2025 King Charles III Stakes Results

Stay tuned for the official 2025 King Charles III Stakes results and finishing order and to see what galloper could be on a quick back-up into the Ladbrokes Cox Plate field.

• 1st: No. 3 Ceolwulf ($10)
• 2nd: No. 1 Mr Brightside
• 3rd: No. 8 Pier

Joe Pride’s always honest Randwick specialist Ceolwulf ($10) claimed back-to-back victories in the 2025 King Charles III Stakes results, delivering a masterclass performance under Chad Schofield and reaffirming his status as a top miler with the addition of blinkers proving a master stroke from the stable. Mr Brightside was as brave as ever with excuses to run second while 50/1 outside Pier from across the ditch added even more value to the trifecta in third.

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King Charles III Stakes (George Main Stakes) Tips

Stay tuned for our insider King Charles III Stakes 2025 Tips on the important Group 1 mile showdown this spring including our expert King Charles III Stakes Same Race Multi selections.

2025 King Charles III Stakes Same Race Multi Selections ($25 at time of publish)

• Top 2 – No. 1 Mr Brightside
• Top 3 – No. 10 Fangirl
• Top 4 – No. 12 Within The Law

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King Charles III Stakes (George Main Stakes) News

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The King Charles III Stakes – formerly known as the George Main Stakes – is a 1600m race held at Sydney’s Royal Randwick Racecourse during the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival.

The event moved from its traditional September timeslot ahead of the 2023 edition to join Randwick’s The Everest Day race card in mid-October.

The inaugural King Charles III Stakes officially replaced the George Main Stakes from 2023 and with $5 million in stakes is the world’s richest weight-for-age 1600m race.

On The Shorts Day at Randwick in mid-September the $1 million 7 Stakes (1600m) replaced the old George Main Stakes on the card as the mile feature offering an Epsom Handicap ballot exemption.

Fangirl improved on a third in the 7 Stakes results to win the 2023 King Charles III Stakes for trainer Chris Waller.

The Everest Day offers close to $35 million in total prize money across the 10 races that are headlined by the $20 million The Everest (1200m).

The Group 1 Winx Stakes (1400m) remains a key lead-up to the event and Anamoe (2022) was the last horse to complete the Winx Stakes – George Main Stakes double first and second-up before the latter was revamped and renamed.

The next year Fangirl became the first horse to complete the new Winx Stakes – King Charles III Stakes double.

Open to horses aged three years and over the George Main Stakes was formerly a great lead-up to the Group 1 Epsom Handicap (1600m) over the same track / distance.

The King Charles III Stakes now runs a fortnight after the Epsom. The last horse to complete the George Main Stakes – Epsom Handicap double was the John O’Shea-trained Racing To Win (2006).

In 2024 Ceolwulf became the first horse to do the Epsom Handicap – King Charles III Stakes double.

Ceowulf returned in 2025 running 3rd in the 7 Stakes, 6th in the Epsom and then going back-to-back in the King Charles III Stakes to become the first dual champion since the three-peat of the mighty Winx (2016-18). 

The most notable recent George Main Stakes winner was superstar mare Winx who became the first back-to-back winner since Kingston Town (1981-82) when the champion defended her title in 2017 scoring her 20th straight race victory. Winx made George Main Stakes history again saluting in the event for the third consecutive year in 2018.

In 2021 trainer Chris Waller took his record in the race up to eight wins in 10 years with Verry Elleegant saluting. Verry Elleegant went on to frank the George Main Stakes form that year winning the iconic Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington three starts later.

The master horseman then won the first edition of the new race with Fangirl saluting in the 2023 King Charles III Stakes results for the stable.

The 2022 George Main Stakes form was franked with the winner Anamoe going on to win the Group 1 Caulfield Stakes – Cox Plate double later that spring.

The inaugural King Charles III Stakes winner in 2023 was Fangirl. The King Charles III Stakes form was franked that year with the runner-up, Mr Brightside, going on to run second in the Cox Plate and Champion’s Mile before a killer 2024 autumn that included wins in the CF Orr and Futurity Stakes.

2025 King Charles III Stakes Betting

The season’s best King Charles III Stakes 2025 betting odds and market links to Ladbrokes.com.au will be available here at Races.com.au as soon as available.

