Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2025

Ladbrokes Tip: The George Ryder Stakes is a top lead-up into the Queen Elizabeth Stakes

The latest edition of the Queen Elizabeth Stakes took place on Saturday April 12, 2025 at Royal Randwick on Day 2 of ‘The Championships’ and saw Chris Waller’s outstanding mare Via Sistina ($2) salute for the punters to equal Winx’s record of seven Group 1 victories in a single season. 

2025 Queen Elizabeth Stakes Results

The 2025 Queen Elizabeth Stakes results and finishing order will be known on Saturday April 12, 2025 and published below.

Via Sistina winning the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Photo: Bradley Photos.

• 1st: #12 Via Sistina
• 2nd: #1 Dubai Honour
• 3rd: #5 Tom Kitten

Chris Waller’s champion mare Via Sistina ($2) equalled the Winx record of seven Group 1 victories in a single season with her commanding 1.75 length romp home for the favourite backers in Saturday’s 2025 Queen Elizabeth Stakes results.

2025 Queen Elizabeth Stakes Odds

The Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2025 odds and prices on the runners this autumn’s race will be available below as soon as available so stay tuned.

The Queen Elizabeth Stakes is the richest race of the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival and offers $5 million in total prize money.

Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2024 winner Pride Of Jenni made history saluting by over six lengths on the line. Photo: Steve Hart.

The prizemoney for the 2020 Queen Elizabeth Stakes was reduced to $2 million with cuts made across the carnival due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including $1.16 million reserved for the winner, before being elevated back to $4 million for 2021 and subsequently increased to $5 million for the 2023 edition.

Held on Day 2 of The Championships on the second Saturday of April each year at Royal Randwick, the weight-for-age Group 1 classic is run over 2000m and is held on the same day as the Sydney Cup, Australian Oaks and Queen Of The Turf Stakes.

The winners of the previous year’s Epsom Handicap and The Metropolitan as well as the current year’s Ranvet Stakes, Tancred Stakes, Doncaster Mile, and ATC Derby are all exempt from Queen Elizabeth Stakes ballot.

The event attracts the season’s best weight-for-age gallopers and middle-distance hopefuls and one of the best Queen Elizabeth Stakes lead-up races is the Group 1 George Ryder Stakes (1500m) held three weeks earlier at Rosehill Gardens on Golden Slipper Day.

There was a historic Queen Elizabeth Stakes result in 2024 with Pride Of Jenni leading all-the-way, including having a some 30-length lead mid-race, before saluting by 6.5 lengths over the spring’s subsequent eight-length Cox Plate hero Via Sistina! 

Via Sistina returned in 2025 to go one better and salute in her ninth career Group 1. The victory saw her make history when equalling Winx’s seven Group 1 victories in a single season. 

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Race Info

• Date: Saturday April 12, 2025
• Track: Royal Randwick Racecourse
• Distance: 2000m
• Conditions: Weight-for-age
• Status: Group 1
• Prize Money: $5 million
• First Run: 1851

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Betting

Queen Elizabeth Stakes betting each year is led by the season’s best weight-for-age performers coming out of lead-up runs in races including the Doncaster Mile, George Ryder Stakes and Tancred Stakes.

From 2010 – 2025 all but four of the 12 Queen Elizabeth Stakes winners ran either first or second in their lead-up runs including It’s A Dundeel (2014) and Criterion (2015) who came out of the Tancred Stakes and George Ryder Stakes respectively.

Australian Cup third placed Pride Of Jenni (2024) became the first horse to come off a Melbourne lead-up run and win the Queen Elizabeth Stakes since Sarrera (2008).

Favourites in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes odds have saluted 10 times since 2005 most recently with three-time hero Winx (2017, 2018 and 2019) followed by UK raiders Addeybb (2020) and Dubai Honour (2023) who both completed the Ranvet Stakes – Queen Elizabeth double for trainer William Haggas, and Via Sistina (2025) who also did the Ranvet / Queen Elizabeth double when beating home Dubai Honour.

In 2021 Addeybb returned and won again as the second elect defeating the favourite, his last start conqueror and last year’s runner-up Verry Elleegant who went on to win that year’s Melbourne Cup race.

