The Canonbury Stakes is a Group 3 race for two-year-old colts & geldings run at Rosehill Gardens in early February on Southern Cross Stakes Day.

The meeting is held at the very start of the prestigious Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival and is currently headlined by the Group 3 Southern Cross Stakes (1200m) for Group 1-bound sprinters.

2025 Canonbury Stakes Results

• 1st: #1 Blitzburg ($4.80)
• 2nd: #4 Hillier
• 3rd: #6 Peleus

In a thrilling display at Rosehill on Saturday, Blitzburg ($4.80), trained by Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou and ridden by Tyler Schiller, clinched the 2025 Canonbury Stakes with a commanding all-the-way victory. The Snitzel colt broke sharply from the gates and set a blistering pace, maintaining his lead throughout the race to win by a comfortable 1.18 length margin. Key moments included Blitzburg’s impressive acceleration at the 400m mark, leaving his rivals struggling to keep up. Post-race, Ryan expressed cautious optimism about Blitzburg’s future, noting his potential but remaining undecided about a 2025 Golden Slipper bid on March 22. With this dominant performance, Blitzburg has certainly marked himself as a colt to watch in the upcoming juvenile races.

The Canonbury Stakes is a set weights plus penalties sprint contested over 1100m.

It is open only to male two-year-old runners and is accompanied on the card by the fillies’ equivalent – the Group 3 Widden Stakes (1100m).

Many of the youngsters in the Canonbury Stakes field are on debut, while some may have had an earlier run in a summer race in Sydney or even over the previous spring carnival season. After the race a likely next-up option is the Group 2 Todman Stakes (1200m) at Randwick in early March.

Both races are key lead-ups to the famous $4.96 million Group 1 Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m) run at Rosehill in March. The horses to complete the Canonbury Stakes – Golden Slipper double are Fine And Dandy (1958), Sebring (2007) and Vancouver (2015).

Other Canonbury Stakes graduates may head south to Melbourne over the autumn for a shot at the Group 1 $2 million Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m), which the 2017 Canonbury Stakes winner Pariah finished runner-up in.

The form of the 2021 Canonbury Stakes was franked with the runner-up Home Affairs winning the Group 2 Silver Slipper Stakes next-up before a Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes victory in Melbourne that spring.

In 2022 the Canonbury Stakes winner Best Of Bordeaux won the Group 2 Silver Slipper Stakes next-up before a second in that year’s Golden Slipper results. He further franked the form returning in the spring to run third in the Group 1 Manikato Stakes (1200m) in Melbourne.

The 2023 Canonbury Stakes runner-up King’s Gambit finished third in that year’s Golden Slipper Stakes trifecta with the Group 1 won by Shinzo who came off a third in the Canonbury to further frank the form.

The Canonbury Stakes 2025 ran on Saturday February 1, 2025 at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse as a key Group 1 autumn lead-up and saw Blitzburg ($4.80) from the Ryan & Alexiou stable post a one-length win. 

2025 Canonbury Stakes Finishing Order

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Canonbury Stakes Betting

The top Canonbury Stakes 2025 betting odds will be open at Ladbrokes.com.au and also available here at Races.com.au as soon as available this autumn carnival.

Prost ($3.50EF in 2024) was the last favourite or equal favourite in Canonbury Stakes betting to win.

2025 Canonbury Stakes Form Guide

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2025 Canonbury Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Canonbury Stakes 2025 Tips on the Golden Slipper lead-up for two-year-old male gallopers this season.

• To Win: #7 Tropic ($3.60 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Tipping Chris Waller’s promising Zoustar colt to make an impression on debut after two solid trials. The blue ribbon two-year-old won his first official hit out last October before another hit out to bring him on for this test when runner-up by a narrow margin behind Feel The Breeze on January 23. Rosehill suits, he is accustomed, and gets the rails run in a small field with James McDonald aboard. Ticks plenty of boxes in a race without a real standout juvenile. Can win.

2025 Canonbury Stakes Field

The Canonbury Stakes field secures a quality line-up of young colts & geldings in the early stages of their turf careers, many eyeing a run in the iconic Golden Slipper Field later in the autumn.

The official 2025 Canonbury Stakes field and barriers are set for release on the Wednesday leading-up to the race and will be published in full below.

The Canonbury Stakes 2025 final field features a small line-up of young two-year-olds led in betting by the James Cummings trained Exceed And Excel colt Burma Star having his second start.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Canonbury Stakes Nominations

Early nominations for the Canonbury Stakes in 2025 close the Monday of race week.

Canonbury Stakes History

The Canonbury Stakes has been run and won since 1930 when Lightning March took out the inaugural running.

The race originated as a five-furlong (1000m) event holding Principal status at Randwick, where it was run up until 2003 and again from 2008 – 2011. It has been run over the 1100m distance from 2004 – 2006 and from 2009 onwards.

Rosehill held the event from 2004 – 2006 and from 2013 until the present. In 2014 the race gained Listed status before it was elevated to a Group 3 feature in 2015. The race is named in honour of Canonbury, a house built near Sydney’s Darling Point in 1911. The Australian Jockey Club (AJC) – now the Australian Turf Club (ATC) – has owned Canonbury house since the death of its builder in 1919.

Notable Canonbury Stakes winners include Tulloch (1956), Shogun Lodge (1998), Not A Single Doubt (2003), Sebring (2008), Hinchinbrook (2010), and Vancouver (2015).

See below for a full list of Canonbury Stakes winners and results dating back to 2000.

Recent Canonbury Stakes Winners

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