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Overview
This page was last updated on October 4, 2025
This season the $1.5 million Epsom Handicap took place on Saturday October 4, 2025, over the famous Randwick mile and was won by Chris Waller's undefeated mare Autumn Glow as the odds-on $1.75 favourite.
- Race Date: 04/10/2025
- Race Status: Group 1
- Race Conditions: Handicap, Three-Years-Old and Upwards
- Race Venue: Randwick, NSW
- Prize Money: $1,500,000
- Distance: 1600m
- Track Conditions: Good4 - FINE
- Rail Position: True. (Pent: 5.23)
Epsom Handicap 2025 Results
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1st
4. Autumn Glow (12)
J: Kerrin McEvoy 54.5kg
T: Chris Waller |
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2nd
11. Fully Lit (7)
J: Winona Costin 50kg
T: Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott |
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3rd
2. Pericles (4)
J: Josh Parr 57kg
T: Bjorn Baker |
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4th
10. Swiftfalcon (3)
J: Alysha Collett 50kg
T: M, W & J Hawkes |
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5th
5. Pier (11)
J: Ethan Brown 53.5kg
T: Darryn & Briar Weatherley |
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6th
1. Ceolwulf (8)
J: Chad Schofield 58kg
T: Joseph Pride |
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7th
14. Lord Penman (9)
J: Zac Lloyd 50kg
T: Chris Waller |
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8th
12. Verona Rose (2)
J: Ben Thompson 50kg
T: Gary Portelli |
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9th
7. Encap (5)
J: Reece Jones 52kg
T: Gary Portelli |
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10th
3. Yellow Brick (10)
J: Andrew Mallyon 55.5kg
T: Tony & Maddysen Sears |
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11th
8. El Castello (1)
J: Andrew Adkins 51kg
T: Joseph Pride |
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12th
9. Depth Of Character (6)
J: Rachel King 50kg
T: Annabel & Rob Archibald |
2025 Epsom Handicap Results
The official Epsom Handicap 2025 Results and Finishing Order will be detailed below when the $1.5 million Sydney event runs on Saturday October 4, 2025.
- 1st: No. 4 Autumn Glow ($1.75F)
- 2nd: No. 11 Fully Lit
- 3rd: No. 2 Pericles
Chris Waller’s boom four-year-old daughter of The Autumn Sun, Autumn Glow ($1.75F), took her career record up to a flawless seven-from-seven relishing her first Group 1 assignment and maiden 1600m trip to easily account for her rivals in a 1.44 length victory for the punters in the 2025 Epsom Handicap results. She will now be aimed at either the $10 million Golden Eagle at Randwick or Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes at Flemington both held on November 1.
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Epsom Handicap Tips
Stay tuned for our insider Epsom Handicap 2025 tips on the $1.5 million mile showdown this spring.
2025 Epsom Handicap Stakes Same Race Multi Selections ($33 at time of publish)
- Top 2 – No. 4 Autumn Glow
- Top 4 – No. 5 Pier
- Top 4 No. 11 Fully Lit
Click here for our complete Epsom Handicap 2025 Tips & Best Bets.
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1st
4. Autumn Glow (12)
J: Kerrin McEvoy 54.5kg
T: Chris Waller |
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2nd
11. Fully Lit (7)
J: Winona Costin 50kg
T: Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott |
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5th
5. Pier (11)
J: Ethan Brown 53.5kg
T: Darryn & Briar Weatherley |
Epsom Handicap News
- 2025 Epsom Handicap Winner Autumn Glow Remains Undefeated
- Epsom Handicap 2025 Tips & Best Bets
- 2025 Epsom Handicap Field & Betting Update: Autumn Glow Favourite in Outside Barrier
- 2025 Epsom Handicap Odds Slashed on Cameron Handicap Winner Headley Grange
- Theo Marks Winner Autumn Glow Odds-On in Epsom Handicap 2025 Betting
The Group 1 Epsom Handicap is the premier handicap event of the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival held in last September or early October annually. Run at Royal Randwick Racecourse, the 1600m open handicap race is one of the two biggest mile races at the course. The other is the Doncaster Handicap held in April during ‘The Championships’.
