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The countdown to the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival begins in earnest at Randwick on Saturday with the Missile Stakes 2025 where Joe Pride’s Group 1 winner Private Eye is current favourite to win the important lead-up sprint.
A race with a strong history of producing subsequent Group 1 winners, the Group 2 $300,000 Missile Stakes (1200m) has attracted a typically top-class field of spring contenders.
Current Missile Stakes odds online at Ladbrokes.com.au have Al Maher eight-year-old Private Eye as the $2.50 top elect racing off a little freshen-up.
At his latest the two-time The Everest placegetter was third to War Machine in Brisbane’s Group 1 Stradbroke, which looks a very strong form line to follow to Sydney as he gears up for potentially another huge spring campaign.
The evergreen veteran has regular rider Nash Rawiller aboard from a good gate two draw and with the blinkers going on should run a sharp 1200m down in grade.
The danger occupying the second line of Missile Stakes betting this season at $4 is the rails-drawn General Salute for Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou.
A pre-field favourite for the Missile before the big early market move on his older rival, this Russian Revolution five-year-old presents fit second-up after his third in the Group WJ Healy Stakes on June 28 behind Metalart at Eagle Farm.
Prior to that he was a back-to-back Sydney winner in the autumn over this distance which he boasts a strong record over (7:3-1-1).
At his most recent second-up run he handled a wet Rosehill track to make up ground and narrowly salute in the Group 3 Star Kingdom Stakes at a light weight, but even with more kilos on Saturday he looks a genuine top three contender.
Despite a small 10-horse field, a further two runners are also currently under $10 for the win in an open sprint race with Bjorn Baker‘s last start Black-Type winner Robusto ($6) and the resuming Kris Lees trained Brudenell ($8).
Churchill six-year-old Robusto only had a nostril flare to spare on the line in the Listed Winter Challenge (1500m) at Rosehill on July 19 with 60kg on his back, but the drop back to six furlongs and 57.5kg puts him in the mix.
The autumn’s Doncaster Mile third placed Encap ($17) kicking off another prep and the airborne Richard Litt trained July Sprint winner Romeo’s Choice ($15) chasing a fourth win on the trot present as the value in the race.
The 2025 Missile Stakes is scheduled as Randwick Race 8 at 3:40pm (AEST) on Saturday’s 10-race card.
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