2025 Rosehill Guineas Results

Stay tuned for the official 2025 Rosehill Guineas results and finishing order at Rosehill on Saturday March 22, 2025 and to see what 3YOs have the ATC Derby in sight!

• 1st: No. 2 Autumn Boy ($2.45)
• 2nd: No. 4 Green Spaces
• 3rd: No. 1 Observer

Winning Margin: 1.94 lengths

Winning Time: 2:04.88

Jockey James McDonald set a new all-time Group 1 record riding his 130th elite level champion in the 2026 Rosehill Guineas results on Saturday thanks to a huge third-up performance by the Chris Waller-trained Autumn Boy ($2.45), winner of the spring’s Caulfield Guineas, who returned to winning form with a soft two-length victory in his maiden 2000m test.

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Rosehill Guineas Tips

Stay tuned for our exclusive Rosehill Guineas 2025 Tips and Same Race Multi Selections on the ATC Derby lead-up this autumn.

To Win: No. 1 Observer

OBSERVER (2) looks the one they’ll all be chasing in this year’s Rosehill Guineas, and at $2.70 at time of publish he shapes as decent value to keep his winning streak alive. Ciaron Maher’s rising star is airborne, hunting a fifth straight victory, and he ticks every major box heading into Saturday’s 2000m Group 1. The colt went to another level during the spring, ending his campaign with a career-defining triumph in the Group 1 VRC Derby (2500m) at Flemington. That staying performance stamped him as a genuine top-liner, but what he’s done this prep has been just as impressive. Resuming over an unsuitable 1400m trip with a hefty 59.5kg, Observer shocked a few by showing off a brilliant turn of foot to claim the Group 2 Autumn Stakes by over a length. He backed that up with a dominant, professional display in the Group 1 Australian Guineas (1600m), justifying his odds-on quote and proving he’s the real deal. Now he heads north to Sydney, and while the right-handed way of going is the only new challenge, everything else is in his favour. He draws beautifully in barrier two, maps to control the race, and gets the services of Craig Williams, who has already won this event twice since 2014. The rise to 2000m is a major plus for a colt who thrives over ground, and with his tactical speed and toughness, he looks every chance to roll forward and run them into the ground.

Rosehill Guineas News

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• 2026 Australian Guineas Results: Observer Too Good, Wins Again
• 2025 Australian Derby Winner Aeliana Beats the Boys by Five Lengths!
• 2025 Rosehill Guineas Results: Broadsiding Narrow Winner over Aeliana

The Rosehill Guineas is one of the premier Group 1 events for three-year-olds held as part of the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival. Conducted by the Australian Turf Club (ATC), it is run at Rosehill Gardens in March on Golden Slipper Stakes Day.

The meeting features a total of five Group 1 races with the Rosehill Guineas joined by the Group 1 $4.96 million Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m), the Group 1 George Ryder Stakes (1500m), the Group 1 Ranvet Stakes (2000m), and the Group 1 The Galaxy (1100m).

Restricted to three-year-olds the Rosehill Guineas field is run over a staying trip of 2000 metres and offers $750,000 in total prize money. The traditional autumn lead-up into the event is the Group 1 Randwick Guineas (1600m) held a fortnight earlier over 400m shorter.

The Randwick Guineas – Rosehill Guineas double has recent been achieved by the likes of Metal Bender (2009), It’s A Dundeel (2013) and The Autumn Sun (2019).

In 2022 the same two horses ran the quinella in both the Randwick Guineas and Rosehill Guineas but in reverse order with Anamoe winning the latter by seven lengths over Converge, while in 2023 Lindermann improved on a Randwick Guineas second to win the Rosehill Guineas in an all-the-way upset.

Broadsiding (2nd in 2025) and Autumn Boy (2nd in 2026) are the latest Randwick Guineas graduates to continue on and win the Rosehill Guineas. 

Anamoe went on to further frank the 2022 Rosehill Guineas form returning in the spring to win five straight Group 1 races including the Cox Plate.

Most runners out of the Rosehill Guineas will continue onto ‘The Championships’ at Royal Randwick in April for a shot at the Group 1 Australian Derby (2400m). Criterion (2014) followed a decade later by Riff Rocket (2024) are the latest horses to complete the Rosehill Guineas – ATC Australian Derby double.

The Rosehill Guineas winner is exempt from Australian Derby ballot.

As one of the best three-year-old events at the carnival, the Rosehill Guineas always attracts a fine field of contenders and has been won by some true turf champions including Sky Heights (1999), Tie The Knot (1998), Octagonal (1996), Danewin (1995), Naturalism (1992) and Sky Chase (1988), while equine superstars Phar Lap (1929) and Kingstown Town (1980) also recorded impressive victories in the Group 1 event.

