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Tramway Stakes News

2025 Epsom Handicap Nominations Attract 96 Milers, Autumn Glow Favourite

• Tramway Stakes Winner Pericles Firms in 2025 Epsom Handicap Betting
• 2025 Tramway Stakes Field & Betting: Private Eye Second-Up Favourite

The Tramway Stakes is a 1400m Group 2 event held during late August or early September each year at Royal Randwick Racecourse. Open to horses aged three years old and over the Tramway was formerly a handicap race but is now run under set weights plus penalties.

2025 Tramway Stakes Results

Stay tuned for the official 2025 Tramway Stakes results and finishing order this Chelmsford Stakes Day.

• 1st: #7 Pericles ($9.50)
• 2nd: #5 Private Eye
• 3rd: #14 With Your Blessing

The $1.5 million Epsom Handicap on October 4 is in sight for Godolphin galloper Pericles ($9.50) after the multiple Group 2 winner came out and won the 2025 Tramway Stakes for his new trainer Bjorn Baker defeating race favourite Private Eye home by 1.21 lengths.

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The Tramway Stakes, previously called the Tramway Handicap, is held on Chelmsford Stakes Day and shares the race card with three other Group status races. These are the Group 2 Chelmsford Stakes (1600m), the Group 2 Furious Stakes (1200m) and the $1 million Group 3 Concorde Stakes (1000m) for potential The Everest bound sprinters.

Chelmsford Stakes Day really kicks off the action of the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival and results across the program serve as a good guide for upcoming Group 1 features of the festival.

Quite a few of horses in the Tramway Stakes field may have come via the Show County Quality two weeks earlier. Those horses that perform well in the Tramway Stakes might choose to target later races such as Randwick’s Group 1 Epsom Handicap (1600m) a month later.

Happy Clapper (2017) was the last galloper to complete the Tramway Stakes – Epsom Handicap double.

It can also serve as a nice lead-up into the Group 1 George Main Stakes (1600m) – now run on The Everest Day as the King Charles III Stakes – with the 2019 Tramway Stakes winner Dreamforce finishing second in that elite level feature next start. Dreamforce successfully defended his Tramway Stakes title in 2020 and ran third in that year’s George Main Stakes behind the Tramway runner-up Kolding who went one better in the Group 1 rematch.

Sincero (2011) was the last horse to win the Tramway Stakes – George Main double before the latter was renamed ahead of the 2023 edition.

The 2021 Tramway Stakes form was franked with the winner Zaaki winning Melbourne’s Group 1 Underwood Stakes (1800m) next start. Zaaki also ran third in that spring’s Caulfield Stakes and won the Group 1 Mackinnon Stakes (2000m) after being scratched from the Cox Plate field as the favourite on race day morning. He returned in 2022 to further frank the form with a strong autumn campaign headlined by success in the The All-Star Mile (1600m).

Zaaki returned to successfully defend his Tramway Stakes title in 2022 before also going back-to-back in the Mackinnon Stakes (run as the VRC Champions Stakes).

The 2022 Tramway form was further franked with the second placed mare Icebath also running second in that year’s George Main Stakes before her Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes win at Flemington during the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

In 2023 the Tramway Stakes winner Pericles went on to run second in that spring’s Golden Eagle quinella franking the form. He also returned in the autumn of 2024 and enjoyed Group 1 placings when second in the Futurity Stakes and Doncaster Mile.

The 2024 Tramway form was franked with the winner Royal Patronage going on to run third in the $1 million 7 Stakes, Epsom Handicap and $2 million Hill Stakes. He also returned in the autumn of 2025 to win the Group 1 Canterbury Stakes and finish second in that year’s Doncaster Mile quinella.

The Tramway Stakes 2025 ran on Saturday September 6, 2025 as a key lead-up to the Group 1 spring, mile events and was won in an impressive upset by the now Bjorn Baker trained Pericles ($9.50). 

2025 Tramway Stakes Betting

The latest Tramway Stakes 2025 betting odds and markets courtesy of Ladbrokes.com.au will be available at Races.com.au the week of the race.

Dreamforce ($3.30 in 2019 and 2020) followed by Zaaki ($2.30 in 2021 and $1.90 in 2022) are the latest favourites in Tramway Stakes betting to win.

There was a notable upset in 2024 with US import Royal Patronage saluting at Tramway Stakes odds of $16 for the Waterhouse/Bott stable.

2025 Tramway Stakes Form

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2025 Tramway Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Tramway Stakes 2025 Tips on the important spring lead-up this Chelmsford Stakes Day.

• To Win: #5 Private Eye ($3.50 at time of publish) – BET NOW
  

He’s drawn near the carpark out in gate 14 but the Tramway favourite PRIVATE EYE (14) remains the class contender and hard to beat favourite in the field. Joe Pride’s two-time The Everest placegetter arrives in top form second-up after a strong win fresh at Caulfield, where he dominated the Group 2 PB Lawrence Stakes (1400m) by two lengths. Now returning to Randwick for the first time since his fourth in last December’s $2 million The Ingham, he’s well placed to back-to-back with fitness on his side. Nash Rawiller, who previously won this race twice aboard Dreamforce, retains the ride, and this horse should be able to settle back well with blinkers going on before finishing over the top of them late.

2025 Tramway Stakes Field

The official Tramway Stakes 2025 Field & Barriers are released the Wednesday of race week and will be available in full below.

The 2025 Tramway Stakes final field features a full line-up of middle-distance stars including Joe Pride’s last start Group 2 PB Lawrence champ in Melbourne Private Eye drawn wide (14) and Chris Waller’s resuming $1.2 million The Q22 champ from Brisbane in the winter Kovalica.

Click here to read more on the key horses in the Tramway Stakes 2025 field and betting markets.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Tramway Stakes Nominations

Nominations for the Tramway Stakes in 2025 are taken the Monday of race week and will be published in full below once released.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Tramway Stakes History

The inaugural edition of the Tramway Handicap – now the Tramway Stakes – was in 1886 with Burrilda becoming the first ever Tramway Handicap winner. The race location has varied between Royal Randwick and Warwick Farm over the years with Rosehill hosting for one year in 2000 and the other two tracks changing variously (the location has changed seven times since 1984).

Initially a Principal Race in 1978 the Tramway Stakes became a Listed race. It held this status until 1984 when it was upgraded to Group 3. Following the 2013 edition the Tramway received a further upgrade to Group 2.

For the first 85 years of its existence the Tramway Handicap was run over 7 furlongs. In 1972 this was rounded down slightly to 1400m to bring it in line with the Metric system. The race stayed at 1400m until the year 2000 when it was ran over 1350m. The next year it ran over 1300m. From 2002 onwards the Tramway Stakes has returned to its 1400m race distance.

Notable Tramway Stakes winners include Pompous (1906), Amounis (1928), Rogilla (dead heat with Chatham in 1932’s first edition of the race), Shaftesbury Avenue (1990), Rangirangdoo (2009), Sincero (2011), Happy Clapper (2017), Zaaki (2021 & 2022), and Royal Patronage (2024).

In 2020 Dreamforce became the first back-to-back Tramway winner since Grenoble (1959-60) but at set weights plus penalties (not handicap).

Zaaki (2021-22) is the latest back-to-back Tramway Stakes champion.

Pericles (2023 & 2025) is the latest dual Tramway Stakes champion.

Tramway Stakes results since 2000 are listed below.

Tramway Stakes Results