Ladbrokes Tip: The San Domenico Stakes is a good early lead-up into the Group 1 three-year-old races in Melbourne!
The latest edition of the San Domenico Stakes ran on Saturday, August 30, 2025 as a Golden Rose Stakes lead-up and was won in impressive fashion by the flying Peter Snowden trained favourite Raging Force ($2.60F) who saluted in his fourth straight event.
San Domenico Stakes 2025 Results
The official 2025 San Domenico Stakes Results & Finishing Order will be provided below once the race is run and won on Saturday, August 30, 2025 at Rosehill.
- 1st: #7 Raging Force
- 2nd: #5 Wodeton
- 3rd: #3 Beiwacht
The Group 1 Golden Rose on September 27 is calling for the airborne Peter Snowden trained Raging Force ($2.60F) who posted his fourth win on the trot with a 1.43 length romp home over the luckless Chris Waller trained Wodeton in the 2025 San Domenico Stakes results on Saturday.
The season’s top San Domenico Stakes 2025 odds and betting market links will be available below once final acceptances are announced.
| 7. Raging Force (3) J: Tommy Berry 55kg 6x111T: Peter Snowden | ||
| 5. Wodeton (2) J: James McDonald 55kg 3224xT: Chris Waller | ||
| 3. Beiwacht (7) J: Adam Hyeronimus 57.5kg 2190xT: Chris Waller | ||
| 2. Rivellino (1) J: Jason Collett 57.5kg 1145xT: Kris Lees | ||
| 1. Devil Night (5) J: Tyler Schiller 58.5kg 215xT: M, W & J Hawkes | ||
| 4. King Of Pop (6) J: Zac Lloyd 57kg 1102xT: Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou | ||
| 9. Tom Vegas (4) J: Donovan Dillon 55kg 12xT: Dean Mirfin |
2025 San Domenico Stakes Odds
The Group 3 San Domenico Stakes is a 1100m sprint showdown for three-year-olds run at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse in August each Sydney Spring Racing Carnival. The race is run at set weights plus penalties and offers $250,000 in total prize money as of 2023 and was upgraded from a Group 3 race in 2005.
The short-distance sprint is the feature race held in Sydney that day and is accompanied on the card by the Group 3 Up And Coming Stakes (1300m), while Melbourne’s Group 1 Memsie Stakes takes place on the same date at Caulfield.
The race is named in honour of four-time Group 1 winner San Domenico who dominated in the late 40s and early 50s.
Three-year-olds in the San Domenico Stakes field are often heading towards tougher events for their age group over the spring including Melbourne’s Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) at Flemington. Exceedance (2019) was the last horse to complete the San Domenico Stakes – Coolmore Stud Stakes double.
San Domenico Stakes Race Info
- Date: Saturday, August 30, 2025
- Track: Rosehill Gardens Racecourse
- Distance: 1100m
- Conditions: 3YOs – Set Weights + Penalties
- Status: Group 3
- Prize Money: $250,000
- First Run: 1980
San Domenico Stakes Field
The San Domenico Stakes race field attracts a class line-up of the season’s most exciting young sprinters, many of which contested Group 1 events as juveniles such as the Golden Slipper Stakes at the same track over the autumn. No horse has completed the Golden Slipper – San Domenico Stakes double however since Tierce (1991).
Most three-year-olds are racing in the event first-up and are heading towards upcoming events including the Group 1 Golden Rose Stakes (1400m) with many top three graduates out of the San Domenico going on to finish in the Golden Rose trifecta.
In The Congo (2021) is the last horse to complete the San Domenico Stakes – Golden Rose double.
A good lead-up into the San Domenico Stakes field is Rosehill’s Listed The Rosebud (1100m) held at the same track / distance earlier in the spring and Anders (2020) was the last three-year-old to do The Rosebud – San Domenico Stakes double.
The San Domenico Stakes nominations close the Monday of race week followed by final acceptances on the Wednesday.
2025 San Domenico Stakes Field
The official San Domenico Stakes 2025 field and barriers for Group 3 short-distance race will be announced by Racing NSW on the Wednesday leading-up to San Domenico Stakes Day and published in full below.
The 2025 San Domenico Stakes final field features a small but class line-up of potential Group 1 bound youngsters including the Chris Waller trained Golden Slipper runner-up Wodeton who returns in gate two with J-Mac aboard and Peter Snowden’s flying Raging Force after a fourth win on the trot.
| Entrant | Last 6 | Sex | Barrier | Weight | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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1. Devil Night
J: Tyler Schiller
T: M, W & J Hawkes |
215x | C | 5 | 58.5kg | |
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2. Rivellino
J: Jason Collett
T: Kris Lees |
11145x | C | 1 | 57.5kg | |
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3. Beiwacht
J: Adam Hyeronimus
T: Chris Waller |
72190x | C | 7 | 57.5kg | |
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4. King Of Pop
J: Zac Lloyd
T: Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou |
1102x | C | 6 | 57kg | |
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5. Wodeton
J: James McDonald
T: Chris Waller |
13224x | C | 2 | 55kg | |
| 6. Memo (3) Scratched: | |||||
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7. Raging Force
J: Tommy Berry
T: Peter Snowden |
6x111 | G | 3 | 55kg | |
| 8. Nashville Jack (7) Scratched: | |||||
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9. Tom Vegas
J: Donovan Dillon
T: Dean Mirfin |
12x | G | 4 | 55kg | |
2025 San Domenico Stakes Nominations
Nominations for the 2025 San Domenico Stakes close on the Monday of race week with the list of potential runners in the three-years-olds’ feature to be published here.
