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The Listed Wagga Wagga Gold Cup is a 2000m open handicap race run each year in early May. The Wagga Wagga Gold Cup usually attracts a decent field of local and interstate horses as well as the occasional raider from New Zealand. Canberra horses are often well-represented in the Wagga Wagga Gold Cup results.

2025 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Results

• 1st: #12 Flying Bandit ($4.60F)
• 2nd: #13 Bianco Vilano
• 3rd: #2 Matusalem

Jockey Jay Ford came very wide around the home turn on Kerry Parker’s classy Trapeze Artist four-year-old, the well-supported Flying Bandit ($4.60F), with the favourite getting to the front 200m out from the line to hold off Bianco Vilano and salute for the punters in the 2025 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup results.

Claimed by some to be the second oldest horse race in Australia, the Wagga Cup has developed a reputation as a major event in the Riverina region. Although it is usually run during the week, the Wagga Cup has no difficulties attracting viewers or listeners from far and wide. The Wagga Cup attracts a lot of punting attention both locally and from the rest of Australia.

The Wagga Wagga Gold Cup is unique amongst very limited company as a highly popular listed race. Offering an increased $200,000 from 2021, the hype surrounding Wagga Wagga Cup race day has considerably outgrown that of the average Listed race.

Horses out of the Wagga Wagga Gold Cup field may be tempted to race on over the winter heading up to Queensland for a race like the Group 1 Doomben Cup (2000m).

The Wagga Wagga Gold Cup is now also an officially qualifying race for Randwick’s $2 million The Big Dance (1600m), to be held from 2022 in Sydney on the same day as the Melbourne Cup.

The 2023 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup form was franked with the runner-up Lion’s Roar returning in the summer to run third in the $2 million The Ingham before a Group 3 Summer Cup win on Boxing Day at Randwick.

The 2024 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup winner, Fawkner Park, franked the form with a next-up third in that year’s Doomben Cup results before winning the $1.2 million The Q22.

The 2025 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup ran on Friday May 2, 2025 and was won by the Kerry Parker trained favourite Flying Bandit ($4.60F). 

2025 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Finishing Order

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Betting

The Wagga Wagga Gold Cup odds are traditionally dominated by middle-distance type stayers coming off good form over the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival. Gallopers dropping in grade off Group status events at Randwick and those with proven 2000m form usually sit high up the Wagga Wagga Gold Cup betting markets.

House Of Cartier ($5 in 2020) saluted in the Wagga Wagga Gold Cup as favourite before later being disqualified.

There was a notable upset in the following year in 2021 with Inverloch winning the Wagga Wagga Gold Cup at 30/1, while Yonkers ran second as the beaten favourite.

Aleas ($4.60 in 2022), Fawkner Park ($3.70 in 2024), and Flying Bandit ($4.60 in 2025) are the latest favourites in Wagga Wagga Gold Cup betting to salute for the punters.

2025 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Form

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2025 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Wagga Wagga Gold Cup 2025 Tips on The Big Dance eligibility race this May.

• To Place: #16 Helluva Soiree ($61 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Blowout price offered for this airborne daughter of Hellbent with Luke Pepper’s Canberra trained four-year-old mare at 60/1 at time of publish despite coming off back-to-back wins. She’s at enormous odds now to make it a hat-trick and has won four of her past five starts so is in terrific form. At her latest she carried a light weight to a half-length win in the Murrumbidgee Cup (1800m). She should appreciate getting back up to 2000m here having won over the distance the start before by two lengths here at Wagga. She’s two-from-two at the track, apprentice Claire Ramsbotham stays on and she’s in this weight wise with 54kg. Drawn to get a dream run from barrier 5 and gets conditions to suit. Overs!

2025 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Field

The Wagga Wagga Gold Cup field attracts a nice class of stayers out of the autumn in Sydney.

The Group 3 JRA Plate (2000m) held at Randwick over the same distance in late April makes a good lead-up into the Wagga Wagga Cup field.

The 2025 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup field and barriers will be provided below the week of the race as soon as announced by Racing NSW.

The Wagga Wagga Gold Cup 2025 final field features a capacity line-up of stayers including Chris Waller’s last start Albury Cup winner Matusalem and the in-form Helluva Soiree chasing a hat-trick.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Nominations

Nominations for the Wagga Wagga Gold Cup in 2025 are taken the Friday prior to the race.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Wagga Wagga Gold Cup History

The Wagga Wagga Gold Cup had its inaugural run on November 26, 1873, when Mountaineer won. Since that date the Wagga Cup has developed into a popular local race with a strong tradition of excellence.

Trainer Chris Waller has prepared five previous Wagga Wagga Gold Cup winners most recently in 2023 with Wicklow

Listed below are Wagga Wagga Gold Cup winners since 1990.

Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Winners