Emancipation Stakes 2025

Ladbrokes Tip: Check the Emancipation Stakes results for a guide to the Queen Of The Turf Stakes

The latest edition of the Emancipation Stakes runs on Tuesday April 1, 2025 on Tancred Stakes Day at Rosehill offering the winner a ballot exemption for the Queen Of The Turf Stakes after being postponed due to heavy rainfall in Sydney on Saturday and saw Joe Pride’s classy grey Lekvarte ($18) let down late for an upset win. 

2025 Emancipation Stakes Results

The official Emancipation Stakes Results 2025 and race finishing order will be published below when the race is run and won on Tuesday April 1, 2025 .

2025 Emancipation Stakes winner Lekvarte. Photo: Bradley Photos.

• 1st: #5 Lekvarte
• 2nd: #7 Lazzura
• 3rd: #14 Harlem Queen

Joe Pride’s six-year-old Reliable Man grey, Lekvarte ($18), was huge late coming from the back to let down fast down the outside on the home straight to hit the front and hold on to narrowly salute in the 2025 Emancipation Stakes results before being offered as part of the Glenesk Thoroughbreds draft
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2025 Emancipation Stakes Odds

The Emancipation Stakes 2025 betting odds will be available below the week of the race giving you access to the best autumn racing odds ahead of the Group 2 on Tancred Stakes Day at Rosehill.

The Emancipation Stakes is a Group 2 race for fillies and mares aged three-years-old and above held at

2022 Emancipation Stakes winner Promise Of Success. Photo: Steve Hart.

Rosehill Gardens Racecourse on a Saturday in late March (early April in 2021) each Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.

The set weights plus penalties event runs over 1500m and is a key support act on the Tancred Stakes Day card, which is one of the big race days of the season hosting two Group 1 showdowns.

Offering $300,000 in total prize money as of 2024, the Emancipation Stakes is often used as a lead-up to the Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m) at Randwick a fortnight later with the Emancipation winner exempt from Queen Of The Turf Stakes ballot.

Atishu (2nd in 2023) was the last Queen Of The Turf Stakes runner to back up and win the Queen Of The Turf Stakes at Randwick during ‘The Championships’.

Emancipation Stakes Race Info

• Date: Tuesday April 1, 2025
• Track: Rosehill Gardens Racecourse
• Distance: 1500m
• Conditions: Fillies & Mares (3YO & Upwards) – Set Weights + Penalties
• Status: Group 2
• Prize Money: $300,000
• First Run: 1985

Emancipation Stakes Betting

Early Emancipation Stakes odds are out at bookmakers after nominations are taken the Monday of race week and firm after the final field is announced two days later.

Mares with good lead-up form in earlier races of similar class for female gallopers over the autumn in Sydney usually dominate Emancipation Stakes betting including those that ran well in the Group 2 Guy Walter Stakes (1400m) in February and the Group 1 Coolmore Classic (1500m) a fortnight before.

Nimalee ($4.20 in 2021) was the last favourite in Emancipation Stakes betting to get the job done, while there was a notable upset in 2025 with Lekvarte ($18). 

Emancipation Stakes Field

Chris Waller prepared dual Emancipation Stakes winner Catkins (2014-15). Photo Credit: Steve Hart.

The Emancipation Stakes race field attracts a class line-up of in-form fillies and mares coming off earlier Sydney runs over the autumn.

Many back up out of a tougher assignment at the track in the previous month’s Group 1 Coolmore Classic (1500m). In 2014 the Emancipation Stakes winner Catkins, who also won the 2015 edition 12 months later, came off a third in the Coolmore Classic.

More recently in 2017 the Emancipation Stakes winner Zanbagh improved on a lead-up fifth in the Coolmore Classic to salute; Prompt Response atoned for a luckless fifth in the Coolmore Classic to win the Emancipation Stakes of 2018; and the following year Invincible Gem won the Group 2 having run eighth in the Group 1 last time out.

In 2022 Promise Of Success improved on a lead-up Coolmore Classic fourth to win the rescheduled Emancipation Stakes at Newcastle.

In 2025 Lekvarte improved on her last place finish (12th) in the Group 3 Wenona Girl Handicap (1200m) at Randwick to win the Emancipation Stakes. 

Emancipation Stakes nominations close the Monday before the race runs on the Saturday with the final field and barrier draw released on the Wednesday.

2025 Emancipation Stakes Field

The official Emancipation Stakes 2025 Field & Barriers will be released by Racing NSW the Wednesday before the race and published in full below so stay tuned to see who is in and out of the Tancred Stakes Day event.

The 2025 Emancipation Stakes field and barriers are set to be released on the Wednesday of race week and will be published in full below.

2025 Emancipation Stakes Nominations

The early Emancipation Stakes 2025 Nominations close the Monday of race week and will be listed in full below once released.

