in Saturday’s 2025 Coolmore Classic results at Rosehill.

2025 Coolmore Classic Odds

The Coolmore Classic 2025 betting odds on the Group 1 autumn feature for fillies and mares will be available below the week of the race so bookmark this page.

The Coolmore Classic takes place at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse in March each Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival and is the sole Group 1 race at the meeting. Open only to fillies and mares aged three-years-old and above the quality handicap event is contested over 1500m and offers a total of $1,000,000 in prize money as of 2024.

2024 Coolmore Classic winner Zougotcha just got there by a neck to salute for the punters. Photo: Steve Hart.

The Coolmore Classic winner is exempt from ballot for both the Doncaster Mile and the Queen Of The Turf Stakes – recently known as the Coolmore Legacy Stakes – held at Randwick Racecourse during The Championships in April.

Con Te Partiro (2020) and Zougotcha (2024) are the latest mares to complete the Coolmore Classic – Queen Of The Turf Stakes double.

Coolmore Classic Race Info

• Date: Saturday March 15, 2025
• Track: Rosehill Gardens Racecourse
• Distance: 1500m
• Conditions: Fillies & Mares – Quality Hcp.
• Status: Group 1
• Prize Money: $1,000,000
• First Run: 1973

Coolmore Classic Betting

Peeping ($15 in 2016) scored an upset win in the Coolmore Classic as a four-year-old. Photo: Steve Hart.

Coolmore Classic betting is usually led by fillies and mares coming off a top two finish in their most recent Group lead-up.

Since 2008 just two Coolmore Classic winners have come off a worse-than-fourth lead-up when Heavens Above (2017) ran ninth in the Millie Fox Stakes before saluting at blowout Coolmore Classic odds of $26, and Con Te Partiro (2020) scored the Coolmore Classic upset at $21 on the back of a Guy Walter Stakes sixth.

In 2018 Daysee Doom did the Millie Fox – Coolmore Classic double as a $21 roughie in betting on the Group 1. Trainer Ron Quinton enjoyed back-to-back Coolmore Classic wins with roughies in the market when in 2019 his mare Dixie Blossoms took out the race, improving on a lead-up second in the Guy Walter Stakes, as a $21 outsider.

Zougotcha (2024) was the last mare to complete the Millie Fox Stakes – Coolmore Classic double.

Coolmore Classic odds favour fillies and mares with proven form up to a mile and Millie Fox Stakes is the most successful recent lead-up.

The race’s barrier draw doesn’t often impact too heavily on the Coolmore Classic odds with a wide spread of winners from across the gates.

Zougotcha ($3.30 in 2024) and Lady Shenandoah ($2.60 in 2025) are the latest favourites in Coolmore Classic betting to win.

Coolmore Classic Field

Each autumn the Coolmore Classic race field attracts Australia’s best female sprinter-milers and often attracts a near capacity field including in 2017 when Heavens Above faced 18 rivals in a bumper 19-starter Coolmore Classic field. There was another large field in the Coolmore Classic for 2019 with 20 starters, and again in 2021 when Krone beat 17 rivals home.

The female gallopers in the Coolmore Classic field come from a variety of different lead-up races including the Group 2 Millie Fox Stakes (1300m) at Rosehill and the recently upgraded Group 1 Surround Stakes (1400m) on Chipping Norton Stakes Day.

Lady Shenandoah (2025) was the last filly to complete the Surround Stakes / Coolmore Classic double. 

For any Melbourne mares, Victoria’s Group 3 Mannerism Stakes (1400m) on Blue Diamond Stakes Day can serve as a potential Coolmore Classic lead-up. Espiona (2023) was the last mare to complete the Mannerism Stakes – Coolmore Classic double.

2023 Coolmore Classic winner Espiona was good down in weight to hand Chris Waller his first win in the event. Photo: Steve Hart.

Another good lead-up is Flemington’s Group 3 Frances Tressady Stakes (1400m) currently run on Black Caviar Lightning Day and Aloha (2011) was the last to do the double.

Many fillies and mares coming out of the Coolmore Classic field go on to take on the boys over 100m further in April’s lucrative Group 1 Doncaster Mile (1600m) at Randwick Racecourse.

Coolmore Classic nominations close the Monday before the race followed by the release of the final field of acceptances on the Wednesday.

2025 Coolmore Classic Field

The final 2025 Coolmore Classic field and barriers will be published right here once announced by Racing NSW.

The Coolmore Classic 2025 final field has drawn a star-studded line-up of female gallopers including last start Surround Stakes winning filly Lady Shenandoah out in gate 13 and former Group 1 winning WA expat Amelia’s Jewel carrying the 58kg topweight.

2025 Coolmore Classic Nominations

The official Coolmore Classic 2025 Nominations close the Monday of race week and will be published in full below.

The Coolmore Classic 2025 nominations attracted a smart line-up of fillies and mares led in all-in betting by Chris Waller’s Surround Stakes winner Lady Shenandoah and Amelia’s Jewel coming off a first-up Group 2 win in the Guy Walter.

