Ladbrokes Tip: The Tristarc Stakes is a traditional Empire Rose Stakes lead-up in the spring
The latest edition of the Tristarc Stakes ran on Saturday October 18, 2025 as part of Melbourne’s 2025 Caulfield Cup Day card and was won by Rob Heathcote’s in-form Brisbane trained mare Abounding ($2.80).
2025 Tristarc Stakes Results
The full Tristarc Stakes 2025 Results & Finishing Order will be available below once the race takes place on Saturday October 18, 2025.
- 1st: No. 5 Abounding
- 2nd: No. 2 Splash Back
- 3rd: No. 7 Bossy Nic
Rob Heathcote’s in-form five-year-old daughter of Rich Enuff, Abounding ($2.80), overcome a luckless run to surge home in a bounding late charge to run right over the top of her rivals and take out the 2025 Tristarc Stakes results by a length. She has now firmed in from $34 to $9 to win the Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes at Flemington on Derby Day.
2025 Tristarc Stakes Odds
The season’s latest Tristarc Stakes 2025 odds and links to our Tristarc Stakes betting markets will be available below the week of the race so stay tuned for the best prices on the Empire Rose Stakes-bound mares this Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.
| 5. Abounding (5) J: Blake Shinn 56kg 2x332T: Robert Heathcote | ||
| 2. Splash Back (6) J: Nash Rawiller 57.5kg 15251T: Grahame Begg | ||
| 7. Bossy Nic (2) J: Harry Coffey 55kg x6956T: Tony & Calvin McEvoy | ||
| 1. Miraval Rose (1) J: Jordan Childs 57.5kg 0x311T: Grahame Begg | ||
| 10. Tuileries (4) J: Mark Zahra 55kg 48132T: Peter Snowden | ||
| 4. Lady Jones (3) J: Luke Nolen 57kg 3660xT: Stephen V Brown | ||
| 9. Rapt (8) J: Beau Mertens 55kg 1790xT: Jason Deamer | ||
| 8. Sassy Boom (7) J: Andrea Atzeni 55kg 32524T: Danny O'Brien |
Tristarc Stakes Tips
Good Tristarc Stakes tips include looking for a mare coming off a top three run in Group company, runners with winning form over the distance and Group 1 performers.
The favourites only have a fair strike rate in the race so looking further down the markets for a mare that ran well last time out at double figures is also a nice Tristarc Stakes betting tip to consider.
2025 Tristarc Stakes Tips
Our Ladbrokes’ insider Tristarc Stakes 2025 betting tips will be detailed below the week of the race so bookmark this page for the mares to back and sack in the Caulfield Cup Day support act this season.
To Win: No. 1 Miraval Rose
MIRAVAL ROSE (1) lines up as the equal topweight but looks a serious winning hope in the last on Caulfield Cup Day, especially from the inside draw. Grahame Begg’s Grunt mare is flying, chasing a hat-trick after back-to-back wins in Melbourne. She was strong fresh behind Everest contender Angel Capital in the Chautauqua Stakes, then beat Stretan Angel here at Caulfield before stepping up to claim the Blazer Stakes at Flemington in style. Jordan Childs sticks, and from gate one he’ll roll forward and give her every chance. She’s got timing, upside, and the form to back it all up — happy to be with her to finish the day on a high.
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1. Miraval Rose (1)
J: Jordan Childs 57.5kg
0x311T: Grahame Begg
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The Tristarc Stakes is a Group 2 support race on the Caulfield Cup Day card at Caulfield Racecourse in mid-late October each Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.
The meeting is headlined by the Group 1 $5 million Caulfield Cup (2400m) and along with the Tristarc Stakes the other Group 2 feature on the program is the Caulfield Sprint (1000m). Other features on the line-up include the Group 3 Moonga Stakes and Group 3 Ethereal Stakes for Oaks-bound fillies.
Run over 1400m under set weights plus penalties, the Tristarc Stakes is open only to mares aged four-years-old and above and offers $300,000 in total prize money.
The Tristarc Stakes makes a nice lead-up into the Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes (1600m) at Flemington on Victoria Derby Day during the Melbourne Cup Carnival. The latest mares to complete the Tristarc Stakes – Empire Rose Stakes double are Red Tracer (2013) and Colette (2021).
Tristarc Stakes Race Info
- Date: Saturday October 18, 2025
- Track: Caulfield Racecourse
- Distance: 1400m
- Conditions: Mares – Set Weights + Penalties
- Status: Group 2
- Prize Money: $300,000
- First Run: 1982
Tristarc Stakes Betting
Tristarc Stakes betting odds are led each season by quality mares with proven Melbourne form, ability over 1400m – 1600m and those coming off a run in a lead-up race like the Blazer Stakes – now known as the Rose Of Kingston Stakes – or the Group 3 How Now Stakes held the month before. In 2022 beaten How Now Stakes favourite Chain Of Lightning improved on her third in that lead-up race to win the Tristarc Stakes next start.
