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The Flight Stakes 2025
The Flight Stakes is a Group 1 Thoroughbred race held annually at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney. Run over 1,600 metres under set weights for three-year-old fillies, it usually is in October during the spring carnival.
Race Details
The Flight Stakes is one of the top races for three-year-old fillies, often showcasing the best of the generation and acting as a key lead-up to races like the Vinery Stud Stakes and the Australian Oaks.
When is The Flight Stakes 2025?
The Flight Stakes 2025 will take place on Saturday, October 4th at Randwick Racecourse, the final leg of the prestigious Princess Series for fillies.
Race History
Named after the legendary mare Flight, a standout performer of the 1940s, the Flight Stakes is a cornerstone of the Sydney Spring Carnival. Run over 1600 metres under set weights, it gives emerging fillies the perfect platform to showcase both class and staying potential—an important springboard for those eyeing longer-distance features as the season unfolds.
Previous Winners of The Flight Stakes
The 2024 Flight Stakes winner was Lady Shenandoah, who won easily. Just a year earlier in 2023, Tropical Squall led all the way to victory in what was only her fourth career start! In 2022, Zougotcha won with a ripping two-length victory.
Other Winners
A couple of other winners to note, Samantha Miss in 2008 and Angst in 1993 are the only fillies to win all four legs of the Princes Series – the Silver Shadow Stakes, Furious Stakes, Tea Rose Stakes, and Flight Stakes.
Odds & Tips for The Flight Stakes 2025
Apocalyptic is the hot favourite for this year’s Flight Stakes as the filly goes looking to complete a hatrick of wins. Trainer Michael Freedman and connections will have been satisfied in drawing barrier 7 with stablemate Magenta Skies drawn one barrier lower.
Tupaakara, Within The Law and Queen of Clubs are all prominent in the market in single figures. The pickabookie.com.au experts tip in the race is for Apocalyptic. It might also pay to have a bet on Magenta Skies who is looking a strong hope to place at about $4.
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