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Odds Bookmakers News Field Past Winners Sweet Embrace Stakes Group Two Betting Guide Date: Saturday, March 1, 2025 Location: Randwick Racecourse – Sydney, New South Wales Prize Money: $300,000 Distance: 1200m The Sweet Embrace Stakes is a Group 2 race for two-year-old fillies, run over 1200m under set weights. First held in 1979 by the Sydney Turf Club, the Sweet Embrace Stakes is named after the 1967 Golden Slipper winner, Sweet Embrace. The Sweet Embrace Stakes grants ballot exemption for the Group 1 Golden Slipper (1200m). Initially a Listed race, the Sweet Embrace Stakes was upgraded to Group 3 in 1987 and Group 2 in 2012. The 2024 Sweet Embrace Stakes, worth $300,000, was won by Manaal, defeating Fly Fly and Extreme Diva. Four fillies have completed the Sweet Embrace–Golden Slipper double, most recently Fireburn (2022). 2025 Sweet Embrace Stakes betting odds Manaal returned a winner in the 2024 Sweet Embrace Stakes. Photo: Bradleyphotos.com.au Odds for the Sweet Embrace Stakes as of February 24 – Courtesy of Neds Bellazaine Win $3.00 Place $1.50 Within The Law Win $4.40 Place $1.85 Memo Win $6.00 Place $2.25 Snitzel Miss Win $8.00 Place $2.75 Price Tag Win $11.00 Place $3.50 Artistic Venture Win $13.00 Place $4.00 Inkaruna Win $15.00 Place $4.50 Karinska Win $15.00 Place $4.50 Tupakara Win $15.00 Place $4.50 Strada Varenna Win $17.00 Place $5.00 Open Secret Win $21.00 Place $6.00 Daphnes Win $26.00 Place $7.25 Marhoona Win $26.00 Place $7.25 Wootton Lass Win $26.00 Place $7.25 Autumn Blonde Win $51.00 Place $13.50 Deep Affection Win $51.00 Place $13.50 Dream Side Win $51.00 Place $13.50 Lady Pankhurst Win $51.00 Place $13.50 You’re The Choice Win $51.00 Place $13.50 Queen Of Clubs Win $101.00 Place $26.00 How to bet on the Sweet Embrace Stakes All of our top horse betting sites have markets for the Sweet Embrace Stakes. 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Sweet Embrace Stakes News Randwick free racing preview & best bets | Saturday, March 1 Horse Racing Tips 1 day ago Check out HorseBetting’s free betting preview and quaddie tips for a monster Group 1 day of racing at Randwick on … Read More Manaal shows her class in Sweet Embrace Stakes victory Australia horse racing news 12 months ago Tommy Berry has guided the Michael Freedman-trained Manaal to victory in the Group 2 Sweet Embrace Stakes (1200m) at Randwick … Read More Randwick race-by-race preview & betting tips | Saturday, March 2 Horse Racing Tips 1 year ago The Verry Elleegant Stakes headlines a bumper 10-race card at Randwick this Saturday. See our free betting tips and quaddie … Read More The Follow Files: Freedman filly ready to fire in Blue Diamond Horse Racing Tips 1 year ago In this week’s Follow Files, we have found runners from Caulfield and Randwick last Saturday that are worth keeping an … Read More Lazzago the best of the girls in the Sweet Embrace Stakes Australia horse racing news 2 years ago The old firm of Hugh Bowman and Chris Waller have combined for Group 2 success in the Sweet Embrace Stakes … Read More Fireburn continues hot streak in Sweet Embrace Australia horse racing news 3 years ago Fireburn continued on her winning ways in the Group 2 Sweet Embrace Stakes at Royal Randwick, booking her ticket into … Read More 2025 Sweet Embrace Stakes Final Field HorseBetting will update this page when the 2025 Sweet Embrace Stakes final field is released on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. Previous Behemoth Stakes Fields 2024 Sweet Embrace Stakes field No. Silks Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight 1 Manaal Michael Freedman Tommy Berry 6 55.5kg 2 Castanya Annabel Neasham Zac Lloyd 14 55.5kg 3 Totoka Paul Perry Dylan Gibbons 10 55.5kg 4 Chateau Miraval Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Tim Clark 8 55.5kg 5 Photographics John Sargent Kerrin McEvoy 3 55.5kg 6 Extreme Diva Anthony Cummings Chad Schofield 13 55.5kg 7 Wave Breaker Peter & Paul Snowden Tyler Schiller 4 55.5kg 8 Drifting Peter & Paul Snowden Tom Sherry 7 55.5kg 9 Valabing David Payne Adam Hyeronimus 11 55.5kg 10 Asteride Robert & Luke Price Ashley Morgan 9 55.5kg 11 Fly Fly Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes Jason Collett 12 55.5kg 12 Diddle Dumpling Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou Regan Bayliss 2 55.5kg 13 Montana Dawn John Thompson Reece Jones 5 55.5kg 14 Zounaka John Thompson Tom Marquand 1 55.5kg 2024 Sweet Embrace Stakes result https://horsebetting.