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San Domenico Stakes News

Raging Force Heads 2025 Run To The Rose Field & Odds

• 2025 San Domenico Stakes Results: Snowden’s Raging Force Wins for Punters
• 2025 San Domenico Stakes Field & Odds Update: Wodeton Returns

The San Domenico Stakes is a Group 3 event held at Rosehill Racecourse every August for three-year-olds early on during the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival.

2025 San Domenico Stakes Results

Stay tuned for the official 2025 San Domenico Stakes results and finishing order when the end-of-August showdown takes place on Saturday, August 30, 2025.

• 1st: #7 Raging Force ($2.60F)
• 2nd: #5 Wodeton
• 3rd: #3 Beiwacht

The Group 1 Golden Rose on September 27 is calling for the airborne Peter Snowden trained Raging Force ($2.60F) who posted his fourth win on the trot with a 1.43 length romp home over the luckless Chris Waller trained Wodeton in the 2025 San Domenico Stakes results on Saturday.

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Raced over a short distance sprint of 1100m, the San Domenico Stakes allows progressive young sprinters to display their skills ahead of tougher spring runs in races like the Group 1 Golden Rose Stakes (1400m) the following month.

In recent years, the 2018 San Domenico Stakes winner Graff went on to run third in the Golden Rose Stakes that year behind The Autumn Sun while in 2019 Exceedance also finished third in the Golden Rose before winning Flemington’s Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) during the Melbourne Cup Carnival. Bivouac meanwhile finished runner-up in the San Domenico Stakes in 2019 as the beaten odds-on favourite before taking out the Run To The Rose – Golden Rose double and finishing runner-up in the Coolmore.

In The Congo (2021) is the last horse to complete the San Domenico Stakes – Golden Rose double. With a grand total of $250,000 in prize money on offer as of 2023, the San Domenico Stakes is a lucrative black-type event for new season three-year-olds.

Contested under set weights plus penalties conditions, the San Domenico Stakes pits rising sprinters against each other and shows how they are placed ahead of upcoming Group 1 races for that age group.

Due to the position it holds in the calendar, the San Domenico Stakes is often contested by horses first-up after a winter spell. For this reason, the San Domenico Stakes is considered by many to be one of the major spring carnival warm up races.

Most of those horses which gain entry to the San Domenico Stakes have run successful campaigns as two-year-olds and expect to continue to gather black-type placings. Often, horses that make up the San Domenico Stakes field may have come via other races such as the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes or the Golden Slipper during their juvenile racing seasons.

Decent results in the San Domenico Stakes can act as a launching pad to other races such as the Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington during the Melbourne Cup Carnival, a double last achieved by the aforementioned Exceedance (2019).

The San Domenico Stakes 2025 ran on Saturday, August 30, 2025 at Rosehill Gardens as a key lead-up to the Group 1 Golden Rose Stakes and was won by the ultra-consistent Peter Snowden trained favourite Raging Force ($2.60F) in his Group race debut. 

2025 San Domenico Stakes Finishing Order

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 San Domenico Stakes Betting

San Domenico Stakes 2025 betting markets complete with links to Ladbrokes.com.au will be provided at Races.com.au the week of the race.

Anders ($2.80 in 2020), Storm Boy ($2.35 in 2024) and Raging Force ($2.60 in 2025) are the latest favourites in San Domencio Stakes betting to salute.

There was a notable upset in 2022 with Sweet Ride winning at San Domenico Stakes odds $31.

2025 San Domenico Stakes Form

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2025 San Domenico Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider San Domenico Stakes 2025 Tips on the popular spring lead-up.

• To Win: #7 Raging Force ($2.50 at time of publish) – BET NOW

There are a few classy spring contenders resuming in the San Domenico field but the horse with the fitness edge doing everything right this prep is RAGING FORCE (4). From a top trainer of young horses, this Peter Snowden runner is flying and is out to extend an impressive winning streak. The talented Cosmic Force gelding has proven a winter revelation for the stable saluting in his past three assignments and is proven here at Rosehill. At his latest he was very impressive carrying a hefty 59kg for a two-length victory over this track and trip earning him a shot at a Group 3 now. He’s deserving of that and his top spot in betting and, from barrier 4 in a small field with Tommy Berry sticking aboard right down to 55kg, he’ll be very hard to stop.

2025 San Domenico Stakes Field

The San Domenico Stakes 2025 field of potential Golden Rose Stakes hopefuls will be announced on the Wednesday of race week and published in full below so stay tuned.

The 2025 San Domenico Stakes final field features a small but class line-up of potential Group 1 bound youngsters including the Chris Waller trained Golden Slipper runner-up Wodeton who returns in gate two with J-Mac aboard and Peter Snowden’s flying Raging Force after a fourth win on the trot.

Click here to read more on the key runners in the San Domenico 2025 field and betting markets.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 San Domenico Stakes Nominations

Nominations for the San Domenico Stakes 2025 close the Monday of race week and will be published in full below.

2025 San Domenico Stakes nominations extended until 11:00am (AEST) – 26/08/2025

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

San Domenico Stakes History

The San Domenico Stakes was inaugurated in 1980, with Proud Knight seizing victory in the first edition of the race.

Initially run over a length of 1000m, the race distance was briefly upgraded to 1100m for one year in 2008 and then permanently from 2011 onwards.

Gaining traction rapidly, the San Domenico Stakes held listed status for only four years, receiving an upgrade to Group 3 in 1945.

In 1986, the race was upgraded again to Group 2, a class it held until 2005, when it was downgraded to Group 3. The San Domenico Stakes has been held variously at three separate racecourses in Sydney. Since 1980, the venue has changed twelve times between Randwick, Warwick Farm and Rosehill Gardens, where it currently runs today.

In 2020 Anders set a race record winning in 1 minute 2.67 seconds to sit just outside the track record set back in 2007. In 2021 the San Domenico Stakes took place at Kembla Grange Racecourse due to COVID-19.

Notable San Domenico Stakes winners include Show County (1989), Testa Rossa (1999), Snitzerland (2012) and Exceedance (2019).

San Domenico Stakes results since 2000 are listed below.

San Domenico Stakes Results