The Phar Lap Stakes is a Group 2 race held at Sydney’s Rosehill Racecourse in early – mid-March.

2025 Phar Lap Stakes Results

Chris Waller’s smart Snitzel filly Lazzura ($4) improved on a lead-up Group 1 Surround Stakes third to power home for a dominant 1.7 length win in the 2025 Phar Lap Stakes results handing her trainer his eighth victory in the past 11 runnings on her way to a likely Group 1 $1 million Queen Of The Turf Stakes bid over the Randwick mile on April 12.

Open to three-year-old horses, the 1500m middle distance event is a set weights race which means that all colts and geldings must carry 56.5kg while fillies have a 2kg allowance of 54.5kg. Worth $300,000 in prize money as of 2024, the Phar Lap Stakes is held on the Coolmore Classic Day which offers several Group 1 and 2 races.

The biggest race on the day is the Group 1 $1,000,000 Coolmore Classic (1500m) for fillies and mares.

Along with the Phar Lap Stakes the other major support acts on the card include the Group 2 Ajax Stakes (1500m), Group 3 Magic Night Stakes (1200m) and the Group 3 Pago Pago Stakes (1200m) – the latter lead-ups into the Golden Slipper Stakes.

Three-year-olds many come into the Phar Lap Stakes off a run in the previous weekend’s Group 1 Randwick Guineas (1600m) or a non-Black Type lead up during the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival.

Many of the horses out of the Phar Lap Stakes field will continue onto the Group 2 Tulloch Stakes (2000m) back at Rosehill at the end of March before targeting a Royal Randwick win during ‘The Championships’ in the Group 1 Australian Derby (2400m) or the Group 1 ATC Oaks (2400m) for the fillies.

Unforgotten (2018), Verry Elleegant (2019) and Hungry Heart (2021) all completed the Phar Lap Stakes – Australian Oaks double for Chris Waller.

Waller took his record in the Phar Lap Stakes up to six wins in seven years with Hungry Heart in 2021, the filly backing-up to do the Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes – ATC Oaks double that autumn.

In 2023 the incredible record of Chris Waller-trained fillies in the Phar Lap Stakes continued with the big win by the odds-on favourite Zougotcha.

The 2022 Phar Lap Stakes form was franked with the third placed Character winning the Group 2 Tulloch Stakes next start, while the winner Mr Mozart went on to take out the Group 3 Doncaster Prelude – Hawkesbury Guineas double.

The Phar Lap Stakes 2024 winner Zardozi franked the form with a host of good next-up runs including in the Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes (3rd), Group 1 ATC Oaks (2nd), the spring’s Group 1 The Metropolitan (2nd), Group 1 Caulfield Cup (4th), and most notably the Group 1 Melbourne Cup (4th) that November.

Waller won the Phar Lap Stakes for the eighth time in 11 years with his filly Lazzura in 2025. 

The Phar Lap Stakes 2025 ran on Saturday March 15, 2025 on the Coolmore Classic Day card at Rosehill and saw the Chris Waller trained Lazzura ($4) charge home for a dominant win off a Group 1 Surround Stakes placing the start prior. 

2025 Phar Lap Stakes Finishing Order

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Phar Lap Stakes Betting

The latest Phar Lap Stakes 2025 betting odds and market links to Ladbrokes.com.au will be available here at Races.com.au the week of the race.

Funstar ($1.55 in 2020) followed by her stablemates Hungry Heart ($3.70 in 2021) and Zougotcha ($1.50 in 2023) are the latest favourites in Phar Lap Stakes betting to salute for the punters.

2025 Phar Lap Stakes Form

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2025 Phar Lap Stakes Tips

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Chris Waller’s Snitzel filly is a dual acceptor also in the mix for the Group 1 Coolmore Classic on the card. If she does go the way of this easier Group 2 assignment against her own age she’s shaping up as a hard to beat favourite. While yet to win over further than 1200m, her lead-up runs have been eye-catching. Far from disgraced in the Group 1 Flight Stakes last campaign over the Randwick mile when fifth to her star stablemate Lady Shenandoah, she’s third-up for the autumn now after running behind that same filly twice this time in when 4th in the Group 2 Light Fingers and 3rd in the Group 1 Surround Stakes. She’s been at a big price lately but won’t be found anywhere near the 25/1 offering of last start. Well rated for this in gate two with Tommy Berry to ride. If she runs, she wins.

2025 Phar Lap Stakes Field

The final field and barrier draw for the Phar Lap Stakes 2025 will be published here once it has been announced on the Wednesday of race week.

The 2025 Phar Lap Stakes final field features a smart line-up of gun three-year-olds led in betting by last start Group 1 Surround Stakes third placed filly Lazzura.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Phar Lap Stakes Nominations

Early nominations for the Phar Lap Stakes in 2025 close the Monday of race week and will be updated in full below once confirmed.

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

Phar Lap Stakes History

The Phar Lap Stakes is named after legendary horse Phar Lap who dominated Australian Racing during his time on the track that included the 1930 Melbourne Cup win.

For one year in 2008 the Group 2 race was held at Canterbury and raced over 1550m.

Phar Lap Stakes Winners

Plenty of star three-year-olds have dominated the Phar Lap Stakes results in recent years including Apache Cat (2006) and Winx (2015) who would go on to etch her name in the history books with a stunning succession of Group 1 wins including two victories in the Cox Plate.

From 2015 – 2025 trainer Chris Waller prepared eight fillies to beat home the boys in the Phar Lap Stakes results: Winx (2015), Foxplay (2017), Unforgotten (2018), Verry Elleegant (2019), Funstar (2020), Hungry Heart (2021), Zougotcha (2023), and Lazzura (2025).

See below for the full list of Phar Lap Stakes winners going back to 2000.