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Randwick-2024-Group-2-Sweet-Embrace-Stakes-02032024-Manaal-Michael-Freedman-Tommy-Berry.mp4 1st – Manaal (+115) 2nd – Fly Fly (-125) 3rd – Extreme Diva (+190) Recent runnings of the Sweet Embrace Stakes: 2024: Manaal all class Manaal ($2.00) returned to the winner’s circle by taking out the Group 2 Sweet Embrace Stakes at Rosehill. The Michael Freedman-trained filly was well backed throughout betting and jumped as an even money favourite with top online horse betting sites, with her followers receiving a relatively easy watch throughout the 1200m contest. The daughter of Tassort jumped well and held a position behind the speed before Tommy Berry pushed the favourite out four and five-wide on the home turn to make her run in the final 400m. Once Berry released the brakes and she let down with her finishing burst, the race was just about over as she careered away to take the lead, with only Fly Fly ($8.00) taking ground off her in the final 100m. 2023: Lazzago arrives in time The old firm of Hugh Bowman and Chris Waller combined with Lazzago for Group 2 success in the Sweet Embrace Stakes at Randwick. The Capitalist filly franked the form from the Inglis Millennium, as well as Facile and Blanc De Blanc who finished second and third respectively, all coming through the same race behind Learning To Fly. It was a dominant win all things considered as Bowman circled the entire field from well back in the run to secure her way to the Golden Slipper. 2022: Fireburn relishes wet Randwick Fireburn continued on her winning ways in the Group 2 Sweet Embrace Stakes at Royal Randwick, booking her ticket into the Golden Slipper. The Gary Portelli-trained two-year-old made it three straight wins in the Group 2 event in what was her third attempt at 1200m. The daughter of Rebel Dane moved up stylishly on the outside of Xtravagant Star and Lady Laguna, to quickly put the field to bed and fend off the challenge from the fast-finishing She’s Extreme. Previous winners of the Sweet Embrace Stakes Sweet Embrace Stakes Past Winners Year Horse Jockey Trainer 2024 Manaal Tommy Berry Michael Freedman 2023 Lazzago Hugh Bowman Chris Waller 2022 Fireburn Jason Collett Gary Portelli 2021 Four Moves Ahead Nash Rawiller John Sargent 2020 Hungry Heart James McDonald Chris Waller 2019 Anaheed Tim Clark Peter & Paul Snowden 2018 Seabrook Hugh Bowman Mick Price 2017 One More Honey Jay Ford John Thompson 2016 Scarlet Rain Kathy O’Hara Gai Waterhouse 2015 Always Allison Glyn Schofield Chris Waller 2014 Believe Yourself Jason Collett Gerald Ryan 2013 Romantic Moon James McDonald John O’Shea 2012 Jade Marauder Hugh Bowman Chris Waller 2011 Shared Reflections Nash Rawiller Gai Waterhouse 2010 Crystal Lily Damien Oliver Mathew Ellerton & Simon Zahra 2009 Headway Chris Munce Peter Moody 2008 Stripper Jeff Lloyd David Payne 2007 Chinchilla Rose Stathi Katsidis Steele Ryan 2006 Universal Queen Danny Beasley Bede Murray 2005 Carry On Cutie Jim Cassidy Graeme Rogerson 2004 Burning Sands Jim Cassidy Graeme Rogerson 2003 Legally Bay Rod Quinn John Hawkes 2002 Victory Vein Danny Beasley Bede Murray 2001 Ha Ha Brian York Gai Waterhouse 2000 Dynamic Love Glen Colless John Wallace Sweet Embrace Stakes winners pre-2000 Sweet Embrace Stakes Past Winners Pre 2000 Year Horse 1999 Countess Christie 1998 Rubicall 1997 All The Chat 1996 Flapper 1995 Millrich 1994 Shadowy Outline 1993 Rock Review 1992 Skating 1991 Shadea 1990 Paklani 1989 A Little Kiss 1988 Scollata 1987 Postage Due 1986 Khaptivaan 1985 Speed Check 1984 Vain Display 1983 Purpose 1982 Jade Lace 1981 Black Shoes 1980 Dark Eclipse 1979 Ingenue Recommended! 