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The Galaxy is a Group 1 sprint race held at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse on Golden Slipper Day in March during the annual Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.

2025 The Galaxy Results

The Nathan Doyle trained Harry Angel colt Private Harry ($3.50F) continued the ace start to his career with the undefeated three-year-old making it five-from-five up in grade to beat home the older horses with a terrific late burst of speed in the 2025 The Galaxy results at Rosehill.

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The Galaxy is the only elite level sprint during the carnival that is run over just 1100 metres and sprinters that are contesting the race normally come through races like the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate (1100m) at Caulfield in Melbourne or the Group 2 Challenge Stakes (1000m) at Royal Randwick.

Eduardo (2021) was the last sprinter to do the Challenge Stakes – The Galaxy double and the first last start winner to salute in the Group 1 since Jetball (1994).

Zapateo (2nd in 2024) was the last Challenge Stakes graduate to back-up and win The Galaxy.

Eduardo would go on to frank The Galaxy form winning a host of subsequent races during 2021 including Brisbane’s Group 1 Doomben 10,000 and the lucrative Winners Stakes that spring on the back of a third in the The Everest which is now worth $20 million!

There are five Group 1 races held on Golden Slipper Stakes Day each year with the Group 1 $4.92 million Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m), the Group 1 George Ryder Stakes (1500m), the Group 1 Ranvet Stakes (2000m), the Group 1 Rosehill Guineas (2000m), and The Galaxy that offers $1,000,000 in total prize money as of 2023.

Graduates out of The Galaxy field often continue onto other Sydney Group 1 sprint races including the Group 1 $3 million TJ Smith Stakes (1200m) in April during ‘The Championships’ at Randwick. No horse has completed The Galaxy – TJ Smith Stakes double since La Baraka (1998). The winner of The Galaxy receives ballot exempt entry into the TJ Smith Stakes field.

The 2024 The Galaxy form was franked with the runner-up, Sunshine In Paris, returning in the spring to win Flemington’s Group 1 Champions Sprint during the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

The Galaxy 2025 ran on Saturday March 22, 2025 as part of Sydney’s bumper Golden Slipper Day and was won in a brilliant late burst by the unbeaten Nathan Doyle trained colt Private Harry ($3.50F) who saluted for the punters by nearly a length. 

2025 The Galaxy Finishing Order

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 The Galaxy Betting

The autumn’s latest The Galaxy 2025 betting odds will be available at Ladbrokes.com.au throughout the autumn and also published here at Races.com.au.

Russian Revolution ($2.90 in 2017), In Her Time ($4 in 2018), Nature Strip ($4.20 in 2019), and Private Harry ($3.50 in 2025) are the latest favourites in The Galaxy betting to salute for the punters.

There was a notable upset in 2024 with Zapateo saluting at The Galaxy odds of $26 for Godolphin when defeating the beaten favourite Sunshine In Paris.

2025 The Galaxy Form Guide

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2025 The Galaxy Tips

Stay tuned for our exclusive The Galaxy 2025 Tips on the million-dollar Sydney sprint this autumn.

Taking on the unbeaten favourite and have landed on the resuming Front Page for value at The Galaxy odds of $13 at time of publish. This veteran eight-year-old is the old warhorse in the mix for Matthew Dale with the sun of Magnus racing for the first time since a narrow second to Rey Magnerio down the Flemington straight during last year’s Melbourne Cup Carnival. Prior to that he was second as the dual defending The Kosciuszko winner with 59kg at Randwick. He’s a first-up flyer with a brilliant record fresh (10:5-2-1) including a brave third only 0.3 lengths off Zapateo in last year’s The Galaxy trifecta. Gets in here with 55kg which looks very manageable, and he’ll get the run of the race from barrier 5 with Tim Clark in the saddle. Can surprise.

2025 The Galaxy Field

The Galaxy field attracts the season’s best short-distance specialists, many coming off the Group 2 Challenge Stakes (1000m) at Randwick earlier in the autumn and is released on the Wednesday before Golden Slipper Day.

In 2022 shock Challenge Stakes runner-up Shelby Sixtysix went on to win The Galaxy with a Group 3 Maurice McCarten Stakes victory in between.

The official 2025 The Galaxy field is set for release by Racing NSW on the Wednesday of race week and will be published in full below.

The Galaxy 2025 final field features a capacity line-up of short-distance specialists with the unbeaten Private Harry heading the markets first-up against the older horses here in a mid-field barrier six.

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Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 The Galaxy Nominations

The Galaxy 2025 nominations are due to close on the Monday of race week and will be released below as soon as available.

The Galaxy 2025 nominations attracted a bumper 25 autumn sprinters led in all-in betting by Nathan Doyle’s undefeated Harry Angel colt Private Harry who is yet to race in Group class.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

The Galaxy History

The Galaxy has always drawn a competitive field of leading sprinters and has been won by a number of talented gallopers. Bletchingly (1975), Luskin Star (1978), Schllaci (1992), Spark Of Life (2004), Magnus (2007), and Bel Sprinter (2013) are just some of the top sprinters who have their names on The Galaxy honour roll.

The Galaxy was first run in 1972 over a distance of 1200 metres and the race distance was converted to 1100m the following year.  The race was upgraded to a Group 2 event in 1980 and received its status as a Group 1 race before the 1984 edition of the race that was won by Mr Illusion.

The Galaxy has proven a very difficult race to win in back-to-back years and Grey Receiver remains the only horse to have won the race on multiple occasions after taking out the race in 1981 and 1982.

Notable recent The Galaxy winners include Eduardo (2021), Sweet Idea (2015), Tiger Tees (2014), and Temple Of Boom (2012).

In 2021 the original Golden Slipper Stakes race day including The Galaxy was abandoned due to heavy rainfall and unsafe track conditions and postponed to the following Saturday.

Private Harry (2025) was the last three-year-old The Galaxy winner.

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