Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap
Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap
Group Three Betting Guide
| Date: | Saturday, March 8, 2025 |
| Location: | Flemington Racecourse – Melbourne, Victoria |
| Prize Money: | $200,000 |
| Distance: | 1400m |
The Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap is a Group 3 race run over 1400m under handicap conditions at Flemington by the Victoria Racing Club.
First held in 2001, the Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap briefly lost its Group status from 2008 to 2010 but has since regained its place on the autumn calendar.
The Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap, worth $200,000 in 2025, has produced a mix of winners, with some finding success later in their careers.
Notable past winners of the Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap include Sedation, Orange County, dual winner Launay, Amorino, Kissonallforcheeks, and Scallopini.
2025 Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap betting odds
Odds for the Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap as of March 5 – Courtesy of Neds
- Is It Me Win $2.80 Place $1.40
- Fancify Win $5.50 Place $2.00
- Ayrton Win $8.00 Place $2.50
- Territory Express Win $9.00 Place $2.70
- Aztec Ruler Win $9.50 Place $2.80
- Nugget Win $10.00 Place $3.00
- Klabel Win $15.00 Place $3.90
- My Khalifa Win $17.00 Place $4.40
- Cote Atlantique Win $21.00 Place $5.00
- Lady Jones Win $23.00 Place $5.50
- Communist Win $41.00 Place $8.50
How to bet on the Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap
The Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap isn’t a race that’s on the tip of every punters’ tongue, but Australian betting sites do have markets out in the weeks leading up to the event.
Some of the top Australian online bookmakers will open up Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap all-in markets, which don’t provide insurance if your selected runner doesn’t start in the race, but the odds are more appealing.
All of our horse betting sites offer betting on the Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap and bookmaker offers will also be available in the days leading up to the race.
These horse racing betting sites generally have apps available for iOS and Android smartphones.
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Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap News
2025 Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap Final Field
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Previous Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap Fields
No. Silks Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight 1 
Berkshire Shadow Ciaron Maher Mark Zahra 3 59kg 2 PinstripedEnver JusufovicBen Allen259kg3 Amenable Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr) Damian Lane 7 55kg 4 Savannah Cloud Phillip Stokes Thomas Stockdale 8 54.5kg 5 Wild Planet Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes Jye McNeil 10 54.5kg 6 Brayden StarTrent Busuttin & Natalie YoungDaniel Moor154kg7 Windstorm John Leek (Jnr) Harry Coffey 6 54kg 8 JimmysstarCiaron MaherJamie Kah454kg9 SuperiumMichael, Wayne & John HawkesN/A954kg10 Von Hauke Cliff Brown Craig Williams 5 54kg
2024 Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap result
1st – Von Hauke (+115)
2nd – Amenable (-125)
3rd – Savannah Cloud (+190)
Recent runnings of the Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap:
- Craig Williams and Cliff Brown combined with Von Hauke ($8.00) to take out the 2024 Group 3 Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap, which gave Williams his fifth victory in the race in the last 13 years. Race favourite, Amenable ($1.80) led the field from the barriers and beat all bar the winner, as he began to tire in the final 100m after doing all of the hard work into the strong wind. Savannah Cloud ($3.90) faded out of the race in the concluding stages to finish third after settling outside the leader, leaving the top two to fight the race out, gapping the rest of the field by 2.5 lengths.
- Scallopini gave the rest of the Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap field 1.5kg and he still gave them a beating, bringing up his fourth win from four starts at the Flemington 1400m. After jumping from barrier 14, Damian Lane pushed forward and was made to work three-wide for the first 200m of the race, before crossing and settling outside Savannah Cloud at the front of the field. Rounding the home turn, Lane asked for the ultimate effort and when he did the eight-year-old son of Snitzel exploded away to put two lengths on Savannah Cloud who couldn’t go with him and with nothing making up considerable ground, Scallopini was home with 100m to go.
- Western Australian visitor Kissonallforcheeks took out the 2022 Group 3 Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap (1400m) at Flemington in convincing fashion. WA Trainer Dan Morton made the trip over after a first-up second in the Listed Cyril Flower Stakes (1200m) at Ascot. She had also managed to record Group 1 placings last preparation in both the Railway Stakes (1600m) and Kingston Town Classic (1800m). The Ascot-trained mare appreciated the step up to 1400m; a distance where she had won three times from five attempts. Jockey Mark Zahra settled the four-year-old mid-field, one off the fence. Kissonallforcheeks then cruised up to join the leaders at the 300m mark before sprinting away with an impressive 2.25 length victory over the Ben & JD Hayes-trained Crosshaven.
Previous winners of the Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap
| Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap Past Winners | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Horse | Jockey | Trainer |
| 2024 | Von Hauke | Craig Williams | Cliff Brown |
| 2023 | Scallopini | Damian Lane | Steven O’Dea & Matthew Hoysted |
| 2022 | Kissonallforcheeks | Mark Zahra | Daniel Morton |
| 2021 | Morvada | Damian Lane | Peter Jolly |
| 2020 | Blazejowski | Craig Williams | Greg Eurell |
| 2019 | Violate | Michael Walker | Brent Stanley |
| 2018 | Nozomi | Jye McNeil | Anthony Freedman |
| 2017 | He Or She | Mark Zahra | David & B Hayes & T Dabernig |
| 2016 | Red Bomber | Damian Lane | David & B Hayes & T Dabernig |
| 2015 | Amorino | Craig Williams | Archie Alexander |
| 2014 | Mouro | Craig Williams | Tony McEvoy |
| 2013 | Launay | Kerrin McEvoy | Peter Snowden |
| 2012 | Rockpecker | Craig Williams | Ken Fythe |
| 2011 | Launay | Kerrin McEvoy | Peter Snowden |
| 2010 | Wind Shear | Stephen Baster | Dale Sutton |
| 2009 | Chasm | Brad Rawiller | Heath Conners |
| 2008 | Skiddaw Peak | Greg Childs | Michael Moroney |
| 2007 | Archie Senior | James Winks | Danny O’Brien |
| 2006 | Vroom Vroom | Craig Williams | David Hayes |
| 2005 | Roman Arch | Noel Callow | Robbie Laing |
| 2004 | Rain Gauge | Vincent Hall | Tom Hughes |
| 2003 | Old Man | Darren Gauci | John Hawkes |
| 2002 | Prince Benbara | Brett Prebble | Tony Rosolini |
| 2001 | Yammer | Nash Rawiller | Tony Noonan |
| 2000 | Arabian Magic | Brett Prebble | Ken Newman |
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