Ladbrokes Tip: The Geelong Cup form often stacks up in the Melbourne Cup field
This year the Ladbrokes Geelong Cup ran on Thursday October 23, 2025 as a lead-up into the Melbourne Cup field 2025 with the impressive Paul Preusker trained winner Torranzino ($10) now exempt from ballot in the ‘race that stops a nation’ with Celine Gaudray to retain the ride.
2025 Ladbrokes Geelong Cup Results
The official Ladbrokes Geelong Cup 2025 Results & Finishing Order will be published below once the race takes place on Thursday October 23, 2025.
- 1st: No. 4 Torranzino
- 2nd: No. 7 Gilded Water
- 3rd: No. 2 Berkeley Square
Paul Preusker’s improving six-year-old stayer, Torranzino ($10), claimed victory in the 2025 Ladbrokes Geelong Cup results in style on Thursday, securing a golden ticket into the Melbourne Cup and delivering a breakthrough moment for jockey Celine Gaudray who gets her first ride in the ‘race that stops a nation’ on November 4. Flying home over the final 100m to run down the beaten odds-on favourite Gilded Water, Torranzino subsequently firmed in from $101 to $26 in the Melbourne Cup odds.
2025 Ladbrokes Geelong Cup Odds
The season’s updated Geelong Cup 2025 odds and links to our markets on the key Melbourne Cup form race will be detailed below over the spring so stay tuned for the best Geelong Cup betting offers.
| 4. Torranzino (2) J: Celine Gaudray 56kg x8082T: Paul Preusker | ||
| 7. Gilded Water (3) J: Declan Bates 54kg 2x313T: Ciaron Maher | ||
| 2. Berkeley Square (5) J: Luke Nolen 58kg 84664T: Dan O'Sullivan | ||
| 10. Ferago (4) J: Craig Newitt 54kg 12547T: Patrick F Ryan Jnr | ||
| 5. Whisky On The Hill (7) J: Michael Dee 55kg 85913T: Glen Thompson | ||
| 1. Changingoftheguard (6) J: Ethan Brown 60kg x8210T: Kris Lees | ||
| 8. Distrustful Award (8) J: Anthony Darmanin 54kg x3756T: Peter Luttrell | ||
| 9. Fernao (1) J: Jett Stanley 54kg 3x775T: Annabel & Rob Archibald |
Ladbrokes Geelong Cup Tips
Geelong Cup tips are usually dominated by proven staying types that are heading into the Melbourne Cup over 3200m. Classy city horses with form over 2400m or further or that ran solidly in the Caulfield Cup the previous week are a good tip, as are those not weighted too heavily in the handicap showdown.
Any strong international horses contesting the race also make a good Geelong Cup betting tip with the raiders boasting a dominant recent record in the event, as do graduates out of the Herbert Power Stakes roughly a fortnight prior.
2025 Ladbrokes Geelong Cup Tips
Our Ladbrokes’ insider Geelong Cup 2025 betting tips and exotic selections will be detailed in full below the week of the race so bookmark this page for the stayers to back and sack in the important spring event.
To Win: No. 7 Gilded Water
The 2025 Ladbrokes Geelong Cup has been postponed after strong wind gusts saw Wednesday’s meeting abandoned. The rescheduled race will run on Thursday October 23 as Race 4 at 4:10PM (AEDT).It’s hard to go past GILDED WATER (4) as the standout pick in this year’s Geelong Cup, currently holding firm as the $2.35 favourite. The Fastnet Rock five-year-old is looking to rebound after a brave third in The Bart Cummings, and punters are happy to forgive that defeat given the merit in the run – as am I. Two starts back, he was dominant at Caulfield over 2000m, carrying a big weight yet still putting his rivals away with ease — a performance that propelled him to the top of The Bart Cummings market. In that race, he went out hard under Jamie Melham and couldn’t quite see it through late, fading to finish third behind Valiant King. He probably overdid things early, but the fact he stuck on for a placing highlighted his toughness and class. This time around, he carries the same weight, has drawn ideally in barrier four, and gets Declan Bates in the saddle — a switch that could prove crucial if he can get the gelding to settle and find his rhythm early. With Valiant King subsequently running a huge race for third in the Caulfield Cup, the form from The Bart Cummings looks rock-solid. If Bates can ride him patiently, Gilded Water looks poised to bounce straight back into the winner’s circle. Class act with the right form and setup — he is clearly the one to beat.
