The Goodwood, run over 1200m at Morphettville racecourse, is contested at set weights and penalties and dates all the way back to 1881.
The Group 1 race has been a difficult assessment for punters in modern times with a litany of big priced winners saluting.
14 of the last 25 winners of the race were double figure odds and just three in that same period were under $3.00.
One of those favourites was Black Caviar who was $1.05 and another was Takeover Target who was $1.40.
The average price? $14.80.
It’s also worth noting that 10 of the last 13 winners of the race have carried 56kg or more.
The 2022 The Everest winner Giga Kick (54.5kg) will start a short-priced favourite on Saturday at Morphettville but history is against him.
We’ve taken a look back at some of the Most Shocking Goodwood Wins in recent history as a guide to finding the winner in 2025.
2018 – Santa Ana Lane – SP $26
The Freedman trained sprinter would go on to be a five-time Group 1 winner, but he was friendless in the 2018 Goodwood.
This is despite winning the Group 1 Sir Rupert Clarke during the spring of 2017.
His autumn campaign started late, and he was soundly beaten in the Listed Bel Espirit Stakes at Caulfield first up before heading to Adelaide early and storming home from the back of the back to finish third in the Group 3 Mackay Stakes at Morphettville leading into the Goodwood.
He dropped 7kg to win the Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm three weeks later carrying just 51.5kg.
2014 – Smokin’ Joey – SP $41
Smokin’ Joey was unplaced in four starts during his campaign before taking out The Goodwood at a massive price in 2014.
This included finishing eighth of nine runners in the Group 1 Futurity Stakes at Caulfield first up.
One truly out of the box, one the punters didn’t see coming, but one of the most memorable finishes in the races’ history.
2008 – Shadoways – SP $31
The racing industry is full of people, and trainers, just like Gwenda Johnstone.
She started her career in the early 90s and has continued to train racehorses in Bendigo and Echuca ever since.
Country trainers often go their entire lives without finding a horse that can take them into town but Dwenda found that horse in the form of the son of Encosta de Lago named Shadoways.
He won his first race start as a two-year-old at Echuca impressively which prompted Gwenda to pack the bags and head to town where the horse would spend the rest of his racing life.
Shadoways teased his trainer in a few big races early on, finishing second to Dance Hero (and beating Miss Andretti) in the Salinger down the Flemington straight in 2006 and then finishing within a length of the winner in the 2007 Oakleigh Plate.
He failed to win in four starts during his 2008 autumn campaign but Gwenda kept her faith in the horse’s ability and was rewarded when he took out the Group 1 Goodwood in Adelaide.
The horse would never win again but he gave his country trainer a hell of a ride!