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The MVRC Champagne Stakes is a Group 3 1200m sprint conducted by the Moonee Valley Racing Club (MVRC) and held at Moonee Valley Racecourse.

2025 Scarborough Stakes Results

Stay tuned for the official 2025 Scarborough Stakes results and finishing order and to see what filly might have the Coolmore Stud Stakes in sight this Melbourne Cup Carnival!

• 1st: #10 Snow Mercy ($26)
• 2nd: #2 Memo
• 3rd: #9 Point Barrow

The underrated Phillip Stokes trained filly Snow Mercy ($26) survived a protest to post back-to-back wins when handling a notable rise in grade to take out the 2025 Scarborough Stakes results at The Valley on Friday night.

Ridden off the pace by Lachlan Neindorf, she got the run she needed after the turn for home when narrowly getting through to run over the top of them late and salute by three-quarters of a length.

A protest was launched by the luckless runner-up Memo, but it was ultimately dismissed, and Snow Mercy retained her upset Group 3 success.

Known in 2025 as the Scarborough Stakes the race runs under the lights at Moonee Valley on Manikato Stakes Night on a Friday evening in late September or early October. That same weekend features Saturday racing in Sydney for Golden Rose Stakes Day.

The MVRC Champagne Stakes is run under set weights conditions and entry is restricted to three-year-old fillies. Offering $200,000 prize money, the MVRC Champagne Stakes attracts a quality line-up of fillies that could go on to contest Flemington’s Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) during the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

The 2020 Scarborough Stakes winner Swats That went on to run second against the boys in that spring’s Coolmore Stud Stakes results and also returned the following autumn for a third behind stablemate Nature Strip in the Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning in February of 2021.

Run over 1200m, the MVRC Champagne Stakes provides a viable alternative to the Golden Pendant at Royal Randwick the following day.

In 2019 the MVRC Champagne Stakes winner Loving Gaby went on to win that year’s Group 1 Manikato Stakes and the following year’s Group 1 William Reid Stakes.

The 2023 Scarborough Stakes form was franked with the winner Coeur Volante going on to take out the Group 2 Thousand Guineas Prelude at her next start before a game fourth in the Group 1 Thousand Guineas over the mile that spring.

The Scarborough Stakes 2025 winner, Bellatrix Star, franked the form with a next-up Group 2 Schillaci Stakes win followed by a second in the Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington.

The 2025 MVRC Scarborough Stakes ran on Friday September 26, 2025 as the Scarborough Stakes under the lights at Moonee Valley on Ladbrokes Manikato Stakes Night and was won in a three-quarter upset by the Phillip Stokes trained Snow Mercy ($26). 

2025 MRC Champagne Stakes / Scarborough Stakes Betting

This year the MRC Champagne Stakes odds are open as the 2025 Scarborough Stakes betting odds and will be provided at Races.com.au complete with links to the markets at Ladbrokes.com.au as soon as released.

There was a notable upset in 2025 with Snow Mercy saluting at Scarborough Stakes odds of $26!

2025 MVRC Champagne Stakes / Scarborough Stakes Form

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2025 MVRC Champagne Stakes / Scarborough Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Scarborough Stakes 2025 Tips on the Manikato Stakes Night support act at The Valley this spring.

• To Win: No. 1 La Dorada ($10 at time of publish) – BET NOW

LA DORADA (9) is a classy Kiwi Group 1 winner at a great price to bounce back from a first-up run at this track in tougher grade. Mark Walker’s Super Seth filly is a four-time winner from six starts and gets out to a more suitable trip now boasting a good record over the six furlongs (3:2-1-0). Kicking off in the Group 1 Moir over 1000m a fortnight ago, she copped plenty of bumps in a messily run race when 13th behind Baraqiel. I think she actually handled the course itself okay looking at the replay and her run was better than the placing suggests. She’ll go up notably in the kilos now but right down in grade, back against her own kind so is still in well at set weights. The big tick is the fact big race specialist Craig Williams – who is riding as good as ever – comes aboard. He’ll get her where she needs to be in the run, I’m expecting sharp improvement, and she looks overs.

2025 MVRC Champagne Stakes / Scarborough Stakes Field

Fillies may come into the race now run as the Scarborough Stakes field via a number of different spring lead-ups including the Group 2 McEwen Stakes (1000m) contested at the same track in early September or the Group 2 Danehill Stakes (1200m) run down the straight at Flemington a fortnight before.

The 2025 MVRC Champagne Scarborough Stakes field of final acceptances is released on the Wednesday leading up to Manikato Stakes night.

The official 2025 Scarborough Stakes Final Field & Barrier Draw will be published in full below as soon as announced.

The Scarborough Stakes 2025 field features 11 progressive fillies led in betting by Esha who is down in grade second-up after a luckless but brave eighth only 2.5 lengths off Baraqiel in the Group 1 Moir Stakes.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 MVRC Champagne Stakes / Scarborough Stakes Nominations

The 2025 MVRC Champagne Stakes nominations close on the Monday of race week and will be detailed in full below as soon as released.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

MVRC Champagne Stakes History

Inaugurated in its current format in 1975, the MVRC Champagne Stakes has a very fractured history. Only a young race by national standards, the MVRC Champagne Stakes has been known by a variety of names throughout its history:

Originally a Principal Race, in 1979 the MVRC Champagne Stakes was made a Group 3 event. It wasn’t long before it’s improving field and prestige led to an upgrade to Group 2 status in 1985. The MVRC Champagne Stakes held Group 2 status until 2005, when it was downgraded to a Group 3 event, which it has remained since.

Some notable MVRC Champagne Stakes winners include Miss Ollie (1975), Canny Lass (1985), Startling Lass (1988), Klokka (1992), Fair Embrace (2001), Snitzerland (2012), Houtzen (2017), Swats That (2020), and Bellatrix Star (2024).

MVRC Champagne Stakes results since 2000 are recorded below.

MVRC Champagne / Scarborough Stakes Results

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