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Premiere Stakes News

Briasa “Electrifying” Winning Premiere Stakes on Way to The Everest 2025

• Briasa Heads 2025 Premiere Stakes Field & Odds Ahead of The Everest
• The Everest Question for Shock 2024 Premiere Stakes Winner Airman
• 2024 Premiere Stakes Field Features The Everest Contenders
• 2023 The Everest Winner Think About It Beats I Wish I Win, Private Eye Runs Third
• 2023 The Everest Next For Narrow Premiere Stakes Winner Think About It

The Premiere Stakes is a Group 2 1200m sprint race held at Sydney’s Royal Randwick Racecourse on either the last Saturday in September or the first Saturday in October, traditionally run the day before the NRL Grand Final.

2025 Premiere Stakes Results

Stay tuned for the official 2025 Premiere Stakes results and finishing order on the million-dollar sprint this spring.

• 1st: No. 2 Briasa ($2.25F)
• 2nd: No. 1 Jimmysstar
• 3rd: No. 4 Mazu

The Team Hawkes trained The Everest bound Briasa ($2.25F) was “electrifying” posting an outstanding time to head the 2025 Premiere Stakes results at Randwick over the same track and trip he will return to in a fortnight for a shot at Ka Ying Rising in the $20 million The Everest.

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Worth $1,000,000 in prize money as of 2022, the weight for age event attracts several horses which have already competed in the weight-for-age Missile Stakes. The Premiere Stakes is held on Epsom Handicap Day and shares a race program with the Group 1 Epsom Handicap (1600m), Group 1 Metropolitan Handicap (2400m) and Group 1 Flight Stakes (1600m).

The Premiere Stakes now serves as a nice lead-up race for star sprinters set to return to the track and distance in a fortnight’s time for the $20 million Group 1 The Everest race.

Think About It (2023) was the last sprinter to claim the Premiere Stakes – The Everest double.

In 2020 Classique Legend ran second in the Premiere Stakes before winning The Everest, the Premiere Stakes winner Libertini improved on his The Everest eighth to run a subsequent third in Flemington’s Group 1 VRC Sprint Classic that Melbourne Cup Carnival.

The Premiere Stakes winner is also exempt from ballot for the following year’s Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes held at the same track and distance during the autumn in Sydney.

The 2021 Premiere Stakes form was franked with the winner Masked Crusader running second next-up to Nature Strip in that spring’s The Everest results.

Masked Crusader returned to run third in the 2022 Premiere Stakes results won by the previous year’s fourth placegetter, Lost And Running.

The 2022 Premiere Stakes runner-up Mazu franked the form running third next-up in that year’s The Everest results before a second in the $3 million Winners Stakes (now Russell Balding Stakes) and 2023 TJ Smith Stakes third upon his return in the autumn.

The 2023 Premiere Stakes form was firmly franked by the winner Think About It who backed up to salute in The Everest before a Winners Stakes third.

The 2024 Premiere Stakes also produced that year’s The Everest winner with the mighty mare Bella Nipotina improving on her third in the Group 2 to win the first official Group 1 edition of The Everest at her next start. She further franked the form taking out that year’s $3 million Russell Balding Stakes (formerly the Winners Stakes) before a Group 1 Champions Sprint third at Flemington during the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

The $1 million Premiere Stakes 2025 ran on Saturday October 4, 2025 as part of the bumper Epsom Handicap Day line-up of races as a key The Everest lead-up race and was won in fast finishing fashion by The Everest bound grey speedster Briasa ($2.25F).

2025 Premiere Stakes Betting

The latest Premiere Stakes 2025 betting odds and market links on the gun sprinters in the race will be listed at Races.com.au as soon as available, pricing from Ladbrokes.com.au.

Masked Crusader ($2.50 in 2021), Lost And Running ($2.25 in 2022), Think About It ($1.85 in 2023), and Briasa ($2.25 in 2025) are the last favourites in Premiere Stakes betting to salute for the punters.

There was a notable upset in 2024 with Airman saluting at Premiere Stakes odds of $41.

2025 Premiere Stakes Form

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL 2025 PREMIERE STAKES FORM GUIDE

2025 Premiere Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Premiere Stakes 2025 Tips on the key $20 million The Everest lead-up race this season.

• To Win: No. 2 Briasa ($1.90 at time of publish) – BET NOW

BRIASA (2) is odds-on to win his final The Everest lead-up and I can’t find a reason he can’t win the Premiere Stakes and go into the world’s richest turf race a last start winner. Team Hawkes’ Group 1 winning grey is second-up and has terrific form at this stage of a prep (3:2-0-0). Fresh he was second here behind Joliestar in the Group 2 The Shorts (1100m) and he’ll be fitter for that run and ready to go one better relishing the step up to six-furlongs. His 1200m strike rate is nearly flawless with five wins from six starts at the distance including taking out the autumn’s TJ Smith Stakes. In this diminutive field he’s drawn to win from barrier two and regular rider Tyler Schiller sticks with. Wins.

2025 Premiere Stakes Field

Each spring the Premiere Stakes, now worth a million in prize money, attracts a star-studded line-up of sprinters. Gallopers may contest the Premiere Stakes field via lead-up runs in races including the Group 2 The Shorts (1100m) at Randwick a fortnight earlier or be kicking off their carnival campaigns first-up in the event.

The official Premiere Stakes 2025 field and barrier draw will be released by Racing NSW on the Wednesday of race week and listed in full below once announced.

The 2025 Premiere Stakes final field features just six sprinters including The Everest confirmed runners Jimmysstar, Private Harry and Briasa.

Click here to read more on the standout horses in the Premiere Stakes 2025 field and betting markets.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Premiere Stakes Nominations

The early Premiere Stakes nominations for 2025 close the Monday of race week and will be updated below.

2025 Premiere Stakes nominations extended until 11:00am (AEST) – 30/09/2025

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Premiere Stakes History

First won by Outback in 1972, the Premiere Stakes has a history of double winners including Mr. Innocent in 1999-00 and Joanne in 1991-92.

Other notable Premiere Stakes winners include Kingston Town (1981), Emancipation (1983), and Terravista (2015).

In 2018 Santa Ana Lane set a record time of 1:07.45 winning the Premiere Stakes ahead of a Group 1 VRC Sprint Classic win in Melbourne later that spring.

The Premiere Stakes gained Group 2 status in 1997 and has been run and won at Royal Randwick since 2011.

In 2022 the Premiere Stakes offered $1 million in stakes for the first time.

The 2023 Premiere Stakes winner Think About It went on to salute next start in the world’s richest turf race adding his name to the list of The Everest champions.

Premiere Stakes results since 2000, along with winning times, are listed below.

Premiere Stakes Results