NE Manion Cup 2025

NE Manion Cup Betting

NE Manion Cup odds are usually dominated by proven staying types coming off a lead-up run in Sydney over the 2000m – 2400m distance range.

Any international raiders in the field after often kept safe in NE Manion Cup betting markets with UK horseman William Haggas preparing three recent winners with Young Rascal (2020), Favorite Moon (2021), and Post Impressionist (2024).

Post Impressionist ($3.90 in 2024) and Alalcance ($3.30 in 2025) are the lastest favourites in NE Manion Cup betting to win. 

NE Manion Cup Field

The NE Manion Cup race field features a smart line-up of staying types each autumn that may be eyeing a Sydney Cup run over further the following month. 

Following a run in the NE Manion Cup field many gallopers may contest the Group 2 Chairman’s Quality (2600m) in April. Recent horses to complete the NE Manion Cup – Chairman’s Quality Handicap double include The Offer (2014), Libran (2016), and Big Duke (2017). 

NE Manion Cup nominations close the Monday before the race with the final field of acceptances and barrier draw out on the Wednesday.

2025 NE Manion Cup Field

The official NE Manion Cup Final Field for 2025 will be announced on the Wednesday of race week leading up to Golden Slipper Stakes Day and published in full below. 

The NE Manion Cup 2025 final field features a smart field of potential Sydney Cup bound stayers led in betting by the classy Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott trained import Alalcance.

2025 NE Manion Cup Nominations

The early NE Manion Cup 2025 Nominations close on the Monday of race week with the official entries to be published right here.

NE Manion Cup Tips

NE Manion Cup tips favour in-form autumn gallopers with previous winning form at the 2400m or further. 

Horses under double figures in betting make a good NE Manion Cup tip as do any returning runners that finished in the money in the previous season’s edition of the race. 

Older runners make the best bet in NE Manion Cup tipping as since Precedence (2010) the only four-year-old to beat the older horses was European raider Favourite Moon (2021). 

Favourite Moon was the second international in as many years to win the race following the 2020 success of the fellow William Haggas-trained Young Rascal. 

Haggas returned to take out the race for the third time in five years with Post Impressionist beating his Aussie rivals down under in 2024. 

2025 NE Manion Cup Tips

Bookmark this page to view our Ladbrokes’ insider NE Manion Cup 2025 betting tips out the week of the race.

Could be a day for the favourite backers early on the card at Rosehill on Saturday including in the third with Alalcance the top elect and market mover in the NE Manion Cup for good reason. This flying grey mare is a class import for the Waterhouse/Bott yard who has been racing well since her arrival down under. She races as a five-year-old here but is lightly raced with just eight runs so far for a trio of wins and four seconds. Made an immediate impact in Oz debuting at Warwick Farm with 58kg to win by nearly four lengths last September over the mile and a half in a Benchmark 72. Sporadic runs since including a Listed Christmas Cup second in December at Randwick when narrowly denied. Back in winning form last time out fresh in the Listed Randwick City Stakes (2000m) on March 8 defeating Warmonger. She’ll relish the step back up in distance now boasting an impressive 2400m strike rate (4:1-3-0). Does rise in the kilos again from 53kg to 55kg but we’ve seen her storm home with plenty more on her back. Tim Clark and gate five two more pluses. Can win.

NE Manion Cup Form Guide

The NE Manion Cup form guide shows punters all the essential information from the barrier positions to the jockeys and trainers of each runner in the field.

The NE Manion Cup form guide has gone on to stack-up in tougher races many times over the years including in 2014 with the winner The Offer going on to complete the Chairman’s Handicap – Sydney Cup double. 

In 2016 the NE Manion Cup winner Libran won the Chairman’s next-up before a second in that year’s Sydney Cup quinella. 

The 2022 NE Manion Cup form was franked that spring with the winner No Compromise going on to win the Group 1 The Metropolitan (2400m). 

2021 NE Manion Cup winner Favourite Moon. Photo: Steve Hart.

2025 NE Manion Cup Form Guide

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

NE Manion Cup Results

Noteworthy NE Manion Cup winners throughout history include Paris Court (1976), the races first dual winner Dr Grace (1991-92), Manner Hill (2002), Precedence (2010), The Offer (2014), Libran (2016), Big Duke (2017), and Young Rascal (2020). 

Alalcance (2025) was the last NE Manion Cup winning mare and the first to beat home the boys since Pravda (2000). 

Recent NE Manion Cup Winners

Past NE Manion Cup winners and placegetters dating back to the year 1999 are detailed in the below table.