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7. Gilded Water (3)
J: Declan Bates 54kg
2×313T: Ciaron Maher
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The Ladbrokes Geelong Cup is a Group 3 feature for stayers held on a Wednesday in late October days before the premier 2040m Cox Plate during the annual Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.
The 2025 Ladbrokes Geelong Cup was postponed and run on the Thursday after the Wednesday meeting was abandoned due to heavy wind gusts.
The Geelong Cup field features stayers possibly coming out of the quick five-day back-up out of the Caulfield Cup and heading towards November’s iconic $10 million Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) run over the two miles at Flemington on the first Tuesday of November.
In 2025 the Ladbrokes Geelong Cup winner is officially ballot exempt for the Melbourne Cup!
Run at Geelong Racecourse over 2400m the open handicap offers prize money of $500,000 as of 2022 and runs the Wednesday after Caulfield Cup Day, around a fortnight before Melbourne Cup Day, and has done so since 1947. First held back in 1872 when Flying Scud saluted, the Geelong Cup has been run over a host of different distances including originally over the same two miles (3200m) as the Melbourne Cup.
It has held Group 3 status since 2002 and notable Geelong Cup winners in recent years include Media Puzzle (2002), Americain (2010) and Dunaden (2011) who all went on to win the ‘race that stops a nation’ saluting in that year’s Melbourne Cup.
More recently the 2019 Geelong Cup winner Prince Of Arran backed-up to run second to Vow And Declare in that year’s Melbourne Cup results, a feat repeated in 2022 by Geelong Cup winner Emissary who ran a next-up second to Gold Trip in the Melbourne Cup quinella.
Ladbrokes Geelong Cup Race Info
- Date: Thursday October 23, 2025
- Track: Geelong Racecourse (Ladbrokes Geelong)
- Distance: 2400m
- Conditions: Handicap
- Status: Group 3
- Prize Money: $500,000
- First Run: 1872
Ladbrokes Geelong Cup Betting
Geelong Cup betting is traditionally led by stayers with form over the distance who are heading into the Melbourne Cup. Internationals have featured prominently in the Geelong Cup odds since the success of French visitors Americain and Dunaden in successive years.
Before the 2019 victory by Prince Of Arran in an all-international Geelong Cup trifecta, Qewy had been the last raider to salute in the Geelong Cup in 2016 and was the second elect to salute, while in 2017 the Michael Moroney-trained import Vengeur Masque broke his maiden status down under winning at Geelong Cup odds of $15 ahead of the short-priced favourite. The following year in 2018 Runaway saluted at similar Geelong Cup odds of $16.
Trainer Michael Moroney won his second Geelong Cup in 2022 with another import, Emissary, who scored an upset at $18.
There was also a boil-over in the 2023 Geelong Cup results with veteran 10-year-old Amade saluting narrowly up the middle at $31.
In 2024 Onesmoothoperator became the latest internationally trained Geelong Cup winner dominating the race at $11 odds in his first Australian start.
Favourites though do have a good record in the Geelong Cup so check the form on the horses at the top of the markets. Prince Of Arran ($4.20 in 2019) followed by Steel Prince ($3.50 in 2020) and Tralee Rose ($2.60 in 2021) are the latest favourites in Geelong Cup betting to salute.
Ladbrokes Geelong Cup Field
The Geelong Cup race field is released two days before the race runs on Geelong Cup Day that Wednesday, which is a public holiday in Geelong, with nominations closing the previous week.
A host of the season’s premier stayers, both local hopes and interstate raiders, feature in the final Geelong Cup acceptances for the mile and a half handicap that has produced three Melbourne Cup winners since 2002 including the two French-trained winners of the world’s richest handicap.
