Gold Coast Guineas 2025

The latest edition of the Gold Coast Guineas ran on Saturday May 10, 2025 at the Gold Coast Racecourse and saw last start Group 1 placegetter in New Zealand, Bosustow ($7.50), win by a runaway six lengths!

Gold Coast Guineas 2025 Results

The official 2025 Gold Coast Guineas Results & Finishing Order will be announced below once the race is run and won on Saturday May 10, 2025.

• 1st: #1 Bosustow
• 2nd: #7 Merchant Gold
• 3rd: #6 Tuned

The Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald trained Blue Point colt Bosustow ($7.50) made a stunning return to racing down under after a Group 1 placing across the Tasman to blitz his rivals on Heavy going saluting in the 2025 Gold Coast Guineas results by six lengths. The gun galloper came from fourth at the top of the straight before jockey Josh Parr got the split a furlong out to hit the front and win running away.

2025 Gold Coast Guineas Odds

The top Gold Coast Guineas 2025 odds on the potential Group 1 -bound winter gallopers contesting the Group 3 will be available below as soon as released so stay tuned for the best racing markets on the three-years-old features.

The Gold Coast Guineas is a Group 3 race held at the Gold Coast Racecourse* during the early stages of the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival on a Saturday at the start of May.

*The 2024 Gold Coast Guineas and entire A.D. Hollindale Stakes Day card ran at the Sunshine Coast Racecourse. 

The feature event at the meeting, the A.D. Hollindale Stakes is run over 1400m under weight-for-age conditions and now offers a generous $500,000 in prize money. The Group 3 Ken Russell Memorial Classic (1200m) for JJ Atkins-bound two-year-olds is the other major event on the card.

The Gold Coast Guineas is the key support act on AD Hollindale Stakes Day and is contested over 1200m. The event is run at set weights and is open only to three-year-olds. Offering $200,000 in prize money, the Gold Coast Guineas serves as a key lead-up into tougher feature races over the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival.

Gold Coast Guineas Race Info

• Date: Saturday May 10, 2025
• Track: Gold Coast Racecourse
• Distance: 1200m
• Conditions: Set Weights – Three-Year-Olds only
• Status: Group 3
• Prize Money: $200,000
• First Run: 2000

Gold Coast Guineas Betting

Gold Coast Guineas betting markets are usually dominated by interstate-trained horses coming off good lead-up runs in class races in Sydney or Queensland over the autumn.

Three-year-olds with proven form at the 1200m distance and further sit high up the Gold Coast Guineas odds.

The favourites have a strong recent record in the event including five straight wins between 2020 and 2024 with the Peter & Paul Snowden-trained stablemates Hightail (2020) and Marboosha (2021), followed by Spirit Of Boom ($2.70 in 2022) for Robert Heathcote, Yellow Brick ($2.40 in 2023) for Toowoomba trainers Tony & Maddysen Sears, and the James Cummings-trained Godolphin galloper Corniche ($3.20 in 2024).

Gold Coast Guineas Field

The Gold Coast Guineas race field attracts a collection of the season’s best young three-year-old sprint types, many coming off lead-up runs in Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.

Horses that contested the Gold Coast Magic Millions races during the summer often do well in the Gold Coast Guineas later in the year. For example, in 2020 the Peter & Paul Snowden-trained Hightail won the Gold Coast Guineas having run a nice third in that January’s $2 million Magic Millions 3YO Guineas. In 2023 Yellow Brick won the Gold Coast Guineas (held that year at the Sunshine Coast) first-up off a second in that season’s Magic Millions 3YO Guineas.

Bosustow (2025) was the last horse to complete the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas / Gold Coast Guineas double at the track.

In 2024 Corniche won the Gold Coast Guineas at the Sunshine Coast on the back of a fourth in the Group 2 $1 million Arrowfield 3YO Sprint (1200m) in Sydney the month before.

Gold Coast Guineas nominations close the Monday before the race with the final field and barriers out two days later on the Wednesday.

2025 Gold Coast Guineas Field

The official Gold Coast Guineas 2025 field & barrier draw will be released by Racing Queensland on the Wednesday of race week and announced in full below so stay tuned to see what gallopers are in the mix.

The 2025 Gold Coast Guineas field features a smart line-up of potential Queensland Derby bound three-year-olds including the resuming Bosustow coming off a Group 1 second across the Tasman and progressive Merchant Navy gelding Merchant Gold chasing a hat-trick.

2025 Gold Coast Guineas Nominations

The early 2025 Gold Coast Guineas nominations are taken on the Monday of race week.

Gold Coast Guineas Form Guide

The Gold Coast Guineas form guide details essential information for punters like the jockeys, trainers, barriers and lead-up runs of all the horses in the field.

Checking the form for runners that come off a Sydney lead-up, those with winning form over the distance and interstate raiders – who have a good strike-rate in the event – is also important.

In 2023 the Gold Coast Guineas for was franked with the second placed filly, Lady Laguna, running top three in a host of tougher races including winning Sydney’s Group 1 Canterbury Stakes in March of 2024.

2025 Gold Coast Guineas Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Gold Coast Guineas 2025 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Gold Coast Guineas Tips

Gold Coast Guineas tips include looking for horses proven at around 1200m and those with good lead-up form in Sydney.

Previous experience at the track isn’t crucial, so instead of tipping a local runner look at interstate raiders heading towards the Brisbane Winter Carnival features.

2025 Gold Coast Guineas Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider Gold Coast Guineas 2025 betting tips and Group 3 racing selections will be detailed below leading up to the race so bookmark this page for the horses to back and sack heading into the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival.

• Each Way: #1 Bosustow ($12 at time of publish) – BET NOW

The Neasham/Archibald stable is going great guns and they look to have a value runner lining up in the Gold Coast Guineas on Saturday with Bosustow returning to the races down under. The talented and consistent Blue Point colt was last seen finishing runner-up in open age company across the Tasman when second to Here To Shock in the Group 1 BCD Group Sprint (1400m) at Te Rapa in early February. Prior to that he was an upset Magic Millions Guineas winner here at the Gold Coast so is proven at the track. Here To Shock franked the form out of New Zealand with a Group 1 Canterbury Stakes second in March to Royal Patronage and now it is this colt’s turn to continue on with it also. Yet to win first-up but is drawn for a dream run from gate five with Josh Parr sticking in the saddle. He’s bred for success so what he lacks fitness-wise he makes up for in pedigree. Needs to be good if he’s to come from the back and win over this distance but think he’s up to the task. Each Way.

Gold Coast Guineas Results

Gold Coast Guineas race results in recent years have been dominated by Sydney raiders and in-form fillies with three of the eight winners from 2017-2025 being fillies, most recently Marboosha (2021).

Notable Gold Coast Guineas winners from the past decade include six-length champion Bosustow (2025), Champagne Cuddles (2018), Takedown (2016), and Dothraki (2014).

Recent Gold Coast Guineas Winners

Past Gold Coast Guineas winners and placegetters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table. 

FAQ

Who won the 2025 Gold Coast Guineas?

The 2025 Gold Coast Guineas was won by three-year-old Blue Point colt Bosustow at $7.50 for trainers Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald with jockey Joshua Parr aboard on 57kg from barrier 4 to win by a dominant six lengths in a time of 1:10.72.

When is the Gold Coast Guineas 2025?

What is the prize money for the Gold Coast Guineas 2025?

$200,000

Where is the Gold Coast Guineas 2025?

Gold Coast Racecourse, Racecourse Drive, Bundall, QLD 4217.