2025 Toorak Handicap Results

Stay tuned to view the official Toorak Handicap 2025 results and finishing order ahead of the Group 1 on Saturday October 11, 2025.

• 1st: No. 6 Transatlantic ($10)
• 2nd: No. 3 Evaporate
• 3rd: No. 9 Leica Lucy

Winning Time: 1:35.64

Winning Margin: 0.15 lengths

Brisbane galloper Transatlantic ($10) claimed a thrilling victory in the 2025 Toorak Handicap results at Caulfield on Guineas Day giving trainer Tony Gollan back-to-back wins in the prestigious mile race when turning the tables on his last start conqueror Evaporate to win the Group 1.

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Toorak Handicap Tips

Stay tuned for our exclusive Toorak Handicap 2025 Tips on the spring milers to back and sack this Caulfield Guineas Day including our expert Toorak Handicap Same Race Multi selections.

2025 Toorak Handicap Same Race Multi Selections ($22 at time of publish)

• Top 2 – No. 5 Sepals
• Top 3 – No. 9 Leica Lucy
• Top 3 – No. 7 Lazzura

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Toorak Handicap News

2025 Toorak Handicap Results: Transatlantic Narrowly Denies Evaporate

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• 2024 Toorak Handicap Winner is Antino by 6.5 Lengths
• Another Wil Heads 2024 Toorak Handicap Field & Betting

The Toorak Handicap is held midway through the premier racing carnival in Australia, the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. Taking place on a Saturday in early – mid October each year on Caulfield Guineas Day this 1600m middle distance event is one of three elite Group 1 races held at Caulfield at the meeting along with the Caulfield Guineas (1600m) and Caulfield Stakes (2000m) with the latter currently run as the Might And Power.

Worth $1,000,000 in total prize money and run under open handicap conditions it is a fantastic lead up to some of the other middle distanced carnival races like the Group 2 Crystal Mile (1600m) on Cox Plate Day or the Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes (1600m) at Flemington on Victoria Derby Day for fillies and mares.

There are a number of excellent races runners can compete in prior to the Toorak Handicap that will give punters a good guide for the race.

Entries previously came via the Group 1 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes (1400m) before the race was moved to mid-November ahead of the 2023 edition.

In 2025 the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes moves back to a September timeslot on Underwood Stakes Day to again serve as a key Toorak Handicap lead-up race.

The Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes produced all four Toorak Handicap six of the seven winners from 2012-18 including Trust In A Gust (2014) who was the last to do the double. It is a race that attracts the best in form sprinters and is considered one of the leading mile races in the Spring Carnival.

In 2021 I’m Thunderstruck atoned for a luckless third in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes to salute for the punters in the Toorak Handicap.

The next year in 2022 Tuvalu also improved on a lead-up Sir Rupert Clarke third to win the Toorak.

I’m Thunderstruck went on to frank the Toorak Handicap form winning Sydney’s lucrative The Golden Eagle race for four-year-olds next start. He also returned the following autumn to run second in both the $5 million The All-Star Mile in Melbourne and Sydney’s Doncaster Mile.

In 2022 the Toorak Handicap form was franked with the winner Tuvalu running second next-up in the Champions Mile during the Melbourne Cup Carnival. The Toorak runner-up Laws Of Indices meanwhile continued on to finish third in that year’s Five Diamonds in Sydney and Hong Kong Mile when sent overseas in December.

The 2023 Toorak form was franked with the winner Attrition winning the Group 2 $2 million Hill Stakes (1900m) in Sydney a year on while the 2023 runner-up Antino went one better dominating the 2024 Toorak Handicap results by 6.5 lengths!

Antino went on to frank the 2024 Toorak Handicap form with a next-up second in the Group 1 Champions Mile over the Melbourne Cup Carnival before returning in 2025 to take out Brisbane’s Doomben Cup in the winter.

Queensland horseman Tony Gollan went back-to-back in the Toorak with Antino (2024) and Transatlantic (2025).

2025 Toorak Handicap Betting

The latest Toorak Handicap 2025 betting odds complete with links to Ladbrokes.com.au will be available here at Races.com.au for you to back your Toorak Handicap tips at the right price this spring.

I’m Thunderstruck ($3.20 in 2021) was the last favourite in Toorak Handicap betting to salute for the punters.

There was a notable upset in 2023 with Attrition winning at Toorak Handicap odds of $26.

The 2025 Toorak Handicap winner Transatlantic also saluted at double figures ($10) while that year’s favourite Sepals ran dead last.

Toorak Handicap Field

2025 Toorak Handicap Form

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2025 Toorak Handicap Nominations

Nominations for the Toorak Handicap in 2025 close the Monday leading-up to the race and will be listed for punters below.

The 2025 Toorak Handicap nominations attracted 18 top-class milers led in all-in betting by Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes winner Sepals chasing a hat-trick.

2025 Toorak Handicap Final Field

The Toorak Handicap field features a host of smart spring milers, some looking to step-up in distance next race in the Group 1 Ladbrokes Cox Plate (2040m).

Runners in the Toorak Handicap field come via lead-up races including Sydney’s Group 1 Epsom Handicap (1600m).

The official Toorak Handicap 2025 Final Field & Barriers will be announced by Racing Victoria on the Wednesday of race week and listed in full below.

The 2025 Toorak Handicap field features a smart line-up of spring milers including Lindsay Park’s last start Sandown Stakes winner Evaporate, the Cliff Brown trained Group 1 Sir Rupert Clarke champ Sepals chasing a hat-trick, and Chris Waller’s Group 2 Let’s Elope Stakes winning Snitzel mare Lazzura also after her third win on the trot this prep.

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Toorak Handicap Barrier & Speedmap

1

Athanatos Midfield

2

Pinstriped Midfield

3

Damask Rose Back Marker

4

Sepals Midfield

5

Lazzura Midfield

6

Evaporate Midfield

7

Desert Lightning Midfield

8

Feroce Midfield

9

Transatlantic Front Runner

10

Leica Lucy Back Marker

11

Willydoit Back Marker

Toorak Handicap History

First run in 1881, Josephine won the first running of the Toorak Handicap. The race has been known as a few different names over the years. From 1981-1984 it was called The IXL, then from 1985-1989 the name was changed to The Elders Mile. From 1990 onwards the event has been registered under its current title, the Toorak Handicap.

The race started as a Principal event run over eight furlongs until 1890. In 1891 the race distance was increased to nine furlongs for one year and then in 1892 it reverted back to the original eight furlongs. When the metric system came to Australia the length was converted to 1600m in 1972. The Toorak reached Group 1 status not long after in 1979.

In 2024 Antino won the Toorak Handicap improving on his second the year prior by a historic 6.5 lengths.

Toorak Handicap Previous Race Winners