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The $1 million The Shorts (1100m) is a Group 2 race held at Royal Randwick in September for spring sprinters targeting later Group 1 features or The Everest.
2025 The Shorts Results
- 1st: #4 Joliestar
- 2nd: #1 Briasa
- 3rd: #10 Generosity
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The Shorts is a quality Group 2 race now held on its own feature race day in mid-September at Sydney’s Royal Randwick Racecourse.
2025 The Shorts Results
- 1st: #4 Joliestar ($4.80)
- 2nd: #1 Briasa
- 3rd: #10 Generosity
Two of the already confirmed slot holders for the world’s richest turf race have run one-two in The Shorts 2025 results with Joliestar ($4.80) making a lovely return to racing when overcoming a wide run throughout off a patient James McDonald ride to beat Briasa home by over a length in the key lead-up at Randwick on Saturday and put a smile on trainer Chris Waller‘s face.
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The Shorts 2025 Results
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1st
4. Joliestar (8)
J: James McDonald 56kg
T: Chris Waller |
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2nd
1. Briasa (4)
J: Tyler Schiller 58kg
T: M, W & J Hawkes |
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3rd
10. Generosity (2)
J: Tim Clark 53kg
T: Chris Waller |
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4th
5. Mazu (9)
J: Jason Collett 56kg
T: Joseph Pride |
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5th
2. Private Harry (5)
J: Ashley Morgan 58kg
T: Nathan Doyle |
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6th
6. Ostraka (7)
J: Chad Schofield 56kg
T: Annabel & Rob Archibald |
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7th
7. Dragonstone (1)
J: Braith Nock 55kg
T: Joseph Pride |
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8th
3. Jedibeel (6)
J: Kerrin McEvoy 57kg
T: Brad Widdup |
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9th
8. Compelling Truth (3)
J: Bailey Wheeler 55kg
T: Mack Griffith |
The Group 2 The Shorts headlines the card and offers $1 million in prize money.
Replacing the George Main Stakes at the meeting as of 2023 is the $1 million 7 Stakes (1600m) which offers an Epsom Handicap ballot exemption.
The other key support acts on the race card are the Group 2 Tea Rose Stakes (1400m), Group 3 Bill Ritchie Handicap (1400m), and the Group 3 Kingston Town Stakes (2000m).
The Shorts is a short-distance sprint race over 1100m for horses aged three-year-olds and up at set weights plus penalties.
Many runners kick off their Sydney Spring Racing Carnival campaign in The Shorts so looking for the star fresh performers is a good tip, while the best out of The Shorts results may go all the way to Flemington during the Melbourne Cup Carnival for a shot at the Group 1 VRC Sprint Classic (1200m) – now known as the Champions Sprint – in November.
Private Eye (2023) and Joliestar (2025) were the latest first-up The Shorts winners.
It is now also a key lead-up for sprinters contesting the $20 million The Everest (1200m), a restricted weight-for-age feature held back at Randwick in mid-October. In 2017 The Shorts winner Redzel went on to complete The Everest – VRC Classic double.
In 2020 the previous year’s The Shorts runner-up Classique Legend won the race and went on to become the latest horse to do The Shorts – The Everest double.
The 2021 The Shorts form was franked with the runner-up Nature Strip going on to win that year’s The Everest – VRC Sprint Classic double. Nature Strip also returned the following autumn for a record-equalling third win in the Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes before a trip to Royal Ascot that June where he won the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes in the UK by 4.5 lengths.
The 2021 The Shorts winner Eduardo further franked the form running third in The Everest trifecta behind Nature Strip before his win in the Group 1 Winners Stakes (now Russell Balding Stakes) at Rosehill and strong 2022 autumn campaign that included a TJ Smith Stakes second placing.
Nature Strip returned in the 2022 The Shorts on the back of a dominant UK victory in the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes to win first-up before a fourth in The Everest that spring.
The Shorts 2022 form was further franked with the runner-up Overpass travelling to Perth the following autumn to win the inaugural $4 million The Quokka race at Ascot in April of 2023.
