The 2025 edition of the Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup ran on Saturday November 22, 2025 offering $500,000 in stakes and saw Mick Price & Michael Kent Jrn go back-to-back with a late surge by the favourite Sabaj ($3.30F) who set a new race record.
2025 Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Results
The official Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup 2025 Results & Finishing Order will be available below once the Listed Cranbourne race is run and won on Saturday November 22, 2025.
- 1st: No. 15 Sabaj
- 2nd: No. 14 Enxuto
- 3rd: No. 6 Holymanz
Sabaj ($3.30F) stormed home to head the 2025 Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup results delivering trainers Mick Price and Michael Kent Jr back-to-back victories in the $500,000 feature. The lightly-raced four-year-old gelding overcame a wide barrier and produced a powerful finishing burst under jockey Beau Mertens to defeat Enxuto and Holymanz by three-quarters of a length. Exploding at the 200m mark, Sabaj hit the front with 100m to go and proved too strong in the run to the line, notching his fifth win from just eight starts and confirming his status as a horse on the rise. The victory marked Price’s fourth Cranbourne Cup success, having previously won with Pakal (2013), Octabello (2018), and Globe (2024), while also giving the stable consecutive Cups following Globe’s triumph last year. Connections now have their sights set on the Group 1 Doncaster Mile in Sydney next autumn, with Price confident Sabaj has plenty more improvement to come and the potential to develop into a genuine Group 1 contender heading into 2026.
2025 Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Odds
The latest Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup 2025 betting odds will be provided below as soon as markets on the end-of-spring carnival event on Cranbourne Cup Day over the spring are announced.
| 15. Sabaj (12) J: Beau Mertens 54kg 22x61T: Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr | ||
| 14. Enxuto (3) J: Patrick Moloney 54kg x7534T: Robbie Griffiths | ||
| 6. Holymanz (6) J: Michael Dee 57kg 237x8T: Ciaron Maher | ||
| 17. Pondalowie (1) J: Luke Currie 54kg 54676T: Emma-Lee & David Browne | ||
| 1. Warnie (9) J: Ethan Brown 60kg 57421T: Ciaron Maher | ||
| 3. Air Assault (4) J: Jason Holder 58.5kg 4x811T: Andrew Gluyas | ||
| 2. Steparty (7) J: Craig Williams 59.5kg 88349T: Paul Preusker | ||
| 12. St Lawrence (13) J: Logan Bates 55kg 665x7T: Gavin Bedggood | ||
| 10. Bank Maur (11) J: Celine Gaudray 55kg 677qxT: Richard Laming | ||
| 18. Scheelite (2) J: Jordan Childs 54kg 25x62T: Ken & Kasey Keys | ||
| 8. Charterhouse (10) J: Lachlan Neindorf 56kg 38410T: Gavin Bedggood | ||
| 9. Jennilala (5) J: Declan Bates 55.5kg x8240T: Gavin Bedggood | ||
| 13. Statuario (8) J: Dean Yendall 55kg x3452T: Emma-Lee & David Browne |
Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Tips
Cranbourne Cup tips include looking for in-form spring milers or stayers coming off a win in a Melbourne lead-up race, graduates that finished in the money in their lead-up assignment and tipping single-figure fancies.
2025 Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Tips
Our Ladbrokes’ exclusive Cranbourne Cup 2025 betting tips on the Listed race during the spring racing season will be detailed below the week of the race so, stay tuned for those to back and sack this season.
To Win: No. 3 Air Assault
It’s a wide-open edition of the Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup, but I’m siding with the Adelaide visitor AIR ASSAULT (4) who looks perfectly placed to strike. The Andrew Gluyas-trained son of Justify has drawn ideally and arrives in peak form off consecutive wins.
He was dominant last start at Morphettville, stretching out to 1800m and putting nearly seven lengths on his rivals in a runaway performance. Dropping back to the mile here only enhances his appeal, especially given his strong 1600m record (7:3-1-0).
On Melbourne Cup Day in Adelaide he easily disposed of Sir Kingsford carrying 58.5kg, and he sticks to the same weight this weekend with regular rider Jason Holder staying aboard. Holder knows him inside out, having guided him to a Gawler Cup victory two runs back under a bigger impost.
Air Assault also has unfinished business in this race, having finished a close second behind Globe last year. With his tactical speed, he’s expected to roll forward, control the tempo, and prove very hard to run down.
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3. Air Assault (4)
J: Jason Holder 58.5kg
4×811T: Andrew Gluyas
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The Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup is held at the tail-end of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival on a Saturday in late November.
On the same day over in Perth Ascot is host to the Group 1 Railway Stakes (1600m), while Victorian racing is headlined by the Listed Cranbourne Cup.
