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Run to the Rose News

2025 Golden Rose Stakes Field & Betting: Punters Feeling Tempted

• Punters Tempted to Run To The New 2025 Golden Rose Favourite
• Raging Force Heads 2025 Run To The Rose Field & Odds
• 2025 San Domenico Stakes Results: Snowden’s Raging Force Wins for Punters
• Broadsiding Heads 2024 Golden Rose Stakes Field & Odds
• Run To The Rose Winner Traffic Warden Firms in Golden Rose 2024 Betting

The Run to the Rose is a 1200 metre sprint held at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse in Sydney in early September as a lead-up to the Golden Rose Stakes.

2025 The Run To The Rose Results

Check out the official The Run To The Rose 2025 Results & Finishing Order below straight after the Golden Rose lead-up event takes place on Saturday, September 13, 2025.

• 1st: #9 Tempted ($3.90F)
• 2nd: #3 Beiwacht
• 3rd: #6 Skyhook

The autumn’s Percy Sykes winning filly Tempted ($3.90F) was brilliant in her debut run as a three-year-old for Ciaron Maher with the Godolphin owned daughter of Street Boss saluting for the punters fresh by a commanding margin in the 2025 Run To The Rose results to shoot to the top of all-in Golden Rose markets and put herself in the mix for a potential slot in The Everest.

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Open to horses aged three years old and run under set weights plus penalties conditions, The Run to the Rose is a genuine test of sprinting ability and tends to display some of the best talent on the Sydney circuit. With a total prize pool of $300,000 the race attracts plenty of great young horses from renowned stables looking for bigger spring targets over the coming weeks.

The Run to the Rose is now contested on a spring race card featuring two other Group 2 status races – the Theo Marks Stakes and the recently upgraded Sheraco Stakes.

The Run to the Rose is a major lead up event to the Group 1 Golden Rose Stakes (1400m), one of Sydney racing’s main events and worth $1 million prize money. The Golden Rose runs a fortnight later at Rosehill and usually contains quite a few horses that previously participated in the Run to the Rose. It is definitely worth watching the lead up race in order to get an idea of how the field interacts and to gauge form for the Golden Rose.

Astern (2016) followed by Bivouac (2019) are the latest horses to complete the Run To The Rose – Golden Rose Stakes double.

In 2020 the Run To The Rose form was franked when the runner-up Ole Kirk went on to win the Golden Rose Stakes, while North Pacific ran third in the Group 2 and second in the Group 1.

The 2021 Run To The Rose winner Anamoe went on to run second in that year’s Golden Rose results before a win in Melbourne’s Group 1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m). Anamoe also ran a devastatingly close second in that year’s Cox Plate at The Valley, and won the following year’s Group 1 Rosehill Guineas (2000m).

Further franking the 2021 Run To The Rose form was the runner-up In The Congo who won the Golden Rose next start.

The 2022 Run To The Rose winner In Secret franked the form with a next-up Golden Rose second before her Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) win over the boys at Flemington that Melbourne Cup Carnival. She also returned the following autumn to win the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap in 2023 at Flemington.

The 2023 Run To The Rose form was franked with the winner Cylinder rounding out that year’s Golden Rose Stakes trifecta placing third before a return in the autumn of 2024 to win Flemington’s Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington.

In 2024 the Run To The Rose winner Traffic Warden ran a next-up second in that year’s Golden Rose quinella.

The Run To The Rose 2025 took place on Saturday, September 13, 2025 at Rosehill Gardens as a lead-up to the Group 1 Golden Rose and was won in style by the now Ciaron Maher trained Street Boss filly Tempted ($3.90F). 

2025 Run To The Rose Betting

Betting on The Run To The Rose 2025 will be provided at Races.com.au complete with market links to Ladbrokes.com.au the week of the event.

In Secret ($3.20 in 2022), Cylinder ($2.50 in 2023) and the Godolphin raced filly Tempted ($3.90 in 2025) are the latest favourites in Run To The Rose betting to win.

2025 Run To The Rose Form

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL 2025 RUN TO THE ROSE FORM GUIDE

2025 Run To The Rose Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Run To The Rose 2025 Tips on the Golden Rose lead-up this September.

• Same Race Multi Selections ($10 at time of publish)

Wide open race with a number of standouts so going to wrap my best fancied into a SRM for value in this year’s Run To The Rose.

Top 3 – No. 5 Raging Force

Top 3 – No. 10 Wodeton

Top 4 – No. 6 Skyhook

RAGING FORCE (8) is going far too good to ignore so is a must include for the Top 3. He’s on fire having won four straight and, even after causing a check to the luckless runner-up in the San Domenico, had plenty to spare on the line in a key lead-up. Loves Rosehill but just needs to show he can do it over the extra distance now.

WODETON (11) was enormous without luck copping a bump which ultimately cost him the San Domenico win. Chris Waller’s Golden Slipper second placed colt is chasing atonement now and gets his chance fitter for the run with both class and consistency on his side.

SKYHOOK (3) is definitely one of the value hopes in this field and cannot go past him in the exotics. He’s two-from-three at the track, proven over the distance, drawn for a win with Kerrin McEvoy sticking with, and comes off an excellent The Rosebud win in the mud fresh.

2025 Run To The Rose Field

The 2025 Run to the Rose field is announced by Racing NSW on the Wednesday of race week with the full list of final acceptances to be published below.

The Run to the Rose 2025 final field features a full line-up of Golden Rose hopes including Team Hawkes’ returning Group 1 Champagne Stakes champ Nepotism in gate five.

Click here to read more on the key runners in the 2025 Run to the Rose field and betting markets.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Run to the Rose Nominations

The Run To The Rose 2025 nominations are taken on the Monday of race week and traditionally attract three-year-olds coming off lead-up Sydney runs in races like The Rosebud or San Domenico Stakes.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Run to the Rose History

The Run to the Rose was inaugurated in 2003, with Gilded Youth taking out the first edition of the race. Originally called the Monakea 3YO Quality Handicap, the race changed name in 2005 for a year to the Smithfield RSL Club Handicap. From 2006 onwards, it has been known as The Run to the Rose. A listed race from the outset, the Run to the Rose was upgraded to Group 3 in 2007. In 2015 it was upgraded to a Group 2 event and has retained that status since.

For much of its early years the Run to the Rose was run over 1300 metres, however the distance was reduced to 1200 metres from 2011 onwards. The Golden Rose is 1400 metres.

Notable Run to the Rose winners include Eremein (2004), El Cambio (2007), Pierro (2012), Astern (2016) and the latest to go on and win the Group 1 Golden Rose – Bivouac (2019).

Run to the Rose results since the race’s first edition in 2003 are listed below.

The 2021 Run To The Rose ran at Kembla Grange due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Tempted (2025) was the last Run To The Rose winning filly.

Run To The Rose Results

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