The autumn’s Group 1 Champagne Stakes winner Nepotism is outright favourite in futures markets for the 2025 Caulfield Guineas following the close of nominations for the three-year-old’s feature this week.

Early entries for this year’s Group 1 $3 million Caulfield Guineas (1600m), set to run on October 11, are now out with the mile classic attracting 119 hopefuls.

2025 Caulfield Guineas Nominations: Quick Glance

• 119 nominations in total
• Nepotism for Team Hawkes the current $3.50 favourite through Ladbrokes.com.au
• 14 nominees for last year’s winning trainer Chris Waller
• Autumn Boy the best of the Waller contingent at $5 ahead of his spring return
• Inglis Sires’ winner Vinrock out to $13 after a first-up McNeil Stakes defeat last month
• 2 fillies nominated (Miss Celine and Cherish Me)

Sitting top of the post-nominations Caulfield Guineas odds online at Ladbrokes.com.au is Brutal colt Nepotism for Team Hawkes with Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes already having won the race in partnership three times with All Too Hard (2012), Divine Prophet (2016) and Ole Kirk (2020).

Nepotism has won two of his three starts to date including Sydney’s Champagne Stakes at elite level over the mile as a two-year-old back in April, and he is the clear $3.50 top fancy to frank that form with another 1600m Group 1 success this prep.

The stable has a total of five Caulfield Guineas nominees with their other standout contender being their Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes champion Devil Night ($26) who resumed with a fifth in the Group 3 San Domenico Stakes at Rosehill on August 30.

Last year Chris Waller secured his third Caulfield Guineas trophy with Private Life, and he is in the hunt for his fourth this year with 14 nominees led by the $5 second favourite Autumn Boy.

Currently undefeated having won his opening two career starts, the son of The Autumn Sun is a dual nominee for Rosehill on Saturday to make his three-year-old debut in either the Run To The Rose or the Ming Dynasty Quality.

Waller also has the close $6 third elect in the current all-in Caulfield Guineas odds, Wodeton, with the autumn’s Golden Slipper runner-up having made a luckless return to racing when running second to Raging Force with plenty of excuses first-up in the San Domenico.

The other best in Guineas markets is the lightly raced Clinton McDonald trained Rosberg ($9) with the emerging Deep Field colt having won his debut at The Valley last Saturday claiming a half-length win in the Listed McKenzie Stakes.

One of the more seasoned and proven entries at $13 for the win is Vinrock.

Matt Laurie‘s I Am Invincible colt won his opening three career starts including completing the rare interstate VRC Sires’ – Inglis Sires’ double as a two-year-old.

He went around as the first-up favourite in the Group 3 HDF McNeil Stakes on August 30 at Caulfield but lost his undefeated status running over six lengths back fourth behind Tycoon Star to see his price for the upcoming spring Group 1s drift.

Other notable nominees ahead of the traditional Caulfield Guineas lead-up races include Waller’s Group 1 JJ Atkins runner-up in Brisbane over the winter Hidden Achievement and Autumn Mystery for Mornington trainer Rory Hunter.

Nominations are now also out for the Group 1 $1.5 million Thousand Guineas (1600m) for the fillies which runs this year on October 18 as part of the Caulfield Cup Day card.

The 2025 Thousand Guineas nominations attracted 106 fillies.

No filly has taken on the colts and geldings in the Caulfield Guineas and won since Surround (1976).

This year, just two have been thrown in the ring to potentially line-up against the boys in the Caulfield Guineas field with Miss Celine ($51) for Lindsay Park and Ciaron Maher’s Geelong Diamond winning daughter of Brazen Beau, Cherish Me, who won her last start at The Valley on August 23.

Click here to view the full list of 2025 Caulfield Guineas nominees.

The Caulfield Guineas first acceptances close at midday on Tuesday September 23.

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