Blue Diamond Stakes News

2025 Blue Diamond Stakes Winner Devil Night Scores Upset at 15/1

• 2025 Blue Diamond Stakes Tips & Best Bets
• 2025 Blue Diamond Stakes Field & Betting Update
• Field Of Play Wins 2025 Blue Diamond Prelude
• Golden Slipper Results 2024: Lady Of Camelot Beats Coleman, Storm Boy Third
• 2024 Blue Diamond Stakes Results: Hayasugi Becomes Second Filly in History to Complete Treble

The Blue Diamond Stakes is Victoria’s premier sprint race for two-year-old horses, offering $2 million in prize money.

The Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes is traditionally held at Melbourne’s Caulfield Racecourse each February during the Melbourne Autumn Racing Carnival and is run over a sprint distance of 1200m.

2025 Blue Diamond Stakes Results

The Blue Diamond Stakes 2025 results will be published below as soon as the $2 million feature takes place on Saturday February 22, 2025.

The Hawkes Racing trained, Devil Night ($16), was excellent becoming the fourth horse in history to win the Blue Diamond Stakes at his second career start improving on a lead-up second in the Prelude to narrowly deny the fast-finishing Tentyris off an on-speed ride by Michael Dee to break his maiden status in the $2 million Caulfield feature.

Click here for the full story.

As a set-weights race the colts and geldings in the Blue Diamond Stakes field are required to carry 55.5kg and fillies must carry 53kg. The winner of the Blue Diamond Stakes takes home $1.2 million in prize money plus a trophy worth $15,000.

The Blue Diamond Stakes Day features a total of three elite level autumn races being accompanied on the card by the Group 1 Futurity Stakes (1400m) and Group 1 Oakleigh Plate (1100m).

The 2022 Blue Diamond Stakes form was franked with the third placegetter Jacquinot going on to win the Group 1 Golden Rose Stakes (1400m) in Sydney during the spring.

History was made in the 2024 Blue Diamond Stakes with Hayasugi becoming just the second filly ever to complete the Preview – Prelude – Blue Diamond Stakes treble along with Midnight Fever (1987).

The 2024 Blue Diamond form was franked with the runner-up, Lady Of Camelot, taking out the Group 1 Golden Slipper Stakes in Sydney at her next start.

The 2025 Blue Diamond Stakes ran at Caulfield Racecourse on Saturday February 22, 2025 as a Golden Slipper lead-up race in the autumn and was won in a narrow but impressive upset by Devil Night ($16) for Team Hawkes. 

2025 Blue Diamond Stakes Finishing Order

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Blue Diamond Stakes Betting

The futures Blue Diamond Stakes betting markets 2025 will be open at Ladbrokes.com.au weeks ahead of the classic with pricing on the hopeful two-year-olds heading towards the autumn Group 1 classic also published here at Races.com.au as soon as announced.

There was a notable upset in 2022 with the winner Daumier saluting at Blue Diamond Stakes odds of $20.

There was also an upset Blue Diamond Stakes result in 2024 with Hayasugi saluting at $16 despite having won the fillies’ Preview – Prelude double in the lead-up.

The 2025 Blue Diamond Stakes winner Devil Night also posted a surprise result at a $16 starting price!

2025 Blue Diamond Stakes Form Guide

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL 2025 BLUE DIAMOND STAKES FORM GUIDE

2025 Blue Diamond Stakes Tips

CLICK HERE FOR OUR EXPERT 2025 BLUE DIAMOND STAKES TIPS & BEST BETS

Stay tuned for our insider Blue Diamond Stakes tips for 2025 with the top three two-year-olds to back home in the Group 1 autumn classic.

To Win: #1 Field Of Play ($5 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Crack field of two-year-olds in the Blue Diamond but happy to stick with the favourite, unbeaten Deep Field gelding Field Of Play, who is still at a nice price at $5 at time of publish. He is two-from-two to date and proven at the 1200m. Won on debut at the distance at The Valley with 58kg by over three lengths and went on to salute by a half-length in the Blue Diamond Prelude. That form has proven the superior one to follow into the Group 1. Blake Shinn retains the ride and will get a lovely run from gate five. Chasing a hat-trick and ticking plenty of boxes for favourite backers. Stable is after their second win in this race after Tagaloa in 2019 and think they’ll collect.

Best Roughie: #8 The Playwright ($14 at time of publish) – BET NOW

Really like the credentials of this Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott-trained filly to join last year’s champion Hayasugi as the only fillies since Lyre (2019) to beat home the boys and hand the stable their first Blue Diamond trophy. She comes via the interstate form lines with her latest a narrow win fresh at Rosehill in the Group 3 Widden Stakes (1100m). Believe the 1200m will be a non-issue after she handled herself well finishing fourth behind O’ Ole in the Gold Coast’s $3 million Magic Millions 3YO Classic. Gun barrier (3) for jockey Regan Bayliss who continues associations aboard the daughter of the 2018 Blue Diamond Stakes winner Written By. Question over how she’ll go the Melbourne way, but her and the stable are going great guns in the juvenile scene right now and she maps well as a two-time winner from four starts and building. Each Way.

