The ATC Sapphire Stakes – not to be confused with Melbourne’s Group 3 Blue Sapphire Stakes – is a quality Group 2 race held towards the tail end of the esteemed Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival on Day 2 of ‘The Championships’ at Royal Randwick Racecourse.

2025 Sapphire Stakes Results

Kris Lees’ progressive four-year-old Infancy ($19) made a stunning autumn return when closing hard down the outside to defeat the short favourite Commemorative in an impressive late effort for an upset 2025 Sapphire Stakes result on Day 2 of The Championships.

Run on the second Saturday of April the Sapphire Stakes is a 1200m sprint run under set weights plus penalties by a field of fillies and mares. Offering $300,000 in prize money the race is conducted on the same day as four Group 1 autumn features.

The autumn’s richest race – the Group 1 $5 million Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) – headlines the meeting and is joined by the Sydney Cup (3200m), ATC Oaks (2400m), the Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m) plus a host of Group 2 and 3 status support races.

Female sprinters may come into the Sapphire Stakes field via an earlier autumn run in the Group 3 Birthday Card Stakes (1200m) held at Rosehill in March on Golden Slipper Stakes Day. Held on Day 1 of ‘The Championships’ just a week before the Sapphire Stakes, the Group 3 PJ Bell Stakes (1200m) is another good lead-up.

The Birthday Card Stakes – Sapphire Stakes double was most recently completed by Quilista (2018) and Zapateo (2023).

A nice next-up option for Sapphire Stakes graduates could be the Group 3 Hawkesbury Crown (1300m) later in the month, a race the 2016 Sapphire Stakes winner Two Blue finished runner-up in. Fillies and mares may also come back and contest a harder race like the Group 1 BTC Cup (1200m) over the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival or head to Adelaide for the Group 1 Robert Sangster Stakes (1200m). Secret Agenda (2017) was the last mare to do the Sapphire Stakes – Robert Sangster Stakes double.

The form of the 2021 Sapphire Stakes was franked with the runner-up Entriviere going on to win the Group 2 Sheraco Stakes (1200m) in Sydney that spring and the New Zealand’s Group 1 Railway Stakes (1600m) the following January.

The 2022 Sapphire Stakes form was franked with the winner Bella Nipotina returning in the spring to win the Group 1 Manikato Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley.

The Sapphire Stakes 2023 winner Zapateo went on to run third in both the Group 1 Robert Sangster Stakes and Group 1 The Goodwood results in Adelaide at her next two starts. She went on to run well in a host of other events including her Group 1 The Galaxy victory in Sydney in the autumn of 2024.

The ATC Sapphire Stakes 2025 ran on Saturday April 12, 2025 at Royal Randwick as part of Day 2 of The Championships and was won in a half-length upset by the Kris Lees trained Infancy ($19).

2025 Sapphire Stakes Finishing Order

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Sapphire Stakes Betting

The latest Sapphire Stakes 2025 betting odds on the Randwick Group 2 for fillies and mares this autumn will be available here at Races.com.au as soon as released by Ladbrokes.com.au.

Zapateo ($2.30 in 2023) was the last Sapphire Stakes favourite to win.

There was a notable upset in 2025 with Infancy saluting at Sapphire Stakes odds of $19.

2025 Sapphire Stakes Form

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2025 Sapphire Stakes Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Sapphire Stakes 2025 Tips on the Randwick sprint this April.

Going for some value in the last on The Championships Day 2 and have the fresh runner, Tiz Invincible, a nice each way play at juicy odds. Ciaron Maher’s four-year-old daughter of I Am Invincible races for the first time since the spring with her latest run seeing her finish a close third carrying a big weight (59.5kg) at Cranbourne. She was competitive in the run prior getting a Group 3 second placing at Flemington so is capable of running better than her price suggests when she wants. Looked good in a recent Randwick trial late last month in a hit-out where Headwall finished second before running third at any old price in the Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes at this track and trip. She has won first-up previously and has a solid record at the course (7:2-1-0). It has been a long time between wins as she hasn’t saluted since September of 2023 posting two Group 2 wins on the trot here but has a sense of returning to her better form.

2025 Sapphire Stakes Field

The ATC Sapphire Stakes field attracts a class line-up of fillies and mares looking to see out their prep with a lucrative Group 2 win or wind-up for a Group 1 target in Brisbane over the winter.

The official Sapphire Stakes 2025 field and barriers will be published in full below on the Wednesday of race week so stay tuned.

The 2025 Sapphire Stakes final field features 13 fillies and mares including the Chris Waller trained Olentia coming off a fourth in the Group 1 Coolmore Classic and the resuming Tiz Invincible.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Sapphire Stakes Nominations

The Sapphire Stakes 2025 nominations are taken on the Monday of race week with the full list of early entries to be published below.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Sapphire Stakes History

First run in 1998 the inaugural Sapphire Stakes was won by What Can I Say. It began as a Listed race run over 1200m. The event gained Group 3 status in 2002 and not long after reached Group 2 status in 2006. Up until 2016 it ran as a Group 2 race before being downgraded back to a Group 3 autumn event for 2017 and then returned to Group 2 status for 2018.

Plenty of quality mares have won the Sapphire Stakes including Court (2009), Atlantic Jewel (2012) and Cosmic Endeavour (2014).

In 2020 White Moss continued her excellent record in the race, the 2018 third placegetter and 2019 champion becoming the second two-time Sapphire Stakes winner in the race’s history.

Recent Sapphire Stakes Winners

See below for a full list of Sapphire Stakes winners and results going back to 2000.