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Concorde Stakes News

2025 Concorde Stakes Results: Everest Hopeful Headwall Beats Lady Shenandoah

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The Concorde Stakes is a Group 3 sprint held at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney now worth a lucrative $1 million in stakes as of 2023.

2025 Concorde Stakes Results

Stay tuned for the official 2025 Concorde Stakes results and finishing order including the sprinters most likely to secure a slot in the 2025 The Everest field.

• 1st: #5 Headwall ($4.20)
• 2nd: #4 Lady Shenandoah
• 3rd: #6 Ostraka

Matthew Smith’s consistent Group 1 placegetter and potential The Everest contender Headwall ($4.20) made an eye-catching return for the spring with a narrow victory over the beaten favourite Lady Shenandoah in the 2025 Concorde Stakes results.

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Raced over a short distance of 1000 metres the Concorde Stakes is an exciting sprint that really tests the abilities of some of the more talented horses on the Sydney circuit.

Open to horses of both sexes aged three years and older the Concorde Stakes is run under set weights with penalties.

It is held on Chelmsford Stakes Day and shares the race card with three other Group races: the Chelmsford Stakes (1600m), Furious Stakes (1200m) and the Tramway Stakes (1400m).

Those horse who perform particularly well in the Concorde Stakes might go on to target the Group 2 The Shorts (1100m) back at the track a fortnight later. The Concorde Stakes is now also a gun lead-up to the world’s richest turf race – the $20 million The Everest (1200m) held back at the track in October.

I Am Me (2024) was the last runner to complete the Concorde Stakes – The Shorts double.

Redzel won back-to-back editions of the Concorde Stakes in 2017 and 2018 ahead of his two historical wins in The Everest.

In 2018 Redzel made history as the first three-time Concorde Stakes winner.

The 2020 Concorde Stakes winner Gytrash backed-up to run third in that year’s The Everest trifecta before winning Rosehill’s Winners Stakes.

In 2021 the Concorde Stakes was won by Nature Strip at his third attempt. Nature Strip continued on to become the latest horse to complete the Concorde Stakes – The Everest double that spring.

Nature Strip further franked the form winning that year’s Group 1 VRC Sprint Classic at Flemington and returning the following autumn to win his third TJ Smith Stakes in 2022 ahead of a Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes win by 4.5 lengths at Royal Ascot in the UK.

The form out of the 2023 Concorde Stakes was franked with the third placed mare, Bella Nipotina, going on to win that year’s $3 million Winners Stakes (now Russell Balding Stakes) as well as the 2024 Group 1 Doomben 10,000 – Tatt’s Tiara double in Brisbane.

Bella Nipotina returned as favourite in the 2024 Concorde Stakes only to go down a neck to her stablemate, fellow Ciaron Maher-trained mare I Am Me.

Bella Nipotina went on to improve on her Concorde Stakes second to win the 2024 The Everest race when it took place as a Group 1 event for the first time. She further franked the form with success in the $3 million Winners Stakes and finishing third in Melbourne’s Gorup 1 Champions Sprint over the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

The 2025 Concorde Stakes ran on Saturday September 6, 2025 as a lead-up to the $20 million The Everest and was won in a thrillingly close first-up effort by the Matthew Smith trained Headwall ($4.20). 

2025 Concorde Stakes Betting

The top Concorde Stakes 2025 betting odds will be available at Races.com.au the week of the race courtesy of Ladbrokes.com.au.

Nature Strip ($1.50 in 2021) and Eduardo ($2.70 in 2022) are the latest Concorde Stakes favourites to win. Nature Strip finally saluted for the punters in 2021 after twice being beaten in the event in 2019 and 2020.

2025 Concorde Stakes Form Guide

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL 2025 CONCORDE STAKES FORM GUIDE

2025 Concorde Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Concorde Stakes 2025 Tips on the now million-dollar The Everest lead-up race.

• To Win: #5 Headwall ($5 at time of publish) – BET NOW
  

I do love LADY SHENANDOAH and she’s deserving favourite for her four-year-old debut, but I just cannot go past the value of HEADWALL (5) who is a very good and constantly underrated short-distance specialist getting plenty to suit for his return to the races. Matthew Smith’s gun Dream Ahead six-year-old is yet to win over further than 1000m so this distance is his jam. His strike rate shows that (9:5-1-3) but he’s also got the class, not just speed, to be ultra-competitive fresh. He was enormous over the autumn at the top level without winning putting in massive efforts to run close in the Oakleigh Plate (4th), Newmarket Handicap (2nd) and TJ Smith (3rd) before heading to Perth for the $4 million The Quokka where he went down by a narrow margin to Jokers Grin. Trialling well in Sydney, gets things his way from barrier five and can give this race a shake-up with a potential The Everest slot pending.

2025 Concorde Stakes Field

The official 2025 Concorde Stakes field is released by Racing NSW the Wednesday of race week with the full line-up of potential The Everest horses to be published below.

The Concorde Stakes 2025 final field features a top-class line-up of sprinters including confirmed The Everest slot holder Jimmysstar drawn wide in gate 11 and Chris Waller’s multiple Group 1 winner Lady Shenandoah drawn the rails for her first-up run as a four-year-old.

Click here to read more on the key sprinters in the 2025 Concorde Stakes field and betting markets.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Concorde Stakes Nominations

Nominations for the Concorde Stakes in 2025 close the Monday of race week.

2025 Concorde Stakes nominations extended until 11:00am (AEST) – 02/09/2025

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Concorde Stakes History

The Concorde Stakes became a listed race in 1990 following one year as an unlisted event. Alpine Flyer won the inaugural edition in 1989.

Registered as the Concorde Stakes the race has never really been known by any other sponsor name.

In 1997 the Concorde Stakes was upgraded to Group 3 and has held this status since. Initially held at Rosehill Racecourse the Concorde Stakes shifted to Warwick Farm for the 2011 and 2012 editions. Since 2013 it has been held at Royal Randwick Racecourse.

Initially raced over 1100m in 2013 the Concorde Stakes began to be held over 1000m.

Notable Concorde Stakes winners include Guineas (1999), Armidale (1997), and Joanne (1991).

Redzel made history with his back-to-back wins taking out the Concorde Stakes – The Everest double in 2017 and 2018 before winning the Concorde for a third time in 2019.

In 2021 Chris Waller’s brilliant sprinter Nature Strip, subsequent 2021 The Everest winner and 2022 King’s Stand Stakes champion in the UK, saluted as the odds-on favourite in his third attempt in the event.

In 2024 I Am Me set a new Concorde Stakes race record winning in a slick 55.97 seconds.

Concorde Stakes results since 2000 are listed below.

Concorde Stakes Results

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