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The WA Guineas (1600m) is a Group 2 event held at Ascot Racecourse in November during the Perth Summer Racing Carnival on Railway Stakes Day.
The Group 2 WA Guineas is one of the most anticipated events on the Western Australia racing calendar.
Held at Ascot Racecourse in mid to late November, the WA Guineas is a 1600m middle distance event for three-year-olds at set weights worth a lucrative $500,000 in prize money. It is the first Group status race for three-year-olds held in Perth each season.
2025 WA Guineas Results
Stay tuned for the official 2025 WA Guineas results and finishing order on Railway Stakes Day.
- 1st: No. 1 King Of Light ($1.75F)
- 2nd: No. 3 Heeza Phoenix
- 3rd: No. 4 Rock Fest
Winning Margin: 1.14 Lengths
Winning Time: 1:36.83
King Of Light ($1.75F) confirmed his star status with a brilliant victory in the 2025 WA Guineas results at Ascot on Saturday, keeping his unbeaten record intact.The Daniel Morton-trained Eartlight gelding went into the Group 2 mile as the hot favourite after dominant wins in the Belgravia Stakes and Fairetha Stakes, and he didn’t disappoint. Settling midfield under jockey William Pike, King Of Light unleashed a powerful turn of foot in the straight to surge past the front running Heeza Phoenix rivals and claim the $500,000 feature in style by over a length on the line.
| 1. King Of Light (4) J: William Pike57kg 11x11T: Daniel Morton | ||
| 3. Heeza Phoenix (9) J: Lucy Fiore57kg 112T: Mitchell Pateman | ||
| 4. Rock Fest (8) J: Chris Parnham57kg 11x3T: Daniel & Ben Pearce | ||
| 13. Ladies Pro (1) J: Craig Newitt55kg 12T: Grant & Alana Williams | ||
| 10. Buthelezi (12) J: Brad Parnham57kg 74x11T: Daniel Morton | ||
| 8. My Authoritah (2) J: Tim Clark57kg 11x06T: Daniel Morton | ||
| 2. Mardusa (13) J: Clint Johnston-Porter57kg 1x334T: Simon A Miller | ||
| 11. Hasani (10) J: Fred W Kersley57kg 41134T: Grant & Alana Williams | ||
| 7. Rubens' Ceiling (11) J: Billy Egan57kg 112T: Ryan Hill | ||
| 12. Hard Solo (6) J: Holly Watson55kg x1036T: Ashley Maley | ||
| 5. Saam Time Lucky (5) J: Steven Parnham57kg 32221T: Neville Parnham | ||
| 9. Deltason (7) J: Laqdar Ramoly57kg 7x815T: Meryl Hayley | ||
| 6. Statewide (3) J: Jason Brown57kg 3x180T: Neville Parnham |
Runners in the WA Guineas may progress onto other Perth races run under the same conditions like the Listed Lee Steere Classic (1400m) a fortnight later in preparation for the premier set weights race held in Perth, the Group 1 WATC Derby (2400m) in March.
Alternatively, the better three-year-olds out of the WA Guineas that season could back-up against the older horses in the Group 1 Kingston Town Classic (1800m) – now known as the Northerly Stakes – on the same day as the Lee Steere Classic.
Star filly Arcadia Queen completed won the WA Guineas and Kingston Town Classic, the then three-year-old taking out the Guineas by three lengths before smashing her older rivals by 4.5 lengths in the 2018 Kingston Town Classic.
Fellow filly Amelia’s Jewel (2022) was the last three-year-old to complete the WA Guineas – Northerly Stakes double.
The 2021 WA Guineas form was franked with the third placed Devoted returning in the winter for three straight wins including in the Listed Belmont Guineas (1600m).
The 2023 WA Guineas winner Zipaway franked the form with a next up third in that summer’s Northerly Stakes trifecta.
The 2023 WA Guineas also produced the following year’s 2024 WATC Derby champion with the runner-up A Lot Of Good Men returning to go one better and win the autumn feature.
