Australian Cup 2025 Betting Tips - Can Zardozi turn the tables on Jenni?

Alex Marsh

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Last updated: Wed 26 Mar 2025 08:27

Alex Marsh 26 Mar 2025

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The 2025 Australian Cup features on March 30 at Flemington, closing the Melbourne Autumn Carnival
Pride Of Jenni leads betting, $2.70 odds, with Zardozi and Attrition as strong contenders
Zardozi appeals each-way, a mare who excels at Flemington and is poised to peak after solid performances

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Cascadian defeating Pride of Jenni in the 2024 Australian Cup. (Getty)

The Australian Cup will be run on Saturday, March 30 at Flemington, with this 2000m feature headlining the final day of the Melbourne Autumn Carnival.

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This Group 1 has moved to the end of March, with runners able to come through the All-Star Mile or be presented from more traditional lead-up events.

At $2.70 via EliteBet, Pride Of Jenni heads the betting for the 2025 Australian Cup.

2025 Australian Cup Tips

2025 Australian Cup Best Bet - Zardozi

She was a beaten fav vs Pride Of Jenni in the Peter Young Stakes and each-way odds are available for Zardozi fourth-up, where the set-up is more favourable.

The daughter of Kingman is more effective at Flemington (has performed well in all six outings here) and James Cummings has set her for the Australian Cup.

More pressure up front brings Zardozi further into calculations this time around and now hard-fit/ready to peak, I feel this is her best chance of winning another Group 1.

The four-year-old certainly wasn't disgraced last start and that was without favours, while this looms as somewhat of a D-Day scenario for the Godolphin mare.

2025 Australian Cup Next Best Bet - Pride Of Jenni

The seven-year-old recorded a famous last start victory over 1800m in the Peter Young Stakes, where the exciting front-runner was resuming off a setback.

Although Pride Of Jenni faces some different challenges in this Australian Cup attempt, her record suggests that she always improves with a run under the belt.

Two of her three Group 1 wins have come at Flemington and she was runner-up in the 2024 Australian Cup prior to her all-the-way romp in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Pride Of Jenni is more dangerous on firmer ground, which adds further merit to her second-up defeat here last prep and we all know where she'll be in the run.

2025 Australian Cup Value Bet - Attrition

With an unlucky return followed by an eye-catching second in the Group 2 Blamey Stakes last start, Attrition is ticking over well ahead of his Australian Cup bid.

He got the better of Zardozi in their recent March 1 clash, where the Mitchell Freedman-trained entire recorded the fastest last 200m of the Blamey Stakes.

The five-year-old untried at 2000m, although he proved himself past a mile when taking out the Group 2 Hill Stakes (1900m) last spring and that form reads well.

Those references through Kovalica, Royal Patronage and Pericles point towards Attrition being a Group 1 WFA horse, while this looks his target race for the autumn.

2025 Australian Cup Field & Odds

No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Odds
1	Light Infantry Man (FR)	Ciaron Maher	Ethan Brown	4	59kg	$9
2	Attrition	Mitchell Freedman	John Allen	6	59kg	$17
3	Young Werther (NZ)	Danny O'Brien	Daniel Stackhouse	10	59kg	$51
4	Middle Earth (GB)	Ciaron Maher	Mark Zahra	8	59kg	$4.80
5	Shaiyhar (IRE)	Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young	Daniel Moor	2	59kg	$51
6	Pride Of Jenni	Ciaron Maher	Craig Newitt	1	57kg	$2.70
7	Atishu (NZ)	Chris Waller	Blake Shinn	7	57kg	$8.50
8	Zardozi	James Cummings	Jamie Melham	9	57kg	$7.50
9	Deny Knowledge (IRE)	Anthony & Sam Freedman	Craig Williams	3	57kg	$12
10	Feroce (NZ)	Dominic Sutton	Billy Egan	5	54.5kg	$10