Upsets are not uncommon however and recent winners to jump at double-figures in Tristarc Stakes betting include La Passe ($26 in 2015), Streama ($10 in 2012), Madam Rouge ($10 in 2020), and Lady In Pink ($17 in 2024).
Colette ($2.45 in 2021) was the last favourite in Tristarc Stakes betting to win.
Tristarc Stakes Field
The Tristarc Stakes race field attracts a collection of the season’s top middle-distance mares many eyeing a Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes (formerly known as the Myer Classic) run over the mile on Derby Day a fortnight later.
The traditional lead-up into the Tristarc Stakes field is Flemington’s Group 2 Rose Of Kingston Stakes (1400m) – formerly known as the Blazer Stakes – run over the same distance two weeks earlier.
La Passe (2015) was the last mare to complete the Blazer Stakes – Tristarc Stakes double. That same year Jessy Belle ran third in both races. More recently, Savatiano (2019) won the Tristarc Stakes improving on a lead-up fourth in the Blazer.
In 2023 Wrote To Arataki improved on a third in the Rose Of Kingston Stakes to win the Tristarc Stakes.
Lady In Pink (7th in 2024) was the last Rose Of Kingston Stakes graduate to win the Tristarc Stakes at ther next start.
Many mares coming out of the Tristarc Stakes field go on to run in the Myer Classic. In 2014 Sweet Idea won the Group 2 before a second to Bonaria in the Myer Classic next start. That same year Catkins ran third in both races. Tristarc Stakes nominations close the Monday before the race runs on the Saturday followed by the final acceptances and barriers released on the Wednesday.
2025 Tristarc Stakes Field
The official Tristarc Stakes 2025 Final Field & Barriers will be released on the Wednesday of race week and detailed in full below so stay tuned to see which mares line-up in the capacity 16-starter Tristarc Stakes field.
The Tristarc Stakes 2025 final field features a number of key mares led in betting by Rob Heathcote’s Queensland trained Abounding coming off a string of top three runs including a last start second in the Group 2 Stocks Stakes to Splash Back who is also in the mix for the rematch this weekend at Caulfield.
| Entrant | Last 6 | Sex | Barrier | Weight | |
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1. Miraval Rose
J: Jordan Childs
T: Grahame Begg |
30x311 | M | 1 | 57.5kg | |
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2. Splash Back
J: Nash Rawiller
T: Grahame Begg |
115251 | M | 6 | 57.5kg | |
| 3. Wrote To Arataki (6) Scratched: | |||||
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4. Lady Jones
J: Luke Nolen
T: Stephen V Brown |
x3660x | M | 3 | 57kg | |
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5. Abounding
J: Blake Shinn
T: Robert Heathcote |
62x332 | M | 5 | 56kg | |
| 6. Glasgow Lass (9) Scratched: | |||||
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7. Bossy Nic
J: Harry Coffey
T: Tony & Calvin McEvoy |
3x6956 | M | 2 | 55kg | |
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8. Sassy Boom
J: Andrea Atzeni
T: Danny O'Brien |
932524 | M | 7 | 55kg | |
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9. Rapt
J: Beau Mertens
T: Jason Deamer |
71790x | M | 8 | 55kg | |
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10. Tuileries
J: Mark Zahra
T: Peter Snowden |
x48132 | M | 4 | 55kg | |
2025 Tristarc Stakes Nominations
The Tristarc Stakes 2025 Nominations are first taken on the Monday leading-up to Caulfield Cup week and the full list of early entries will be available below once released.
2025 Tristarc Stakes nominations extended until 10:00am (AEDT) – 14/10/2025
| Last 10 | Horse | Sex | Age | Trainer | Hcp Rating | |
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| 1 | 7x0662x332 | ABOUNDING | M | 5 | Robert Heathcote | 104 |
| 2 | 01223×6956 | BOSSY NIC | M | 5 | Tony & Calvin McEvoy | 88 |
| 3 | 212×126 | DEEP PLEASURE | M | 4 | Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr) | 73 |
| 4 | 1x1x3519x | GLASGOW LASS | M | 4 | Matt Laurie | 76 |
| 5 | 5251x3660x | LADY JONES | M | 6 | Stephen V Brown | 95 |
| 6 | 331630×311 | MIRAVAL ROSE | M | 5 | Grahame Begg | 102 |
| 7 | 1x4171790x | RAPT | M | 5 | Jason Deamer | 83 |
| 8 | 186×932524 | SASSY BOOM | M | 5 | Danny O’Brien | 82 |
| 9 | 1x38x53621 | SHADHAVAR | M | 4 | Tom Dabernig | 78 |
| 10 | x18x115251 | SPLASH BACK (FR) | M | 6 | Grahame Begg | 103 |
| 11 | x117x48132 | TUILERIES | M | 4 | Peter Snowden | 92 |
| 12 | 00x3132x60 | WROTE TO ARATAKI (NZ) | M | 7 | Matthew Williams | 101 |
Table Credit: Racing Australia.
