Phar Lap Stakes 2025

Ladbrokes Tip: The Phar Lap is a good guide to both the ATC Oaks and ATC Derby during The Championships

The latest edition of the Phar Lap Stakes took place on Saturday March 15, 2025 at Rosehill Gardens and saw Snitzel filly Lazzura ($4) salute in style for the event’s now eight-time winning trainer Chris Waller. 

2025 Phar Lap Stakes Results

The official Phar Lap Stakes Results 2025 and Finishing Order will be published below when the Group 2 takes place on Saturday March 15, 2025.

• 1st: #9 Lazzura
• 2nd: #1 Wonder Boy
• 3rd: #12 Declichy Boulevard

Chris Waller’s smart Snitzel filly Lazzura ($4) improved on a lead-up Group 1 Surround Stakes third to power home for a dominant 1.7 length win in the 2025 Phar Lap Stakes results handing her trainer his eighth victory in the past 11 runnings on her way to a likely Group 1 $1 million Queen Of The Turf Stakes bid over the Randwick mile on April 12.

2025 Phar Lap Stakes Odds

The top Phar Lap Stakes 2025 odds will be provided below the week of the race so bookmark this page to get behind your favourite three-year-olds of the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.

The Phar Lap Stakes is one of two Group 2 races run at Rosehill Racecourse on a Saturday in mid-March as part of Coolmore Classic Day during the annual Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.

2022 Phar Lap Stakes winner Mr Mozart. Photo: Steve Hart.

The Group 1 Coolmore Classic (1500m) for fillies and mares is the meeting’s highlight race, while the Phar Lap Stakes is another major feature on the card.

Run over the same 1500m distance as the Group 1, the Phar Lap Stakes is an open gender race for three-years-old run at set weights with colts and geldings carrying 56.5kg and the fillies allocated 54.5kg.

The Phar Lap Stakes offers $300,000 in total prize money including $170,000 to the winner and connections. The race is a good lead-up for three-year-olds looking to step out over more distance in races like the Group 1 ATC Oaks and ATC Derby run over 2400m at Randwick Racecourse later in the autumn.

The Phar Lap Stakes – Australian Oaks double was completed on back-to-back years by Chris Waller-trained fillies with Unforgotten (2018) and Verry Elleegant (2019), and again with their stablemate Hungry Heart in 2021.

Waller took his incredible record in the race up to six wins in seven years when Hungry Heart became his fifth consecutive Phar Lap Stakes winning filly in 2021. She went on to complete the Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes – ATC Oaks double that autumn.

The master trainer then won his seventh Phar Lap Stakes in 2023 with the odds-on favourite Zougotcha, and then celebrated his eighth win in 11 years with Lazzura in 2025. 

Phar Lap Stakes Info

• Date: Saturday March 15, 2025
• Track: Rosehill Gardens Racecourse
• Distance: 1500m
• Conditions: 3YO – Set Weights
• Status: Group 2
• Prize Money: $300,000
• First Run: 1973

Phar Lap Stakes Betting

Phar Lap Stakes odds are dominated each year by three-year-olds with nice lead-up autumn form in similar distanced races. Those proven over at least 1400m are usually high up the markets as are those with winning Sydney form.

Hungry Heart ($3.70 in 2021) followed by the fellow Chris Waller-trained filly Zougotcha ($1.50 in 2023) are the latest favourites in Phar Lap Stakes betting to salute for the punters.

There was a notable upset in 2024 by the previous spring’s VRC Oaks winner Zardozi who saluted second-up at Phar Lap Stakes odds of $13.

Phar Lap Stakes betting opens the Wednesday before the race following the release of the final field of acceptances and barriers.

Phar Lap Stakes Field

Winx (2015) is one of the most famous recent Phar Lap Stakes winners. Photo Credit: Steve Hart.

The Phar Lap Stakes race field features a line-up of the season’s most promising three-year-old staying types.

For the fillies, traditional lead-up races include the Group 2 Light Fingers Stakes (1200m) and Group 1 Surround Stakes (1400m).

The Surround Stakes recently produced Phar Lap Stakes winners in 2020 with Funstar (2nd) turning the tables on her last start conqueror Probabeel and 2021 with Hungry Heart improving on her lead-up eighth in the Group 1. 

In 2023 the fellow Waller-trained Zougotcha improved on her fourth fresh in the Surround Stakes to salute as the odds-on favourite in the Phar Lap field against the boys.

Zardozi (11th in 2024) and Lazzura (3rd in 2025) are the latest Phar Lap Stakes winners to come via a lead-up run in the Surround Stakes.

The male gallopers could come out of a number of different races in either Sydney or Melbourne including Flemington’s Group 3 CS Hayes Stakes (1400m) or the Group 2 Hobartville Stakes (1400m) held at Rosehill.

Phar Lap Stakes nominations close the Monday before the race with the final field and barrier draw out on the Wednesday.

2025 Phar Lap Stakes Field

The official Phar Lap Stakes 2025 field of final acceptances for the three-years-old Group 2 Coolmore Classic Day showdown will be published below once released on the Wednesday of race week. 