2025 Blue Diamond Stakes Field

The official Blue Diamond Stakes field and barrier draw are released by Racing Victoria the Wednesday before the race.

The Blue Diamond Stakes field is determined after three rounds of earlier declarations that take place from November of the year before. Final Blue Diamond Stakes acceptances cost connections a fee of $5,500.

The 2025 Blue Diamond Stakes Final Acceptances close at 9am (local time) on Tuesday the 18th of February 2025. 

The Blue Diamond Stakes 2025 field is now out with 16 top two-year-olds ready to face off at Caulfield including the Prelude winning colt Field Of Play in barrier five and the Fillies’ Prelude winner Palm Angel who came up trumps with barrier one.

Update: #10 ICARIAN DREAM (7) has been withdrawn on vet’s advice. 

Click here to read more on the key runners in the 2025 Blue Diamond Stakes field and betting markets.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

The very first Blue Diamond Stakes nominations of yearlings close in August the previous year.

View the 2025 Blue Diamond Stakes Nominations on the official Melbourne Racing Club (MRC) website.

The 2025 Blue Diamond Stakes nominations can be viewed in full here. 

2025 Blue Diamond Stakes First Declarations

Helping to narrow down the list of youngsters heading towards the Group 1 of the following February, the Blue Diamond Stakes first declarations or first acceptances close the November prior and traditionally feature around 500 – 600 youngsters.

Connections are charged a $350 fee at first acceptance stage in the Blue Diamond Stakes, which is the same cost of the nominations of yearlings for the classic.

View the 2025 Blue Diamond Stakes First Declarations on the official Melbourne Racing Club (MRC) website.

The 2025 Blue Diamond Stakes first acceptances closed at 12 noon on Tuesday the 12th of November 2024 attracting 864 hopefuls. 

2025 Blue Diamond Stakes Second Declarations

The Blue Diamond Stakes field begins to take further shape when the Blue Diamond Stakes second declarations or acceptances close in early January, around one and a half months before Blue Diamond Stakes Day. Blue Diamond second declarations cost connections a $480 fee.

The 2025 Blue Diamond Stakes second acceptances closed at 12pm on Tuesday the 7th of January 2025 and attracted 364 hopefuls, just short of last year’s record total of 369, including 43 for trainer Ciaron Maher.

Click here to view the full 2025 Blue Diamond second acceptances.

2025 Blue Diamond Stakes Third Declarations

The third round of Blue Diamond Stakes declarations are the last before the final Blue Diamond Stakes field is announced the week of the race. Blue Diamond Stakes third declarations cost connections a fee of $720 and close in late January.

After third declarations but before the final field is released, connections have a final chance to enter their horses into the Blue Diamond Stakes field the Monday before the race at a hefty late entry fee of $55,000.

The 2025 Blue Diamond Stakes Third Acceptances close at 12 noon on Tuesday, 28 January, 2025. 

The Blue Diamond Stakes 2025 third acceptances feature 79 hopeful two-year-olds led in futures markets by Prelude winning Deep Field gelding Field Of Play and My Gladiola who was runner-up in the Fillies’ Prelude.

Blue Diamond Stakes History & Records

First run in 1971 and won by Tolerance, the Blue Diamond Stakes went on to be claimed by sprinting champion Manikato in 1978.

Adding to the list of recent Blue Diamond Stakes records was jockey Dwayne Dunn who managed his fourth consecutive win in the classic with Reaan in 2008 after winning with Sleek Chassis (2007), Nadeem (2006), and Undoubtedly (2005).

David Hayes has trained six Blue Diamond Stakes winners (since 1983) with: Mahassin (1990), Canonise (1991), Nadeem (2006), Sleek Chassis (2007), and Reaan (2008) along with Catchy (2017) in partnership with his son Ben and nephew Tom Dabernig.

Anthony & Sam Freedman prepared three of the four Blue Diamond Stakes winners from 2019 – 2022 with Lyre (2019), Artorious (2021), and Daumier (2022).

See below for a full list of Blue Diamond Stakes winners and placegetters going back to 2000.

The 2023 Blue Diamond Stakes was moved from Caulfield to Sandown (Lakeside).

The 2024 Blue Diamond Stakes winner Hayasugi made history becoming just the second filly in history to complete the series’ treble.

Recent Blue Diamond Stakes