Held on the same day as the Group 1 The Metropolitan (2400m) and the Group 1 Flight Stakes (1600m) for three-year-old fillies, the Epsom Handicap offers $1,500,000 in prize money as of 2021.
It has been dominated by local Sydney milers in recent years including the Chris Waller-trained Boban (2013), He’s Your Man (2014), subsequent Cox Plate winning mare Winx (2015), Happy Clapper (2017), and another Waller star in Autumn Glow (2025).
In 2019 Kolding won the Epsom Handicap before backing up to salute in the inaugural Golden Eagle for four-year-olds.
Top Ranked (2022) took out the Bill Ritchie – Epsom Handicap double after running a dead heat in the Group 1 with Ellsberg, with Rediener repeating the feat becoming the latest horse to do the double in 2023 for Chris Waller.
The Epsom Handicap winner also earns a ballot exemption into the following year’s Group 1 $5 million Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) held in April during Randwick’s The Championships.
The 2022 Epsom Handicap form was franked with Ellsberg backing-up from his dead-heat win to $1 million Five Diamond Prelude – $2 million Five Diamonds double.
As of 2023 the $1 million 7 Stakes (1600m) runs on The Shorts Day in mid-September and offers the winner an Epsom Handicap ballot exemption.
The 2024 Epsom Handicap winner Ceolwulf franked the form with a next up Group 1 King Charles III Stakes win.
2025 Epsom Handicap Betting
The updated Epsom Handicap 2025 betting markets will be provided for punters here across the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival as lead-up races are run and won. Proven milers at the Randwick track dominate the Epsom Handicap odds each year, as do the in-form Chris Waller-trained hopefuls.
Ceolwulf ($4 in 2024) and Autumn Glow ($1.75 in 2025) are the latest favourites in Epsom Handicap betting to win.
Epsom Handicap Field
2025 Epsom Handicap Form
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Each year the Epsom Handicap field is announced on the Tuesday of race week and features the season’s top-class milers coming off lead-up runs in races including the Group 2 Shannon Stakes (1500m) held at Rosehill the week before.
Horses out of the Epsom Handicap field often go onto run in other Group 1 races heading south for the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. The 2018 Epsom winner Hartnell ran second next-up in Caulfield’s Group 1 Toorak Handicap (1600m). He finished top three in a further three Group 1 races the following autumn and was second in the inaugural $5 million All-Star Mile at Flemington behind Mystic Journey.
The official Epsom Handicap 2025 Final Field & Barriers will be published in full below once announced by Racing NSW on the Tuesday of race week.
2025 Epsom Handicap Nominations & Weights
The 2025 Epsom Handicap nominations are taken on Monday the 8th of September 2025 about four weeks out from the race.
The Epsom Handicap 2025 weights will be declared on Monday the 15th of September 2025.
The 2025 Epsom Handicap nominations attracted 96 middle-distance gallopers led in all-in betting by Chris Waller’s class mare Autumn Glow who won her opening five career starts.
Click here to view the complete list of 2025 Epsom Handicap nominees.
Click here to read more on the standout horses in the Epsom Handicap 2025 nominations and early betting.
The 2025 Epsom Handicap final field features 14 middle-distance stars led in betting by Chris Waller’s undefeated The Autumn Sun mare, Autumn Glow, who jumps from the outside barrier looking for her sixth win from as many starts.
Click here to read more on the key runners in the Epsom Handicap 2025 field and betting markets.
