Magic Millions 3YO Guineas News

Storms See 2025 Magic Millions Races Abandoned, Rescheduled for Friday Night

• 2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Field & Odds Update: Snitzanova Favourite
• 2024 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Results: Abounding Wins Delayed Event Over the Boys
• Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2024 Field & Betting Update: Chrysaor Narrow Favourite
• 2023 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Results: Fashion Legend Sets Trend at 20/1
• Abandoned 2023 Magic Millions Day Races To Run On Thursday

The 2025 Magic Millions 3YO Classic along with six other Magic Millions races were abandoned due to heavy rainfall and have been rescheduled for Friday night on January 17 under the lights at the Gold Coast. 

The Magic Millions 3YO Guineas is one of the major races held during the coveted Gold Coast Magic Millions Racing Carnival each January at Queensland’s Gold Coast Racecourse.

The Magic Millions Race Day features ten Restricted events open only to Magic Millions Sales graduates with the line-up headlined by the $3 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic (1200m) and the Magic Millions Guineas for three-year-olds.

Offering a lucrative $3 million in prize money, the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas holds Restricted Listed status and is contested at set weights plus penalties over 1400m.

The Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas field features a host of top gallopers coming off an earlier summer run in lead-up races like the Group 3 Vo Rogue Plate (1300m) run at the Gold Coast on Boxing Day each December.

Both Boomsara (2019) and Pierata (2018) came off a lead-up win in the following year’s Vo Rogue Plate before their respective Magic Millions 3YO Guineas victories. For a third straight season, the 2020 Magic Millions Guineas winner Alligator Blood also came off a lead-up win in the Vo Rogue Plate.

Fashion Legend (2023) was the last Magic Millions 3YO Guineas winner to have won the previous month’s Vo Rogue Plate at his last start.

Alternatively the three-year-olds in the race could be first-up after their spring campaigns that could have seen them run in races like the Group 2 Sandown Guineas (1600m) in late November or early December in Melbourne. The Wyong Magic Millions 3YO & 4YO Stakes (1200m) in December is another traditional lead-up to the lucrative race in Queensland the following month.

After the Magic Millions Guineas at the Gold Coast many horses go on to contest autumn races including the Group 1 Australian Guineas (1600m) at Flemington in Melbourne in early March.

Alligator Blood won the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas – Australian Guineas double, however was later disqualified from his win in the former stripped of his 2020 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas win due to a positive test to a banned substance.

For the first time in 2024 the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas winner was guaranteed a start in Melbourne’s $3.65 million The All-Star Mile race held in 2024 on March 16 at Caulfield Racecourse.

The rescheduled Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2025 runs under the lights at the Gold Coast on Friday January 17, 2025 offering $3 million in prize money. 

2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Results

• 1st: TBD
• 2nd: TBD
• 3rd: TBD

2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Betting

Betting on the 2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas at Queensland’s Gold Coast Racecourse is open weeks out from the event and Magic Millions odds firm closer to the January race day.

Check out the latest all-in 2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas odds at Ladbrokes.com.au with markets also published here at Races.com.au.

Alligator Blood saluted for the punters as the odds-on favourite in the 2020 edition of the race before being subsequently disqualified.

King Of Sparta ($4 in 2022) is the last favourite in Magic Millions 3YO Guineas betting to salute for the punters. King Of Sparta would return on Magic Millions Day the next two years running and go back-to-back in the Magic Millions Snippets.

There was a notable upset in 2023 with Fashion Legend winning at Magic Millions 3YO Guineas odds of $21.

2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Form Guide

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2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2025 Tips on the $3 million summer feature this January.

• To Win: #6 Snitzanova ($6.50 at time of publish) – BET NOW

It’s a big field full of in form 3YOs in the rescheduled MM Guineas on Friday but the hot favourite Snitzanova still looks impossible to bet against especially at a still attractive price of $6.50 at time of publish. Ciaron Maher is a star trainer and this is a star young filly. The well bred daughter of Snitzel is going great guns having won her past three on the trot interstate. A Group 3 winner two back at Newcastle in the Spring Stakes she stepped up in grade and saluted again beating home the boys in the Group 2 Sandown Guineas over the mile in the mud back in November. She hasn’t raced since, or trialed, so that is the only query. But Maher knows what he is doing, and this filly has been kept fresh for a big resuming run. The 1400m is ideal, Daniel Stackhouse continues associations, and the top elect gets the run of the race from a good gate where other exciting hopes have drawn out near the carpark. Can win.

2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Field

The Magic Millions 3YO Guineas field has a capacity of 18 starters plus five emergencies and is restricted to three-year-olds out of the Magic Millions sales.

The official Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2025 field of final acceptances is set for release in early January and will be published in full below.

The 2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas final field features a full line-up of youngsters led in betting by the airborne Snitzanova for Ciaron Maher with the Group 2 Sandown Guineas winning filly chasing a fourth win on the trot.

Click here to read more on the key runners in the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2025 field and betting markets.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Nominations

Early nominations on the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas in 2025 close the December prior to the race and traditionally attract over 300 entries.

The 2025 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas nominations closed on Friday the 29th of November 2024 and attracted 212 early entries including the ultra-consistent Ciaron Maher trained Group 2 Sandown Guineas winning filly Snitzanova and Wyong Magic Millions 3YO & 4YO Stakes winner Bauhinia.

Click here to view the full list of Magic Millions 3YO Guineas 2025 nominations.

Gold Coast Magic Millions Guineas History

The Magic Millions 3YO Guineas at the Gold Coast was first run in 2001 and won by Paradiddle. The race was formerly known as the Magic Millions Trophy before being renamed in 2011. The first Queensland-trained Magic Millions 3YO Guineas winner was in 2007 when Gold Edition finally scored a victory for the home state.

Other notable Gold Coast Magic Millions Guineas winners over the years include Ha Ha (2002), Graceful Anna (2010), Sweet Idea (2014), Mahuta (2016), and Alligator Blood (2020*).

*Alligator Blood was subsequently stripped of his 2020 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas win with the horse disqualified due to a positive test to a banned substance. Original runner-up Eleven Eleven was subsequently declared as the official Magic Millions 3YO Guineas winner for 2020 the following July.

The Gold Coast’s million Magic Millions Day – including the 2023 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas – was abandoned after the opening two races due to ongoing rainfall, deteriorating track conditions and unsafe jockey conditions and rescheduled for the following Thursday.

Abounding is the latest Magic Millions 3YO Guineas winning filly saluting in 2024 after a lengthy delay following the late scratching of Sydney Bowler who reared and became cast under the gates.

Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Winners

See below for a full list of Magic Millions 3YO Guineas winners going back to 2001 including winning jockeys, trainers and times.