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Wyong Gold Cup News

2025 Wyong Gold Cup Results: Saltcoats Salutes Ahead of The Big Dance

The Wyong Gold Cup is an exciting staying event held at Wyong Racecourse in late August or early September. Raced over 2100m, the Wyong Gold Cup provides horses with a great step-up event to the more lucrative and prestigious staying events during the Spring Racing Carnival.

2025 Wyong Gold Cup Results

Stay tuned for the official 2025 Wyong Gold Cup results and finishing order including which horses gained the latest The Big Dance qualifications.

• 1st: #4 Saltcoats ($1.90F)
• 2nd: #7 Salt Lake City
• 3rd: #5 Glory Daze

The Chris Waller trained odds-on favourite Saltcoats ($1.90F) got the clear running he needed on the home straight to come charging through off another cracking James McDonald ride to salute for the punters with a quarter-length win over local hope Salt Lake City in the 2025 Wyong Gold Cup results handing Waller his incredible ninth win in the event and earning the winner a spot in November’s $3 million The Big Dance field.

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The Wyong Gold Cup is run under Quality Handicap conditions and is open to contenders from all ages and sexes. Paying a purse of $250,000 as of 2024, the Wyong Gold Cup is one of the richer Listed races.

The Wyong Gold Cup field is usually comprised of horses from Sydney stables, with those who have a successful run going on to compete in both Sydney and Melbourne Spring Racing Carnivals.

Each year the Wyong Gold Cup offers eligibility to the first two over the line into the $3 million The Big Dance race at Randwick on Melbourne Cup Day on the first Tuesday of November. 

The Wyong Gold Cup form often holds up in tougher grade spring races. In 2011 The Verminator went from a victory in the Wyong Gold Cup to win the Metropolitan Handicap and compete in the Melbourne Cup.

The Wyong Gold Cup forms part of the Wyong Racing Festival and is the feature race of Wyong Cup Day. There is a second black-type event on the program, the listed Mona Lisa Stakes.

Many horses out of the Wyong Gold Cup target the Group 3 Newcastle Gold Cup (2300m) a fortnight later with Carzoff (2018) and Durston (2022) the latest stayers to do the double.

The 2021 Wyong Gold Cup results were franked with the winner Berdibek going on to run fourth in that spring’s $1 million The Gong.

The 2022 Wyong Gold Cup – Newcastle Gold Cup double winner Durston franked the form that spring with his Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) success.

In 2023 the Wyong Gold Cup form was franked with the runner-up Bois D’Argent running fourth in that year’s Caulfield Cup results before a win in the following winter’s Group 1 Doomben Cup (2000m) in Brisbane.

In 2025 trainer Chris Waller collected his ninth Wyong Gold Cup trophy with the odds-on favourite Saltcoats.

The 2025 Wyong Gold Cup ran on Friday September 5, 2025 as a Big Dance race qualifier and saw Chris Waller’s odds-on favourite Saltcoats ($1.90F) secure a gritty win for the punters. 

2025 Wyong Gold Cup Betting

The latest Wyong Gold Cup 2025 betting odds and market links to Ladbrokes.com.au will be provided at Races.com.au the week of the race.

Wu Gok ($4.80 in 2019) and Saltcoats ($1.90 in 2025) are the latest favourites in Wyong Gold Cup betting to win.

There was a notable upset in 2023 with Benaud winning at Wyong Gold Cup odds of $14.

2025 Wyong Gold Cup Form

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2025 Wyong Gold Cup Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Wyong Gold Cup 2025 Tips on the popular spring showdown.

• To Win: #4 Saltcoats ($2.60 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Following the withdrawal of the former favourite TRAVOLTA who we originally had on top, I’m still with the punter’s pick in the Wyong Gold Cup with new top elect SALTCOATS (2) coming into the event in good form for the Waller stable. This five-year-old won the Premier’s Cup Prelude on Heavy going in style two back on the Kensington track by over two lengths and was far from disgraced at his latest when fourth in the Group 3 Premier’s Cup when found out on a bottomless Heavy (10) Randwick course. The winner of that, Nellie Leylax, had the weight advantage but in Friday’s rematch Saltcoats will meet her better in the kilos putting him on top for mine. He’s drawn to get a dream run, sees firmer going which will make all the difference, and hugely benefits from having J-Mac come aboard. Was the beaten odds-on fancy last time out but see him winning back the love.

2025 Wyong Gold Cup Field

The Wyong Gold Cup field attracts a quality line-up of mostly Sydney-trained stayers, many of which have competed in previous editions of the race.

Horses may be kicking off a new campaign in the Wyong Gold Cup field after a winter season that included a run in the Grafton Cup (2350m) during July. Rosehill’s Group 3 Premier’s Cup held on San Domenico Stakes Day is also a good lead-up into the Wyong Cup field.

Benaud (10th in 2023) was the last Wyong Gold Cup winner to come via a run in the Grafton Cup.

Saltcoats (4th in 2025) was the last Wyong Gold Cup winner to come via a run in the Premier’s Cup.

The official Wyong Gold Cup Field 2025 will be published below as soon as announced by Racing NSW the week of the race.

The 2025 Wyong Gold Cup final field features a dozen smart stayers including Group 2 winning grey mare Alalcance for Waterhouse & Bott who holds a Melbourne Cup nomination.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Wong Gold Cup Nominations

Nominations for the Wyong Gold Cup 2025 close the Monday of race week.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Wyong Gold Cup History

The Wyong Gold Cup first ran in 1978 and was taken out by Taksan. For the inaugural edition, the Wyong Cup was raced over a mile (1600 metres). It has run every year since except for 2007, when equine influenza greatly disrupted the New South Wales racing calendar.

The Wyong Gold Cup has developed a reputation for attracting big names, with Chris Waller and Gai Waterhouse regularly nominating horses.

Notable Wyong Gold Cup winners include Lord Hybrow (1989), Daniel’s The Man (2003), The Verminator (2011), and subsequent Caulfield Cup champion Durston (2022).

Wyong Cup results since 2000 are listed below.

Wyong Gold Cup Results

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