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The Eurythmic Stakes (formerly the Northerly Stakes) is a Group 3 sprint held at Ascot Racecourse in Perth during October each year renamed in 2022 in honour of former champion racehorse Eurythmic whose Group 1 wins included the Caulfield Cup (1920) and Sydney Cup (1921).

2025 Eurythmic Stakes Results

Stay tuned for the official 2025 Eurythmic Stakes results and finishing order and to see what gallopers have the Railway Stakes in sight this summer in Perth.

• 1st: No. 6 Diamond Scene ($14)
• 2nd: No. 5 Comfort Me
• 3rd: No. 7 Watch Me Rock

The Michael Grantham trained Diamond Scene ($14) delivered a stunning first-up performance to head the 2025 Eurythmic Stakes results at Ascot, defying the odds and setting the tone for a big spring campaign. Returning to the track for the first time since a runner-up finish in the Perth Cup, Diamond Scene ($15) produced a bold front-running display to beat Comfort Me by three-quarters of a length with Watch Me Rock running third as the beaten favourite.

Raced over 1400m, the Eurythmic Stakes is a set weights plus penalties event open to horses aged three years and older.

With prize money of $200,000, this is a fairly lucrative Group 3 event and tends to attract a field to match.

The race was renamed ahead of the 2022 edition so as not to be confused with the also recently renamed Group 1 Northerly Stakes (formerly the Kingston Town Classic) held in Perth in December.

The Eurythmic Stakes is the headline event on the day, sharing the race schedule with only one other black type event, the Listed Crawford Stakes (1000m) for short-distance specialists. The Group 1 $5 million Caulfield Cup is held in Melbourne on the same day.

Horses who run well in the Eurythmic Stakes often target the bigger and better races in WA over the summer including the Group 1 Railway Stakes (1600m) at the end of November.

Recently the classy mare Galaxy Star improved on a second in the Northerly Stakes to win the Railway Stakes in 2018.

In 2015 subsequent six-time Group 1 champion Black Heart Bart completed the Birthday Stakes – Northerly Stakes – Group 2 Lee Steere treble. The following year Lite’n In My Veins (2016) also took out the Birthday Stakes – Northerly Stakes double. The form has been the one to follow in recent years with Silverstream (2017) improving on a Birthday Stakes second to win both the Northerly Stakes and Lee Steere Stakes.

The form out of the 2021 race was franked with the runner-up Massimo winning the Group 2 Lee Steere Stakes (1400m) next start. Valour Road meanwhile ran third in the Northerly and second in the Lee Steere Stakes results that season.

In 2022 the Eurythmic Stakes winner Resortman went on to run third in the Lee Steere before a fourth in that year’s Railway Stakes results. Massimo meanwhile improved on a third in the Eurythmic to win that year’s Lee Steere Stakes next start.

The 2024 Eurythmic Stakes winner Comfort Me ran second in the Railway Stakes quinella that summer.

The 2025 Eurythmic Stakes ran on Saturday October 18, 2025 as a lead-up to Perth’s Group 1 Railway Stakes and was won in a first-up upset by Diamond Scene ($14). 

2025 Eurythmic Stakes Betting

Betting on the Eurythmic Stakes is led by in-form spring types with good form up to a mile including any past Group 1 performed local Perth horses down in grade.

The 2025 Eurythmic Stakes odds will be provided at Races.com.au once betting opens the week of the race.

Huge odds were on offer for the 2020 winner Taxagano who won at 90/1 when the race ran as the Northerly Stakes!

There was a notable upset in 2025 with Diamond Scene winning at Eurythmic Stakes odds of $14.

2025 Eurythmic Stakes Form Guide

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL 2025 EURYTHMIC STAKES FORM GUIDE

2025 Eurythmic Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Eurythmic Stakes 2025 Tips on the Perth spring showdown this October.

• To Win: No. 7 Watch Me Rock ($2.90 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Hard to tip against the resuming favourite WATCH ME ROCK (1) who gets all the favours from the inside alley to kick off his spring campaign with the ‘Wizard of the West’ – Willie Pike – booked to ride this Grant & Alana Williams trained gelding. The now five-year-old son of Awesome Rock was both of those things – awesome and rock solid – last prep winning three on the trot here at Ascot during an autumn blitz. He is now up in grade and looks very deserving of a Group 3 win at his pet track where he boasts a nearly flawless record of seven wins from eight starts. The 1400m looks perfect to get things underway, he can do it at both ends of a campaign and is proven first-up, and the weight scale suits. Huge hope.

2025 Eurythmic Stakes Field

The Eurythmic Stakes field is usually composed of local runners looking for a reintroduction to racing after a spell. Some horses might target the Eurythmic Stakes field as part of an ongoing western spring campaign however classier runners often contest this first up. You’ll usually see a few of the summer’s better sprinters kick things off in the Eurythmic Stakes field.

The 2025 Eurythmic Stakes field and barriers are announced the week of the race and will be published in full below.

The Eurythmic Stakes 2025 final field features a quality line-up of WA gallopers led in betting by the resuming Grant & Alana Williams trained Watch Me Rock, who won three on the trot here during the autumn, drawn barrier one.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Northerly Stakes / Eurythmic Stakes History

When run as the Northerly Stakes the event was named after the 2002 Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate winner Northerly, who also took out the 2001 Cox Plate and Australian Cup, making him one of the most prolific runners to ever come out of the west.

The Northerly Stakes was renamed in 2006, two years after the great Northerly retired. Initially a listed race, the Northerly Stakes received an upgrade to Group 3 status in 2013. With that came an increase in prize money from $125,000 to $150,000.

The Northerly Stakes was previously known as the WATC Anniversary Cup.

In 2000, the Northerly Stakes was run over 1600m. In 1999, it was 1800m.

Notable Northerly Stakes / Eurythmic Stakes winners include Megatic (2008, 2009), King Saul (2012), Playing God (2013) and Black Heart Bart (2015) who went on to win six Group 1 wins around the country.

Northerly Stakes results, including winning times, are listed below.

Ahead of the 2022 edition the race was renamed the Eurythmic Stakes.

Northerly Stakes / Eurythmic Stakes Results