Doncaster Mile 2025 Tips, Field & Race Guide
The Group 1 Doncaster Mile will take place on Saturday, April 05, 2025 at Royal Randwick.
With prize money of $3 million, the handicap contest is open to horses aged three years and upwards.
We provide you with Doncaster Mile tips as well as an in depth guide into the runners, horses, final field, barrier draw, news, betting odds and information, 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 | FAQs
| Date | April 05 |
| Track | Royal Randwick |
| Distance | 1600m |
| Class | Group 1 |
| Race Type | Handicap |
| Prizemoney | $3 million |
| Age | 3YO and upwards |
Doncaster Mile Tips
When trying to find the winner of the Group 1 Doncaster Mile (1600m) at Randwick, keeping some important factors on your side can help you.
Our experts assess all the Doncaster Mile 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 team of expert tipsters will provide 2025 Doncaster Mile tips and selections once the final field has been declared.
Latest Doncaster Mile News
Doncaster Mile Nominations
There are two rounds of nominations for the 2025 Doncaster Mile with the first taking place at 9am on February 11, 2025, while the final nominations are taken at 12:00pm on March 11, 2025.
Doncaster Mile Field & Barrier Draw
The final field and barrier draw for the 2025 Doncaster Mile will be released at 9:00am April 01, 2025.
This page will be updated following the barrier draw.
Check out the Doncaster Mile barrier draw stats and info.
Doncaster Mile 2024 Results & Replay
| Finish | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Barrier | Weight | SP |
| 1 | CELESTIAL LEGEND | Les Bridge | Tyler Schiller | 4 | 49kg | $6.50 |
| 2 | PERICLES | James Cummings | Blake Shinn | 14 | 54.5kg | $41 |
| 3 | MILITARIZE (NZ) | Chris Waller | Zac Purton | 3 | 54kg | $11 |
| 4 | NUGGET (GB) | Ciaron Maher | Declan Bates | 7 | 51.5kg | $26 |
| 5 | HINGED | Chris Waller | Craig Williams | 12 | 50kg (cd 51kg) | $21 |
| 6 | DETONATOR JACK (NZ) | Ciaron Maher | Tim Clark | 1 | 52.5kg | $12 |
| 7 | ANOTHER WIL | Ciaron Maher | Ms Jamie Kah | 16 | 50kg | $3.60F |
| 8 | DEMOCRACY MANIFEST | Chris Waller | Jay Ford | 9 | 51kg | $18 |
| 9 | KOVALICA (NZ) | Chris Waller | Tommy Berry | 10 | 53.5kg | $20 |
| 10 | RUSTIC STEEL | Kris Lees | Regan Bayliss | 5 | 52kg (cd 52.5kg) | $51 |
| 11 | THINK ABOUT IT | Joseph Pride | Sam Clipperton | 13 | 57kg | $21 |
| 12 | LOCH EAGLE | Kris Lees | Dylan Gibbons (a) | 18 | 51kg (cd 52kg) | $101 |
| 13 | OBAMBURUMAI (JPN) | Keiji Yoshimura | Damian Lane | 6 | 55kg | $8 |
| 14 | BERKSHIRE SHADOW (GB) | Ciaron Maher | Andrew Adkins | 11 | 52.5kg | $101 |
| 15 | LINDERMANN | Chris Waller | Zac Lloyd (a) | 17 | 50.5kg | $16 |
| 16 | PALMETTO (NZ) | John Sargent | Ms Molly Bourke (a) | 2 | 51kg | $151 |
| 17 | NAVAJO PEAK | David Payne | Ms Rachel King | 15 | 52.5kg | $101 |
| 18 | LADY LAGUNA | Annabel Neasham | Michael Dee | 8 | 51kg | $11 |
| 19 | PHEARSON | Brad Widdup | Ron Stewart | 19 | 51kg | $151 |
That win is the stuff of legend!
Look at Celestial Legend jump out of the ground to take the G1 Doncaster Mile for Les Bridge and @G1TySchil !@aus_turf_club pic.twitter.com/r3eRQyYXU2
— SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) April 6, 2024
See more Doncaster Mile results and replays here.
Doncaster Mile Odds
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Doncaster Mile History
This Group 1 event takes place at Sydney’s Royal Randwick Racecourse annually in April during the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival as part of Day 1 of The Championships.
In 2016 the race was taken out by the Chris Waller-trained four-year-old champion mare Winx with jockey Hugh Bowman aboard.
The race tends to attract a capacity field of 20 runners and the final field and barrier draw is determined by ballot in relation to the horse’s handicap.
It was first run in 1866 when won by Dundee and has grown in stature to become one of Australia’s most prestigious races.
Due to the large sum of prizemoney on offer, the Doncaster Mile attracts the best mile/middle-distance staying horses from Australia and New Zealand and is part of a fantastic day of racing that includes the $2.5 million Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes (1200m), $2 million Group 1 Australian Derby (2400m) and $1 million Group 1 Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m).
The Doncaster Mile is run under handicap conditions over 1600m and is open to males and females aged three-years-old and upwards.
Punters looking for the most reliable lead-up race to the Doncaster Mile should turn to the form out of the Group 1 George Ryder Stakes (1500m) run two weeks prior on Golden Slipper Day at Rosehill Gardens.
The honour roll is exceptional with many of the Doncaster Mile winners being regarded as Australia’s greatest racehorses.
Famous Doncaster Mile winners include Briseis (1876), Wakeful (1901), Chatham (1934), Tobin Bronze (1967), Gunsynd (1972), Emancipation (1983), Super Impose (1990-91), Sunline (1999 & 2002), Haradasun (2007), More Joyous (2012), Sacred Falls (2013-14) and Happy Clapper (2018).
Many of the horses that have won the Doncaster Mile have gone on to win some of the country’s most prestigious races in the following years with the Cox Plate being the most likely target.
| 2024 | Celestial Legend |
| 2023 | Mr Brightside |
| 2022 | Mr Brightside |
| 2021 | Cascadian |
| 2020 | Nettoyer |
| 2019 | Brutal |
| 2018 | Happy Clapper |
| 2017 | It's Somewhat |
| 2016 | Winx |
| 2015 | Kermadec |
| 2014 | Sacred Falls |
| 2013 | Sacred Falls |
| 2012 | More Joyous |
| 2011 | Sacred Choice |
| 2010 | Rangirangdoo |
| 2009 | Vision And Power |
| 2008 | Triple Honour |
| 2007 | Haradasun |
| 2006 | Racing To Win |
| 2005 | Patezza |
| 2004 | Private Steer |
| 2003 | Grand Armee |
| 2002 | Sunline |
| 2001 | Assertive Lad |
| 2000 | Over |
Top 5 Doncaster Mile Winners
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Doncaster Mile Live Stream
TAB members are able to watch the 2025 Doncaster Mile free of charge courtesy of Sky Racing vision.
You can stream the action from your mobile device or desktop for every Australian thoroughbred, greyhound and harness race live.
TAB offers Sky Racing 1, Sky Racing 2 and Sky Thoroughbred Central on their racing live streaming service.
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Doncaster Mile Bonus Bets
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