Tristarc Stakes Form Guide
The Tristarc Stakes form guide gives punters all the crucial information from trainers, jockeys and barriers to the lead-up runs and track / distance records of the mares in the race.
In recent years the Tristarc Stakes form has held-up in the Myer Classic including in 2013 when Red Tracer completed the double for her Sydney trainer Chris Waller. Red Tracer also ran third in the 2012 Tristarc Stakes.
In 2021 Colette franked the Tristarc Stakes form going on to win the Empire Rose Stakes that Melbourne Cup Carnival.
The Tristarc Stakes form from 2022 was franked with the second placegetter Palaisipan returned in the winter of 2023 to win the Tattersall’s Tiara in Brisbane.
2025 Tristarc Stakes Form Guide
A link to our comprehensive Tristarc Stakes 2025 Form Guide will be available for punters the week of the race.
Tristarc Stakes Results
The Tristarc Stakes race results have been a mixed bag between single and double figure winners, but many of the successful mares have gone on to win in Group 1 company.
Notable recent Tristarc Stakes winners include Colette (2021), Global Glamour (2018), Sweet Idea (2014), Red Tracer (2013), Streama (2012), More Joyous (2011), and Typhoon Tracy (2009).
Infinite Grace holds the current Tristarc Stakes race record winning in 2001 in a time of 1 minute 22:19 seconds.
Past Tristarc Stakes Winners
Recent Tristarc Stakes winners and placegetters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.
| Year | Winner | 2nd | 3rd | Time |
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| 2025 | Abounding | Splash Back | Bossy Nic | 1:24.06 |
| 2024 | Lady In Pink | Revolutionary Miss | Miss Aria | 1:26.22 |
| 2023 | Wrote To Arataki | Shuffle Dancer | Call Di | 1:23.53 |
| 2022 | Chain Of Lightning | Palaisipan | Pride Of Jenni | 1:24.9 |
| 2021 | Colette | Steinem | Aidensfield | 1:24.9 |
| 2020 | Madam Rouge | She Shao Fly | Felicia | 1:27.7 |
| 2019 | Savatiano | Angelic Ruler | Spanish Whisper | 1:24.2 |
| 2018 | Shumookh | Invincibella | Aloisia | 1:25.6 |
| 2017 | Global Glamour | Cool Passion | Shillelagh | 1:23.8 |
| 2016 | First Seal | Tycoon Tara | Pearls | 1:25.1 |
| 2015 | La Passe | Solicit | Jessy Belle | 1:23.7 |
| 2014 | Sweet Idea | Girl Guide | Catkins | 1:25.4 |
| 2013 | Red Tracer | Koonoomoo | Ava’s Delight | 1:23.1 |
| 2012 | Streama | Pear Tart | Red Tracer | 1:24.7 |
| 2011 | More Joyous | Sister Madly | Response | 1:22.8 |
| 2010 | Culminate | Jersey Lily | Marquardt | 1:26.5 |
| 2009 | Typhoon Tracy | Hot Danish | Glowlamp | 1:22.8 |
| 2008 | Mimi Lebrock | Tan Tat De Lago | Absolutely Fabulous | 1.23.3 |
| 2007 | Miss Fantabulous | Bellini Rose | Like It Is | 1:23.0 |
| 2006 | Nuclear Free | Belle Bizarre | Divine Madonna | 1:23.0 |
| 2005 | Infinite Grace | Candy Vale | Storm Alert | 1:22.1 |
| 2004 | Our Egyptian Raine | Infinite Grace | Skewiff | 1:24.5 |
| 2003 | Infinite Grace | Forum Floozie | Faith Hill | 1:23.0 |
| 2002 | Reactive | Gentle Genius | Taimana | 1:23.6 |
| 2001 | Pernod | Kaemess | Calm Smyzer | 1:24.2 |
| 2000 | Lady Marion | Pace Invader | Spice Doll | 1:23.0 |
FAQ
Who won the 2025 Tristarc Stakes?
The 2025 Tristarc Stakes was won by five-year-old Rich Enuff mare Abounding at $2.80 for trainer Robert Heathcote with jockey Blake Shinn aboard on 56kg from barrier 5 to win by 1 length on a Good (4) track in a time of 1:24.06.
When is the Tristarc Stakes 2025?
Saturday October 18, 2025What is the prize money for the Tristarc Stakes 2025?
$300,000
Where is the Tristarc Stakes 2025?
Caulfield Racecourse, Gate 22, Station St, Caulfield East VIC 3145.
How do I bet on the 2025 Tristarc Stakes?
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Which horse will win the 2025 Tristarc Stakes?
The best way to pick which horse will win the Tristarc Stakes is to take into account the form, assess the barriers, and consider the weight the horse will carry (among other factors). Check out ladbrokes.com.au in the lead up to the race for full form information.