From 2010-2022 eleven favourites in George Main Stakes betting saluted for the punters. The most recent favourites to get the job done were Avilius ($3.10 in 2019), Verry Elleegant ($1.75 in 2021) and Anamoe ($1.65 in 2022).

Fangirl won the inaugural King Charles III Stakes in 2023 at $5.50 beating the odds-on favourite Mr Brightside ($1.95).

Pride Of Jenni ($2.70) jumped the favourite in King Charles III Stakes betting in 2024 only to be run down late by Ceolwulf ($6.50).

Ceolwulf won again in 2025 at even longer King Charles III Stakes odds of $10 with race favourite, Mr Brightside ($4.20), running second off a hampered run and bad barrier.

King Charles III Stakes (George Main Stakes) Field

2025 King Charles III Stakes Form

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The King Charles III Stakes field attracts a top-class line-up of spring milers, many looking to step-up in distance later in the season heading towards a Melbourne feature including the Cox Plate – a double Winx achieved in 2016, 2017 and incredibly again in 2018.

Many gallopers have a lead-up run in events like the Group 1 Winx Stakes (1400m) and or Group 2 Chelmsford Stakes (1600m). Winx (2017) was the last horse to complete the Chelmsford Stakes – George Main Stakes double.

2025 King Charles III Stakes Nominations

Nominations for the King Charles III Stakes 2025 close the Monday of race week.

2025 King Charles III Stakes nominations extended until 11:00am (AEDT) – 14/10/2025 

The King Charles III Stakes nominations feature a host of top middle-distance stars including the defending Joe Pride trained champ Ceolwulf, the 2023 winner Fangirl coming off a 7 Stakes victory, triple Makybe Diva Stakes hero Mr Brightside, and Ciaron Maher’s front-running queen Pride Of Jenni.

2025 King Charles III Stakes Field

The official King Charles III Stakes 2025 Final Field & Barriers are released the Wednesday prior to the race and will be published in full below.

The 2025 King Charles Stakes field features a stacked line-up of Group 1 middle-distance stars led in betting by Chris Waller’s 2023 champ Fangirl coming off a 7 Stakes victory.

Click here to read more on the key runners in the King Charles III Stakes 2025 field and betting markets.

King Charles III Stakes (George Main Stakes) Barrier & Speedmap

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Pier Midfield

2

Lake Forest Back Marker

3

Royal Patronage Front Runner

4

Ceolwulf Midfield

5

Pericles Midfield

6

Within The Law Midfield

7

Tom Kitten Midfield

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Pride Of Jenni Front Runner

9

El Castello Midfield

10

Yellow Brick Midfield

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Fangirl Back Marker

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Mr Brightside Midfield

King Charles III Stakes (George Main Stakes) History

The race was previously named after George Main, the former chairman of the Australian Jockey Club, racehorse breeder and sheep runner before being renamed ahead of the 2023 in honour of His Majesty King Charles III.

Inaugurated in 1945, the first winner of the George Main Stakes was Modulation. There have been several horses which have managed to win the race more than once including Kingston Town in 1981-82, Regal Rhythm in 1967-68, Count Radiant in 1964-65 and Shannon in 1946-47. In 2011 the race was run over a 1500m trip at Rosehill due to construction work at Randwick.

In 2017 Winx became the latest back-to-back George Main Stakes winner and the shortest-priced favourite to salute at odds of $1.12. The mighty mare won the event for the third year on the trot in 2018 defeating just six rivals, the closest being Le Romain by four lengths!

Trainer Chris Waller posted his seventh George Main Stakes win in nine years in 2020 with Kolding scoring an upset over three of his stablemates for an all-Waller first four followed by his eighth in ten years with his subsequent Melbourne Cup winning mare Verry Elleegant in 2021.

In 2022 subsequent Cox Plate star Anamoe became one of the shortest-priced favourites to salute in the George Main Stakes results winning at a $1.65 starting price.

The first official King Charles III Stakes winner was Fangirl for Chris Waller in 2023.

Ceolwulf then went back-to-back in 2024 and 2025 for trainer Joseph Pride.

King Charles III Stakes (George Main Stakes) Previous Race Winners