Plenty of horses in the Geelong Cup field also come out of the previous Saturday’s Caulfield Cup field, while the Group 2 Herbert Power Stakes (2400m) over the same track / distance as the Group 1 Caulfield Cup a week earlier is another good lead-up into the Geelong Cup race.
Emissary (8th in 2022) was the last Herbert Power Stakes graduate to take out the Geelong Cup.
In 2025 the Ladbrokes Geelong Cup winner Torranzino improved on a lead-up second in the Group 3 The Bart Cummings race at Flemington.
2025 Ladbrokes Geelong Cup Field
The official Geelong Cup 2025 Final Field & Barriers will be announced on the Monday of race week and detailed in full below so stay tuned to see what spring stayers make the starting line-up on way to the Melbourne Cup.
A small line-up of just 10 potential Melbourne Cup bound stayers faces off in the 2025 Ladbrokes Geelong Cup final field including the Ciaron Maher trained Gilded Water out to improve on his last start third in the Group 3 The Bart Cummings.
| Entrant | Last 6 | Sex | Barrier | Weight | |
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1. Changingoftheguard
J: Ethan Brown
T: Kris Lees |
2x8210 | G | 6 | 60kg | |
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2. Berkeley Square
J: Luke Nolen
T: Dan O'Sullivan |
084664 | G | 5 | 58kg | |
| 3. Onesmoothoperator (9) Scratched: | |||||
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4. Torranzino
J: Celine Gaudray
T: Paul Preusker |
2x8082 | G | 2 | 56kg | |
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5. Whisky On The Hill
J: Michael Dee
T: Glen Thompson |
x85913 | G | 7 | 55kg | |
| 6. Grand Pierro (1) Scratched: | |||||
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7. Gilded Water
J: Declan Bates
T: Ciaron Maher |
12x313 | G | 3 | 54kg | |
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8. Distrustful Award
J: Anthony Darmanin
T: Peter Luttrell |
1x3756 | G | 8 | 54kg | |
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9. Fernao
J: Jett Stanley
T: Annabel & Rob Archibald |
13x775 | G | 1 | 54kg | |
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10. Ferago
J: Craig Newitt
T: Patrick F Ryan Jnr |
312547 | G | 4 | 54kg | |
2025 Ladbrokes Geelong Cup Nominations
The early Ladbrokes Geelong Cup 2025 Nominations are released the Thursday prior to the race and will be listed below.
| Last 10 | Horse | Sex | Age | Trainer | Ballot | Weight | True Weight | Penalty | Hcp Rating | |
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| 1 | 11731×3756 | DISTRUSTFUL AWARD | G | 6 | Peter Luttrell | 1 | 54kg | 51kg | 88 | |
| 2 | 3x742x8210 | CHANGINGOFTHEGUARD (IRE) | G | 7 | Kris Lees | 2 | 60kg | 60kg | 106 | |
| 3 | 0x404x8827 | ADELAIDE RIVER (IRE) | G | 6 | Kris Lees | 3 | 59.5kg | 59.5kg | 105 | |
| 4 | 60310×7294 | SMOKIN’ ROMANS (NZ) | G | 9 | Ciaron Maher | 4 | 59.5kg | 59.5kg | 105 | |
| 5 | 1x0x084664 | BERKELEY SQUARE | G | 6 | Dan O’Sullivan | 5 | 58kg | 58kg | 102 | |
| 6 | 05735x840x | ONESMOOTHOPERATOR (USA) | G | 8 | Brian Ellison | 6 | 58kg | 58kg | 102 | |
| 7 | 17425x9x00 | HERMAN HESSE (GB) | G | 9 | Ciaron Maher | 7 | 57kg | 57kg | 100 | |
| 8 | 07344×7451 | BRAYDEN STAR (GB) | G | 7 | Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young | 8 | 56.5kg | 56.5kg | 99 | |
