Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2025

The 2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas along with six other Magic Millions races were abandoned due to heavy rainfall and rescheduled for Friday night on January 17 under the lights at the Gold Coast. 

Ladbrokes Tip: Interstate raiders have a top record in the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas at the Gold Coast

The Magic Millions 3YO Guineas is a $3 million Restricted Listed event held at Queensland’s Gold Coast Racecourse each January during the summer racing season.

The Gold Coast Magic Millions Race Day features a total of ten events and offers over $13.5 million in total prize money.

2022 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas winner King Of Sparta. Photo: Steve Hart.

One of the richest Magic Millions races on the card, the Magic Millions Guineas is open only to three-year-old graduates of the Magic Millions Sales and is contested over 1400m under set weights plus penalties conditions.

The other key race on the line-up is the $3 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic (1200m).

Other events on the program include the Magic Millions Cup , Magic Millions Subzero (Trophy), Magic Millions Snippets (Sprint), Magic Millions Fillies & Mares, Magic Millions QTIS Open, and the Magic Millions The Debut.

Good lead-up races into the Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas field each season include Doomben’s Listed Gold Edition Plate (1200m) in December and Brisbane’s Group 3 Vo Rogue Plate (1350m) held in Brisbane a fortnight before Magic Millions Day.

Pierata (2017-18) followed by Boomsara (2018-19) and Fashion Legend (2022-23) are the latest horses to complete the Vo Rogue Plate – Magic Millions 3YO Guineas double. In 2020 Alligator Blood also became the third horse in as many years to win the Magic Millions Guineas on the back of a Vo Rogue Plate success before being stripped of the title later in the year due to a positive swab to a banned substance.

The rescheduled Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2025 ran under the lights at the Gold Coast on Friday January 17, 2025 offering $3 million in prize money after the original Magic Millions Raceday was a washout and was won by Bosustow ($13).

2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Odds

The Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2025 odds will be listed below complete with market links as soon as available.

Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Race Info

• Date: Friday January 17, 2025
• Track: Gold Coast Racecourse
• Distance: 1400m
• Conditions: Set Weights + Penalties – 3YOs
• Status: Restricted Listed
• Prize Money: $3 million
• First Run: 2001

Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Betting

Magic Millions 3YO Guineas betting opens weeks in advance of the race with pre-field markets open on the likely runners in the feature showdown.

Runners that dominate the Magic Millions Gold Coast Guineas odds each summer include those with previous Group status wins on their record, runners proven the right-handed way of racing, horses with winning form over a similar distance and those from the major training stables in the country.

Looking at the horses that ran well in the previous summer’s Magic Millions 2YO Classic race can be a good indicator of the now three-year-olds that will perform back at the same race day 12 months on.

Alligator Blood ($1.80 in 2020) was the last favourite in Magic Millions 3YO Guineas betting to salute for the punters before being stripped of the title later that year due to a positive swab. 

There was a notable upset the following year with Aim winning the 2021 Magic Millions Guineas at a blow-out price of $31.

In 2022 Aim’s stablemate King Of Sparta won as the $4 favourite for Peter & Paul Snowden, before another winner at big odds in 2023 with Fashion Legend ($21) and again in 2025 with Bosustow ($13).

Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Field

The Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas race field usually draws a capacity line-up of 18 starters (plus five emergencies) with the season’s top three-year-old Magic Millions eligible runners facing off for the big prize money.

Open to both colts & geldings as well as fillies, many horses in the Magic Millions Guineas field come off a lead-up run at Brisbane or the Gold Coast giving them the experience the right-handed way of racing.

The early Magic Millions 3YO Guineas nominations are taken by Racing Queensland the previous December followed by the final field the week of the race.

2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Field

The Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2025 field will be released on the Monday of race week and published in full below.

The official 2025 Magic Millions Guineas Barrier Draw then takes place on the Tuesday during a special event at Surfers Paradise beach on the Gold Coast.

The 2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas final field features a full line-up of youngsters led in betting by the airborne Snitzanova for Ciaron Maher with the Group 2 Sandown Guineas winning filly chasing a fourth win on the trot.

