The Hunter 2025 Preview
The Hunter 2025 Preview
The Hunter 2025 returns to Newcastle Racecourse this November, bringing together a fiercely competitive field of Australia’s best sprinters for one of the richest and most significant provincial races in New South Wales. Upgraded to Group 2 status in 2024, this 1300-metre feature offers punters a genuine form puzzle and local fans a raceday to remember.
What Is The Hunter?
The Hunter is a Group 2 sprint race run over 1300 metres at Newcastle Racecourse, organised by the Newcastle Jockey Club. First run in 2019, the race quickly became one of the richest provincial races in New South Wales, offering prize money of $1 million. It was upgraded from Group 3 to Group 2 status in 2024, reflecting its rising prestige and competitive quality. The Hunter grows in its appeal and attracts top sprinters from across NSW and beyond.
When is The Hunter 2025?
The Hunter 2025 is scheduled for Saturday 15th November at Newcastle Racecourse, NSW.
Who Won Last Year’s The Hunter?
In 2024, Briasa stormed to victory, landing the Group 2 The Hunter with a sharp turn-of-foot and holding off the late challengers. The win added Briasa’s name to an honour roll that now boasts the likes of Coal Crusher (2023), Vilana (2022), and Lost And Running (2021) – proof of the race’s status as a launching pad for top-class sprinters.
Race History
Since its debut in 2019, The Hunter has quickly risen in prestige, rewarded with a Group 2 upgrade in 2024. The lucrative $1 million prize pool and a spot on the spring calendar just after the Sydney and Melbourne majors ensure The Hunter attracts accomplished city-class gallopers and upwardly mobile local hopes. Recent victors have gone on to feature in bigger assignments, underlining the race’s form relevance and growing import for connections and punters alike.
Previous Winners
The 2025 Group 2 The Hunter is shaping up to be a cracker at Newcastle Racecourse this Saturday, November 15, with the race due off at 4:45 PM AEDT. The track’s a Good 4, though there’s a small chance of rain to spice things up. Trainer Joe Pride and jockey Tyler Schiller are eyeing another win, while local trainer Kris Lees will have plenty of local support as he chases his first Hunter win.
Yorkshire leads the betting at $3.50 after an impressive run of six wins from eight starts for John O’Shea and Tom Charlton. 2023’s champ Coal Crusher sits at $4.50 for Joe Pride and remains a serious threat. Bjorn Baker’s Iowna Merc and Robusto bring class, while Lees’ duo Brudenell and Infancy will have the Newy crowd supporting them.
Latest Hunter 2025 Odds & Tips
But the pickabookie.com.au experts are with Clear Thinking at a juicy $10. The Paul Messara and Leah Gravanich-trained mare was dominant in The Kosciuszko, and with Tyler Schiller—winner of the past two Hunters—taking the reins again, she looks set to swoop late and deliver punters a tidy return.
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