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Chris Waller has turned his eyes to the expansive Flemington straight track in hope of getting a touch of luck and Joliestar (Zoustar) back in the winner’s stall for the first time in six months in next Saturday’s $1.5 million Gr.1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m). Waller was in Melbourne on Friday to see the four-year-old get her first look down the famous straight course, clocking 48.78 seconds under Damian Lane for the 800-metre workout, holding off Traffic Warden and stablemate Gatsby’s. “She just needs a bit of confidence and a bit of luck,” he explained. “She is just having no luck, her Everest run was as good as any in the run and Golden Eagle run same again, as good as any, but had no luck and then first-up things just didn’t go to plan. “She is going as well as she’s ever gone and she’s certainly capable of winning a race like the Newmarket.” Joliestar hasn’t saluted since the Gr.3 Show Country (1200m) last August. The Cambridge-owned daughter of Zoustar is the $6 favourite with Sportsbet in the race, which Waller won for the only time so far with Brazen Beau back in 2015. Having campaigned that galloper at Royal Ascot thereafter, Waller said there is a possibility Joliestar could follow the same path, as could stablemate Switzerland, who instead will run in the Canterbury Stakes next weekend. “We love to give our horses an experience running down the straight because there are so many great races here at Flemington or even overseas if you want to travel,” Waller said. “The beauty of winning a 1200-metre race at Flemington is it opens up the door to travel. “She is certainly good enough (to win the Newmarket) in our opinion and this morning gave her a good chance to have a look at the straight with Damian Lane aboard. “Obviously it’s a different style of racing but one she should adapt to pretty quickly.” Waller said a rider won’t be be confirmed until weights are released but a top-three finish will see her line up in the G1 T.J. Smith Stakes (1200m), suggesting a sprinting path is more likely this campaign. View the full article

Treybon will contest the $200,000 Southern Mile Final (1600m) at Wingatui on Saturday. Photo: Race Images While Saturday’s inaugural Otago Classics Day at Wingatui is headlined by its trio of black-type features, the $200,000 Southern Mile Final (1600m) gives intermediate-grade horses an opportunity to race for the highest stake of their careers. The Southern Mile Final is the final event on Saturday’s 10-race card. It is the culmination of a series of Rating 65 and 75 qualifiers that began on Boxing Day and included races at Wingatui, Riccarton, Riverton and Ascot Park. The popular series is now in its fourth year, with Henley, Burgie and The Grey Goose winning the first three editions of the lucrative Wingatui final. Burgie went on to place in the Group 3 South Island Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m) later in the autumn of 2023, then returned a year later and won that fillies and mares’ feature. Last year’s Southern Mile winner The Grey Goose will be back at Wingatui again on Saturday to contest the Group 3 White Robe Lodge WFA (1600m). Saturday’s 2025 renewal of the ODT Southern Mile Final has drawn a full field of 14 plus six emergencies, with locals facing off against strong contingents from around Canterbury and Southland. The 59kg topweight is the Canterbury visitor Treybon, who has been a model of consistency through his seven-year-old season. The Sweynesse gelding beat black-type performers Family Ties and Miss Layla to win a 1600m Rating 75 at Ashburton in December, then stepped up into open class and ran a close fifth behind Ears Back in the Timaru Cup (1600m). After taking out the iconic Kumara Gold Nuggets (1810m) on January 11, Treybon dropped back down to Rating 75 company and recorded a pair of close second placings behind fellow Southern Mile Final entrants Quintabelle and Steal My Thunder. “He’s been racing in great form this summer,” Beckett said. “He seems to have really matured now and grown into himself. There have been no problems with him at all since that last-start second at Ascot Park. I’m happy as hell with him. He should go well again on Saturday.” Treybon has formed a successful partnership with apprentice jockey Donovan Cooper, who has ridden him six times for two wins, three placings and the Timaru Cup fifth. Cooper’s 2kg claim will reduce Treybon’s impost to 57kg. “Donovan gets on really well with him and the horse seems to race kindly for him,” Beckett said. “He was very keen to stay with him for Saturday, and we’re more than happy to have him on again.” A super-consistent member of the Southland