Ladbrokes Tip: The Cameron Handicap serves as a solid lead-up to the Group 1 Epsom Handicap each spring!
The latest edition of the Cameron Handicap ran on Friday September 19, 2025 as part of Broadmeadow Racecourse’s popular Newcastle Gold Cup Day with Joe Pride’s Headley Grange ($6) winning in a new track record time ahead of a potential Epsom Handicap assignment.
2025 Cameron Handicap Results
The official Cameron Handicap Results 2025 and race finishing order will be known once the race is run and won on Friday September 19, 2025 and published below.
- 1st: #3 Headley Grange
- 2nd: #12 Vivy Air
- 3rd: #19e Fully Lit
Headley Grange ($6) delivered a brilliant performance to top the 2025 Cameron Handicap results at Newcastle on Friday, notching his tenth career victory and smashing the track record with a time of 1:28.32.
Trained by Joseph Pride and ridden by Adam Hyeronimus, the five-year-old gelding settled mid-pack before launching a powerful run in the straight to defeat Vivy Air by a length, with Fully Lit finishing third.
This win marks Headley Grange’s second stakes success, following his Listed Civic Stakes triumph earlier in the year, and also secures him a spot in the $3 million Big Dance on Melbourne Cup Day.
Pride praised the gelding’s remarkable consistency and hinted at a possible tilt at the Group 1 $1.5 million Epsom Handicap on October 4 at Randwick before targeting the Big Dance.
2025 Cameron Handicap Odds
The leading Cameron Handicap 2023 betting odds will be available here for punters the week of the race so stay tuned to access the premium Group 3 spring racing odds in Sydney this season.
| 3. Headley Grange (7) J: Adam Hyeronimus 58.5kg x1161T: Joseph Pride | ||
| 12. Vivy Air (2) J: Andrew Adkins 54kg 4522xT: Ciaron Maher | ||
| 19. Fully Lit (4) J: Regan Bayliss 54kg 05512T: Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | ||
| 1. Tavi Time (5) J: Jay Ford 59kg 2512xT: Kris Lees | ||
| 16. Magnatear (3) J: Zac Lloyd 54kg 24x31T: Richard & Will Freedman | ||
| 9. Swiftfalcon (10) J: Tyler Schiller 55kg 324x6T: M, W & J Hawkes | ||
| 4. Detonator Jack (13) J: Keagan Latham 58kg x6057T: Ciaron Maher | ||
| 13. Berkshire Shadow (6) J: Ashley Morgan 54kg x97x8T: Ciaron Maher | ||
| 15. Ruby Flyer (1) J: Dylan Gibbons 54kg 7x091T: Brad Widdup | ||
| 5. Palmetto (9) J: Josh Parr 58kg 55x47T: John Sargent |
Cameron Handicap Tips
Cameron Handicap tips include backing gallopers coming off a top three run in a Group status Sydney lead-up race.
Avoiding the previous year’s winner should they return to defend their title is also a solid tip in the Cameron Handicap as Rock (2019-2020) is the event’s only two-time champion to date.
Male gallopers also make a better Cameron Handicap betting selection as Raspberries (2011) was the last mare to beat home the boys.
2025 Cameron Handicap Tips
Our Ladbrokes’ exclusive Cameron Handicap 2025 betting tips and Group 3 Broadmeadow racing selections will be detailed below the week of the race.
To Win: #16 Magnatear ($5.50 at time of publish)
MAGNATEAR (5) looks superbly placed and well-weighted to chase back-to-back wins at Newcastle on Friday. The Freedman-trained six-year-old by Written Tycoon has been a model of consistency over the past year and now steps up to Group 3 level in peak form. He’s third-up and full of confidence after a dominant two-length win at Eagle Farm, where he carried 60kg in a Benchmark 78. While that was a lower grade, the performance suggests he’s ready for a crack at Black-Type company. He drops sharply to 54kg, draws ideally in barrier 5, and gets the services of Zac Lloyd, which is a huge plus. With winning form at the distance and still offering value in an open race, he’s a serious contender.
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16. Magnatear (3)
J: Zac Lloyd 54kg
24×31T: Richard & Will Freedman
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The Cameron Handicap is a popular Group 3 showdown taking place in mid to late September at Newcastle Racecourse.