| 9 | 84212×8082 | TORRANZINO (NZ) | G | 6 | Paul Preusker | 9 | 56kg | 56kg | 98 | |
| 10 | x0x2311330 | SAYEDATY SADATY (IRE) | G | 5 | Ciaron Maher | 10 | 55.5kg | 55.5kg | 97 | |
| 11 | x54248x626 | BERKSHIRE BREEZE (IRE) | G | 7 | Ciaron Maher | 11 | 55.5kg | 55.5kg | 97 | |
| 12 | x460x8x866 | POST IMPRESSIONIST (IRE) | G | 7 | Anthony & Sam Freedman | 12 | 55.5kg | 55.5kg | 97 | |
| 13 | 8x778x6385 | YOUNG WERTHER (NZ) | G | 8 | Danny O’Brien | 13 | 55.5kg | 55.5kg | 97 | |
| 14 | 202763×070 | INTERPRETATION (IRE) | G | 8 | Ciaron Maher | 14 | 55.5kg | 55.5kg | 97 | |
| 15 | 0x80x48x47 | CLEVELAND (IRE) | G | 8 | Kris Lees | 15 | 55.5kg | 55.5kg | 97 | |
| 16 | 1103×85913 | WHISKY ON THE HILL (GB) | G | 6 | Glen Thompson | 16 | 55kg | 55kg | 96 | |
| 17 | 21253×0838 | GRAND PIERRO | G | 6 | Jason Warren | 17 | 54.5kg | 54.5kg | 95 | |
| 18 | 059417×440 | TRAV (NZ) | G | 6 | Raymond Connors | 18 | 54kg | 54kg | 94 | |
| 19 | 70x4541x60 | DON DIEGO DE VEGA (FR) | G | 6 | Annabel & Rob Archibald | 19 | 54kg | 53.5kg | 93 | |
| 20 | 10x112x313 | GILDED WATER (GB) | G | 5 | Ciaron Maher | 20 | 54kg | 53kg | 92 | |
| 21 | 7x500x5036 | CADMUS (IRE) | G | 7 | Anthony & Sam Freedman | 21 | 54kg | 51kg | 88 | |
| 22 | 121213×775 | FERNAO (IRE) | G | 7 | Annabel & Rob Archibald | 22 | 54kg | 50kg | 86 | |
| 23 | 32×8233512 | SO YOU ARE | G | 4 | Stirling Osland | 23 | 54kg | 49kg | 84 | |
| 24 | 44031×2547 | FERAGO | G | 9 | Patrick F Ryan Jnr | 24 | 54kg | 45.5kg | 77 |
Table Credit: Racing Australia.
Geelong Cup Form Guide
The Geelong Cup form guide has all the basic information like the trainers and jockeys of all the runners plus extra details like the lead-up runs, weight and barriers for each starter. Looking for a well-weighted runner that comes out of the Caulfield Cup on the Geelong Cup form guide is important, as is seeking out the in-form international visitors heading towards the Melbourne Cup.
The Geelong Cup form has stacked up plenty of times on the first Tuesday of November in the Melbourne Cup results, so watching the form out of the Group 3 as an early guide to Melbourne Cup betting is crucial for savvy spring punters.
The 2023 Geelong Cup form was franked by the second placed Ashrun who finished fourth to Without A Fight next-up in the Melbourne Cup. He also returned for a third in the 2024 Group 1 Tancred Stakes in Sydney the following autumn.
2025 Ladbrokes Geelong Cup Form Guide
A link to our comprehensive Geelong Cup 2025 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.
Geelong Cup Results
The Geelong Cup race results show the winner and exact finishing order of all the runners plus the winning time and margin and starting price of all the horses. It can also reveal the value in the upcoming Melbourne Cup betting markets heading into November’s famous Flemington showdown.
Notable recent Geelong Cup winners include Bauer (2008); French raiders Americain (2010) and Dunaden (2011) who both did the Geelong Cup – Melbourne Cup double; and Qewy (2016) who ran fourth in the Melbourne Cup next race before winning the Sandown Cup as the odds-on favourite over the two miles.
Tralee Rose (2021) was the last Geelong Cup winning mare.