contingent is Maximus Augustus, whose eight starts this season have produced a win, two seconds, a third, two fourths and a fifth. The five-year-old son of War Decree is trained by his owner-breeder Bill McNamara, who has five horses in work in his Ascot Park stable and has never before had a runner in a $200,000 race. “It’s exciting,” McNamara said. “We’re thrilled to have him lining up in a race for that kind of prize. We’ve got an in-form jockey (Samantha Wynne) and a good gate (two), so we’ve been pretty fortunate in the lead-up to the race. “He’s been in good form this season and hasn’t had much luck in his races either. There’s always been something that’s happened, where the outcome could have been quite different if things had gone differently in the running. So hopefully he might have a bit of better luck going his way this time. “I’ve been very happy with the horse since his last run. He’s big and strong. He’s as fit as we’re going to get him and as well as we’re going to get him. Now it all comes down to what happens on the day.” Horse racing news View the full article

Pam Gerard pictured with former training partner Mike Moroney, who passed away in Melbourne this week. Photo: Trish Dunell Barely 48 hours after the sad loss of her former training partner Mike Moroney, Pam Gerard will saddle a Group 1 contender at the Melbourne track the Hall of Fame horseman called home. Gerard’s star three-year-old Savaglee will line up as a leading chance in Saturday’s A$1 million Group 1 Australian Guineas (1600m) at Flemington, where Moroney was based for the last two decades. Despite his move across the Tasman, Moroney maintained a presence in his old home town of Matamata, where Gerard served as his training partner from 2016 until last season and they won 178 races together. One of the big success stories from their time together was Roch ‘N’ Horse, who was a Listed winner and Group 1 Telegraph (1200m) placegetter in New Zealand before Gerard sent her across to Moroney and she won Flemington’s Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) and Champions Sprint (1200m). Gerard took sole charge of Ballymore Stables’ Matamata operation when Moroney relinquished his New Zealand licence at the end of last season amid a health battle, but the pair continued to work closely together until the 66-year-old died in his sleep on Thursday morning. “It’s a huge loss,” Gerard said from Melbourne on Friday. “He was a fantastic man and I was so lucky to work alongside him and have the great partnership with him that we enjoyed over the last 10 years or so. I’m going to miss him a lot. “The Guineas isn’t going to be an easy race on Saturday, but I’d love to see Savaglee run a really big race in Mike’s honour.” Savaglee has swept all before him in New Zealand’s three-year-old ranks, winning five of his seven starts this season including the Group 1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m), Group 2 Levin Classic (1400m), Group 2 Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m) and Group 2 Sarten Memorial (1400m). The Oaks Stud-owned colt signed off his domestic campaign with a third placing against older horses in the Group 1 BCD Group Sprint (1400m) at Te Rapa on February 8. Savaglee flew to Melbourne on Wednesday and pleased Gerard with the way he took the journey in his stride. “He seems to have handled the trip across really well,” she said. “He’s done a fair bit of travelling this season, going to Hawke’s Bay and Christchurch and Wellington, and he seems to enjoy it. He looks bright and well this morning and I think we’re on track. “I think going back up to 1600m is going to be ideal for him too. He was dominant over that trip in the 2000 Guineas and has probably been wanting it again ever since. He got away with 1400m at Trentham in a fresh state, but I think he found it a bit short at Te Rapa last time. I can’t wait to see him run 1600m around that big track at Flemington.” Savaglee will be ridden by expat Kiwi jockey Michael Dee, who lived with Gerard and her partner Tommy Hazlett when they worked at Te Akau Racing during Dee’s apprenticeship. Horse racing bookmakers rate Savaglee a $13 chance in a market headed by Angel Capital ($3.90), Sepals ($4.80) and Point And Shoot ($5.50). Gerard has black-type contenders in action on