There was a big upset in 2022 with Think It Over improving on a lead-up fourth in the Tancred Stakes to win at Queen Elizabeth Stakes odds of $41.

Dubai Honour ($2.30 in 2023) and Via Sistina ($2 in 2025) are the latest favourites to win the Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Field

The Queen Elizabeth Stakes race field attracts a top-class line-up of weight-for-age champions that come via races including the George Ryder Stakes and the Group 1 Tancred Stakes (2400m) also held in Sydney during the autumn.

The last galloper to complete the Tancred Stakes (then The BMW) – Queen Elizabeth Stakes double was Eremein (2006).

UK raider Addeybb did the Ranvet Stakes – Queen Elizabeth Stakes double in 2020. In 2021 Addeybb atoned for a lead-up second to Verry Elleegant in that year’s Ranvet to beat her home in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes in a repeat of the 2020 quinella. Addeybb’s stablemate Dubai Honour (2023) did the Ranvet – Queen Elizabeth double before returning in 2025 to run second to Via Sistina. 

Via Sistina (2025) is the last galloper to do the Ranvet Stakes / Queen Elizabeth Stakes double. 

Dual champion Grand Armee is one of three individual Queen Elizabeth Stakes winners for trainer Gai Waterhouse who also won with Desert War (2007) and More Joyous (2012).

Queen Elizabeth Stakes nominations close on a Monday in early February before first acceptances a month later.

The final Queen Elizabeth Stakes field of acceptances and barrier draw is then released on the Tuesday before the race.

2025 Queen Elizabeth Stakes Field

The Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2025 field and barrier will be released on the Tuesday of race week and published below.

The Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2025 final field features 15 of the season’s top WFA stars including Chris Waller’s short-priced favourite Via Sistina chasing her third Group 1 win on the trot and the event’s 2023 champ Dubai Honour who is unbeaten in the Sydney elite-levels.

• Update: #13 Fangirl (8) has been scratched in favour of a run in the Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m); #15 Full Count Felica (4) from the same stable has also been withdrawn. 

2025 Queen Elizabeth Stakes First Acceptances

The Queen Elizabeth Stakes first acceptances are taken in early March, about a month after the nominations and four weeks out from the event.

The 2025 Queen Elizabeth Stakes first acceptances close at midday on Tuesday the 11th of March 2025.

2025 Queen Elizabeth Stakes Nominations

The 2025 Queen Elizabeth Stakes nominations are taken on Tuesday the 11th of February 2025. 

The 2025 Queen Elizabeth Stakes nominations attracted 71 of the season’s best WFA horses led in all-in betting by Chris Waller’s eight-length Cox Plate winning mare Via Sistina.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Tips

Looking for gallopers that finished in the money in lead-up Sydney Group 1 races like the Tancred Stakes held a fortnight earlier over 500m further is a top Queen Elizabeth Stakes tip.

Favourites in the race only had a fair record until the three-peat of odds-on fancy Winx (2017-19) followed by a fourth straight win for the punters in 2020 with the European visitor Addeybb and another international raider saluting for the punters in 2023 in Dubai Honour, and Chris Waller’s mare Via Sistina in 2025. 

Mares also had a poor Queen Elizabeth Stakes record until recent years when the hoodoo was lifted with victories by More Joyous (2012), Lucia Valentina (2016), three-time champ Winx (2017, 2018 & 2019), Pride Of Jenni (2024), and Via Sistina (2025). 

Via Sistina (2025) was the last Queen Elizabeth Stakes winning mare.

2025 Queen Elizabeth Stakes Tips

Our insider Ladbrokes’ Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2025 betting tips will be detailed below the week of the race so stay tuned for who to back and sack in the Group 1 weight-for-age classic this autumn.