The 2023 The Shorts winner Private Eye went on to run third in The Everest trifecta at his next start, while the runner-up Overpass travelled to Perth that summer and won the Group 1 Winterbottom Stakes and The Quokka to further frank the form.
The 2024 The Shorts form was franked by the runner-up Stefi Magnetica who returned the following autumn to win the 2025 Group 1 Doncaster Mile.
The Shorts 2025 took place on Saturday, September 20, 2025 as a key lead-up to the $20 million The Everest race and was won in style by Chris Waller’s three-time Group 1 winning mare Joliestar ($4.80). Â
| 2025 The Shorts | |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 20, 2025 |
| Track: | Royal Randwick Racecourse |
| Distance: | 1100m |
| Conditions: | 3YO & Up – Set Weights + Penalties |
| Status: | Group 2 |
| Prize Money: | $1,000,000 |
| Inaugurated: | 1945 |
| The Shorts Records | |
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| Race Record: | 1:01.3 set by Redzel in 2017 |
2025 The Shorts Betting
The top The Shorts 2025 betting odds and links to the markets at Ladbrokes.com.au will be available here at Races.com.au the week of the race so stay tuned.
Pierata ($2.70 in 2019), Classique Legend ($4.40 in 2020), Nature Strip ($2.40 in 2022), and I Am Me ($2.60 in 2024) are the latest favourites in The Shorts betting to salute for the punters.
There was a notable upset in 2023 with Private Eye winning at The Shorts odds of $12.
2025 The Shorts Form
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2025 The Shorts Tips
Stay tuned for our insider The Shorts 2025 Tips on the key spring sprint lead-up this September.
- To Win: #2 Private Harry ($2.25 at time of publish) – BET NOW
PRIVATE HARRY (5) is the clear The Shorts favourite and I’m happy to stick with the punters’ pick in this important The Everest lead-up. Nathan Doyle’s unbeaten four-year-old is five-from-five and ticks plenty of boxes to make it six on the trot racing second-up over his pet distance. He is an 1100m specialist with three of his victories being over the short sprint including his lightweight win at Rosehill in the Group 1 The Galaxy back in March. He has carried up to 58.5kg to strong wins in easier grade, including a 7-length romp home at Hawkesbury defeating Dark Glitter at just his second start, so the kilos look a non-issue this weekend. Fresh he flies and his two lead-up trials have been excellent. Over these metres to get his Everest campaign underway he’s the one to beat.
2025 The Shorts Field
The Shorts 2025 field of final acceptances and barrier draw are released on the Wednesday of race week attracting the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival’s top sprinters. Many runners in The Shorts field contest the event first-up.
The official The Shorts 2025 Final Field & Barrier Draw will be published in full below once announced by Racing NSW.
The 2025 The Shorts field features 10 top-class sprinters including confirmed The Everest runners Briasa, Private Harry and the resuming Joliestar.
Click here to read more on the key sprinters in The Shorts 2025 field and betting markets.
| No | Last 10 | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Barrier | Weight | Probable Weight | Penalty | Hcp Rating |
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| 1 | x1411x414x | BRIASA | Michael, John & Wayne Hawkes | Tyler Schiller | 4 | 58kg | 114 | ||
| 2 | 1111x1x | PRIVATE HARRY | Nathan Doyle | Ashley Morgan | 5 | 58kg | 106 | ||
| 3 | 281x19028x | JEDIBEEL (NZ) | Brad Widdup | Kerrin McEvoy | 6 | 57kg | 106 | ||
| 4 | 377x31921x | JOLIESTAR | Chris Waller | James McDonald | 9 | 56kg | 115 | ||
| 5 | 54x65516x5 | MAZU | Joseph Pride | Jason Collett | 10 | 56kg | 109 | ||
| 6 | 0x973664x3 | OSTRAKA | Annabel & Rob Archibald | Chad Schofield | 8 | 56kg | 105 | ||
| 7 | 12x60251x0 | DRAGONSTONE | Joseph Pride | Braith Nock (a) | 1 | 55kg | 107 | ||
| 8 | 0x23110122 | COMPELLING TRUTH | Mack Griffith | Bailey Wheeler (a) | 3 | 55kg | 103 | ||
| 9 | 121x | MARHOONA | Michael Freedman | Tommy Berry | 7 | 55kg | 100 | ||
| 10 | 41x21335x9 | GENEROSITY | Chris Waller | Tim Clark | 2 | 53kg | 107 |
Table Credit: Racing Australia.
