2025 Spring Champion Stakes Results

Stay tuned for the official 2025 Spring Champion Stakes results including this year’s winner when the $2 million showdown is run and won on Saturday, October 25, 2025.

• 1st: No. 1 Attica ($4)
• 2nd: No. 2 Shangri La Boy
• 3rd: No. 13 The Pearls

Winning Margin: 0.3 lengths

Winning Time: 2:03.47

Joseph Pride’s last start Listed Dulcify Quality winning Lonhro colt Attica ($4) was huge handling a notable rise in grade and distance to fly home and deny the beaten favourite Shangri La Boy in the 2025 Spring Champion Stakes results in Sydney. Attica came from well back in the field on the turn with a wide run to charge right down the outside off a peach of a ride by Adam Hyeronimus to wear down the front running Shangri La Boy and claim a narrow victory with Chris Waller’s underrated filly The Pearls in third.

Spring Champion Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Spring Champion Stakes 2025 Tips on the $2 million showdown this spring.

2025 Spring Champion Stakes Same Race Multi Selections ($34 at time of publish)

• Top 3 – No. 2 Shangri La Boy
• Top 4 – No. 3 San Giovanni
• Top 4 – No. 13 The Pearls

Click here for our complete Spring Champion Stakes 2025 tips and best bets.

Spring Champion Stakes News

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Held during the prestigious Sydney Spring Racing Carnival the Spring Champion Stakes is a Group 1 race run at Royal Randwick in late September or early October.

The Spring Champion Stakes is run over 2000m under set weight conditions. It is one of the premier races for three-year-olds at the carnival and is worth $2 million.

This middle-distance event attracts fine quality competitors every year and runners may have come via the Group 3 Gloaming Stakes (1800m) earlier in the spring at Rosehill or the Listed Dulcify Quality (2000m).

Ace High (2017), Shadow Hero (2019), Sharp ‘N’ Smart (2022), and El Castello (2024) are the last horses to complete the Gloaming Stakes – Spring Champion Stakes double.

Attica (2025) meanwhile was the last three-year-old to complete the Dulcify Quality – Spring Champion Stakes double.

Previously run earlier in October in 2022 the Spring Champion Stakes was moved to run on the same Saturday as Melbourne’s iconic $6 million Cox Plate at Moonee Valley.

2025 Spring Champion Stakes Betting

The latest Spring Champion Stakes 2025 betting markets on the hopeful three-year-olds facing off in the late Sydney Spring Racing Carnival classic, Spring Champion Stakes odds provided by Ladbrokes.com.au, will be provided here at Races.com.au.

Shadow Hero ($1.90 in 2019), Montefilia ($2.70 in 2020), Profondo ($2.80 in 2021), Tom Kitten ($2.50 in 2023), and El Castello ($3 in 2024) are the latest favourites in Spring Champion Stakes betting to salute for the punters.

The now Group 2 $2 million The Invitation (1400m) race for fillies and mares, and the Group 2 $1 million Callander-Presnell (1600m) – formerly the Stan Fox Stakes – are the other key races on the new-look Spring Champion Stakes Day card from 2022 onwards.

Horses that perform well in the Spring Champion Stakes may be aimed at some of the other illustrious events held in spring at the Melbourne Racing Carnival including Flemington’s Group 1 VRC Derby (2500m). The last horses to complete the Spring Champion Stakes – VRC Derby double were Monaco Consul (2009) and Ace High (2017).

History was made in 2020 with Montefilia became the first filly to complete the Flight Stakes – Spring Champion Stakes double in the same calendar year. She went on to also run third in that year’s VRC Oaks and the following autumn’s Rosehill Guineas results.

In 2021 the Flight Stakes winning filly Never Been Kissed ran a next-up second in the Spring Champion Stakes results.

The 2021 Spring Champion Stakes form was further franked with the third-placed Alegron running second next-up in the VRC Derby. He also returned the following autumn to place third in the 2022 ATC Derby.

The 2022 Spring Champion Stakes winner Sharp ‘N’ Smart ran second next-up in the Victoria Derby results before a summer campaign the next year in New Zealand that saw him win back-to-back Group 1s including the NZ Derby. He also placed fourth in the 2023 ATC Derby results back in Sydney that autumn.

The Spring Champion 2022 form was further franked with the third-placed filly She’s Extreme going on to win that year’s VRC Oaks at Flemington.

Spring Champion Stakes Field

2025 Spring Champion Stakes Form Guide

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2025 Spring Champion Stakes Nominations

Nominations for the Spring Champion Stakes in 2025 are taken the Monday of race week and the full list of early entries will be published below.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Spring Champion Stakes Field

The Spring Champion Stakes field traditionally features many of the same runners as the Group 3 Gloaming Stakes (1800m) at Rosehill earlier in the spring.

The Gloaming Stakes has produced more Spring Champion Stakes winners than any other lead-up and the double has recently been achieved by El Castello (2024), Sharp ‘N’ Smart (2022), Shadow Hero (2019), Ace High (2017), Vanbrugh (2015), Complacent (2013), and It’s A Dundeel (2012).

The official 2025 Spring Champion Stakes Final Field & Barriers are announced by Racing NSW on the Wednesday of race week and will be provided in full below once released.

The Spring Champion Stakes 2025 final field features a capacity line-up of potential VRC Derby bound three-year-olds including Joe Pride’s Listed Dulcify Quality winning son of Lonhro Attica with a wide barrier 13 draw to overcome and the Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott trained Group 3 Gloaming Stakes champ Shangri La Boy chasing a hat-trick.

Click here to read more on the key runners in the 2025 Spring Champion Stakes field and betting markets.

Spring Champion Stakes Barrier & Speedmap

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The Pearls Midfield

2

Shangri La Boy Midfield

3

Crusader Voyage Front Runner

4

Officiate Midfield

5

San Giovanni Midfield

6

Tambeloa Midfield

7

Southern Prince Midfield

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Queen Of Clubs Midfield

9

Sheeza Diva Midfield

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Champagne Hero Front Runner

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Pinot Nero Back Marker

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Attica Midfield

12

Master Of The Air Back Marker

12

Federalist Back Marker

13

Within The Law Midfield

Spring Champion Stakes History

The Spring Champion Stakes is one of the younger thoroughbred races conducted in Australia, and it was first run in 1971 when Gay Icarus claimed victory. It began as a principal race run over 2000m and reached Group 1 status in 1979. For one year in 2001 the race distance was set at 1800m.

A number of champion gallopers have got their start in the Spring Champion Stakes. Classy winners include Universal Prince (2000), Dignity Dancer (1998), Tie The Knot (1997), Nothin’ Leica Dane (1995), Kinjite (1991), and Kingston Town (1979).

More recently standout Spring Champion Stakes winners include Montefilia (2020), Ace High (2017), and Yankee Rose (2016).

Spring Champion Stakes Previous Race Winners