The brand-new Group 3 $1.5 million The Gold Rush (1400m), held for the first time in 2022, run at Ascot in mid-December is also a potential target for three-year-olds out of the WA Guineas field each summer.
The 2022 WA Guineas form was further franked by the subsequent Group 1 Northerly Stakes winner Amelia’s Jewel who also continued on to win the Group 3 Roma Cup and run second in the inaugural $4 million The Quokka race in the autumn of 2023. She then went to Melbourne in the spring and won the Group 2 Let’s Elope Stakes – Stocks Stakes double.
The 2025 WA Guineas ran on Railway Stakes Day, Saturday November 22, 2025, and was won in style by the undefeated Daniel Morton trained favourite King Of Light ($1.75F). Â
| 2025 WA Guineas | |
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| Date: | Saturday November 22, 2025 |
| Track: | Ascot Racecourse |
| Distance: | 1600m |
| Conditions: | 3YO at Set Weights |
| Status: | Group 2 |
| Prizemoney: | $500,000 |
| Inaugurated: | 1937 |
2025 WA Guineas Betting
The latest WA Guineas 2025 betting odds will be available at Ladbrokes.com.au and updated here at Races.com.au for you to back your W.A. Guineas Betting Tips at the right price this summer racing season.
In 2019 War Saint ($31) scored one of the biggest recent upsets.
Arcadia Queen ($1.90 in 2018), Treasured Star ($2.90 in 2021), Amelia’s Jewel ($1.90 in 2022) and King Of Light ($1.75 in 2025) are the latest favourites in WA Guineas betting to salute for the punters.
2025 WA Guineas Form Guide
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2025 WA Guineas Tips
Stay tuned for our exclusive WA Guineas 2025 Tips on the Railway Stakes Day support act this summer racing season.
Each Way: No. 3 Heeza Phoenix
No doubting the undefeated KING OF LIGHT (4) is deserving favourite in this year’s WA Guineas but up to a mile he could be vulnerable, so I’ve gone for a touch of value and have HEEZA PHOENIX (9) each way.
He was great value earlier in the week at around $10 but has been smashed by the punters and is currently into $6.50 – and I can see why.
Mitchell Pateman’s promising colt is by former Australian Guineas champion Grunt, and he looks bred to relish the mile shaping up as one of the key dangers.
He announced himself with back-to-back wins at Belmont to kick off his career before running a strong second in the Fairetha Stakes last start, a proven lead-up into the Guineas, only 0.37 lengths off Saturday’s hot favourite. With Lucy Fiore retaining the ride from barrier nine, he’ll get his chance to settle midfield and produce a big finish.
Edged out late fresh, he’s fitter for the run, and I think he could be the one to lead from barrier to box.
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3. Heeza Phoenix (9)
J: Lucy Fiore57kg
112T: Mitchell Pateman
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2025 WA Guineas Field
The Western Australian Guineas field attracts a quality line-up of mainly locally trained Perth three-year-olds. Good lead-up races into the WA Guineas field including the Listed Fairetha Stakes (1400m) run at Ascot a fortnight prior or for the fillies, the Listed Burgess Queen Stakes (1400m).
In 2018 Arcadia Queen ran third in the Burgess Queen Stakes before taking out the WA Champion Fillies Stakes – WA Guineas – Kingston Town Classic treble. The 2022 Burgess Queen runner-up returned to winning form in the WA Guineas with Amelia’s Jewel saluting as the odds-on favourite.
Watch Me Dance (2020) and Storyville (2024) are the latest fillies to complete the WA Champion Fillies Stakes – WA Guineas double.
King Of Light (2025) was the last three-year-old to complete the Fairetha Stakes – WA Guineas double.
The 2025 W.A. Guineas final field is released on the Monday of race week and will be published below.
The WA Guineas 2025 field features a smart line-up of three-year-olds led in betting by Dan Morton’s undefeated gelding King Of Light coming off back-to-back Black-Type wins at the Ascot track.
