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The Aurie’s Star Handicap is a Group 3 sprint hosted at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne every year around early August. Run over 1200m under open handicap conditions, the Aurie’s Star Handicap pays a total of $200,000 prize money.

2025 Aurie’s Star Handicap Results

Stay tuned for the official 2025 Aurie’s Star Handicap results at Flemington on Saturday, August 2, 2025.

• 1st: #10 King Of Roseau ($3.40)
• 2nd: #4 Bandi’s Boy
• 3rd: #2 Marble Nine

King Of Roseau ($3.40) stamped his authority on the 2025 Aurie’s Star Handicap results at Flemington on Saturday, delivering a commanding performance that confirmed his rising status among Australia’s sprinting ranks. Trained by Peter Snowden and ridden by Michael Dee, the four-year-old gelding surged down the famous Flemington straight to claim the Group 3 feature over 1200m, defeating fellow Sydney raider Bandi’s Boy and Melbourne contender Marble Nine. Dee, fresh off a stint in Japan, timed his run perfectly, finding cover early before unleashing King Of Roseau in the final stages, where the gelding quickened impressively and powered past the clock tower to win with ease.

The Aurie’s Star Handicap is one of the first group races of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival, and as a result tends to attract punting attention in excess of its status. Keep a close eye on the Aurie’s Star Handicap results, as they can provide a good indicator for later form in Group 1 races including the Manikato Stakes at The Valley that the 2017 Aurie’s Star winner Hey Doc went onto win.

More recently the 2019 Aurie’s Star Handicap winner, So Si Bon, who won at 20/1, went on to run second next start in the Group 1 Memsie Stakes (1400m).

The form of the Aurie’s Star was also franked in 2021 with the winner The Astrologist going on to place second in the following year’s Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) back at the track in the autumn, as well as record a third in Adelaide’s Group 1 The Goodwood (1200m) later in 2022.

The 2024 Aurie’s Star form was franked with the winner, Right To Party, going on to win that spring’s Group 2 Gilgai Stakes before a Group 1 Champions Sprint second over the Melbourne Cup Carnival. The form was further franked by the third placegetter Zarastro who returned in 2025 to win the Gold Coast’s $1 million Magic Millions Sprint before a second in Brisbane’s Group 1 Kingsford Smith Cup in the winter.

The Aurie’s Star Handicap 2025 ran on Saturday, August 2, 2025 as the opening Group race in Melbourne for the season and was won in dominant fashion by Peter Snowden’s Capitalist four-year-old King Of Roseau ($3.40). 

2025 Aurie’s Star Handicap Finishing Order

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

2025 Aurie’s Star Handicap Betting

Betting on the Aurie’s Star Handicap 2025 opens as soon as nominations are out the Monday of race week, the latest Aurie’s Star Handicap betting odds to be published here at Races.com.au complete with market links to Ladbrokes.com.au.

It’sourtime ($3.90 in 2023) and Right To Party ($3.90 in 2024) are the latest favourites in Aurie’s Star Handicap betting to salute for the punters.

2025 Aurie’s Star Handicap Form

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2025 Aurie’s Star Handicap Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Aurie’s Star Handicap 2025 Tips on the popular spring lead-up sprint at Flemington this season.

• To Win: #2 Marble Nine ($5.50 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Hard to knock a horse going this well! MARBLE NINE (11) is drawn wider out but that means little down the famous Flemington straight where the in-form five-year-old will look to add to his solid HQ record (8:3-1-1). A proven “Straight Six” horse, he’s had four runs at the track and trip boasting a 50% winning strike rate. Carried a big weight here in early June to beat El Soleado and has won his two subsequent starts. Chasing a fourth on the trot now. At his latest he won the Listed Santa Ana Lane Sprint Series Final with 57.5kg by a half-length over Pereille as the short favourite. Better value now rising in the kilos up to 59.5kg. Has Liam Riordan continuing associations, will be on pace and is well proven here. Wins.

2025 Aurie’s Star Handicap Field

Many horses come into the Aurie’s Star Handicap field off the winter lead-up races held in Melbourne including the Group 3 Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield in mid-July and the Group 3 Bletchingly Stakes (1200m) a fortnight later.

In 2018 Voodoo Lad won the Sir John Monash Stakes – Aurie’s Star Handicap double and finished runner-up in Caulfield’s Bletchingly Stakes in between. The Astrologist (3rd in 2021) was the last Bletchingly Stakes graduate to back-up and win the Aurie’s Star Handicap.

More recently It’sourtime (2023) ran third in the Bletchingly Stakes before winning the Aurie’s Star.

The 2025 Aurie’s Star Handicap field and barriers are announced the Wednesday of race week, and the full list of acceptances will be available below once released.

A dozen potential spring-bound sprinters do battle in the Aurie’s Star Handicap 2025 final field including Santa Ana Lane Sprint Series Final winning four-year-old Marble Nine chasing a fourth win on the trot.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Aurie’s Star Handicap Nominations

The early Aurie’s Star Handicap 2025 nominations are taken by the VRC on the Monday of race week with the full list of entries to be announced below.

Nominations extended until 10:00am (AEST) – 29/07/2025 

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Aurie’s Star Handicap History

The Aurie’s Star Handicap was inaugurated in 1996 as an unlisted event, with Homestead taking out the first edition of the race. In 2005, the Aurie’s Star Handicap was upgraded to a listed event and given a boost in prize money. In 2010, it was run as a Group 3 event, however, was downgraded to listed status for the 2011 edition. In 2012, the Aurie’s Star Handicap was again upgraded to Group 3 and has remained at that status since.

The Aurie’s Star Handicap was held for a year at Moonee Valley Racecourse in 2007 but is now certainly a Flemington race. Although the Aurie’s Star Handicap only has a brief history, it has played an important role in the preparation of many sprinters for the spring campaigns.

In 2020 jockey Damien Oliver won the Aurie’s Star Handicap for a record fifth time taking out the race aboard Home Of The Brave who, in 2018, ran second to the Oliver-ridden winner Voodoo Lad when debuting down under.

Notable Aurie’s Star Handicap winners include Homestead (1996), Fields Of Omagh (2002), Sports (2003), Temple Of Boom (2011) and Voodoo Lad (2018) who went on to win Perth’s Group 1 Winterbottom Stakes (1200m) later in the year.

Aurie’s Star Handicap Results

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