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Gloaming Stakes News

Shangri La Boy Wins Gloaming, Firms in 2025 Spring Champion Stakes Betting

The Gloaming Stakes is a Group 3 race currently held at Rosehill Racecourse during the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival in October.

2025 Gloaming Stakes Results

Stay tuned for the official 2025 Gloaming Stakes results and finishing order and to see what three-year-old has the Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes in sight this season.

• 1st: No. 7 Shangri La Boy ($4.60)
• 2nd: No. 15 The Pearls
• 3rd: No. 9 San Giovanni

Winning Time: 1:49.07

Winning Margin: 2.11 lengths

The untapped Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott trained Pierro colt Shangri La Boy ($4.60) delivered a powerful all-the-way win at just his third start in the 2025 Gloaming Stakes results at Rosehill, stamping himself as a serious Spring Champion Stakes contender.

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The Gloaming Stakes is now held on Hill Stakes Day which is headlined by the running of the lucrative Group 2 Hill Stakes (1900m) having been moved from The Everest Day at Randwick for the 2024 edition.

Other key races on Hill Stakes Day include the $1.5 million Alan Brown Stakes, $500,000 Tapp-Craig, and the Group 2 Roman Consul Stakes.

The Gloaming Stakes is run at set weights over 1800m and is only open to three-year-olds offering a lucrative $500,000 in total prize money.

Many of the more successful runners in the Gloaming Stakes go on to challenge the Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes (2000m).

The Gloaming Stakes winner is exempt from Spring Champion Stakes ballot and the latest horses to complete the Gloaming – Spring Champion Stakes double are Shadow Hero (2019), Sharp ‘N’ Smart (2022), and El Castello (2024).

Often, horses will contend the Gloaming Stakes before heading south to target Flemington’s Group 1 Victoria Derby (2500m) during the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

In 2017 Ace High took out the Gloaming Stakes – Spring Champion Stakes – VRC Derby treble.

In 2021 the Gloaming Stakes form was franked with the runner-up Profondo going on to win the Spring Champion Stakes next start.

After taking out the Gloaming Stakes and Spring Champion Stakes double in 2022 Sharp ‘N’ Smart further franked the form with a VRC Derby second. He returned to New Zealand in 2023 winning a further two Group 1 events including the NZ Derby and then ran a good fourth in Sydney’s Group 1 ATC Derby that autumn.

The 2023 Gloaming Stakes also produced that year’s Spring Champion Stakes winner with Tom Kitten improving on his lead-up second in the Group 3. He went on to run well in a host more races including a second in the 2024 Group 1 Epsom Handicap.

The 2025 Gloaming Stakes ran on Saturday October 11, 2025 on Rosehill’s Hill Stakes Day program as a key lead-up to the Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes and was won in a brilliant front-running performance by lightly raced Pierro colt Shangri La Boy ($4.60). 

2025 Gloaming Stakes Betting

The updated Gloaming Stakes 2025 betting odds and Group 3 betting market links to the Sydney racing markets online at Ladbrokes.com.au will be provided here at Races.com.au the week of the race.

Shadow Hero ($2.90 in 2019), Love Tap ($1.70 in 2020) and Sharp ‘N’ Smart ($2.70 in 2022) are the latest favourites in Gloaming Stakes betting to salute for the punters.

2025 Gloaming Stakes Form

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2025 Gloaming Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Gloaming Stakes 2025 Tips on the three-year-olds’ showdown this spring.

• To Win: No. 4 Master Of Air ($4.50 at time of publish) – BET NOW

With the favourite and my original pick in the Gloaming WITHIN THE LAW scratched, I’m happy to put MASTER OF AIR (2) on top to make it a hat-trick this time in. Chris Waller’s progressive Dundeel colt is up in grade after back-to-back wins at Kembla Grange so is fit and in flying form ready to take the next step. He’s show great versatility winning on both a Heavy (8) over 1200m two back to break his maiden status in outstanding fashion with a five-length romp home in the wet before saluting again on a Good (3). His latest was by a narrower margin, but he carried 58kg well and will enjoy getting back to 56.5kg. Drawn well in barrier two and benefits from the booking of Tommy Berry. Needs to rise to the occasion and see out the 1800m, but his father was a six-time Group 1 winner up to 2400m, so I think he’ll get the trip without worry. Out to emulate his sire who won this and the Spring Champion Stakes back in 2012. Can win.

2025 Gloaming Stakes Field

The Gloaming Stakes 2025 field of final acceptances and barrier draw are released by Racing NSW on the Wednesday leading up to race day. Horses may come into the Gloaming Stakes field via earlier Group status Sydney Spring Racing Carnival races for three-year-olds or be stepping up in class for their first black-type test of the season.

The 2025 Gloaming Stakes final field features a full line-up of potential Group 1 bound three-year-olds including six for trainer Chris Waller and the widely drawn Bjorn Baker trainer favourite Within The Law coming off a Group 1 Flight Stakes second.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Gloaming Stakes Nominations

The 2025 Gloaming Stakes nominations are taken by Racing NSW on the Monday leading-up to the race.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Gloaming Stakes History

Inaugurated in 1978, the Gloaming Stakes has an extensive history of exciting racing and tight results. The Gloaming Stakes is named after Gloaming, who along with Desert Gold previously held the Australasian record of 19 successive wins. Out of 67 starts, Gloaming won 57 and came second 9 times.

The Gloaming Stakes has had a relatively stable history in terms of race location and status. Because of its set weights status and restriction to three-year-olds, the Gloaming Stakes has long held an important place in NSW racing as a major event to watch and a fertile breeding ground of young black-type winners.

Notable Gloaming Stakes winners include Sky Chase (1987), Tie The Knot (1997), So You Think (2009), It’s A Dundeel (2012), that year’s Spring Champion Stakes / VRC Derby double winner Ace High (2017), and El Castello (2024).

Gloaming Stakes results and winning times since 2000 are listed below.

The Gloaming Stakes was moved from Rosehill in September to Randwick in October ahead of the 2022 race and the prize money boosted to half-a-million-dollars.

The 2022 Gloaming Stakes was rescheduled to run over a mile at Warwick Farm on the Wednesday following its original race date after racing at Randwick on Silver Eagle Day was abandoned after Race 5.

In 2023 the Gloaming Stakes returned to The Everest Day card in mid-October over 1800m before moving to Hill Stakes Day the weekend earlier at Rosehill Gardens in 2024.

Gloaming Stakes Results