The 1500m showdown runs on Newcastle Gold Cup Day which also features the Group 3 Newcastle Gold Cup (2300m) for Group 1-bound stayers and the Group 3 Tibbie Stakes (1400m) for fillies and mares.
The Cameron Handicap is now worth $250,000 in total prize money and is run under handicap conditions.
Each season the Cameron Handicap winner is exempt from ballot for the upcoming Group 1 Epsom Handicap (1600m) and Excellerator (2002) was the last to do the double.
The race was first run in 1950 when Denali won.
One of the most famous Cameron Handicap winners in history was Australian 2YO Triple Crown champion Luskin Star who won in 1977. It gained its current Group 3 status in 2005.
In 2025 the first two horses in the Cameron Handicap also earn eligibility for Randwick’s $3 million The Big Dance on the first Tuesday of November.
Cameron Handicap Race Facts
- Date: Friday September 19, 2025
- Track: Newcastle Racecourse
- Distance: 1500m
- Conditions: Handicap
- Status: Group 3
- Prize Money: $250,000
- First Run: 1898
Cameron Handicap Betting
Cameron Handicap betting markets are dominated by in-form Sydney-trained milers in good form coming off strong runs in lead-up races including Randwick’s Group 2 Tramway Stakes (1400m) held a fortnight earlier.
Democracy Manifest (10th in 2023) was the last Cameron Handicap winner to come off a lead-up run in the Tramway Stakes.
Cameron Handicap Field
The Cameron Handicap race field attracts a quality line-up of mainly Sydney-trained middle-distance gallopers coming off lead-up runs in earlier spring races over 1200m – 1400m plus in distance.
A good lead-up race into the Cameron Handicap field is the Listed Ramornie Handicap (1200m) held at Grafton in July which offers the winner a ballot exemption into the Group 3 event at Newcastle.
Runners may also have had a tougher start in Sydney’s Group 1 Winx Stakes (1400m) in August before stepping down in grade for the Cameron Handicap.
Horses out of the Cameron Handicap field may back-up in any number of upcoming spring events including Melbourne’s Group 1 Turnbull Stakes (2000m) at Flemington.
2025 Cameron Handicap Field
The official Cameron Handicap 2025 field and barrier draw will be released on the Wednesday of race week and published in full below so stay tuned to see the horses that make the line-up.
The 2025 Cameron Handicap field features a full line-up of potential Epsom Handicap and The Big Dance bound gallopers including the resuming Tavi Time carrying the 59kg topweight and the Chris Waller trained favourite Mchale coming off a second fresh at Rosehill.
| Entrant | Last 6 | Sex | Barrier | Weight | |
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1. Tavi Time
J: Jay Ford
T: Kris Lees |
x2512x | G | 5 | 59kg | |
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2. Al Mubhir
J: Braith Nock
T: Annabel & Rob Archibald |
6035x0 | G | 8 | 58.5kg | |
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3. Headley Grange
J: Adam Hyeronimus
T: Joseph Pride |
2x1161 | G | 7 | 58.5kg | |
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4. Detonator Jack
J: Keagan Latham
T: Ciaron Maher |
7x6057 | G | 13 | 58kg | |
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5. Palmetto
J: Josh Parr
T: John Sargent |
155x47 | G | 9 | 58kg | |
| 6. Mchale (12) Scratched: | |||||
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7. Converge
J: Tim Clark
T: Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott |
9242x0 | G | 12 | 56kg | |
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8. Grebeni
J: Kerrin McEvoy
T: Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou |
0320x9 | G | 11 | 55kg | |
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9. Swiftfalcon
J: Tyler Schiller
T: M, W & J Hawkes |
3324x6 | G | 10 | 55kg | |
| 10. Depth Of Character (14) Scratched: | |||||
| 11. Matusalem (20) Scratched: | |||||
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12. Vivy Air
J: Andrew Adkins
T: Ciaron Maher |
74522x | M | 2 | 54kg | |
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13. Berkshire Shadow
J: Ashley Morgan
T: Ciaron Maher |
0x97x8 | G | 6 | 54kg | |
| 14. Imperialist (3) Scratched: | |||||
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15. Ruby Flyer
J: Dylan Gibbons
T: Brad Widdup |
97x091 | G | 1 | 54kg | |
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16. Magnatear
J: Zac Lloyd
T: Richard & Will Freedman |
324x31 | G | 3 | 54kg | |
| 17. Geriatrix (17) Scratched: | |||||
| 18. Pocketing (1) Scratched: | |||||
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19. Fully Lit
J: Regan Bayliss
T: Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott |
505512 | G | 4 | 54kg | |
| 20. Inquiring Minds (13) Scratched: | |||||
2025 Cameron Handicap Nominations
The early Cameron Handicap 2025 nominations are taken the Monday ahead of the race with the full list of entries to be published for punters below.