The 2025 Phar Lap Stakes final field features a smart line-up of gun three-year-olds led in betting by last start Group 1 Surround Stakes third placed filly Lazzura.

2025 Phar Lap Stakes Nominations

The early Phar Lap Stakes 2025 Nominations are taken on the Monday of race week and the list of potential runners in the field will be detailed below as soon as announced by Racing NSW.

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

Phar Lap Stakes Tips

Fillies have a great recent record over the boys in the Phar Lap Stakes and make good tips in the race especially those coming out of the recently upgraded Group 1 Surround Stakes (1400m) a fortnight earlier.

Zougotcha (4th in 2023), Zardozi (11th in 2024), and Lazzura (3rd in 2025) are the latest Phar Lap Stakes winning fillies to come out of the Surround Stakes.

Trainer Chris Waller prepared eight fillies to win in 11 years with superstar mare Winx (2015), Foxplay (2017), Unforgotten (2018), Verry Elleegant (2019), Funstar (2020), Hungry Heart (2021), Zougotcha (2023), and most recently Lazzura (2025).

Taking in-form hopefuls at single figures is also a good Phar Lap Stakes betting tip with those at longer odds rarely successful.

2025 Phar Lap Stakes Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider Phar Lap Stakes 2025 tips and betting selections will be detailed right here soon after betting opens so stay tuned to see who to back and sack in the ATC Derby & ATC Oaks lead-up.

Chris Waller’s Snitzel filly is a dual acceptor also in the mix for the Group 1 Coolmore Classic on the card. If she does go the way of this easier Group 2 assignment against her own age she’s shaping up as a hard to beat favourite. While yet to win over further than 1200m, her lead-up runs have been eye-catching. Far from disgraced in the Group 1 Flight Stakes last campaign over the Randwick mile when fifth to her star stablemate Lady Shenandoah, she’s third-up for the autumn now after running behind that same filly twice this time in when 4th in the Group 2 Light Fingers and 3rd in the Group 1 Surround Stakes. She’s been at a big price lately but won’t be found anywhere near the 25/1 offering of last start. Well rated for this in gate two with Tommy Berry to ride. If she runs, she wins.

2023 Phar Lap Stakes winner Zougotcha targets the Doncaster Mile on April 1 at Royal Randwick. Photo: Steve Hart.

Phar Lap Stakes Form Guide

The Phar Lap Stakes form guide lists crucial information like the jockeys, trainers, barriers and lead-up runs of the three-year-olds in the field.

The Phar Lap Stakes form has stacked up in better autumn races in recent years including the Group 1 Australian Oaks (2400m) for the fillies in April with the 2015 Phar Lap winner Winx running second in the Oaks two runs later. That was the last time Winx was ever beaten, the champion mare going on to win her subsequent 33 starts consecutively including a record four Cox Plate trophies.

That same year the Phar Lap Stakes runner-up Hauraki went on to win the Group 2 Tulloch Stakes (2000m) before his second to Mongolian Khan in the Group 1 Australian Derby (2400m). In 2009 Whobetgotyou was runner-up to Heart Of Dreams in the Phar Lap Stakes before running third in the Group 1 Doncaster Mile (1600m) two starts later.

More recently Foxplay (2017) backed up from her Phar Lap Stakes win two starts later to win Randwick’s Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m), while the 2020 Phar Lap winner Funstar ran second in that year’s Queen Of The Turf Stakes.

Following that, three other Waller-trained fillies franked the Phar Lap Stakes form by winning both it and the ATC Oaks – Unforgettable (2018), Verry Elleegant (2019) and Hungry Heart (2021).

The Phar Lap Stakes 2024 winner Zardozi franked the form with a host of good next-up runs including in the Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes (3rd), Group 1 ATC Oaks (2nd), the spring’s Group 1 The Metropolitan (2nd), Group 1 Caulfield Cup (4th), and most notably the Group 1 Melbourne Cup (4th) that November.

2025 Phar Lap Stakes Form Guide

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

Phar Lap Stakes Results

Single figure fancies have dominated the Phar Lap Stakes race results in recent years with the last to salute at a double figure price being Just Mambo ($11 in 2007).

Notable recent Phar Lap Stakes winners include the spring’s Flight Stakes winner from the previous year Zougotcha (2023); subsequent ATC Oaks winners Hungry Heart (2021), Verry Elleegant (2019) and Unforgotten (2018); Foxplay (2017) who jumped odds-on; super star mare Winx (2015); Heart Of Dreams (2009); and Apache Cat (2006).

Lazzura (2025) was the last Phar Lap Stakes winning filly.

Recent Phar Lap Stakes Winners

Past Phar Lap Stakes winners and placegetters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.

FAQ

Who won the 2025 Phar Lap Stakes?

The 2025 Phar Lap Stakes was won by Lazzura at $4 for trainer Chris Waller with jockey Tommy Berry aboard on 54.5kg from barrier 2 to win by 1.7 lengths in a time of 1:30.67.

When is the Phar Lap Stakes 2025?

What is the prize money for the Phar Lap Stakes 2025?

$300,000

Where is the Phar Lap Stakes 2025?

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