2025 San Domenico Stakes nominations extended until 11:00am (AEST) – 26/08/2025
| Last 10 | Horse | Sex | Age | Trainer | Hcp Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 72190x | BEIWACHT | C | 3 | Chris Waller | |
| 2 | 215x | DEVIL NIGHT | C | 3 | Michael, John & Wayne Hawkes | |
| 3 | 2411x | GRAND EAGLE | C | 3 | Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou | 68 |
| 4 | 1102x | KING OF POP | C | 3 | Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou | |
| 5 | 3x232818x | MEMO | F | 3 | Peter Snowden | 84 |
| 6 | 45×14 | NASHVILLE JACK | C | 3 | Brad Widdup | 74 |
| 7 | 6×111 | RAGING FORCE | G | 3 | Peter Snowden | |
| 8 | 11145x | RIVELLINO | C | 3 | Kris Lees | |
| 9 | 11 | SAN GIOVANNI | G | 3 | Michael Freedman | 65 |
| 10 | 314 | SONOFKIRK | C | 3 | Anthony & Sam Freedman | |
| 11 | 1324x | STATE VISIT | C | 3 | Ciaron Maher | |
| 12 | 18×4 | STORMLAND (NZ) | C | 3 | Ciaron Maher | 65 |
| 13 | 12x | TOM VEGAS | G | 3 | Dean Mirfin | |
| 14 | 13224x | WODETON | C | 3 | Chris Waller |
Table Credit: Racing Australia.
San Domenico Stakes Betting
San Domenico Stakes odds are led each season by three-year-old sprinters proven in Group company that contested tougher races as two-year-olds last time in like the Golden Slipper Stakes or Melbourne’s Blue Diamond Stakes.
Youngsters with winning form in Sydney over the shorter distance races feature highly in San Domenico Stakes betting tips.
Anders ($2.80 in 2020), Storm Boy ($2.35 in 2024) and Raging Force ($2.60 in 2025) are the latest favourites in San Domenico Stakes betting to salute.
Sweet Ride caused an upset in 2022 saluting at San Domenico Stakes odds of $31.
San Domenico Stakes Tips
Solid San Domenico Stakes tips include looking for Golden Slipper Stakes and other Group 1 graduates from the autumn, three-year-olds with winning Sydney form in similar company and proven 1100m performers.
2025 San Domenico Stakes Tips
Our Ladbrokes’ exclusive San Domenico Stakes betting tips for 2025 will be detailed below listing the three-year-olds to back and sack in the Group 3 event this season so stay tuned.
- To Win: #7 Raging Force ($2.50 at time of publish) – BET NOW
There are a few classy spring contenders resuming in the San Domenico field but the horse with the fitness edge doing everything right this prep is RAGING FORCE (4). From a top trainer of young horses, this Peter Snowden runner is flying and is out to extend an impressive winning streak. The talented Cosmic Force gelding has proven a winter revelation for the stable saluting in his past three assignments and is proven here at Rosehill. At his latest he was very impressive carrying a hefty 59kg for a two-length victory over this track and trip earning him a shot at a Group 3 now. He’s deserving of that and his top spot in betting and, from barrier 4 in a small field with Tommy Berry sticking aboard right down to 55kg, he’ll be very hard to stop.
San Domenico Stakes Form Guide
The San Domenico Stakes form guide features all the must-know information for punters including the saddlecloth numbers, jockeys, trainers, barriers and lead-up form of the runners in the race.
The San Domenico Stakes form has stacked-up in later Group 1 spring races for three-year-olds many times in recent years, especially the Golden Rose Stakes.
In 2018 the San Domenico Stakes winner Graff finished third in the Golden Rose results, while the following year Exceedance repeated the same feat and also went on to win that year’s Coolmore Stud Stakes over the Melbourne Cup Carnival.
The 2019’s San Domenico Stakes runner-up Bivouac meanwhile went on to take out the Run To The Rose – Golden Rose Stakes double, while In The Congo (2021) a few years later completed the San Domenico – Golden Rose double.
2025 San Domenico Stakes Form Guide
A link to our detailed San Domenico Stakes 2025 form guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.
San Domenico Stakes Results
San Domenico Stakes race results have been dominated by in-form three-year-old sprinters with proven Sydney form.
Notable recent San Domenico Stakes winners include General Nediym (1997), Testa Rossa (1999), Gold Edition (2006), Foxwedge (2011), Japonisme (2015), Exceedance (2019), and In The Congo (2021).
Snitzerland (2012) was the last San Domenico Stakes winning filly.