Nominations extended until 11:00am (AEDT) – 11/03/2025

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Coolmore Classic Tips

Coolmore Classic tips favour proven Group performers in other fillies-and-mares feature races however the favourites have a poor recent record in the race.

From 2004 – 2025 only four favourites saluted for the punters with the latest being Lady Shenandoah ($2.60 in 2025). 

Looking for fillies coming off a top two finish is a top Coolmore Classic tip and the only winners in the past 16 years to finish worse than fourth were Eskimo Queen in 2008, Heavens Above in 2017, and Con Te Partiro in 2020.

Other Coolmore Classic tips are to look for graduates out of the Guy Walter Stakes and Millie Fox Stakes at double-figure odds and those drawn in barriers 7 – 9.

2025 Coolmore Classic Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ exclusive Coolmore Classic 2025 tips and exotic betting selections will be available here after the field and markets are out so stay tuned for the fillies and mares to get behind this autumn.

No filly has won the Coolmore Classic since Typhoon Tracy in 2009 but finding it really hard to bet against Chris Waller’s flying filly Lady Shenandoah who is still at a backable price to beat home her older counterparts here after drawing wide. The brilliant daughter of Snitzel has James McDonald aboard in barrier 13, but wide gates have been okay for the class runners drawn them in this race. She won the Flight Stakes at elite level last prep by over three lengths at a mile, so the step up to 1500m third-up and fit suits. Chasing a fifth win on the trot, she has been excellent winning her two lead-up runs this campaign including saluting as the odds-on favourite in the Group 1 Surround Stakes (1400m) last time out in a narrow but decisive victory. She won the Group 3 Ming Dynasty at her only other Rosehill assignment so is proven at the track. If she gets into the right spot from that wide alley, her first time jumping wider out than barrier seven, she’ll take the power of beating back from 56kg to 54.5kg. Sticking with.

Coolmore Classic Form Guide

The Coolmore Classic form guide shows punters all they need to know before placing a bet on the race including the saddlecloth numbers, allocated weights, jockeys and trainers of all the starters in the field.

The lead-up Coolmore Classic form races varies however running first or second last start is a key indicator in the race.

The Coolmore Classic 2022 form was franked with the third-placed Hinged, winner of that year’s Surround Stakes, finishing second next-up in the Vinery Stud Stakes before a fourth in that year’s ATC Oaks results. Hinged also ran third in both the Group 1 George Main Stakes and Epsom Handicap that spring.

The 2023 Coolmore Classic winner Espiona franked the form with a win in the $2 million The Invitation race that spring.

Coolmore Classic Form Facts

• Since 2003 only four favourites in Coolmore Classic betting have saluted for the punters most recently Aloha (2011), Zougotcha (2024), and Lady Shenandoah (2025). 
• In the past 30 years trainer Gai Waterhouse has prepared five Coolmore Classic winners.
• The most successful Coolmore Classic barriers in the past three decades producing five and four winners respectively are gates two and seven.
• From 2009 – 2025 only three Coolmore Classic champions finished worse than third in her lead-up run.
• Four-year-olds have a dominant record in the Coolmore Classic results over the past decade with Espiona (2023) and the fellow Waller-trained Zougotcha (2024) the latest to win during their four-year-old season.

2025 Coolmore Classic Form Guide

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

Coolmore Classic Stakes Results

Upset Coolmore Classic race results are not uncommon with a host of double-figure winners in recent years including Krone ($14 in 2021), Con Te Partiro ($21 in 2020), Dixie Blossoms ($21 in 2019), Daysee Doom ($21 in 2018), Heavens Above ($26 in 2017), Peeping ($15 in 2016), Plucky Belle ($16 in 2015), Ofcourseican ($13 in 2012), and Alverta ($17 in 2010).

The full Coolmore Classic finishing order and results are displayed after the race jumps on a Saturday in mid-March as the only Group 1 on the card and also reveal the winning quinella, trifecta and margins.

Notable recent Coolmore Classic winners include Appearance (2013), Typhoon Tracy (2009), and Tuesday Joy (2007).

Lady Shenandoah (2025) was the first three-year-old filly to win the Coolmore Classic since Typhoon Tracy (2009). 

Shindig holds the current 1500m Coolmore Classic race record winning in 1998 in a time of 1 minute 27:21 seconds.

Past Coolmore Classic Winners

Recent Coolmore Classic winners and placegetters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.

FAQ

Who won the 2025 Coolmore Classic?

The 2025 Coolmore Classic was won by three-year-old filly Lady Shenandoah at $2.60 favouritism for trainer Chris Waller with jockey James McDonald aboard on 54.5kg from barrier 11 to win by 0.13 lengths in a time of 1:27.38.

When is the Coolmore Classic 2025?

What is the prize money for the Coolmore Classic 2025?

$1,000,000

Where is the Coolmore Classic 2025?

Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, James Ruse Dr, Rosehill NSW 2142.