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The Sir John Monash Stakes is held each year in mid-July at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne.

2025 Sir John Monash Stakes Results

• 1st: #6 In Flight ($2.50F)
• 2nd: #10 New York Lustre
• 3rd: #2 Recommendation

In Flight ($2.50F) delivered a commanding performance in the 2025 Sir John Monash Stakes results at Caulfield on Saturday.

Ridden by Craig Williams, the mare settled back and wide early, which was less than ideal, but she travelled strongly around the bend and unleashed a powerful finishing burst in the final furlong.

She swept past frontrunner Recommendation and held off New York Lustre to win with ears pricked, suggesting she had more to give.

This victory followed a stellar winter campaign where she claimed black-type wins in three different states: the Listed BRC Bright Shadow Stakes in Queensland, the Listed ATC Bob Charley AO Stakes in New South Wales, and now the Monash Stakes in Victoria.

Trained by Joe Pride and sired by Flying Artie out of Waveline (IRE), In Flight has now won 8 of her 18 starts, with over $800,000 in earnings.

A Group 3 race, the Sir John Monash Stakes pays total prize money of $200,000.

The Sir John Monash Stakes is one of the few races run during the heart of winter at Caulfield and is a nice follow-up for horses that contested races over the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival.

Raced over 1100m, the Sir John Monash Stakes is a weight-for-age sprint best suited to the fit winter short-distance specialists or fresh performers racing first-up as an early start to the spring.

The best out of the Sir John Monash Stakes may continue on to have a successful Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival as was the case in 2016 when the winner Wild Rain backed-up to win the Group 2 McEwen Stakes (1000m) in September before a Group 1 Moir Stakes (1000m) third at Moonee Valley that season.

Horses may also have a run between the Sir John Monash Stakes and the spring races at Caulfield a fortnight later in the Group 3 Bletchingly Stakes (1200m). In 2018 the Sir John Monash Stakes winner Voodoo Lad ran second next-up in the Bletchingly and would also go on to win that year’s Group 1 Winterbottom Stakes race in Perth.

Recommendation (2024) was the last horse to complete the Sir John Monash Stakes – Bletchingly Stakes double.

The 2025 Sir John Monash Stakes ran on Saturday, July 12, 2025 as an important winter sprint race and was won in style by the Joe Pride trained favourite In Flight ($2.50F) who made it a hat-trick. 

2025 Sir John Monash Stakes Finishing Order

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Sir John Monash Stakes Betting

The winter’s top Sir John Monash Stakes 2025 betting odds and market links to the Group 3 racing markets at Ladbrokes.com.au will be available here at Races.com.au the week of the race.

Jungle Edge ($2.60 in 2020) and In Flight ($2.50 in 2025) are the latest favourites in Sir John Monash Stakes betting to salute for the punters.

2025 Sir John Monash Stakes Form

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2025 Sir John Monash Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Sir John Monash Stakes 2025 Tips on the winter showdown this season.

• To Win: #10 New York Lustre ($8 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Seeking value in the Sir John Monash, we’ve landed on the talented New York Lustre (3). This ultra-consistent mare from Enver Jusufovic’s Cranbourne stable returns to racing with an impressive fresh record (3 wins from 4 attempts) and a remarkable overall strike rate of five victories from just eight starts. Her last appearance saw her claim a Benchmark 78 at The Valley over 1000m, shouldering 59.5kg with ease. The 1100m poses no issue, and with Jamie Kah retaining the ride and a favourable draw in gate three, this lightly-raced five-year-old daughter of Manhattan Rain presents as an excellent value proposition in the feature event.

2025 Sir John Monash Stakes Field

The Sir John Monash Stakes Final Field & Barriers are released by Racing Victoria on the Wednesday of race week and will be published in full below. Many sprinters are racing first-up on the back of early winter spells, while the fitness edge belongs to gallopers coming off a lead-up run in something like Brisbane’s Group 3 W.J. Healy Stakes (1200m) the month prior.

The 2025 Sir John Monash Stakes final field features a smart line-up of winter sprinters led in betting by the Joe Pride trained In Flight chasing her third Black-Type win on the trot.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Sir John Monash Stakes Nominations

The official Sir John Monash Stakes 2025 Nominations close the Monday of race week and will be available in full below.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

The Sir John Monash Stakes was upgraded from a Listed race to a Group 3 race following the 2013 edition. Hosted by the Melbourne Racing Club, it is one of the regular races at Caulfield Racecourse. The Sir John Monash Stakes was run over 1000m until the 2005 edition, when it was first held over 1100m.

The Sir John Monash Stakes was known as the Moondah Stakes up until it ran for the first time under its current name in 1998, when Jugulator won it. Originally run by the Victorian Amateur Turf Club (est 1875), the race is now run by the Melbourne Racing Club (MRC), since the organisation’s name was changed in 2002.

Notable Sir John Monash Stakes winners include Regal Shot (2001), Rubitano (2002), Super Elegant (2004 & 2005) and Platelet (2012). Super Elegant finished third in 2003 and second in 2006, narrowly missing out on winning for four years running. Rubiton had a good result in 2002, with the first three places being taken out by his progeny, Rubitano, Ruby Slipper, and Prince Rubiton.

In 2020 Sir John Monash Stakes history was made when the nine-year-old winner Jungle Edge was ridden to victory by Jade Darose, the first female jockey to win the race this century. 

In 2024 Recommendation won the Sir John Monash Stakes by a record seven length winning margin.

Sir John Monash Stakes results since 2000 are listed below.

Sir John Monash Stakes Results

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