home soil this weekend too, with impressive last-start winner Harlech lining up in the Group 3 White Robe Lodge WFA (1600m) while Dubai Gold contests the Group 2 Lowland Stakes (2100m) at Trentham on Sunday. “It’s great to see Harlech still racing so well,” Gerard said. “His trips down to the South Island over the last year or so have really helped to build his confidence up. “It’s going to be a similar field to the one that he beat last start, and stepping up to 1600m should suit him even better. “Dubai Gold looked really good early on in this preparation, then just went off the boil a little bit on some of those harder tracks through the summer. But it seemed to me like she turned a corner before that last-start win at Te Aroha. She came right in the coat, put on a bit of weight and just had a different demeanour. “She’s looking really good now and enjoying the racing and work. She’s coming into her own and I’m looking forward to seeing how she goes up over ground in the Lowland.” Horse racing news View the full article

Leica Lucy will contest Sunday’s Group 2 Lowland Stakes (2100m) at Trentham. Photo: Kenton Wright (Race Images) New Plymouth trainer Robbie Patterson is thankful he is still alive following the devastation of losing his house to a fire earlier this week. While he has lost his household possessions, Patterson is grateful that he and his daughter weren’t at home at the time of the incident, and they can rebuild their lives. “My house burnt down and we lost everything, but we didn’t lose our lives,” Patterson said. “It was very fortuitous that we weren’t there because we wouldn’t have survived it, it was pretty messy, and it happened in the very early hours of the morning when we would have been asleep. We are very lucky to live.” Taking a silver lining approach to the incident, Patterson has pressed on with his race team and is looking forward to heading south to Trentham on Sunday where his star filly Leica Lucy will contest the Group 2 Lowland Stakes (2100m), her final lead-in run to next month’s $1 million Group 1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m). The daughter of Derryn has been a revelation for Patterson and owner-breeders Peter and Heather Crofskey, winning three of her first four starts, including the Group 3 Eulogy Stakes (1600m) and Group 3 Desert Gold Stakes (1600m). Her impressive run of form caught the eye of prominent Australian owner Ozzie Kheir, who bought into the filly earlier this month, and she carried his familiar silks to victory in the Group 2 Fillies Classic (2000m) at Te Rapa just days later. Kheir will make the journey across the Tasman to watch his filly race this weekend, and Patterson is hopeful he can reward Kheir with a victory in the Group 2 feature. “It will be nice to meet him, and it would be lovely if he can watch his horse win,” Patterson said. “She is 100 percent and has worked up super this week. She is bordering on being too well at the moment actually, she is thriving that much. I am really happy going into it.” Leica Lucy is tipped to continue her winning streak, with horse racing bookmakers installing her a $1.50 hot favourite for Sunday’s feature, ahead of Connello ($6.50) and Myakkabelle ($8). Patterson is hoping stablemates One Bold Gigolo and Sir Bruce can also continue their winning ways, with the last-start winners set to contest the Rothley 1400 and Mana Plumbing 2100 respectively. “It was a nice win last start from One Bold Gigolo, but he is going from a Thursday maiden to a Saturday race,” Patterson said. “But he is a progressive horse, he is well drawn (1), and he will put himself in the race. I can’t see why he can’t figure in the finish. “Sir Bruce is another progressive staying type. He is going to get back from that draw (15), which isn’t going to be a worry. I would love to see him track into the race and if he can get a truly run race and a nice track, he will be flying down the outside.” Patterson’s Trentham team will be rounded out by two-win Derryn mare Sinbin, who will contest the MG Tiling & Clarky’s Painting 1200. “She is going to get back from that draw (11),” he said. “She went a super race fresh-up, she got home really strong at New Plymouth. A repeat of that performance will see her flashing home.” Horse racing news View the full article