Pacific Dancer holds the current 2400m Geelong Cup race record winning in 2004 in a time of 2 minutes 26:51 seconds.
Past Geelong Cup Winners
Recent Geelong Cup winners and placegetters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.
| Year | Winner | Runner-Up | Third | Time |
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| 2025 | Torranzino | Gilded Water | Berkeley Square | 2:31.59 |
| 2024 | Onesmoothoperator | Interpretation | Muramasa | 2:27.98 |
| 2023 | Amade | Ashrun | Sir Lucan | 2:30.7 |
| 2022 | Emissary | Surefire | Makram | 2:28.5 |
| 2021 | Tralee Rose | Dr Drill | Hasta La War | 2:27.0 |
| 2020 | Steel Prince | Le Don De Vie | King Of Leogrance | 2:30.3 |
| 2019 | Prince Of Arran | True Self | Haky | 2:26.8 |
| 2018 | Runaway | Northwest Passage | Finche | 2:28.4 |
| 2017 | Vengeur Masque | Gallic Chieftain | Violate | 2:29.3 |
| 2016 | Qewy | Grey Lion | Oceanographer | 2:28.9 |
| 2015 | Almoonqith | Dandino | Manndawi | 2:28.9 |
| 2014 | Caravan Rolls On | Marksmanship | Like A Carousel | 2:31.2 |
| 2013 | Ibicenco | Verdant | Moudre | 2:35.1 |
| 2012 | Gatewood | Chateau Margaux | Brigantin | 2:34.1 |
| 2011 | Dunaden | Tanby | Bauer | 2:30.1 |
| 2010 | Americain | Moudre | Exceptionally | 2:30.3 |
| 2009 | Leica Ding | Dandaad | Sterling Prince | 2:27.5 |
| 2008 | Bauer | Moatize | Magic Instinct | 2.30:1 |
| 2007 | The Fuzz | Zavite | Desert Master | 2:27.0 |
| 2006 | Mandela | Vanquished | Dacs Back | 2:28.2 |
| 2005 | On A Jeune | Brave Lancer | Men At Work | 2:26.7 |
| 2004 | Pacific Dancer | Devastating | Diamond Jake | 2:26.5 |
| 2003 | Zazzman | Shes Archie | Tumeric | 2:30.0 |
| 2002 | Media Puzzle (USA) | Requiem | Donarch | 2:25.9 |
| 2001 | Karasi (Ire.) | Maythehorsebewithu | Scrumptious | 2:32.0 |
| 2000 | Savrocca | Apache King | Bulkhead | 2:29.9 |
FAQ
Who won the 2025 Ladbrokes Geelong Cup?
The 2025 Ladbrokes Geelong Cup was won by six-year-old Tarzino gelding Torranzino at $10 for trainer Paul Preusker with jockey Celine Gaudray aboard on 56kg from barrier 2 to win by 0.5 lengths on a Soft (7) track in a time of 2:31.59.
Who won the 2024 Ladbrokes Geelong Cup?
The 2024 Ladbrokes Geelong Cup was won by the Brian Ellison-trained international Onesmoothoperator who saluted at $11 with Craig Williams riding.
When is the Ladbrokes Geelong Cup 2025?
Thursday October 23, 2025What is the prize money for the Ladbrokes Geelong Cup 2025?
$500,000
Where is the Ladbrokes Geelong Cup 2025?
Geelong Racecourse, 99 Breakwater Road, Breakwater Victoria, 3219.
How do I bet on the 2025 Geelong Cup?
Bet online or via the latest iOS/Android apps with Ladbrokes.
The first step is to create an account at ladbrokes.com.au. The process is quick and easy!
Once you've created your account you can make a deposit via credit card, or any other of our secure payment methods. Next up, head to the racing page and find the race and runner that's right for you.
Which horse will win the 2025 Geelong Cup?
The best way to pick which horse will win the Geelong Cup is to take into account the form, assess the barriers, and consider the weight the horse will carry (among other factors). Check out ladbrokes.com.au in the lead up to the race for full form information.