Doomben Cup 2025

Ladbrokes Tip: Four-year-olds have a dominant Doomben Cup record in recent years

The latest edition of the Doomben Cup ran on Saturday May 24, 2025 at Doomben Racecourse and saw the local Tony Gollan trained Antino ($3F) salute for the punters with an impressive four length win in a new track record time! 

Doomben Cup 2025 Results

The official 2025 Doomben Cup Results & Finishing Order will be available below once the race is run and won in Brisbane on Saturday May 24, 2025.

• 1st: #1 Antino
• 2nd: #3 Fawkner Park
• 3rd: #7 Kovalica

Tony Gollan’s in-form local track specialist, Antino ($3F), kept the wins coming after his lead-up Hollindale Stakes success when flying around the field at the top of the straight off a brilliant Blake Shinn ride to come with a wide run and thunder into the lead quickly putting the 2025 Doomben Cup result to bed with a barnstorming four length victory for the punters in a track record time of 2:00.88!

2025 Doomben Cup Odds

The season’s latest Doomben Cup 2025 betting odds are available here and markets on the Group 1 weight-for-age Brisbane race are now live below.

The Doomben Cup is the second Group 1 race of the annual Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival after the Doomben 10,000 and takes place on a Saturday in mid – late May at Doomben Racecourse. Contested over 2000m the weight-for-age event attracts a field of class staying types and offers $1,000,000 in total prize money as of 2022.

2022 Doomben Cup winner Huetor (pictured in Sydney). Photo: Steve Hart.

The winner of the Group 2 A.D. Hollindale Stakes at the Gold Coast a fortnight earlier is exempt from Doomben Cup ballot and the double was last achieved by Streama (2014), Zaaki (2021) who won the Group 1 by a record seven lengths, and new track record holder Antino (2025). 

Zaaki returned and won the 2022 Hollindale Stakes before finishing a disappointing third as the beaten odds-on favourite in that year’s Doomben Cup results behind Huetor. 

The best out of the Doomben Cup field are now likely to target the $1.2 million The Q22 (2200m) – a rebranded WFA feature race held at Eagle Farm on Stradbroke Handicap Day with Zaaki (2021) completing the double. 

In 2023 three-time Hollindale Stakes champ Zaaki returned but ran a disappointing seventh to the back-to-back champion Huetor. 

Doomben Cup Race Info

• Date: Saturday May 24, 2025
• Track: Doomben Racecourse 
• Distance: 2000m 
• Conditions: Weight-for-age
• Status: Group 1
• Prize Money: $1,000,000
• First Run: 1933

Doomben Cup Betting

Doomben Cup betting is open at futures prices around nomination stage offering generous all-in prices on the hopeful horses. The Doomben Cup odds firm on the confirmed runners after final acceptances are taken the Wednesday before the race runs on the Saturday.

Horses that ran top three in the AD Hollindale Stakes at the Gold Coast two weeks earlier feature highly up the Doomben Cup betting markets and Zaaki (2021) and Antino (2025) are the latest horses to do the double.

Zaaki ran third in the Doomben Cup trifecta in 2022 on the back of a successful Hollindale Stakes title defence, while Huetor improved on his lead-up fourth in the Hollindale to win the Doomben Cup that year in an upset. 

Zaaki won the Hollindale for the third time in 2023 before his disappointing seventh as the beaten favourite in that year’s Doomben Cup that saw the defending champ Huetor go back-to-back off a lead-up second in the A.D. Hollindale. 

Earlier, Sydney’s Group 3 JRA Plate (2000m) in mid-April serves as a good guide to the Doomben Cup and Zaaki was officially runner-up in that before subsequently being disqualified. 

