Blue Diamond Stakes 2025 - Barrier Draw & Final Field

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Last updated: Tue 18 Feb 2025 02:53

Bets.com.au Staff 18 Feb 2025

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The barrier draw has been conducted for the 2025 Blue Diamond Stakes
16 runners make up the final field
The Blue Diamond Stakes headlines a bumper Saturday card from Caulfield
Final field & barriers are below

Palm Angel (barrier 1) & My Gladiola (barrier 11) both feature in the Blue Diamond Stakes. (Getty)

Freshened-up after a dominant debut victory at Moonee Valley on December 28, Field Of Play (barrier 5) made it back-to-back triumphs when taking out the Blue Diamond Prelude (C&G) on February 8.

The son of Deep Field is trained by Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young, who prepared Tagaloa to win the 2020 Blue Diamond Stakes.

My Gladiola (barrier 11) was leading the futures market for this two-year-old Group 1 prior to her defeat in the Blue Diamond Prelude (F) as an odds-on favourite, where she was beaten by Palm Angel (barrier 1) and the Jason Warren-trained juvenile turned around a big margin from their Preview clash at Sandown.

Ciaron Maher is still searching for his first Blue Diamond victory and the leading trainer has aimed Cherish Me (barrier 6) at this Group 1 off an impressive breakthrough debut win at Geelong.

The daughter of Brazen Beau has won a February 10 trial at Cranbourne ahead of this feature assignment.

Icarian Dream (barrier 7) and Wiltshire Square (barrier 13) are also prepared by Ciaron Maher.

Godolphin have won the Blue Diamond Stakes three times with Earthquake (2014), Lyre (2019) and Daumier (2022), while Sepoy saluted in Sheikh Mohammed's colours back in 2011.

Tempted (barrier 12) is their top seed for the 2025 Blue Diamond Stakes and the half-sister to Kallos (four-time stakes winner) was a debut winner in December before returning with a second-place finish in the Group 3 Widden Stakes.

Anthony Freedman has prepared three of the last six Blue Diamond winners, which includes back-to-back victories in with Sam (Artorius - 2021 and Daumier - 2022).

The father & son training partnership prepare Tentyris (barrier 4), a Godolphin colt who dead-heated for first with Shining Smile in last Saturday's Talindert Stakes and that rival arrived to the Flemington event off a comfortable victory in the Blue Diamond Preview (C&G).

Ben, Will & JD Hayes trained Little Brose to Blue Diamond Stakes glory in 2023 and the brothers have dual representation in 2025 with Tycoon Star (barrier 15) and Miss Celine (barrier 10).

16 runners have accepted for the 2025 Blue Diamond Stakes, with this juvenile feature one of three Group 1's contested on the February 22 program from Caulfield.

Blue Diamond Stakes 2025 Barriers & Final Field

No	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Odds
1	Field Of Play	Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young	Blake Shinn	5	57kg	$6
2	Tycoon Star	Ben, Will & JD Hayes	Mark Zahra	15	57kg	$17
3	Extractor	Michael Freedman	Ben Melham	8	57kg	$21
4	Tentyris	Anthony & Sam Freedman	Damian Lane	4	57kg	$17
5	Devil Night	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	Michael Dee	2	57kg	$15
6	Autumn Mystery	Rory Hunter	Patrick Moloney	16	57kg	$41
7	Olatunde	Peter G Moody & Katherine Coleman	Billy Egan	9	57kg	$101
8	The Playwright	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Regan Bayliss	3	55kg	$12
9	Palm Angel	Jason Warren	Ethan Brown	1	55kg	$8
10	Icarian Dream	Ciaron Maher	Thomas Stockdale	7	55kg	$19
11	My Gladiola	John McArdle	Jamie Mott	11	55kg	$7
12	Miss Celine	Ben, Will & JD Hayes	Jye McNeil	10	55kg	$31
13	Wiltshire Square	Ciaron Maher	Harry Coffey	13	55kg	$21
14	Cherish Me	Ciaron Maher	Jamie Melham	6	55kg	$6
15	Tempted	James Cummings	Craig Williams	12	55kg	$9
16	Eden Rose	Jason Warren	Daniel Stackhouse	14	55kg	$101

Odds courtesy of Unibet Australia & correct on 18/02/2025.

Blue Diamond Stakes Winners

The Blue Diamond Stakes is Melbourne's premier two-year-old race and it continues to grow in popularity, with the Caulfield feature worth $2 million in total.

First run and won in 1971 when Tolerance took out the race, this juvenile feature has unearthed several top-line horses including Redoute's Choice, Alinghi, Sepoy and Extreme Choice.

Daumier (2022), Little Brose (2023) and Hayasugi (2024) have won the last three editions of the Blue Diamond Stakes.