| Last 10 | Horse | Sex | Age | Trainer | Hcp Rating | |
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| 1 | 383x6035x0 | AL MUBHIR (GB) | G | 7 | Annabel & Rob Archibald | 103 |
| 2 | 30930x97x8 | BERKSHIRE SHADOW (GB) | G | 7 | Ciaron Maher | 94 |
| 3 | 13234425×7 | CHORLTON LANE (IRE) | G | 6 | Ciaron Maher | 99 |
| 4 | 11x4x3x133 | CHRISTA | M | 6 | Todd Howlett | 65 |
| 5 | 111x4246x0 | CHURCHILL’S CHOICE | M | 4 | Nathan Doyle | 87 |
| 6 | 0x009242x0 | CONVERGE | G | 7 | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | 98 |
| 7 | x5253112x0 | DEPTH OF CHARACTER | G | 4 | Annabel & Rob Archibald | 95 |
| 8 | x5407x6057 | DETONATOR JACK (NZ) | G | 7 | Ciaron Maher | 102 |
| 9 | 20×4505512 | FULLY LIT | G | 4 | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | 86 |
| 10 | 0x02368x50 | GERIATRIX | G | 5 | Chris Waller | 87 |
| 11 | 8x320320x9 | GREBENI | G | 6 | Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou | 96 |
| 12 | 21122×1161 | HEADLEY GRANGE | G | 5 | Joseph Pride | 103 |
| 13 | x73320915x | IMPERIALIST (NZ) | G | 4 | Chris Waller | 91 |
| 14 | 85x141926x | INQUIRING MINDS (GB) | G | 6 | John O’Shea & Tom Charlton | 78 |
| 15 | 1x2380x132 | IT’S A KNOCKOUT | M | 5 | Ciaron Maher | 87 |
| 16 | 549407x59x | KINTYRE | G | 5 | Gary Portelli | 92 |
| 17 | 50x81122x3 | LORD OF BISCAY (IRE) | G | 6 | Kris Lees | 88 |
| 18 | 2116324×31 | MAGNATEAR | G | 6 | Richard & Will Freedman | 87 |
| 19 | 0x9962813x | MATUSALEM | G | 5 | Chris Waller | 95 |
| 20 | 53403x10x2 | MCHALE | G | 5 | Chris Waller | 100 |
| 21 | 9632155×47 | PALMETTO (NZ) | G | 7 | John Sargent | 102 |
| 22 | 21293118×5 | POCKETING | G | 4 | Richard & Will Freedman | 86 |
| 23 | 6610x897x0 | PORT LOCKROY | H | 5 | Annabel & Rob Archibald | 105 |
| 24 | 231x97x091 | RUBY FLYER | G | 7 | Brad Widdup | 91 |
| 25 | 26x23324x6 | SWIFTFALCON | G | 4 | Michael, John & Wayne Hawkes | 96 |
| 26 | 4331x2512x | TAVI TIME (NZ) | G | 6 | Kris Lees | 104 |
| 27 | 4169×16172 | THE GREAT HOUDINI | G | 7 | Gregory McFarlane | 78 |
| 28 | 26x974522x | VIVY AIR | M | 5 | Ciaron Maher | 97 |
| 29 | 18×0803412 | WILD CHAP | G | 9 | Samantha McGuren |
Table Credit: Racing Australia.