	Last 10	Horse	Sex	Age	Trainer	Hcp Rating
1	11x03x098x	AMOKURA	M	5	Kris Lees	102
2	221x1x139x	ANISETTE (GB)	M	5	Chris Waller	112
3	0x273575x6	ARCTIC GLAMOUR	M	4	Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou	95
4	6926x500x2	AUSBRED FLIRT	M	6	Brad Widdup	98
5	111×125	CLEAR THINKING (GB)	M	5	Paul Messara & Leah Gavranich	86
6	114x46x710	COEUR VOLANTE (NZ)	M	4	Glen Thompson	104
7	21x322x763	DECLICHY BOULEVARD	F	3	Chris Waller	82
8	34x11244x3	HARLEM QUEEN	F	3	Nathan Doyle	86
9	92532x609x	HONEY GIRL (GB)	M	6	Ciaron Maher	95
10	86323×1163	INVASIVE DREAMS	M	4	Kristen Buchanan	65
11	114x71032x	LADY IN PINK	M	4	Leon & Troy Corstens & Will Larkin	103
12	11x345x431	LAZZURA	F	3	Chris Waller	95
13	08x41679x0	LEKVARTE (NZ)	M	6	Joseph Pride	103
14	21x410x7x5	MRS MORRELL (GB)	M	4	James Ferguson	72
15	620x8200x0	PRIVATE LEGACY	M	4	Gregory Hickman	87
16	7x03115x9x	PULCHRITUDINOUS (NZ)	M	4	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	98
17	2x1x25421x	SAKTI (IRE)	M	4	Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr)	92
18	12110x0x30	SCARLET OAK	M	4	Chris Waller	92
19	1x123x51	SNOW IN MAY	F	3	John O’Shea & Tom Charlton	86
20	8010x1540x	UNIQUE AMBITION (NZ)	M	4	John Sargent	76

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Emancipation Stakes Tips

2023 Emancipation Stakes winner Roots was good leading an all-Waller trifecta. Photo: Steve Hart.

Emancipation Stakes tips include looking for proven Group-class mares with good records over a similar distance with form in Sydney against similar company.

The Coolmore Classic over the same track and distance earlier in the month has been a good Emancipation Stakes guide in recent years, and three mares have gone back-to-back in the race in the past decade with dual winners Skyerush (2012-13), Catkins (2014-15), and Zanbagh (2016-17).

2025 Emancipation Stakes Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider Emancipation Stakes 2025 betting tips and race selections will be detailed below the week of the race so stay tuned for the female gallopers to back and sack in the Queen Of The Turf Stakes lead-up race.

Tipping the recent success of John O’Shea & Tom Charlton to continue in the Emancipation Stakes this year with class, Group 1 placed filly 15. SNOW IN MAY looking the value. This lovely young daughter of The Autumn Sun takes on the older mares here with confidence off a last start Listed Canberra Guineas win over 1400m at the start of the month. She is third-up now and more than capable of this level if she races anything like her spring form when second in the Group 2 Tea Rose and third in the Group 1 Flight Stakes over the Randwick mile behind Lady Shenandoah. That form has been firmly franked with the Flight Stakes winning filly winning all three starts this prep including the Group 1 Coolmore Classic last start. Snow In May gets to 1500m now carrying just 53kg from a favourable barrier five draw. Kerrin McEvoy comes back aboard having partnered her in the big spring races coming close. Can win.

Emancipation Stakes Form Guide

The Emancipation Stakes form guide details must know facts for punters including the trainers, jockeys, barriers and lead-up form of all the runners in the race.

Looking at the form on mares coming out of a lead-up like the Coolmore Classic and checking the records of the Emancipation Stakes hopefuls at the track / distance is important and can help make a successful wager on the event.

The Emancipation Stakes form was franked in 2022 with the winner Promise Of Success back that spring to win the lucrative $2 million The Invitation (1400m) at Randwick in October.

In 2023 the Emancipation Stakes winner Roots franked the form in the winter heading to Brisbane for a Group 1 Tatt’s Tiara (1400m) second, while her stablemate Atishu improved on a second in the Emancipation to win both the Queen Of The Turf Stakes and the spring’s Group 1 Champions Stakes (2000m) that year.

2025 Emancipation Stakes Form Guide

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

Emancipation Stakes Results

The Emancipation Stakes race results have been dominated by classy mares in recent years, a number of which went on to run well in Randwick’s Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m) over the mile.

Notable recent Emancipation Stakes winners include Roots (2023), Promise Of Success (2022), Zanbagh (2016-17), Catkins (2014-15), Sykerush (2012-13), Sacred Choice (2010), and Hot Danish (2007).

Past Emancipation Stakes Winners

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

FAQ

Who won the 2025 Emancipation Stakes?

The 2025 Emancipation Stakes was won by six-year-old Reliable Man mare Lekvarte at $18 for trainer Joseph Pride with jockey Joshua Parr aboard on 56kg (a half kilo over the mare’s 55.5kg allocation) from barrier 4 to win by 0.11 lengths in at time of 1:31.49.

When is the Emancipation Stakes 2025?

What is the prize money for the Emancipation Stakes 2025?

$300,000

Where is the Emancipation Stakes 2025?

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