Until Our Ivanhowe (The BMW 10th in 2016), no Doomben Cup winner had come off a run worse than fifth since King Keitel (6th in NZ) in 2001, so runners that finished top five in the lead-up dominate betting for the Group 1. In 2017 however, Sense Of Occasion improved on a sixth in the Hollindale Stakes for his Doomben Cup upset. The trend continued in 2018 and 2019 with Comin’ Through and Kenenda both unplaced in the Hollindale ahead of Group 1 Doomben Cup triumphs. 

Favourites and equal favourites have a solid recent record in the Doomben Cup including Streama (2014) and Pornichet (2015) who both saluted for the punters, before the big seven length win by the $2.25 favourite Zaaki in 2021 and the local Queensland victory by Antino ($3 in 2025). 

In 2022 Zaaki ran third as the beaten $1.24 favourite in Doomben Cup betting, while the surprise winner Huetor won at Doomben Cup odds of $16. Huetor won the race again in 2023 at $10. 

Bois D’Argent scored a big Doomben Cup upset in 2024 holding on by a nose to salute at $26 odds. 

Doomben Cup Field

The Doomben Cup race field features a top line-up of weight-for-age horses each winter with the largest field in recent years being 20 starters when Bush Padre won in 2003.

2021 Doomben Cup winner Zaaki (pictured at Flemington) went on to win the following year’s $5 million The All-Star Mile. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

The smallest recent Doomben Cup field was nine runners in 2011 when Scenic Shot won; this is the only line-up of under 10 runners in over 30 years.

Horses traditionally come into the Doomben Cup field via a run at the Gold Coast in the Hollindale Stakes a fortnight earlier over 200m shorter. Recent winners of both races include Antino (2025), Zaaki (2021), Streama (2014), Metal Bender (2010), Above Deck (2006), and Mr Bureaucrat (2002).

From 2006 – 2025 thirteen Doomben Cup winners came out of the A.D. Hollindale Stakes, most recently two-time hero Huetor (4th in 2022 and 2nd in 2023) and Antino (1st of 2025). 

Another potential lead-up held on the same day as the Hollindale but at Gosford is the $500,000 The Coast (1600m), won in 2021 by Brandenburg who went on to run third to Zaaki in the Doomben Cup trifecta next start. 

Doomben Cup nominations close on a Tuesday two weeks before the race with the final field of acceptances closing a fortnight later on the Tuesday of race week.

2025 Doomben Cup Field

The official Doomben Cup 2025 final field is announced on Tuesday the 20th of May 2025 and will be published below once confirmed. 

The 2025 Doomben Cup final field is now out featuring 13 of the winter’s top staying types led in betting by Tony Gollan’s local galloper Antino coming off an impressive Group 2 Hollindale Stakes victory in the wet at the Gold Coast.

2025 Doomben Cup Nominations

The early Doomben Cup 2025 Nominations close on a Tuesday in early May about a fortnight out from the race.

The 2025 Doomben Cup nominations close at 11:00am (AEST) on Tuesday the 6th of May 2025. 

The Doomben Cup 2025 nominations attracted 38 of the season’s top middle-distance gallopers led in all-in betting by Chris Waller’s Caulfield Cup runner-up from last spring Buckaroo.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Doomben Cup Tips

Looking for proven weight-for-age types that ran top three in the Hollindale Stakes last time out are good Doomben Cup tips.

Also looking for runners drawn in barriers 1 – 8 is favourable when doing the betting tips with double digit barriers rarely producing a winner. However, Sense Of Occasion overcame the outside barrier 15 (of 15) for his 2017 Doomben Cup victory. Comin’ Through saluted from 11 of 11 the following year in 2018 and Antino saluted from gate 10 in 2025. 

Sydney visitors also have a dominant Doomben Cup record so watching for the interstate-trained visitors is also a good tip.

Older gallopers make a good tip in the Doomben Cup with Akhenaton (2000) the last three-year-old to win. 

2025 Doomben Cup Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider Doomben Cup 2025 betting tips and exotic Group 1 Brisbane race selections will be detailed below the week of the race so bookmark this page for the gallopers to back and sack this season.

