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Lexus Stakes News

2025 Melbourne Cup First Acceptances: 66 in the Mix

• Revelare Wins 2025 Lexus Archer Stakes, Firms in Melbourne Cup Betting
• Point King into Melbourne Cup 2024 After Winning Lexus Archer Stakes
• Oliver Wins Lexus Archer on Kalapour: Kris Lees with Two Melbourne Cup 2023 Contenders
• Melbourne Cup 2023 Field Update: Valiant King Officially Out
• Likely 24-Horse Melbourne Cup 2023 Field: Interpretation on Cusp of Start

The Group 3 2025 Lexus Stakes – currently known as the Lexus Archer Stakes – is a 2500m staying event held at the illustrious Flemington Racecourse on Makybe Diva Stakes Day in mid-September having been moved from its previous slot on Victoria Derby Day, the Saturday prior to the Melbourne Cup, in 2024.

2025 Lexus Archer Stakes Results

Stay tuned for the official 2025 Lexus Archer Stakes results and finishing order including the performances of horses potentially heading into the Melbourne Cup field.

• 1st: #4 Revelare ($2.90F)
• 2nd: #7 Mormona
• 3rd: #3 Sayedaty Sadaty

Emerging stayer Revelare ($2.90F) for two-time Melbourne Cup winning trainer Robert Hickmott secured his golden ticket into the $10 million, 3200m classic on November 4 with a determined win in the 2025 Lexus Archer Stakes results at Flemington.

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Open to horses aged three years and older, the Lexus Archer Stakes is run under quality handicap conditions. With total prize money of $300,000, the Lexus Stakes is quite a lucrative Group 3 event and key race in the lead-up to the time-honoured Melbourne Cup race.

The Lexus Stakes winner gains a ballot exemption for the Group 1 $10 million Melbourne Cup (3200m) back at the track just three days later and Shocking (2009) was the last to complete the double.

More recently the 2018 Lexus Stakes winner Prince Of Arran ran third in the Melbourne Cup trifecta next start.

The Lexus Archer Stakes now shares the Flemington race card with the Group 1 Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m), Group 2 Bobbie Lewis Quality (1200m), and the Group 2 Let’s Elope Stakes (1400m).

The Group 3 Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2600m) is another popular target following a Lexus Stakes run held the Saturday after on Champions Stakes Day and offers a bonus to any horse that was balloted out of that year’s Melbourne Cup field should they salute.

The 2023 Lexus Archer Stakes form was franked with the winner Kalapour returning in the autumn to win the Group 1 Tancred Stakes and place third in the Group 1 Sydney Cup results over the two miles in 2024.

The 2025 Lexus Archer Stakes ran on Saturday, September 13, 2025 as an early lead-up into the Melbourne Cup and was won by the Robert Hickmott trained favourite Revelare ($2.90F). 

2025 Lexus Stakes Betting

The latest Lexus Archer Stakes 2025 betting odds provided by Ladbrokes.com.au will be listed at Races.com.au on the stayers and potential Melbourne Cup horses.

Downdraft ($5.50 in 2019) followed by Surefire ($1.90 in 2022) and Revelare ($2.90 in 2025) are the last favourites in Lexus Stakes betting to salute for the punters.

2025 Lexus Stakes Form Guide

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2025 Lexus Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Lexus Archer Stakes 2025 Tips on the official Melbourne Cup lead-up race this spring.

• To Win: #6 Jennivamoose ($7.50 at time of publish) – BET NOW
  

Finding it hard to separate a few of these stayers eyeing the Melbourne Cup ballot exemption on offer in the Lexus Archer Stakes but really hard to knock the consistency and recent form of JENNIVAMOOSE (7) for one of Australia’s best Ciaron Maher. The six-year-old mare by French-bred stallion Vadamos comes in confident having won three of her past four starts including her latest two on the trot at The Valley. Most recently on August 23 she beat the better weighted Muktamil over 2500m in a Quality Handicap and she’s weighted well here in on the same 54kg allocation with regular rider Harry Coffey sticking with from a mid-field gate. She boasts an excellent 2500m record (3:2-1-0) so there are no issues with the distance ahead of her first go around the Flemington circuit. Coffey is unbeaten on her, she’s going for a hat-trick now fit and ready to make up ground from the back again.

2025 Lexus Stakes Field

The Lexus Stakes field attracts a quality line-up of spring stayers, the majority of which are chasing the Melbourne Cup ballot exemption on offer to the winner of the race.

The official 2025 Lexus Archer Stakes Final Field & Barriers are announced the Wednesday of race week and will be published in full below.

The Lexus Archer Stakes 2025 field features 13 stayers chasing a Melbourne Cup ballot exemption including the Ciaron Maher trained Sayedaty Sadaty and Robert Hickmott’s last start Caulfield winner Revelare.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Lexus Archer Stakes Nominations

Early nominations for the Lexus Archer Stakes in 2025 will be published below once confirmed by Racing Victoria on the Monday ahead of race day.

2025 Lexus Archer Stakes nominations extended until 10:00AM (AEST) – 09/09/2025 

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Lexus Stakes History

The Lexus Stakes was inaugurated in 1969 as the Hotham Handicap, it’s current registered name. One of the oldest races in Australia, the Lexus Stakes has a very prestigious history to match its age.

The Lexus Stakes is renowned for a very rare triple dead heat in 1956. Fighting Force, Ark Royal and Pandie Sun crossed together to win one of the only races ever to record three winners.

Besides its current name, the Lexus Stakes has been known by a variety of sponsor titles. For ten years prior to 2009 (when Lexus started sponsorship) it was known as the Saab Quality. Prior to that, it was the Lean Cuisine Quality, Ten News Quality, Crown Quality and The Dalgety.

Notable Lexus Stakes winners include Miss Carbine (1899), Spear Chief (1938), Foxzami (1949), Think Big (1974), Brew (2000), and Shocking (2009) who was the last Lexus Stakes winner to back-up and dominate that year’s Melbourne Cup results doing the double.

Lexus Stakes results, winners and placegetters since 2000 are listed below, along with winning times.

The 2018 Lexus Stakes winner Prince Of Arran would go on to run placings in three straight editions of the Melbourne Cup finishing 3rd in 2018, 2nd in 2029 and 3rd again in 2020.

The event was renamed the Lexus Archer Stakes ahead of the 2022 edition.

The Lexus Archer Stakes moved from Victoria Derby Day on the Saturday prior to the Melbourne Cup to a much earlier position on the spring line-up in 2024 running in mid-September.

Lexus Stakes Results

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