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The Gilgai Stakes is a Group 2 event worth $300,000 held at Flemington Racecourse on a Saturday in early October during the heart of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival as part of Turnbull Stakes Day.

2025 Gilgai Stakes Results

Stay tuned for the official 2025 Gilgai Stakes results and finishing order and to see what sprinters may have a Group 1 target in sight this spring.

• 1st: No. 1 War Machine ($2.90F)
• 2nd: No. 15 Bridal Waltz
• 3rd: No. 13 Star Patrol

The winter’s Stradbroke Handicap champ War Machine ($2.90F) made a stunning return to racing earning himself a slot in the $20 million The Everest with an impressive two-length romp home in the 2025 Gilgai Stakes results when carting the 60kg topweight to victory from the outside alley.

A sprint race over 1200m contested under set weights plus penalties, the Gilgai Stakes attracts plenty of first-up runners kicking off their spring or horses out of earlier lead-ups like the Group 2 P.B. Lawrence Stakes (1400m) over more metres at Caulfield in August.

Hosted on a massive day of racing for Turnbull Stakes Day, the Gilgai Stakes shares the race card with a host of other black type events including the:

• Group 1 Turnbull Stakes (2000m),
• Group 2 Danehill Stakes (1200m),
• Group 2 Edward Manifold Stakes (1600m),
• Group 2 Blazer Stakes (1400m) – also known as the Rose Of Kingston Stakes, and the
• Group 3 The Bart Cummings (2500m).

Proven Flemington straight track performers tend to dominate the Gilgai Stakes field and those horses that perform well often move on to similar events later in the Spring carnival, such as the Group 1 VRC Sprint Classic (1200m) – now known as the VRC Champions Sprint on the final day of the Melbourne Cup Carnival. In 2015 Chautauqua won the Gilgai Stakes for the second time before victory in the Group 1 Manikato Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley next start.

The Gilgai Stakes also now serves as a potential lead-up to the world’s richest turf race, the $20 million The Everest (1200m) held at Randwick a fortnight later.

The 2020 Gilgai Stakes winner Zoutori franked the form winning the next year’s Group 1 Newmarket Handicap during the autumn.

The 2022 Gilgai Stakes form was franked with the winner Private Eye running a next-up second in The Everest quinella before taking out that year’s $3 million Winners Stakes (now Russell Balding Stakes). The form was further franked with the second-placed mare in the Gilgai, Roch ‘N’ Horse, heading to Flemington for an upset win in the Group 1 Champions Sprint down the straight while Baller ran third in both the Gilgai and Champions Sprint that spring.

The 2024 Gilgai Stakes winner, Right To Party, ran a next-up second in the Champions Sprint results.

The Gilgai Stakes 2025 ran on Saturday October 4, 2025 at Flemington on Turnbull Stakes Day as a potential Champions Sprint lead-up and was won in a terrific two-length first-up performance by War Machine ($2.90F). 

2025 Gilgai Stakes Betting

The season’s latest Gilgai Stakes 2025 betting odds on the Flemington Group 2 sprint race this Turnbull Stakes Day will be available at Races.com.au as soon as markets at Ladbrokes.com.au are available.

Private Eye ($4.80 in 2022), Star Patrol ($2.50 in 2023), Right To Party ($5 equal favourite in 2024) and War Machine ($2.90 in 2025) are the latest favourites in Gilgai Stakes betting to salute for the punters.

2025 Gilgai Stakes Form

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2025 Gilgai Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Gilgai Stakes 2025 Tips on the lead-up sprint showdown at Flemington this spring.

• To Win: No. 13 Star Patrol ($7 at time of publish) – BET NOW

STAR PATROL (15) is at a good price to win the Gilgai Stakes for a second time having won this event back in 2023. The Clinton McDonald trained gelding went amiss in the Group 1 Champions Sprint following that during the Cup Carnival a couple of years ago and was forced to spend a lengthy time recovering. He came back for two spring runs last season and didn’t fire. He’s back again now and looks to be something closer to his former self having run very well fresh here on September 13 after anothe year-long stint on the sidelines. Brave he held on to cross runner-up only a half-length off the winner Arkansaw Kid in the Group 2 Bobbie Lewis. In the lead most the way he was run down the closing stages but presents fitter now. He has a solid second-up record, is a genuine Flemington horse (9:4-2-0) and he loves the six furlongs. Can win.

2025 Gilgai Stakes Field

The Gilgai Stakes field attracts a good quality field of sprinters each year, many racing first-up after tougher runs in the autumn.

The Gilgai Stakes 2025 field and barriers are released on the Wednesday of race week and will be provided in full below once announced by Racing Victoria.

The 2025 Gilgai Stakes final field features a capacity field of potential The Everest bound sprinters including the resuming Stradbroke champion War Machine with the 60kg topweight and outside gate to overcome.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Gilgai Stakes Nominations

Early nominations for the Gilgai Stakes in 2025 close the Monday leading-up to the race and will be published below once confirmed.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Gilgai Stakes History

The Gilgai Stakes was inaugurated in 1984, with Royal Troubador seizing victory in the first edition of the race. Since that day, the Gilgai Stakes has been run annually without fail. Plenty of horses have gone on from the Gilgai Stakes to other great results. In 2008, Swick went from a victory in the Gilgai Stakes to win the Patinack Farm Classic (now the VRC Darley Champions Sprint). In 2009, All Silent won the same race after placing second in the Gilgai Stakes results.

Redelva had a streak of three second places in 1989, 1990 and 1991, all faster than his only win in 1988. Temple Of Boom won with a great run in 2011, and Spirit Of Boom was able to maintain the pedigree’s success with a third in 2012 and a second in 2013.

Notable winners of the Gilgai Stakes include Placid Ark (1987), Redelva (1988), Hareeba (1994), Hay List (2010), Chautauqua (2014 – 2015), class mare Sunlight (2019), and Private Eye (2022).

Gilgai Stakes results since 2000 can be found below.

Gilgai Stakes Results