Really intriguing edition of the Doomben Cup but happy to tip PRIDE OF JENNI (1) from the inside alley to return to Group 1 winning form after a confidence boosting victory in easier grade at Caulfield last time out. Ciaron Maher’s multiple elite level winning daughter of Pride Of Dubai may be a rising eight-year-old but she showed she still had a zest for racing when carting a hefty 61kg to a dominant Black-Type win by two lengths on May 3 in Melbourne. Back to weight now and she’s a genuine WFA star at her best. First start in Queensland but is proven this way of racing including her 6.5 length romp home over eight-length Cox Plate champ Via Sistina in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth in Sydney last year at this distance. Comes off totally different form lines than expected but all reports from the stable are she’s fit and firing and looking to win again. Think she can.

Doomben Cup Form Guide

The Doomben Cup form guide features all of the essential information for punters including the jockeys, trainers, barriers and lead-up runs of the horses in the field. Looking for horses coming out of the Hollindale Stakes when doing the Doomben Cup form is crucial, as is seeking out staying types with winning form at least over 2000m.

The Doomben Cup form has gone on to stack-up in other elite level races many times over the years including in 2021 with the seven-length champion Zaaki winning Brisbane’s The Q22 next-up before a huge spring in Melbourne that included Group 1 victories in the Underwood and Mackinnon Stakes. 

Zaaki also franked the Doomben Cup form returning in 2022 to win the The All-Star Mile (1600m) at Flemington in the autumn. 

Zaaki came back running third in the 2022 Doomben Cup results before a successful title defence in the Mackinnon Stakes that spring (now run as the VRC Champions Stakes). 

The Doomben Cup 2023 form was franked with Kovalica improving on his third against the older horses to win the Group 1 Queensland Derby (2400m) next start.

In 2024 the Doomben Cup produced that year’s The Q22 winner with Fawkner Park improving on his lead-up third in the Group 1. 

Doomben Cup Form Facts

• The AD Hollindale Stakes produced 13 of the Doomben Cup winners from 2007 – 2025 most recently with Zaaki (2021) doing the double, two-time champ Huetor (4th in 2022 and 2nd in 2023), and the latest runner to complete the double Antino (2025).  
• Only three mares have won the Doomben Cup in the past 30 plus years – Cinque Cento (2007), Streama (2014) and Kenedna (2019). 
• Akhenaton (2000) was the last three-year-old Doomben Cup winner. 

2025 Doomben Cup Form Guide

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

Doomben Cup Results

Favourites have a credible recent record in the Doomben Cup race results. The longest priced Doomben Cup winners in recent years include Bois D’Argent ($26 in 2024), Huetor ($16 in 2022 and $10 in 2023), Cinque Centro ($21 in 2007), and Sapio ($61 in 1997).

There have been four multiple Doomben Cup winners throughout history with Huetor (2022 & 2023); Scenic Shot (2009, 2011); Rough Habit (1991, 1992, 1993); and Earlwood (1959, 1960). 

Notable recent Doomben Cup winners include seven-length winner Zaaki (2021), Pornichet (2015), Streama (2014), Metal Bender (2010) and Above Deck (2006).

Antino (2025) also holds the current Doomben Cup race and track record winning by four lengths in a time of 2 minutes 00.88 seconds. 

Recent Doomben Cup Winners

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

FAQ

Who won the 2025 Doomben Cup?

The 2025 Doomben Cup was won by six-year-old Redwood gelding Antino at $3 favouritism for trainer Tony Gollan with Blake Shinn aboard from barrier 10 on 59kg to win by 3.95 lengths in a track record time of 2:00.88.

When is the Doomben Cup 2025?

What is the prize money for the Doomben Cup 2025?

$1,000,000

Where is the Doomben Cup 2025?

Doomben Racecourse, 75 Hampden Street, ASCOT, QLD 4007.