There’s no value taking Waller’s queen at her odds-on quote but finding it really hard not to back this mighty mare to enjoy a record-equaling 7th Group 1 win for the season. She is absolutely flying now fourth-up and coming off back-to-back elite level Sydney victories. Just continues to thrive and improve and put the writing on the wall with her commanding 1.5 length Ranvet Stakes title defence last time out at Rosehill. She had barrier one and James McDonald that day, a gate and star hoop she retains here. Last autumn had her running a distant second to Pride Of Jenni in this race, but without the front-running mare to rain on her parade, she looks to have this year’s edition in the bag. Has beaten the majority of the major players she faces on the weekend, has plenty of winning form at Randwick (4:2-1-1), and will relish getting up to 2000m now. Boasts a superior record at this distance (13:8-4-0) including the Cox Plate by eight lengths and the Champions Stakes by 2.75 in the spring down south. Wins.

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Form Guide

The Queen Elizabeth Stakes form guide provides punters with all the must-know race facts and statistics including barrier positions and lead-up form.

Horses coming off runs at Rosehill and Randwick have dominated the race over the past 30 years with only three Queen Elizabeth Stakes winners coming off a non-Sydney lead-up since 1983 with Pride Of Jenni (3rd in Flemington’s Australian Cup in 2024) the latest.

The age of the runners in the field is also listed on the Queen Elizabeth Stakes form guide and only one three-year-old has won in three decades with Intergaze (1997).

The form out of the 2022 Queen Elizabeth Stakes was franked with the runner-up, Zaaki, going on to place in a host of subsequent Group 1 races before successfully defending his title that spring in the Group 1 Champions Stakes (2000m) at Flemington over the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Form Facts

• Favourites didn’t have a great recent record in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes results until the three-peat of Winx (2017-19) followed by that of UK gallopers Addeybb (2020) and Dubai Honour (2023), and Via Sistina (2025). 
• Since 1987 nine Queen Elizabeth Stakes winners have been mares with Via Sistina (2025), Pride Of Jenni (2024), More Joyous (2012), Lucia Valentina (2016) and Winx (2017-19).
• Three-year-olds don’t stack-up in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes form with only one beating their older rivals in over 30 years – Intergaze (1997).

2025 Queen Elizabeth Stakes Form Guide

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

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Records

Below we take a look at some of the Queen Elizabeth Stakes race records like who is the most successful Queen Elizabeth Stakes jockey and what horse has run the fastest time in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes?

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Race Record: Via Sistina in 2025 set the current Queen Elizabeth Stakes winning time of 2:00.41. 

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Jockey Record: George Moore holds the current record with six Queen Elizabeth Stakes winning rides followed by Damien Oliver (5), Peter Cook (5), Neville Sellwood (5) and Hugh Bowman (4).

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Trainer Record: The late, great Tommy Smith Tommy Smith prepared a record 11 Queen Elizabeth Stakes winners. In the modern era the most successful Queen Elizabeth Stakes winning trainers are Chris Waller (5) and Tommy Smith’s daughter Gai Waterhouse (4).

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Winning Margin Record: Pride Of Jenni (6.54 lengths in 2024).

Queen Elizabeth Stakes Results

Horses aged between four-years-old and six-years-old coming off lead-up runs in Sydney Group 1s have dominated the Queen Elizabeth Stakes race results over the past 30 years.

There have been a number of upset Queen Elizabeth Stakes results in that time as well with some of the longest priced victories going to Think It Over ($41 in 2022), Reliable Man ($12 in 2013), My Kingdom Of Fife ($13 in 2011), and Sarrera ($51 in 2008).

Other notable recent Queen Elizabeth Stakes winners include Road To Rock (2010); Desert War (2007), Lonhro (2003); three-time champion Winx (2017, 2018 & 2019); UK raider Addeybb (2020, 2021); historic champ Pride Of Jenni (2024) who made an absolute mess of her rivals; and Chris Waller’s brilliant mare Via Sistina (2025). 

Past Queen Elizabeth Stakes Winners

Recent Queen Elizabeth Stakes winners and placegetters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.

FAQ

Who won the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Stakes?

The 2025 Queen Elizabeth Stakes was won by seven-year-old Fastnet Rock mare Via Sistina at $2 favouritism for trainer Chris Waller with jockey James McDonald aboard on 57kg to win by 1.75 lengths in a race record time of 2:00.41.

When is the Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2025?

What is the prize money for the Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2025?

$5,000,000

Where is the Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2025?

Randwick Racecourse, Alison Rd, Randwick NSW 2031.