Click here to read more on the key runners in the 2025 WA Guineas field and betting markets.
| No | Last 10 | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Barrier | Weight | Penalty | Hcp Rating |
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| 1 | 11×11 | KING OF LIGHT | Daniel Morton | William Pike | 4 | 57kg | Â | 80 |
| 2 | 3x11x334 | MARDUSA | Simon A Miller | Clint Johnston-Porter | 13 | 57kg | Â | 70 |
| 3 | 112 | HEEZA PHOENIX | Mitchell Pateman | Ms Lucy Fiore | 9 | 57kg | Â | 67 |
| 4 | 11×3 | ROCK FEST | Daniel & Ben Pearce | Chris Parnham | 8 | 57kg | Â | 69 |
| 5 | 61332221 | SAAM TIME LUCKY | Neville Parnham | Steven Parnham | 5 | 57kg | Â | 64 |
| 6 | 3x3293x180 | STATEWIDE | Neville Parnham | Jason Brown | 3 | 57kg | Â | 68 |
| 7 | 112 | RUBENS’ CEILING | Ryan Hill | Billy Egan | 11 | 57kg |  | 66 |
| 8 | 57x11x06 | MY AUTHORITAH | Daniel Morton | Tim Clark | 2 | 57kg | Â | 66 |
| 9 | 45317×815 | DELTASON | Meryl Hayley | Laqdar Ramoly | 7 | 57kg | Â | 69 |
| 10 | 74×11 | BUTHELEZI | Daniel Morton | Brad Parnham | 12 | 57kg | Â | 67 |
| 11 | 6×41134 | HASANI | Grant & Alana Williams | Fred Kersley | 10 | 57kg | Â | 66 |
| 12 | 72320×1036 | HARD SOLO | Ashley Maley | Ms Holly Watson | 6 | 55kg | Â | 59 |
| 13 | 12 | LADIES PRO | Grant & Alana Williams | Craig Newitt | 1 | 55kg | Â | 60 |
Table Credit: Racing Australia.
2025 WA Guineas Nominations
The WA Guineas nominations usually attract some fairly top-quality horses from local stables, and a few from eastern states.
The 2025 WA Guineas nominations will be provided below once released by Perth Racing around a month before the Group 2 support act on Railway Stakes Day.
WA Guineas History
The inaugural winner of the WA Guineas was Footmark in 1937. The event originated as a principal race of eight furlongs and remained the same until 1972 when the distance was converted to 1600m. The race reached Group 3 status in 1979 and then became a Group 2 event only two years later in 1981.
In 2003 the WA Guineas was held at Belmont Park Racecourse, which is the other major track in Perth.
A host of outstanding subsequent Group 1 winners won the WA Guineas during their three-year-old seasons including Playing God (2010), Ihtsahymn (2013), Arcadia Queen (2018), and Amelia’s Jewel (2022) who all beat home the older horses next-up in the Kingston Town Classic (now Northerly Stakes).
Storyville (2024) was the last WA Guineas winning filly.
