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Let’s Elope Stakes News

Let’s Elope Winner Lazzura Firms in 2025 Golden Eagle Betting

Held during the early stages of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival, the Group 2 Let’s Elope Stakes is named in honour of racing champion and 1991 Melbourne Cup winner Let’s Elope.

2025 Let’s Elope Stakes Results

Check out the official Let’s Elope Stakes 2025 Results & Finishing Order below following the event.

• 1st: #3 Lazzura ($2.05F)
• 2nd: #10 Oh Too Good
• 3rd: #6 Abounding 

The Chris Waller trained Snitzel four-year-old Lazzura ($2.05F) dug deep to salute for the punters in the 2025 Let’s Elope Stakes results and go back-to-back this prep after a lead-up Show County Quality win. The in-form mare is now set for a Group 1 mile target and or a shot at the $10 million Golden Eagle in Sydney on November 1. 

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The 1400m race takes place at Flemington Racecourse in early – mid September on Makybe Diva Stakes Day and is worth $300,000 in prize money as of 2021. Many of the Let’s Elope Stakes runners will come via the Group 3 Cockram Stakes (1200m) held earlier at Caulfield and could continue onto the Group 1 Myer Classic (1600m) – now known as the Empire Rose Stakes – back at Flemington during the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

No mare has completed the Let’s Elope Stakes – Myer Classic (now Empire Rose Stakes) double in the same season however since Rose Of Portland (1996).

The Let’s Elope Stakes form has stacked-up in tougher races many times however including in 2020 when the runner-up Arcadia Queen went on to complete the Group 1 Caulfield Stakes – Mackinnon Stakes double that spring. Those Group 1 events are now known as the Might And Power and Champions Stakes respectively. 

The 2021 Let’s Elope Stakes form was franked with the runner-up Mystic Journey also running second in that year’s Empire Rose Stakes results.

In 2022 the Let’s Elope Stakes winner Kissonallforcheeks went on to finish runner-up at Ascot in Perth’s Group 1 Winterbottom Stakes (1200m) and Group 3 $1.5 million The Gold Rush (1400m) that summer.

Amelia’s Jewel won the Let’s Elope Stakes – Stocks Stakes double in 2023 and also placed second in the $4 million The Quokka in WA the following April to further frank the form.

In 2024 the Let’s Elope Stakes produced the next-up Group 2 Stocks Stakes double at The Valley with Alsephina improving on her third place to salute. She would then go on to hold her own with a credible but distant third behind runaway champ Antino in the Group 1 Toorak Handicap. 

The latest edition of the Let’s Elope Stakes ran on Saturday, September 13, 2025 as part of Melbourne’s Makybe Diva Stakes Day card at HQ and saw the Chris Waller trained favourite Lazzura ($2.05F) narrowly salute for the punters.  

2025 Let’s Elope Stakes Betting 

The spring’s top Let’s Elope Stakes 2025 betting markets and links to the odds at Ladbrokes.com.au on the hopeful mares racing in the Group 2 Flemington race will be provided for punters at Races.com.au once released.

Kissonallforcheeks ($3.60 in 2022), Amelia’s Jewel ($1.95 in 2023) and Lazzura ($2.05 in 2025) are the latest Let’s Elope Stakes favourites to salute for the punters.

There was a notable upset in 2024 with Grinzinger Belle winning at Let’s Elope Stakes odds of $15. 

2025 Let’s Elope Stakes Form

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL 2025 LET’S ELOPE STAKES FORM GUIDE

2025 Let’s Elope Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Let’s Elope Stakes 2025 Tips on the September showdown at Flemington this season.

• Each Way: #5 Wrote To Arataki ($19 at time of publish) – BET NOW
  

Open edition of the Let’s Elope and love the second-up value of WROTE TO ARATAKI (7). Matthew Williams’ seven-year-old Wrote mare comes off a mid-field sixth fresh in Caulfield’s Group 3 Cockram Stakes when under three lengths off Magic Time at 40/1 carrying plenty of weight. She’s got a nice second-up record including a win at this track and trip in the Frances Tressady by 1.5 lengths back in mid-February. She’ll enjoy getting up in distance and returning to HQ where she’s got plenty of top three form and also comes back in weight. Underrated and an Each Way danger.  

2025 Let’s Elope Stakes Field

The Let’s Elope Stakes field attracts a quality line-up of mares each Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival who may have had an earlier run in the Cockram Stakes a fortnight prior, which is the traditional lead-up into the Flemington clash.

The official Let’s Elope Stakes 2025 field & barriers are released the Wednesday leading-up to Makybe Diva Stakes Day and will be published below once announced.

The 2025 Let’s Elope Stakes final field features a bumper line-up of potential Group 1-bound mares including the resuming Chris Waller trained NZ Oaks champ Leica Lucy drawn wide in gate 12. 

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

2025 Let’s Elope Stakes Nominations

The Let’s Elope Stakes 2025 nominations are released by Racing Victoria the Monday of race week and will be available below.

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

Let’s Elope Stakes History

Originally a Listed race from 1987 to 2004, the Let’s Elope Stakes then elevated to Group Three status from 2005 to 2008 and in 2009 it finally reached Group Two status. Previously known as the Milady Stakes, the event’s fastest winning time was recorded in 2013 when Commanding Jewel won in a sharp 1:22.5. Commanding Jewel returned to take out the race again in 2014.

The Let’s Elope Stakes retains an important place in the Spring Racing Carnival as a reasonably accurate form indicator for punters in later Group 1 races, including in 2011 when the winner Pinker Pinker won the Cox Plate that October.

Recent Let’s Elope Stakes Winners

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