2025 The Shorts Nominations
Nominations for The Shorts race in 2025 close the Monday leading-up to the now million-dollar feature.
The 2025 The Shorts nominations feature a line-up of potential The Everest bound sprinters led in all-in betting by the undefeated Nathan Doyle trained Group 1 The Galaxy winner Private Harry.
2025 The Shorts nominations extended until 11:00AM (AEST) – 16/09/2025
| Last 10 | Horse | Sex | Age | Trainer | Hcp Rating | |
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| 1 | 19x441022x | AUSTMARR | M | 5 | Anthony & Sam Freedman | 96 |
| 2 | x1411x414x | BRIASA | G | 5 | Michael, John & Wayne Hawkes | 114 |
| 3 | 0x23110122 | COMPELLING TRUTH | G | 6 | Mack Griffith | 103 |
| 4 | 12x60251x0 | DRAGONSTONE | G | 7 | Joseph Pride | 107 |
| 5 | 41x21335x9 | GENEROSITY | M | 5 | Chris Waller | 107 |
| 6 | 434×221116 | IN FLIGHT | M | 5 | Joseph Pride | 107 |
| 7 | 281x19028x | JEDIBEEL (NZ) | G | 6 | Brad Widdup | 106 |
| 8 | 377x31921x | JOLIESTAR | M | 5 | Chris Waller | 115 |
| 9 | 121x | MARHOONA | F | 3 | Michael Freedman | |
| 10 | 54x65516x5 | MAZU | G | 7 | Joseph Pride | 109 |
| 11 | 0x973664x3 | OSTRAKA | G | 5 | Annabel & Rob Archibald | 105 |
| 12 | 1111x1x | PRIVATE HARRY | H | 4 | Nathan Doyle | 106 |
| 13 | 522x189x44 | TIGER SHARK | M | 5 | Clayton Douglas |
Table Credit: Racing Australia.
The Shorts History
The Shorts is a time-honoured Sydney Spring Racing Carnival sprint race, first contested back in 1867. A number of standout short-distance gallopers have won The Shorts over history including Hot Danish (2010), Terravista (2014) and Takedown (2016).
For one year in 2011 the event was conducted at Rosehill over 1200m instead of the 1100m at Royal Randwick. It gained black-type (Listed) status in 1979 and was eventually upgraded to Group 3 and then Group 2 status, increasing the quality of contenders each season.
More recently the status of The Shorts race at Randwick was boosted by record-setting champ Redzel (2017) whose next run produced success in the inaugural running of The Everest. The Everest is the richest turf race in the world and Redzel went back-to-back in 2018.
The Shorts history on the 2018 winner Ball Of Muscle is also interesting with the sprint finishing runner-up in 2015, 2016 and 2017 before finally taking out the race at his fourth attempt.
In 2019 Pierata won The Shorts defeating Classique Legend and dual The Everest champion Redzel. He went on to run fifth in that year’s The Everest results, before taking out the Winners Stakes named that season in honour of the previous year’s The Everest champion Redzel (2018).
Classique Legend completed The Shorts – The Everest race double in 2020.
In 2021 the previous year’s runner-up Eduardo went one better winning The Shorts in an upset over that year’s subsequent The Everest champion Nature Strip.
Nature Strip won The Shorts in 2022 ahead of his unsuccessful The Everest title defence when fourth.
Joliestar (2025) was the last The Shorts winning mare.
Prizemoney for The Shorts was boosted to $1 million ahead of the 2023 edition.
