Australian Guineas 2025 Tips, Field & Race Guide
The Group 1 Australian Guineas (1600m) takes place at Flemington Racecourse annually and is a testing mile race for three year olds.
The 2025 renewal of the famous race will take place on Saturday, March 01, 2025.
We provide you with Australian Guineas tips as well as an in depth guide into the runners, horses, final field and barrier draw, news, betting odds, and how you can watch a live stream to watch the race unfold.
CONTENTS: Schedule | Live Stream | Bonus Bets | Tips | Nominations | Field & Barrier Draw | Results & Replays | Odds | History | Winners | Top 5 Winners
| Date | March 1 |
| Track | Flemington |
| Distance | 1600m |
| Class | Group 1 |
| Race Type | Set Weights |
| Prize Money | $1 million |
| Age | 3YO |
Australian Guineas Tips
Fitness and class goes a long way when trying to find the Group 1 Australian Guineas (1600m) winner.
Our experts assess all the Australian Guineas runners, their form, barrier draws, speedmap and more to help come up with our betting pointers and 2025 tips to help you back the winner.
Our expert tipsters will provide 2025 Australian Guineas tips following the barrier draw.
Latest Australian Guineas News & Previews
Australian Guineas Nominations
Nominations for the Australian Guineas will take place at 12 pm on February 24, 2025.
Acceptance closing round 1 will take place at 12pm, on February 18, 2025.
Australian Guineas Field & Barrier Draw
The final field and barrier draw for the Australian Guineas will be released at 9:30 am on February 26, 2025.
This page will be updated following the barrier draw.
Check out the Australian Guineas Barrier Draw trends and stats.
2024 Australian Guineas Results & Replay
| Finish | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Barrier | Weight | SP |
| 1 | SOUTHPORT TYCOON | Ciaron Maher | Ms Jamie Kah | 4 | 57kg | $19 |
| 2 | VEIGHT | Tony & Calvin McEvoy | Damian Lane | 6 | 57kg | $4.80 |
| 3 | RIFF ROCKET | Chris Waller | Craig Williams | 9 | 57kg | $2.50F |
| 4 | QUINTESSA (NZ) | Mark Walker | Michael Dee | 8 | 55kg | $21 |
| 5 | VERDAD | Robbie Griffiths & Mathew de Kock | Jye McNeil | 3 | 57kg | $18 |
| 6 | HEY FAT CAT | Robbie Laing | Ethan Brown | 1 | 57kg | $26 |
| 7 | CAP FERRAT | Chris Waller | Joshua Parr | 2 | 57kg | $26 |
| 8 | OTAGO (NZ) | Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr) | Ben Melham | 5 | 57kg | $26 |
| 9 | SNOW PATROL (NZ) | Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr) | Blake Shinn | 7 | 57kg | $13 |
| 10 | KING COLORADO | Ciaron Maher | Mark Zahra | 11 | 57kg | $9 |
| 11 | APULIA | Ben, Will & JD Hayes | Luke Currie | 14 | 57kg | $61 |
| 12 | ZIPAWAY | Neville Parnham | Steven Parnham | 10 | 57kg | $21 |
| 13 | RUN HARRY RUN | Michael Moroney | Daniel Stackhouse | 15 | 57kg | $101 |
| 14 | SUNSETS | Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young | John Allen | 12 | 57kg | $61 |
| 15 | THE PENDRAGON (NZ) | Michael Moroney | Jordan Childs | 13 | 57kg | $31 |
| 16 | VIESTE | Benjamin Smith | Fred Kersley | 16 | 55kg | $201 |
Southport Tycoon with Jamie Kah on-board takes out the 2024 Howden Australian Guineas.
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— Victoria Racing Club (@FlemingtonVRC) March 2, 2024
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Australian Guineas Odds
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Australian Guineas History
The country’s best fillies, colts, and geldings converge on the Australian Guineas, a set-weights race for three-year-olds that is held at Flemington during the Melbourne Autumn Racing Carnival.
The race often sees a future (or current) star racehorse emerge victorious.
The Australian Guineas is clearly the star attraction on the Flemington program with two support races – Group 3 TAB Rewards Stakes (1400m) and Group 3 Frances Tressady Stakes (1400m).
Taking place on the first day of the two-day VRC Autumn Carnival, the Australian Guineas takes place one week prior to Super Saturday where the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) and the Group 1 Australian Cup (2000m) are the highlights of the Flemington raceday.
From 1998 to 2000, the Australian Guineas was run over 2000m, and in 2007 the race was transferred to Caulfield Racecourse while track reconstruction took place at Flemington.
David Hayes and Lee Freedman have trained three Australian Guineas winners each; Hayes prepared King’s High (1989), Zabeel (1990) and Miss Finland (2007) while Freedman trained Mahogany (1994), Flying Spur (1996) and Mr Murphy (2001).
Favourites have claimed 11 of the past 30 Australian Guineas, but they have a terrible record in recent years with Light Fantastic the last favourite to win the race in 2008. Since then, eight favourites have gone under with all of them unplaced and only three finishing in the top five.
The Group 3 CS Hayes Stakes (1400m) for colts & geldings and the Group 3 The Vanity (1400m) for fillies are widely recognised as the ideal lead-up races to this event.
First run in 1986, the Australian Guineas was won by True Version when the race held Group 3 status before being elevated to a Group 1 the following year.
Other former winners of the Australian Guineas include Military Plume (1987), Zabeel (1990), Triscay (1991), Mahogany (1994), Dash For Cash (2002), Reset (2004), Apache Cat (2006), Miss Finland (2007), Mosheen (2012), Shamus Award (2014), Wandjina (2015), Hey Doc (2017) and Grunt (2018).
| 2024 | Southport Tycoon |
| 2023 | Legarto (NZ) |
| 2022 | Hitotsu |
| 2021 | Lunar Fox |
| 2020 | Alligator Blood |
| 2019 | Mystic Journey |
| 2018 | Grunt |
| 2017 | Hey Doc |
| 2016 | Palentino |
| 2015 | Wandjina |
| 2014 | Shamus Award |
| 2013 | Ferlax |
| 2012 | Mosheen |
| 2011 | Shamrocker |
| 2010 | Rock Classic |
| 2009 | Heart Of Dreams |
| 2008 | Light Fantastic |
| 2007 | Miss Finland |
| 2006 | Apache Cat |
| 2005 | Al Maher |
| 2004 | Reset |
| 2003 | Delago Brom |
| 2002 | Dash For Cash |
| 2001 | Mr Murphy |
| 2000 | Pins |
Top 5 Australian Guineas Winners
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Australian Guineas Bonus Bets
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Racingbase hunts down all the daily bookmaker promos and bonus bets and displays them on one page with their T&C’s so you can see what is on offer.
Free Flemington Betting Tips
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