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Bobbie Lewis Quality News

2025 Bobbie Lewis Winner Arkansaw Kid Considered for Sir Rupert Back-Up

The Bobbie Lewis Quality is a Group 2 sprinting event held at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne around mid-September on Makybe Diva Stakes Day.

2025 Bobbie Lewis Quality Results

Check out the full Bobbie Lewis Quality 2025 Results & Finishing Order below once the potential The Everest lead-up race has been run and won on Saturday September 13, 2025.

• 1st: #4 Arkansaw Kid ($3.20F)
• 2nd: #5 Star Patrol
• 3rd: #10 Media World

The Ben, Will & JD Hayes trained Arkansaw Kid ($3.20F) broke a year long drought going back-to-back in the Bobbie Lewis Quality 2025 with a half-length win over Star Patrol ahead of a potential quick back-up into the $1 million Group 1 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes.

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Open to horses aged four years and older, the Bobbie Lewis Quality Handicap usually draws a field of talented sprinters. Run down the famous Flemington straight over 1200m, the Bobbie Lewis Quality is a fast-paced clash with barriers not really a factor in determining the markets at Ladbrokes.com.au. There is a total of $300,000 prize money available as of 2021 making it a lucrative lead-up to the Melbourne Group 1 spring sprints.

Horses that run in the Bobbie Lewis Quality usually do so as part of an extended spring campaign. Horses who put on a good show over 1200m and who tend to prefer the straight at Flemington are often entered into this event in the hope of victory on a familiar track. Those runners that are successful in the Bobbie Lewis Quality have a myriad of options to go on to, including possibly Randwick’s $20 million The Everest (1200m) – the richest turf race in the world.

If being kept to shorter distances, Bobbie Lewis Quality graduates often head to Moonee Valley for a race like the Group 1 Mankiato Stakes (1200m).

Bobbie Lewis Quality graduates often back-up in the Group 2 Gilgai Stakes at the same track and distance in early October and Zoutori (2020) was the last to do the double. Two-time Bobbie Lewis Quality winner Zoutori also continued on to win the 2021 Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington the following autumn.

In 2022 the Bobbie Lewis Quality form was franked with the upset winner Baller running third in both the Group 2 Gilgai Stakes and the Group 1 Champions Sprint (1200m) at his next two runs. The form was further franked with the second placed mare Roch ‘N’ Horse also running second in the Gilgai before her shock Champions Sprint win at Flemington over the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

In 2023 Star Patrol won the Bobbie Lewis before saluting next start in the Group 2 Gilgai Stakes. The form was further franked with the runner-up King Of Sparta returning the following summer to take out the $1 million Magic Millions Sprint at the Gold Coast in January of 2024, and the third placed mare Benedetta going on to win the Group 1 The Goodwood in Adelaide in May of 2024.

The 2024 Bobbie Lewis Quality form was franked with the runner-up Skybird returning in the autumn to take out Flemington’s Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning in 2025.

Arkansaw Kid enjoyed back-to-back Bobbie Lewis Quality wins in 2024 and 2025.

The 2025 Bobbie Lewis Quality ran on Saturday September 13, 2025 as part of Flemington’s Makybe Diva Stakes Day card and saw the defending champion Arkansaw Kid ($3.20F) salute for the punters in his first win since taking out the event last year. 

2025 Bobbie Lewis Quality Betting

The spring’s best Bobbie Lewis Quality 2025 betting odds and Flemington market links to Ladbrokes.com.au will be provided for punters at Races.com.au the week of the race.

Zoutori ($4.60EF for his second win in 2020) and Arkansaw Kid ($3.20F for his second win in 2025) are the latest favourites in Bobbie Lewis Quality betting to salute for the punters.

There was a notable upset in 2022 with Baller winning at Bobbie Lewis Quality odds of $21.

2025 Bobbie Lewis Quality Form

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2025 Bobbie Lewis Quality Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Bobbie Lewis Quality 2025 Tips on the important spring sprint lead-up this season.

• To Win: #11 Royal Insignia ($5 at time of publish) – BET NOW

I think ROYAL INSIGNIA (3) presents fit and ready to fire to breakthrough with his first Flemington win this weekend. The Grahame Begg trained Written Tycoon four-year-old is a Group 3 winner having beaten Tropicus, who recently won the Group 3 The Heath 1100, home in the Manfred Stakes at Sandown last prep before being twice beaten at HQ in tough events. He was 7th in the CS Hayes behind Sepals and 10th from out wide in the Group 1 Australian Guineas but gets his chance to show he can win at the track now he’s more mature. Kicked off his spring with a Listed Regal Roller third at Caulfield in mid-August and has previous winning form second-up. Gets the run of the race from barrier three with Craig Williams riding, is a six-furlong specialist (5:3-0-2) and should only improve off what he did last time out.

2025 Bobbie Lewis Quality Field

Each September the Bobbie Lewis Quality field attracts a smart line-up of sprint types, many kicking off their new season campaigns. If not racing first-up in the Bobbie Lewis Quality field, horses may come into the ‘Straight Six’ showdown via a lead-up run in something like the Group 3 The Heath 1100m at Caulfield a fortnight earlier.

The official Bobbie Lewis Quality field and barriers are announced on the Wednesday leading-up to Makybe Diva Stakes Day.

The 2025 Bobbie Lewis Quality final field has attracted a strong line-up of spring sprinters including the Team Hayes trained Arkansaw Kid coming off back-to-back seconds including in the Group 3 The Heath 1100.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Bobbie Lewis Quality Nominations

The 2025 Bobbie Lewis Quality nominations close on the Monday of race week and will be provided below once released by Racing Victoria.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Bobbie Lewis Quality History

The Bobbie Lewis Quality is named after celebrated Victorian jockey Bobby Lewis. Born in 1878, Bobby Lewis rode for over forty years and in that time won over 900 races. He retired at the age of 60 in 1938 and was inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame in 2002. Bobby Lewis is one of only two jockeys to have won four Melbourne Cups and he has won more VRC Derbies, VRC Oaks and SAJC St Legers than any other jockey. Bobby Lewis passed away in 1947.

Inaugurated in 1974, the Bobbie Lewis Quality has quite an extensive history of entertaining races and talented winners. The Bobbie Lewis Quality has been known by a variety of names, including the Pat Lalor Quality (1996), Sebel of Melbourne Quality 1200 (1997), Gateway Suites Quality (1998-2000) and Hong Kong Jockey Club Stakes (2009). Initially a Principal Race, the Bobbie Lewis Quality was upgraded to listed event in 1979 and then a Group 3 event in 1986. In 2015 the Bobbie Lewis Quality was again upgraded to Group 2.

Notable Bobbie Lewis Quality winners include Fiesta Palace (1976), Placid Ark (1988), Hareeba (1994), Titanic Jack (2003), Speediness (2013), and Redkirk Warrior (2017) who went on to win the Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning – Newmarket Handicap double at the track the following autumn.

Arkansaw Kid (2024-25) is the latest back-to-back Bobbie Lewis Quality champion. 

The Bobbie Lewis Quality results since 2000 are listed below.

Bobbie Lewis Quality Results

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