Cameron Handicap Form Guide
The Cameron Handicap form guide features all the facts and stats you need to place a well-informed wager on the race including the jockey, trainer, weight allocation, barrier, age and lead-up form of all the horses in the field.
The Cameron Handicap form has stacked-up plenty of times in tougher spring races including in 2020 when dual champion Rock made it back-to-back wins in the event before a latter victory in Melbourne’s Group 1 Kennedy Cantala (1600m) – now run as the Champions Mile.
The Cameron Handicap form from 2021 was also franked classy mare Duais finishing third before her subsequent Group 1 Australian Cup – Tancred Stakes double the following year.
The 2024 Cameron Handicap winner Here To Shock franked the form with a next-up win in the $1.5 million Alan Brown Stakes. He would also travel across the Tasman the following autumn to win the 2025 Group 1 BCD Group Sprint in New Zealand before a Group 1 Canterbury Stakes second back in Sydney.
2025 Cameron Handicap Form
A link to our detailed Cameron Handicap 2025 Form Guide & Betting Preview will be available for punters below the week of the race.
Cameron Handicap Results
The Cameron Handicap race results are known each year after the event runs at Broadmeadow Racecourse on a Friday in mid-September and display the winning horse, successful trifecta, winning margin and time so you can see how your bets went.
Raspberries (2011) was the last Cameron Handicap winning mare.
Luskin Star (1977) remains the only three-year-old Cameron Handicap winner to date.
Headley Grange holds the current 1500m Cameron Handicap race record winning in 2025 in a time of 1 minute 28.32 seconds.
Past Cameron Handicap Winners
Recent Cameron Handicap winners and placegetters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.
| Year | Winner | Second | Third |
| 2025 | Headley Grange | Vivy Air | Fully Lit |
| 2024 | Here To Shock | Matcha Latte | Berkshire Shadow |
| 2023 | Democracy Manifest | Palmetto | Spangler |
| 2022 | Wild Chap | Luncies | Character |
| 2021 | Ashman | Sky Lab | Duais |
| 2020 | Rock | Just Thinkin’ | Chief Ironside |
| 2019 | Rock | Articus | Nettoyer |
| 2018 | New Tipperary | Red Excitement | Best Of Days |
| 2017 | Got Unders | Sound Proposition | Spectroscope |
| 2016 | Chetwood | Le Romain | Famous Seamus |
| 2015 | Forget | Malice | Wouldnt It Be Nice |
| 2014 | Hooked | Rugged Cross | Mighty Lucky |
| 2013 | Toydini | High Esteem | Scream Machine |
| 2012 | Rolling Pin | Lightinthenite | Offenders |
| 2011 | Raspberries | Light Brigade | Kaunda |
| 2010 | Kenny’s World | Prince Braeman | Chasm |
| 2009 | Absolutelyfabulous | Black Piranha | McClintock |
| 2008 | Raheeb | Ashikaga | Falaise |
| 2007 Race Not Held Due to Equine Influenza |
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| 2006 | Court’s In Session | Malcolm | Mac’s Tune |
| 2005 | Collate | Mr Celebrity | Cincinatti Gal |
| 2004 | Osca Warrior | Shamekha | Tsuimai |
| 2003 | Archave | Britt’s Best | Stoway |
| 2002 | Excellerator | Hey Pronto | Mowerman |
| 2001 | Kingsgate | Lord Essex | Maitland Gold |
| 2000 | Mulan Princess | Kenconcarne | Spying |
FAQ
Who won the 2025 Cameron Handicap?
The 2025 Cameron Handicap was won by five-year-old Exosphere gelding Headley Grange at $6 for trainer Joseph Pride with jockey Adam Hyeronimus aboard on 58.5kg from barrier 7 to win by 1.08 lengths on a Good (4) track in a new track record time of 1:28.32.
When is the Cameron Handicap 2025?
Friday September 19, 2025What is the prize money for the Cameron Handicap 2025?
$250,000
Where is the Cameron Handicap 2025?
Newcastle Racecourse, 100, Darling Street, Broadmeadow New South Wales, 2292.
How do I bet on the 2024 Cameron Handicap?
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Which horse will win the 2024 Cameron Handicap?
The best way to pick which horse will win the Cameron Handicap 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.