Recent WA Guineas Winners
| Year | Place | Horse | Time |
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| 2025 WA Guineas |
1st | King Of Light | 1 minute 36.83 seconds |
| 2nd | Heeza Phoenix | ||
| 3rd | Rock Rest | ||
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| 2024 WA Guineas |
1st | Storyville | 1 minute 35.43 seconds |
| 2nd | The Merryman | ||
| 3rd | Olympic Park | ||
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| 2023 WA Guineas |
1st | Zipaway | 1 minute 36.35 seconds |
| 2nd | A Lot Of Good Men | ||
| 3rd | Super Smink | ||
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| 2022 WA Guineas |
1st | Amelia’s Jewel | 1 minute 36.64 seconds |
| 2nd | Bustler | ||
| 3rd | Saintorio | ||
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| 2021 WA Guineas |
1st | Treasured Star | 1 minute 36.31 seconds |
| 2nd | Stay Safe | ||
| 3rd | Devoted | ||
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| 2020 WA Guineas |
1st | Watch Me Dance | 1 minute 35.80 seconds |
| 2nd | Em Tee Aye | ||
| 3rd | Dom To Shoot | ||
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| 2019 WA Guineas |
1st | War Saint | 1 minute 37.84 seconds |
| 2nd | Kay Cee | ||
| 3rd | Red Can Man | ||
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| 2018 WA Guineas |
1st | Arcadia Queen | 1 minute 34.95 seconds |
| 2nd | Lady Cosmology | ||
| 3rd | Flirtini | ||
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| 2017 WA Guineas |
1st | Perfect Jewel | 1 minute 36.62 seconds |
| 2nd | Achernar Star | ||
| 3rd | Art Series | ||
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| 2016 WA Guineas |
1st | Variation | 1 minute 37.08 seconds |
| 2nd | Ellicazoom | ||
| 3rd | Ragazzo D’Oro | ||
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| 2015 WA Guineas |
1st | Man Booker | 1 minute 34.73 seconds |
| 2nd | Spirit Bird | ||
| 3rd | The Cobbla | ||
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| 2014 WA Guineas |
1st | Rommel | 1 minute 36.04 |
| 2nd | Disposition | ||
| 3rd | Say Geronimo | ||
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| 2013 WA Guineas |
1st | Ihtsahymn | 1 minute 37.65 seconds |
| 2nd | Miss Rose De Lago | ||
| 3rd | Saint Bro | ||
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| 2012 WA Guineas |
1st | Academus | 1 minute 35.97 seconds |
| 2nd | Bippo No Bungus | ||
| 3rd | Darlington Abbey | ||
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| 2011 WA Guineas |
1st | King Saul | 1 minute 36.11 seconds |
| 2nd | Caiguna | ||
| 3rd | Red Hot Sax | ||
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| 2010 WA Guineas |
1st | Playing God | 1 minute 36.21 seconds |
| 2nd | Lauradane | ||
| 3rd | Hoegaarden | ||
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| 2009 WA Guineas |
1st | Clueless Angel | 1 minute 35.06 seconds |
| 2nd | Thorn Dancer | ||
| 3rd | The Corporation | ||
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| 2008 WA Guineas |
1st | Moccasin Bend | 1 minute 33.7 seconds |
| 2nd | Locus Standi | ||
| 3rd | Saxon Palace | ||
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| 2007 WA Guineas |
1st | Megatic | 1 minute 35.6 seconds |
| 2nd | Perestroika | ||
| 3rd | Moisture | ||
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| 2006 WA Guineas |
1st | Vain Crusader | 1 minute 35.8 seconds |
| 2nd | Real Cheeky | ||
| 3rd | Translate | ||
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| 2005 WA Guineas |
1st | Cape North | 1 minute 36 seconds |
| 2nd | Lock The Vault | ||
| 3rd | Geil | ||
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| 2004 WA Guineas |
1st | Dr John | 1 minute 36.7 seconds |
| 2nd | Moet Magic | ||
| 3rd | Stormy Nova | ||
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| 2003 WA Guineas |
1st | River Mist | 1 minute 37.3 seconds |
| 2nd | Changing Lanes | ||
| 3rd | Laetare | ||
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| 2002 WA Guineas |
1st | The Right Money | 1 minute 36.8 seconds |
| 2nd | Trimagic | ||
| 3rd | Amphritite | ||
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| 2001 WA Guineas |
1st | Royal Retrieve | 1 minute 36 seconds |
| 2nd | Kentiara | ||
| 3rd | Dexian | ||
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| 2000 WA Guineas |
1st | Kalatiara | 1 minute 37.5 seconds |
| 2nd | Mr Tanzania | ||
| 3rd | Eutectic | ||
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| 1999 WA Guineas |
1st | Devilish Dealer | 1 minute 37.6 seconds |
| 2nd | Mulga King | ||
| 3rd | Major Metal | ||
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