Recent The Shorts Results
| Year | Place | Horse | Time |
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| 2025 The Shorts |
1st | Joliestar | 1 minute 02.13 seconds |
| 2nd | Briasa | ||
| 3rd | Generosity | ||
| 2024 The Shorts |
1st | I Am Me | 1 minute 02.40 seconds |
| 2nd | Stefi Magnetica | ||
| 3rd | Mazu | ||
| 2023 The Shorts |
1st | Private Eye | 1 minute 02.66 seconds |
| 2nd | Overpass | ||
| 3rd | Buenos Noches | ||
| 2022 The Shorts |
1st | Nature Strip | 1 minute 05.01 seconds |
| 2nd | Overpass | ||
| 3rd | Lost And Running | ||
| 2021 The Shorts |
1st | Eduardo | 1 minute 03.54 seconds |
| 2nd | Nature Strip | ||
| 3rd | Gytrash | ||
| 2020 The Shorts |
1st | Classique Legend | 1 minute 2.23 seconds |
| 2nd | Eduardo | ||
| 3rd | Bivouac | ||
| 2019 The Shorts |
1st | Pierata | 1 minute 3.93 seconds |
| 2nd | Classique Legend | ||
| 3rd | Redzel | ||
| 2018 The Shorts |
1st | Ball Of Muscle | 1 minute 2.87 seconds |
| 2nd | Invincible Star | ||
| 3rd | Brave Smash | ||
| 2017 The Shorts |
1st | Redzel | 1 minute 1.83 seconds (R) |
| 2nd | Ball Of Muscle | ||
| 3rd | Nieta | ||
| 2016 The Shorts |
1st | Takedown | 1 minute 3.2 seconds |
| 2nd | Ball Of Muscle | ||
| 3rd | Kaepernick | ||
| 2015 The Shorts |
1st | Rebel Dane | 1 minute 4.67 seconds |
| 2nd | Ball Of Muscle | ||
| 3rd | Shiraz | ||
| 2014 The Shorts |
1st | Terravista | 1 minute 2.48 seconds |
| 2nd | I’m All The Talk | ||
| 3rd | Famous Seamus | ||
| 2013 The Shorts |
1st | Sessions | 1 minute 3.26 seconds |
| 2nd | Aeronautical | ||
| 3rd | Spirit Of Boom | ||
| 2012 The Shorts |
1st | Pampelonne | 1 minute 9.64 seconds |
| 2nd | Satin Shoes | ||
| 3rd | Appearance | ||
| 2011 The Shorts |
1st | Love Conquers All | 1 minute 8.71 seconds |
| 2nd | Albert The Fat | ||
| 3rd | Winter King | ||
| 2010 The Shorts |
1st | Hot Danish | 1 minute 9.51 seconds |
| 2nd | Whitefriars | ||
| 3rd | Shellscrape | ||
| 2009 The Shorts |
1st | Gold Trail | 1 minute 4.82 seconds |
| 2nd | Fritz’s Princess | ||
| 3rd | Sniper’s Bullet | ||
| 2008 The Shorts |
1st | Fritz’s Princess | 1 minute 4.03 seconds |
| 2nd | Hot Danish | ||
| 3rd | Keen Commander | ||
| 2007 The Shorts |
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| 2006 The Shorts |
1st | Bentley Biscuit | 1 minute 3.36 seconds |
| 2nd | Magnus | ||
| 3rd | Spark Of Life | ||
| 2005 The Shorts |
1st | Black Ink | 1 minute 3.4 seconds |
| 2nd | Mustard | ||
| 3rd | Fumble | ||
| 2004 The Shorts |
1st | Dance The Waves | 1 minute 4.61 seconds |
| 2nd | Secret Land (NZ) | ||
| 3rd | Legally Bay | ||
| 2003 The Shorts |
1st | Lucky Night | 1 minute 4.84 seconds |
| 2nd | Fair Embrace | ||
| 3rd | Poetic Papal | ||
| 2002 The Shorts |
1st | Empire | 1 minute 4.11 seconds |
| 2nd | Shags | ||
| 3rd | Fouardee | ||
| 2001 The Shorts |
1st | Oamaru Force | 1 minute 3.47 seconds |
| 2nd | Pembleton | ||
| 3rd | Fair Embrace | ||
| 2000 The Shorts |
1st | Bradshaw | 1 minute 3.78 seconds |
| 2nd | Guineas | ||
| 3rd | Upright | ||
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