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The Queen Of The Turf Stakes – recently known as the Coolmore Legacy Stakes – is held on one of Australia’s biggest race days at Royal Randwick as just one of the four Group 1 races held on Day 2 of Sydney’s ‘The Championships’.

2025 Queen Of the Turf Stakes Results

• 1st: #1 Fangirl ($1.60F) 
• 2nd: #2 Stefi Magnetica
• 3rd: #3 Atishu

Fangirl ($1.60F) continued Waller’s autumn domination returning to winning form over the Randwick mile to salute for the punters in the 2025 Queen Of The Turf Stakes off a perfectly timed ride up the inside late by James McDonald.

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The meeting takes place on the second Saturday in April during the annual Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival and is headlined by the season’s richest race – the Group 1 $5 million Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m). Also run on Queen Elizabeth Stakes Day are the Group 1 Sydney Cup (3200m), Group 1 ATC Oaks (2400m) and the Queen Of The Turf Stakes.

Contested over a mile (1600m) the race is worth $1 million in total prize money and is run under weight-for-age conditions. The Queen Of The Turf Stakes field is open only to fillies and mares aged three-years-old and above.

Female gallopers may come into the million-dollar showdown via a number of earlier autumn races including the Group 2 Emancipation Stakes (1500m) a fortnight before and the Group 1 Coolmore Classic (1500m) run towards the start of March.

The Coolmore Classic – Queen Of The Turf Stakes double has recently been achieved by the likes of Zougotcha (2024), Con Te Partiro (2020), Appearance (2013) and Camino Rose (1999).

The 2022 Queen Of The Turf Stakes form was franked with the winner Nimalee returning in the spring to run third in the $2 million The Invitation race while the third placed Icebath won Melbourne’s Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes (1600m) during that year’s Melbourne Cup Carnival.

The Queen Of The Turf Stakes 2023 winner Atishu franked the form that spring winning the Group 1 Champions Stakes at Flemington over the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

Atishu returned in an attempted Queen Of The Turf Stakes title defence in 2024 but could only manage to run a narrow second to stablemate Zougotcha.

Atishu was brave again in the 2025 Queen Of The Turf Stakes results running third to stablemate Fangirl.

The 2025 Queen Of The Turf Stakes ran on Day 2 of The Championships, Saturday April 12, 2025, and saw the Chris Waller trained favourite Fangirl ($1.60F) salute for the punters by three-quarters of a length. 

2025 Queen Of the Turf Stakes Finishing Order

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Queen Of The Turf Stakes Betting

The latest Queen Of The Turf Stakes 2025 betting odds will be provided by Ladbrokes.com.au over the autumn carnival and also made available here at Races.com.au.

There were notable upsets in 2022 with the Matthew Smith-trained Nimlaee at $31, and 2021 with Nettoyer and 2019 with Kenedna both winning the race at Queen Of The Turf Stakes odds of 25/1 ($26).

Azkadellia ($2.80 in 2016), Zougotcha ($3.50 in 2024), and Fangirl ($1.60 in 2025) are the latest favourites in Queen Of The Turf Stakes betting to salute for the punters.

2025 Queen Of The Turf Stakes Form Guide

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2025 Queen Of The Turf Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Queen Of The Turf Stakes 2025 Tips on the $1 million mile showdown this April.

• To Win: #1 Fangirl ($2 at time of publish) – BET NOW

She was a dual acceptor, but Waller has gone the right way scratching her from the Queen Elizabeth where she would have struggled over 2000m against stablemate Via Sistina in favour of this easier assignment over a mile against her own kind. She’s nearly odds-on favouritism but is the standout in this field at the weights. A seven-time winner from 20 starts at Royal Randwick, this $9.3 million earning daughter of Sebring presents in peak fitness now fourth-up and ready to win. Fresh she beat Lindermann and Via Sistina in the Group 2 Apollo before back-to-back Group 1 seconds in the Verry Elleegant and George Ryder. She made up ground from midfield to be narrowly beaten by Gringotts last time out. Don’t think she’ll be beaten this time.

2025 Queen Of The Turf Stakes Field

The Queen Of The Turf Stakes field attracts a quality line-up of female milers with the fillies and mares coming out of a variety of different lead-up races and is released by Racing NSW on the Tuesday before the race.

The official 2025 Queen Of The Turf Stakes field & barriers are announced on the Tuesday of race week and will be listed in full below.

The Queen Of The Turf Stakes 2025 final field features a star-studded line-up of the season’s best fillies and mares including the Chris Waller trained Fangirl and last weekend’s Doncaster Mile champion Stefi Magnetica on the quick back-up.

Click here to read more on the star fillies and mares in the 2025 Queen Of The Turf Stakes field and betting markets.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Queen Of The Turf Stakes First Acceptances

After early nominations are taken in February the Queen Of The Turf Stakes first declarations or acceptances are taken in early March giving punters a better guide on what fillies and mares will face off in the $1 million mile showdown during ‘The Championships’ that April.

The 2025 Queen Of The Turf Stakes first acceptances close at midday on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. 

2025 Queen Of The Turf Stakes Nominations

The early Queen Of The Turf Stakes nominations close eight weeks out from the race on a Monday in early February and often feature over 100 hopefuls.

The 2025 Queen Of The Turf Stakes nominations close on Tuesday, February 11, 2025. 

The Queen Of The Turf Stakes 2025 nominations attracted 104 class mares with futures markets led by a strong Chris Waller contingent including Fangirl, Autumn Glow, his 2023 champ Atishu, Lady Shenandoah, and Aeliana.

Queen Of The Turf Stakes History

The Queen Of The Turf Stakes has slowly made its way up in status from being just a principle race in 1972 to becoming a Listed race in 1979. In 1985 it was elevated to Group 3 status and shortly afterwards became a Group 2 race in 1991. Eventually in 2005 the Queen Of The Turf Stakes was granted Group 1 status.

Although the Queen Of The Turf Stakes was held at Canterbury Racecourse in 2008, it had remained at Rosehill for its entire duration since 1972 when Refulgence won in 1 minute 30 seconds. As of 2014, the Queen of the Turf Stakes is held at Royal Randwick Racecourse.

The race changed its name to The Coolmore Legacy Stakes in 2016 before reverting back to its registered title in 2021.

See below for the full list of Queen Of The Turf / Coolmore Legacy Stakes winners & results going back to the year 2000.

Recent Queen Of The Turf Winners