| No | Horse | Jockey | Trainer | Barrier | Weight | Age | Sex | Last Starts | Prize Money |
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| 1 | Ceolwulf | Chad Schofield | Joseph Pride | 8 | 58kg | 5 | G | 5x443 | $5,324,900 |
| 2 | Pericles | Josh Parr | Bjorn Baker | 4 | 57kg | 6 | G | 845x1 | $5,625,365 |
| 3 | Yellow Brick | Andrew Mallyon | Tony & Maddysen Sears | 10 | 55.5kg | 6 | G | 02x47 | $2,213,600 |
| 4 | Autumn Glow | Kerrin McEvoy | Chris Waller | 12 | 54.5kg | 4 | M | x1x11 | $817,500 |
| 5 | Pier | Ethan Brown | Darryn & Briar Weatherley | 11 | 53.5kg | 6 | G | 231x3 | $565,021 |
| 6 | Willydoit | Tommy Berry | Ciaron Maher | 2 | 53kg | 4 | G | 014x8 | $793,472 |
| 7 | Encap | Reece Jones | Gary Portelli | 5 | 52kg | 5 | G | 37x64 | $1,426,950 |
| 8 | El Castello | Andrew Adkins | Joseph Pride | 1 | 51kg | 4 | H | 115x4 | $1,666,725 |
| 9 | Depth Of Character | Rachel King | Annabel & Rob Archibald | 6 | 50kg | 4 | G | 12x03 | $670,950 |
| 10 | Swiftfalcon | Alysha Collett | M, W & J Hawkes | 3 | 50kg | 4 | G | 24x66 | $705,650 |
| 11 | Fully Lit | Winona Costin | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | 7 | 50kg | 4 | G | 55123 | $1,517,300 |
| 12 | Verona Rose | Ben Thompson | Gary Portelli | 2 | 50kg | 4 | M | 68x02 | $277,200 |
| 13 | Magnatear | Jay Ford | Richard & Will Freedman | 12 | 50kg | 6 | G | 4x315 | $444,700 |
| 14 | Lord Penman | Zac Lloyd | Chris Waller | 9 | 50kg | 4 | G | 91x27 | $219,853 |
Epsom Handicap Barrier & Speedmap
Epsom Handicap History
The Epsom Handicap was first won by Dundee in 1863 and has quite a few dual winners including Toi Port in 1963-64, Super Impose in 1990-91 and Desert War in 2004-05. Due to the Equine Flu, the race was not held in 2007.
In 2015 Winx won the Epsom Handicap, the third straight champion for trainer Chris Waller, and went on to make history taking out Melbourne’s Group 1 Cox Plate (2040m) at weight-for-age next start. Winx made Cox Plate history with a record four wins in the classic from 2015-18.
The current Epsom Handicap race record of 1:32.73 seconds was set by Hartnell in 2018.
For just the third time in the race’s history the 2022 Epsom Handicap resulted in a dead heat between Top Ranked and Ellsberg.
Trainer Chris Waller won his fifth Epsom Handicap in 2023 running the quinella with Rediener and Kovalica.
Waller returned for a sixth success in 2025 with Autumn Glow is the latest Epsom Handicap winning mare.
Epsom Handicap Previous Race Winners
Recent winners of the Group 1 Epsom Handicap are detailed below along with the placegetters and winning times.
| Year | Place | Horse | Time |
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| 2025 Epsom Handicap |
1st | Autumn Glow | 1 minute 33.14 seconds |
| 2nd | Fully Lit | ||
| 3rd | Pericles | ||
| 2024 Epsom Handicap |
1st | Ceolwulf | 1 minute 34.46 seconds |
| 2nd | Tom Kitten | ||
| 3rd | Royal Patronage | ||
| 2023 Epsom Handicap |
1st | Rediener | 1 minute 34.26 seconds |
| 2nd | Kovalica | ||
| 3rd | Golden Mile | ||
| 2022 Epsom Handicap*Dead Heat for 1st |
1st* | Ellsberg | 1 minute 38.12 seconds |
| 1st | Top Ranked | ||
| 3rd | Hinged | ||
| 2021 Epsom Handicap |
1st | Private Eye | 1 minute 33.70 seconds |
| 2nd | Aramayo | ||
| 3rd | Dalasan | ||
| 2020 Epsom Handicap |
1st | Probabeel | 1 minute 32.86 seconds |
| 2nd | Funstar | ||
| 3rd | Riodini | ||
| Epsom Handicap | |
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| Date: | Saturday October 4, 2025 |
| Track: | Randwick Racecourse |
| Distance: | 1600m |
| Race Type: | 3YO+ Handicap |
| Status: | Group 1 |
| Prizemoney: | $1,500,000 |
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