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Caulfield Cup Barrier Draw News
2025 Caulfield Cup Results
Stay tuned for the official 2025 Caulfield Cup results and finishing order and to see what star stayer could have the Melbourne Cup in sight this spring.
- 1st: No. 15 Half Yours ($2.50F)
- 2nd: No. 13 River Of Stars
- 3rd: No. 17 Valiant King
- 4th: No. 2 Presage Nocturne
The Tony & Calvin McEvoy trained Half Yours ($2.50F) delivered a brilliant staying performance to dominate the 2025 Caulfield Cup results, confirming his status as Australia’s top spring stayer and stamping his ticket to the Melbourne Cup for which he is now the outright $5 favourite to win through Ladbrokes.
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Race Name 2025 Results
| 15. Half Yours (2) J: Jamie Melham 52.5kg 21514 T: Tony & Calvin McEvoy | ||
| 13. River Of Stars (4) J: Beau Mertens 53.5kg 3x780 T: Chris Waller | ||
| 17. Valiant King (16) J: Jye McNeil 52kg 93x01 T: Chris Waller | ||
| 2. Presage Nocturne (8) J: Stephane Pasquier 57.5kg x13x3 T: Alessandro Botti | ||
| 16. Royal Supremacy (6) J: Robbie Dolan 52.5kg 01121 T: Ciaron Maher | ||
| 14. Birdman (10) J: Teo Nugent 52.5kg x2517 T: Chris Waller | ||
| 5. Absurde (1) J: Ben Allen 55.5kg 32x3x T: Willie Mullins | ||
| 10. Deakin (7) J: Daniel Stackhouse 54kg 1x076 T: Phillip Stokes | ||
| 4. Meydaan (5) J: Andrea Atzeni 56kg 20523 T: Simon & Ed Crisford | ||
| 7. Zardozi (11) J: Harry Coffey 54.5kg 0x570 T: Ciaron Maher | ||
| 3. Middle Earth (3) J: Mark Zahra 56.5kg 9x509 T: Ciaron Maher | ||
| 8. Adelaide River (9) J: Jordan Childs 54kg x8827 T: Kris Lees | ||
| 1. Vauban (13) J: Blake Shinn 58.5kg 0x365 T: Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | ||
| 11. Golden Snap (18) J: S Hamanaka 53.5kg 1x6x2 T: Katsunori Tanaka | ||
| 18. Plymouth (17) J: Celine Gaudray 51kg x0612 T: Ben, Will & Jd Hayes | ||
| 9. Bankers Choice (14) J: Billy Egan 54kg 72x03 T: Ben, Will & Jd Hayes | ||
| 12. Revelare (12) J: Luke Currie 53.5kg x7117 T: Robert Hickmott | ||
| 6. Land Legend (15) J: Jamie Mott 55.5kg x3950 T: Chris Waller |
The official 2025 Caulfield Cup Barrier Draw takes place on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.
The 2025 Caulfield Cup barrier draw will be conducted live on Racing.com from 12:45pm (AEDT) on the Tuesday prior to Caulfield Cup Day.
The Caulfield Cup 2025 barrier draw saw the race favourite Half Yours draw favourably in barrier two.
Caulfield Cup Barrier Draw Facts:
- The latest Caulfield Cup winning barriers are 8 (Verry Elleegant, 2020); 18 (Incentivise, 2021) 6; (Durston, 2022 and Buckaroo, 2024), 7 (Without A Fight, 2023), and 2 (Half Yours in 2025).
- From 2009 – 2025 seven of the 17 Caulfield Cup winners jumped from a double-digit barrier draw – most recently Best Solution (15 of 18 in 2018) followed by Mer De Glace (17 of 18 in 2019) and Incentivise (18 of 18 in 2021).
- The last back-to-back champions from the same Caulfield Cup barrier draw were Taufan’s Melody (1998) and Sky Heights (1999) from barrier 9.
- The last Caulfield Cup winners to jump from the outside Caulfield Cup barrier were Dunaden (18 of 18) in 2012 and Incentivise (18 of 18 in 2021).
- No Caulfield Cup winner has jumped from barrier one since 1941.
- Other Caulfield Cup barriers (since 1983) that have not produced a winner are 12 and 14.
- Barriers 7 and 9 have produced the most Caulfield Cup winners (since 1983) with five victories each.
The Caulfield Cup barrier draw is one of the biggest sideshow events in horse racing. The $5 million Caulfield Cup is the flagship event of Caulfield Racecourse and one of the biggest events hosted by the Melbourne Racing Club on a Saturday in late October.
The Caulfield Cup Barrier Draw, announced on the Wednesday before Caulfield Cup Day, has a notable impact on the Caulfield Cup betting markets and punters eagerly await to see where the favourites draw.
The Caulfield Cup barrier draw is an intensely exciting event. Dreams are made and hopes are slashed with each number called out. Thousands of people, including each horse’s extended connections, race fans and punters around the globe will be glued to the Caulfield Cup barrier draw in high anticipation.
Naturally, each trainer and owner want the best gate for their horse. Each horse has a different running style, but generally the lower half of barriers are preferred.
Because the Caulfield Cup is 2400m long, Caulfield Racecourse gives the field a generous stretch of 400m worth of home straight before the first turn. This means that a poor barrier draw is not critical to a horse’s chances, but for those not suited to the track, it can be a disadvantage.
Caulfield Racecourse is well known for its relatively sharp turns, so a wide barrier draw can cause a horse to struggle to maintain pace around the bends. An inside barrier draw, on the other hand, can have the effect of trapping a horse on the rails and preventing them from running as freely as they like or getting up and going when it matters.
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