2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Nominations

The early Magic Millions 3YO Guineas nominations close the December prior to the race attracting hundreds of all-in entries for the $3 million Gold Coast showdown the next January.

The 2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas nominations closed on Friday the 29th of November 2024 and attracted 212 early entries including the ultra-consistent Ciaron Maher trained Group 2 Sandown Guineas winning filly Snitzanova and Wyong Magic Millions 3YO & 4YO Stakes winner Bauhinia.

Click here to view the full list of Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2025 nominations.

Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Tips

Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas tips include backing in-form three-year-olds with black-type winning form on their record and those from interstate stables.

History shows visitors from stables in Sydney and Melbourne have a dominant record so backing a runner outside of Queensland is a good Magic Millions 3YO Guineas betting tip.

Boomsara (2019) and Alligator Blood (2020) however both overcame the local hoodoo becoming the first Queensland-trained winners of the race since 2013. The David Vandyke-trained winner was subsequently stripped of the title and Eleven Eleven declared the official 2020 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas winner.

In 2024 the Robert Heathcote-trained Abounding became the latest Queensland-trained Magic Millions Guineas winner before another win by a Queensland-based horse in 2025 with Bosustow (Eagle Farm, Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald). 

2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider Gold Coast Magic Millions Guineas 2025 betting tips and exclusive summer racing selections will be detailed below the week of the race so stay tuned for the three-year-old Magic Millions Sales graduates to back and sack!

It’s a big field full of in form 3YOs in the rescheduled MM Guineas on Friday but the hot favourite Snitzanova still looks impossible to bet against especially at a still attractive price of $6.50 at time of publish. Ciaron Maher is a star trainer and this is a star young filly. The well bred daughter of Snitzel is going great guns having won her past three on the trot interstate. A Group 3 winner two back at Newcastle in the Spring Stakes she stepped up in grade and saluted again beating home the boys in the Group 2 Sandown Guineas over the mile in the mud back in November. She hasn’t raced since, or trialed, so that is the only query. But Maher knows what he is doing, and this filly has been kept fresh for a big resuming run. The 1400m is ideal, Daniel Stackhouse continues associations, and the top elect gets the run of the race from a good gate where other exciting hopes have drawn out near the carpark. Can win.

Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Form Guide

The Magic Millions 3YO Guineas form guide has all the need-to-know race information including the saddlecloth numbers, Magic Millions barriers, jockeys and the trainers of all the horses in the field each Queensland Summer Racing Carnival.

When doing the Magic Millions Guineas form it is important to look out for in-form runners from Sydney stables, graduates out of the key preparatory races like Brisbane’s Vo Rogue Plate and those with Group 1 form.

2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Form Guide

A link to the Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2025 Form Guide will be available below following final acceptances.

Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Results

Recent Magic Millions 3YO Guineas race results had been dominated by horses trained outside of the sunshine state with the last Queensland-trained winners of the race being Saluter (2013) followed more recently by Boomsara (2019) for former champion hoop Chris Munce and the champion Alligator Blood (2020), the latter subsequently stripped of the title due to a positive swab disqualification, until the 2024 win by Brisbane-based filly Abounding.

Fillies have plenty of winning form over the boys in the Magic Millions Guineas results including the victory of Sweet Idea (2014) and more recently Flying Jess (2017), but overall colts have enjoyed the most wins.

Abounding (2024) is the latest Magic Millions 3YO Guineas winning filly.

Notable Magic Millions 3YO Guineas winners include Ha Ha (2002), Gold Edition (2007), Mahuta (2016), and Alligator Blood (2020) who was later disqualified and removed from the official list of champions.

Past Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Winners

Recent Magic Millions 3YO Guineas winners dating back to the year 2001 are detailed in the below table.

FAQ

Who won the 2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas?

The 2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas was won by the Annabel Neasham and Rob Archibald trained Bosustow at $13 with Joshua Parr in the saddle.

When is the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2025?

What is the prize money for the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2025?

$3,000,000

Where is the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2025?

Gold Coast Racecourse, LOT 6 Racecourse Drive, Bundall Queensland, 4217.

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