The Randwick Guineas – Rosehill Guineas – Australian Derby races make up the coveted Sydney 3YO Triple Crown of races.

The 2025 Rosehill Guineas produced that year’s ATC Derby champ with the second placed filly Aeliana going on to beat home the boys by five lengths in the 2400m Group 1 at her next start.

In 2026, the previous year’s Caulfield Guineas champ Autumn Boy won the Rosehill Guineas third-up to hand jockey James McDonald his record 130th Group 1 victory in the saddle.

2025 Rosehill Guineas Betting

The latest Rosehill Guineas 2025 betting odds this autumn on the Group 1 three-years-old race on Golden Slipper Day will be available at Ladbrokes.com.au and also published hare at Races.com.au as soon as released.

Rosehill Guineas betting is normally very interesting, and it is often surprisingly tough to pick the winner of the Group 1 event. There is generally one horse that starts the Rosehill Guineas as a short-priced favourite, but only a handful of favourites have won the race in the last thirty years.

Talented gallopers Bounty Hawk (1984), Noble Peer (1985), Veandercross (1992), Intergaze (1997), Universal Prince (2001), Teranaba (2007), and Shoot Out (2010) were all beaten as short-priced favourites. Meanwhile Ring Joe (1987), Star Of Maple (1994), Diatribe (2000), Sale Of Century (2001), and De Beers (2006) all managed to score upset wins in the Group 1 event.

Recent favourites in Rosehill Guineas betting to salute for the punters include It’s A Dundeel (2013), Criterion (2014), D’Argento (2018), The Autumn Sun (2019) who started at an odds-on quote of $1.30 in what would be his swansong race, Mo’unga (2021), and Chris Waller’s VRC Derby champ from the spring prior Riff Rocket ($2.70 in 2024).

Rosehill Guineas odds open weeks in advance of the race at online bookmakers including Ladbrokes.com.au.

In 2023 the Godolphin-raced favourite Pericles ($2.30) finished a narrow second to Chris Waller’s all-the-way champion Lindermann ($6.50).

Waller went back-to-back with a 2024 victory by Riff Rocket and won the race again in 2026 with the second favourite Autumn Boy ($2.45).

The Autumn Sun ($1.40 in 2019), Mo’unga ($2.90 in 2021), Anamoe ($1.70 in 2022), and Riff Rocket ($2.70 in 2024), and Broadsiding ($2.90 in 2025) are the latest Rosehill Guineas favourites to salute for the punters.

Rosehill Guineas Field

2025 Rosehill Guineas Form

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2025 Rosehill Guineas Nominations

The Rosehill Guineas 2025 nominations close on Tuesday the 10th of February 2026.

The 2026 Rosehill Guineas nominations drew 105 ace three-year-old hopefuls led in all-in betting by Ciaron Maher’s VRC Derby champ Observer who kicked off his autumn with a soft win in the Group 2 Autumn Stakes.

2025 Rosehill Guineas Field

The Rosehill Guineas field attracts the season’s best three-year-old staying types typically coming off a Randwick Guineas run over a mile and heading towards the Australian Derby on Day 1 of ‘The Championships’ in April.

The official 2025 Rosehill Guineas field and barriers are released by Racing NSW on the Wednesday leading up to Golden Slipper Day and will be available in full below.

The Rosehill Guineas 2026 final field features a small but class line-up of nine three-year-olds led by Ciaron Maher’s VRC Derby champ Observer coming off a Group 1 Australian Guineas victory and chasing his fifth win on the trot.

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Rosehill Guineas Barrier & Speedmap

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Federalist Backmarker

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Observer Pace

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Autumn Boy Midfield

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Deal Done Fast Midfield

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Are You Kidding invalid settling lengths

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Bingi Off Pace

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Victorious Spirit Off Pace

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Green Spaces Midfield

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One Step Closer Off Midfield

Rosehill Guineas History

The Rosehill Guineas began as a principal race run over seven furlongs and the inaugural winner was Electric Wire. The race distance was increased to nine furlongs in 1915 before a further increase occurred in 1948, bringing the length to a testing 10 furlongs. In 1973 the distance was converted to 2000m and after the race was not held in 1978, the Rosehill Guineas was elevated to Group 1 status in 1980 when the almighty Kingston Town was victorious.

In 2021 the original Golden Slipper Stakes race day including the Rosehill Guineas was abandoned due to heavy rainfall and unsafe track conditions and postponed to the following Saturday.

In 2022 Anamoe secured a dominant seven-length victory in the Rosehill Guineas results for the powerhouse Godolphin stable.

Rosehill Guineas Previous Race Winners