Anders holds the current San Domenico Stakes race record winning in 2020 in a time of 1 minute 02.67 seconds.
Past San Domenico Stakes Winners
Recent San Domenico Stakes winners and placegetters dating back to the year 1980 are detailed in the below table.
| Year | Winner | Second | Third | Time |
| 2025 | Raging Force | Wodeton | Beiwacht | 1:04.06 |
| 2024 | Storm Boy | Mayfair | Tropicus | 1:02.98 |
| 2023 | Libertad | Moravia | Butch Cassidy | 1:03.3 |
| 2022 | Sweet Ride | Nettuno | Swiss Exile | 1:04.4 |
|
2021 (Held at Kembla Grange) |
In The Congo | Paulele | Captivant | 1:05.6 |
| 2020 | Anders | Peltzer | Mamaragan | 1:02.6 |
| 2019 | Exceedance | Bivouac | Anaheed | 1:06.2 |
| 2018 | Graff | Neutrality | Performer | 1:05.2 |
| 2017 | Pariah | Chauffeur | Jorda | 1:03.2 |
| 2016 | Star Turn | Tango Rain | Kentucky Miss | 1:04.3 |
| 2015 | Japonisme | King’s Troop | Haptic | 1:02.7 |
| 2014 | Nostradamus | Washington Heights | Law | 1:03.6 |
| 2013 | Va Pensiero | Cluster | Windjammer | 1:02.8 |
| 2012 | Snitzerland | Driefontein | All Too Hard | 1:04.7 |
| 2011 | Foxwedge | Anise | Karuta Queen | 1:04.3 |
| 2010 | Obsequious | Solar Charged | Decision Time | 0:59.3 |
| 2009 | Shellscrape | Sniplaz | Kiss Me Katy | 0.58.1 |
| 2008 | Duporth | Whitefriars | Atomic Force | 1:04:2 |
| 2007 | Sliding Cube | Mimi Lebrock | Moonboat | 0.58.3 |
| 2006 | Gold Edition | My Middi | Astounded | 0.59.4 |
| 2005 | Media | Written Tycoon | Snitzel | 0.57.4 |
| 2004 | Charge Forward | Fastnet Rock | Dance Hero | 0.57.2 |
| 2003 | Regimental Gal | Spark of Life | Dorky | 0.56.9 |
| 2002 | Star Of Florida | Chocolate Starfish | Athelnoth | 0.57.7 |
| 2001 | Mistegic | Fair Embrace | Palais | 0.59.1 |
| 2000 | Zariz | Dymamic Love | Kootoomootoo | 0.57.0 |
| 1999 | Testa Rossa | Easy Rocking | Catamarca | 1:00.9 |
| 1998 | Race Not Run | – | – | |
| 1997 | General Nediym | Sports | Adeewin | 0.57.7 |
| 1996 | Sovereign State | Clang | Apple Danish | 0.57.2 |
| 1995 | Our Maizcay | Strategic | Millrich | 0.57.4 |
| 1994 | Lord Jim | Flaming Hot | Dapper Magic | 0.57.9 |
| 1993 | Sashed | Moss Rocket | Stormy Regent | 0.59.3 |
| 1992 | Surtee | Klokka | Monsieur | 0.57.7 |
| 1991 | Tierce | Big Dreams | Cloudlet | 0.57.1 |
| 1990 | Acecay | Varikos | Committal | 0.59.3 |
| 1989 | Show County | Patronise | Charles County | 0.58.0 |
| 1988 | Merimbula Bay | Full And By | Fortlin | 0.59.0 |
| 1987 | Omnicorp | Sky Chase | Golden Unicorn | 0.59.2 |
| 1986 | Gallery Level | Pre Catelan | Western Ace | 0.58.7 |
| 1985 | Let’s Get Physical | Timothy | Shankhill Lass | 0.57.9 |
| 1984 | Quiet Little Drink | Bletchencore | Princess Jocinda | 0.58.3 |
| 1983 | Sir Dapper | Been There | Yoyangamble | 0.57.7 |
| 1982 | Rosebrook | Regal Karioi | Sounds Of Morning | 0.57.5 |
| 1981 | Black Shoes | Ideal Planet | Wenona Princess | 1:01.0 |
| 1980 | Proud Knight | John’s Hero | Gay Rosalind | 0.57.6 |
FAQ
Who won the 2025 San Domenico Stakes?
The 2025 San Domenico Stakes was won by three-year-old Cosmic Force gelding Raging Force at $2.60 favouritism for trainer Peter Snowden with jockey Tommy Berry aboard on 55kg from barrier 3 to win by 1.43 lengths on a Soft (5) track in a time of 1:04.06.
When is the San Domenico Stakes 2025?
Saturday, August 30, 2025What is the prize money for the San Domenico Stakes 2025?
$250,000
Where is the San Domenico Stakes 2025?
Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, James Ruse Dr, Rosehill NSW 2142.
How do I bet on the 2025 San Domenico Stakes?
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Which horse will win the 2025 San Domenico Stakes?
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