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2025 Champions Stakes Betting
The VRC Champions Stakes 2025 betting markets on the full Champions Stakes field will be published below closer to Melbourne Cup week 2025.
In the meantime, check out our Champions Stakes Tips page for more guides to your Champions Stakes betting.
VRC Champions Stakes betting is open on the $3 million weight-for-age feature – formerly known as the Mackinnon Stakes – as soon as the nominations on the Flemington showdown are out.
Champions Stakes bet types include Win, Place, Each Way and Exotic selections like the Champions Stakes Trifecta.
2025 Champions Stakes Betting Tips
Our exclusive 2025 Champions Stakes tips on the weight-for-age horses to back and sack in the lucrative Melbourne Cup Carnival feature will be published below closer to the release of the Champions Stakes field 2025.
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VRC Champions Stakes Favourites
The favourites in Mackinnon Stakes / Champions Stakes betting only have a fair recent record in the Flemington weight-for-age race.
From 2006 – 2024 just four favourites have saluted for the punters: So You Think (2010), Arcadia Queen (2020), Zaaki (2021), and the odds-on elect Via Sistina ($1.60 in 2024).
Zaaki returned and won the Mackinnon in 2022 at odds of $8 with Anamoe running fourth as the beaten favourite at $2.35.
Between So You Think and Arcadia Queen six of the subsequent Emirates / Mackinnon Stakes winners also jumped at single figures: Magic Wand ($4.80 in 2019), Glass Harmonium ($7 in 2011), Alcopop ($6 in 2012), Happy Trails ($7 in 2014), Galio Chop ($8 in 2015), and Tosen Stardom ($6.50 in 2017).
There was an upset win by Awesome Rock ($19 in 2016) in the new-look race and a blowout in 2018 when Trap For Fools won at Mackinnon Stakes odds of $26.
A top Champions Stakes betting tip then looking at that Champions Stakes form guide fact is to back the single figures in the markets at Ladbrokes.com.au for the Win but lay the favourite.
Champions Stakes Betting Options
All the usual betting options are open on the VRC Champions Stakes including backing the Champions Stakes winner (Win), backing the Champions Stakes placegetters (Place) and backing the Champions Stakes exotic bets like the first three over the line in the Champions Stakes Trifecta in correct order.
The Champions Stakes Quinella, Champions Stakes Exacta and Champions Stakes Trifecta are obviously hard results to predict but they pay-out generously if successful.
A good Champions Stakes tip to help with exotic bets is to Box your exotics at Ladbrokes.com.au to cover all Champions Stakes results.
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