Taking place at Cranbourne Racecourse, the quality handicap event offers a lucrative $500,000 and is traditionally run over 2025m.
For 2021 the Cranbourne Cup distance was reduced to 1600m.
In 2004 the Cranbourne Cup winner On A Jeune famously went on to run second in the next year’s Melbourne Cup behind Makybe Diva.
The race now runs at the tail-end of the spring after the Melbourne Cup Carnival events have all taken place.
Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Race Info
- Date: Saturday November 22, 2025
- Track: Cranbourne Racecourse
- Distance: 1600m (as of 2021)
- Conditions: Quality Handicap
- Status: Listed
- Prize Money: $500,000
Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Betting
Cranbourne Cup betting has traditionally been led by in-form staying types coming off lead-up runs in similar or tougher grade races like the Group 3 Naturalism Stakes (2000m) at Caulfield and Flemington’s Group 3 The Bart Cummings (2500m).
In 2021 the Cranbourne Cup betting markets instead favoured milers that were backing-up off a run in the Group 1 Kennedy Cantala (1600m) – now Champions Mile – over the same distance at Flemington on Derby Day a fortnight earlier.
King Magnus improved on a lead-up and luckless Kennedy Cantala Stakes fifth to win the 2021 Cranbourne Cup over the reduced distance.
Any international horses over for the carnival that contest the Cranbourne Cup are often kept safe in betting, while the Cranbourne Cup odds traditionally favour the class horses with plenty of the higher-weighted and rated runners saluting in recent years including UK raider Folkswood (59kg in 2017), Mourinho (59kg in 2014) and Pakal (60kg in 2013).
Uncle Bryn ($3.10 in 2022), Globe ($4.40 in 2024) and Sabaj ($3.30 in 2025) are the latest Cranbourne Cup favourites to salute for the punters.
There was a notable upset in 2023 with Charterhouse saluting at 15/1.
Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Field
The Cranbourne Cup race field draws a quality line-up of spring milers from both local and interstate stayers, although locally trained Victorian gallopers usually dominate the line-up.
Runners may come via a number of different lead-up races including the Champions Mile a fortnight earlier during the Melbourne Cup Carnival.
King Magnus (5th in 2021) was the last Cranbourne Cup winner to come off a Kennedy Cantala run.
In 2022 the Cranbourne Cup winner Uncle Bryn came off a lead-up fifth in Sydney’s $2 million The Five Diamonds (1800m).
The 2023 Cranbourne Cup champ Charterhouse improved on a lead-up 15th in the Group 1 Toorak Handicap (1600m) at Caulfield the month before.
Cranbourne Cup nominations close the Monday of race week with final acceptances revealing the field released on the Wednesday before the race runs on the Saturday.
2025 Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Field
The official Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup 2025 field of final acceptors is announced by the Cranbourne Turf Club on the Wednesday of race week and will be published below along with the confirmed jockeys and barriers.
The Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup 2025 final field features a capacity line-up of gallopers including Air Assault who chases a hat-trick and Ciaron Maher’s 60kg topweight Warnie coming off a win in the Group 2 The Damien Oliver at Flemington on Derby Day.
| Entrant | Last 6 | Sex | Barrier | Weight | |
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1. Warnie
J: Ethan Brown
T: Ciaron Maher |
457421 | G | 9 | 60kg | |
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2. Steparty
J: Craig Williams
T: Paul Preusker |
x88349 | G | 7 | 59.5kg | |
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3. Air Assault
J: Jason Holder
T: Andrew Gluyas |
64x811 | G | 4 | 58.5kg | |
| 4. Casino Seventeen (18) Scratched: | |||||
| 5. El Rocko (10) Scratched: | |||||
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6. Holymanz
J: Michael Dee
T: Ciaron Maher |
8237x8 | G | 6 | 57kg | |
| 7. Regal Zeus (7) Scratched: | |||||
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8. Charterhouse
J: Lachlan Neindorf
T: Gavin Bedggood |
838410 | G | 10 | 56kg | |
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9. Jennilala
J: Declan Bates
T: Gavin Bedggood |
7x8240 | M | 5 | 55.5kg | |
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10. Bank Maur
J: Celine Gaudray
T: Richard Laming |
1677qx | G | 11 | 55kg | |
| 11. Saban (11) Scratched: | |||||
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12. St Lawrence
J: Logan Bates
T: Gavin Bedggood |
0665x7 | G | 13 | 55kg | |
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13. Statuario
J: Dean Yendall
T: Emma-Lee & David Browne |
0x3452 | G | 8 | 55kg | |
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14. Enxuto
J: Patrick Moloney
T: Robbie Griffiths |
8x7534 | G | 3 | 54kg | |
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15. Sabaj
J: Beau Mertens
T: Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr |
122x61 | G | 12 | 54kg | |
| 16. Verdad (17) Scratched: | |||||
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17. Pondalowie
J: Luke Currie
T: Emma-Lee & David Browne |
054676 | M | 1 | 54kg | |
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18. Scheelite
J: Jordan Childs
T: Ken & Kasey Keys |
125x62 | G | 2 | 54kg | |
2025 Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Nominations
Early Cranbourne Cup 2025 Nominations close the Monday leading-up to Cranbourne Cup Day, which is the feature meeting held each year at Cranbourne Racecourse, and will be provided in full below.
Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Form Guide
The Cranbourne Cup form guide lists for punters all the crucial pre-betting information like the jockeys, trainers, barriers and lead-up runs of the female sprinters in the field.
Runners trained out of Melbourne stables have a strong recent record the race, so looking at the local gallopers instead of the visiting runners with a lead-up run at either Flemington or Caulfield is essential when doing the Cranbourne Cup form.
The Cranbourne Cup form has held up in tougher races and has been worth following into the bigger spring races, but not so as of 2021 with the event moved to after the majors.
The 2024 Cranbourne Cup form was franked by the winner, Globe, who went on to win the following spring’s Group 1 Might And Power Stakes at Caulfield in 2025 by three lengths.
2025 Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup Form
A link to our comprehensive Ladbrokes Cranbourne Cup 2025 form guide and race betting preview will be provided for punters below the week of the event.
Cranbourne Cup Results
The Cranbourne Cup race results show a quality list of past winners, many of which went on to win much bigger and better races including subsequent 2005 Melbourne Cup runner-up On a Jeune (2004).
Melbourne-based stables have the dominant hand in the past Cranbourne Cup results.
Past Cranbourne Cup Winners
The Cranbourne Cup has been won by plenty of quality horses over the years including On A Jeune (2004), Mourinho (2014), and Dr Drill (2019).
In 2025 Sabaj set a new track record winning the Cranbourne Cup over the 1600m in a time of 1 minute 34:89 seconds.
Recent Cranbourne Cup winners and placegetters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.
| Year | Winner | Second | Third |
| 2025 | Sabaj | Enxuto | Holymanz |
| 2024 | Globe | Air Assault | Dashing |
| 2023 | Charterhouse | Foxy Cleopatra | Just Folk |
| 2022 | Uncle Bryn | Callsign Mav | Visinari |
| 2021 | King Magnus | Our Playboy | So Si Bon |
| 2020 | Future Score | Odeon | Dr Drill |
| 2019 | Dr Drill | Naivasha | Captain Cook |
| 2018 | Octabello | Sully | Furrion |
| 2017 | Folkswood | Berisha | Grey Lion |
| 2016 (Run in March of 2017) | Master Reset | Adirondack | Great Esteem |
| 2015 | Digitalism | Kareeming | Index Linked |
| 2014 | Mourinho | More Than Sacred | Le Roi |
| 2013 | Pakal | Sertorius | Mourinho |
| 2012 | Midnight Martini | Streets Away | Streaky Fella |
| 2011 | Boom ‘n’ Zoom | Paddy O’Reilly | Ginga Dude |
| 2010 | Starmon | My Bentley | Tube |
| 2009 | Sermon | Stormhill | The Sportsman |
| 2008 | Majestical | Barbaricus | Chantal Sally |
| 2007 | Emerald Jack | Blue Collar Jack | El Pretender |
| 2006 | Blue Collar Jack | Octrivia | Professional Lady |
| 2005 | Show Barry | Tosen Dandy | Irish Crusader |
| 2004 | On A Jeune | Da Capo | Bedouin |
| 2003 | Kattavia | Out Of Options | Pinstripe |
| 2002 | Eagle Rhythm | Adolescence | Hail |
| 2001 | Bush Padre | Captivator | Spirit Of Westbury |
| 2000 | Brave Chief | Yammer | Figurehead |
FAQ
Who won the 2025 Cranbourne Cup?
The 2025 Cranbourne Cup was won by four-year-old Manhattan Rain gelding Sabaj at $3.30 favouritism for trainers Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr with jockey Beau Mertens aboard on 54kg from barrier 12 to win on a Good (3) track by 0.75 lengths in a new track record time of 1:34.89.
When is the Cranbourne Cup 2025?
Saturday November 22, 2025What is the prize money for the Cranbourne Cup 2025?
$500,000
Where is the Cranbourne Cup 2025?
Cranbourne Racecourse, 50 Grant Street, Cranbourne, VIC 3977.
How do I bet on the 2025 Cranbourne Cup?
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Which horse will win the 2025 Cranbourne Cup?
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