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Doncaster Mile 2025 Betting Tips - Linebacker profiles well in a competitive feature

Alex Marsh

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Last updated: Thu 03 Apr 2025 02:25

Alex Marsh 03 Apr 2025

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The Doncaster Mile is a premier 1600m handicap race at Royal Randwick
Linebacker, with odds of $6.50, is a significant contender after a Randwick Guineas win
Kovalica offers value at $26, benefiting from handicap conditions

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Linebacker winning the 2025 Randwick Guineas. (Getty)

The Group 1 Doncaster Mile is one of Australia's premier handicap races and it's also one of the headline acts on the opening day of The Championships at Royal Randwick.

2025 Doncaster Mile Tips
2025 Doncaster Mile Field & Odds

Dating back to 1866, this famous 1600m event has seen some of Australia's modern day greats on the honor roll and they include dual winners Super Impose and Sunline along with recent stars in More Joyous, Winx, Happy Clapper and Mr Brightside.

At $6 with Betr, Gringotts is favourite for the 2025 Doncaster Mile.

2025 Doncaster Mile Tips

2025 Doncaster Mile Best Bet - Linebacker

He saluted over the mile third-up when successful in the Randwick Guineas and that form has stood up, with second, third and fourth all filling the trifecta of the Rosehill Guineas.

Linebacker shares a similar profile to Celestial Legend, who won the last year's Doncaster Mile with 49kg as a three-year-old and he's coming through the same lead-up races.

The son of Super Seth was building reasonably well ahead of his last triumph, where he relished a fast-run mile and the youngster is likely to get that again on Saturday.

Three-year-old's have a decent record in the Doncaster Mile (won 10 of the last 29 editions) and as a galloper who can sustain a run on a good speed, Linebacker is dangerous down in the weights.

2025 Doncaster Mile Next Best Bet - Kovalica

You can never fully trust Kovalica, although he could bob up here at a big price without surprising, with the Chris Waller-trained galloper well suited back to handicap conditions.

He's now getting weight off the main contenders from the George Ryder Stakes and that WFA event is often a strong form reference (produced 14 of the last 29 Doncaster Mile winners).

Kovalica was pocketed at a key stage of that 1500m return and that's with no prior fresh wins to his name, but his second-up record makes for better reading (two wins and a second).

Under the same conditions (Randwick mile/handicap), Kovalica should've finished much closer behind Ceolwulf in the Epsom last spring and he contested that Group 1 second-up.

2025 Doncaster Mile Value Bet - Geoglyph

This entire is one of only two horses that has the scalp of Equinox, who was judged the World's Best Racehorse in 2023 and that victory was recorded at Group 1 level.

Overall, his form has been a mixed since that Japanese Guineas success, although there hasn't been many failures among his eight appearances in the clockwise direction.

Geoglyph is no stranger to travelling, having contested the Breeders' Cup Mile in the US last November, while the six-year-old has also campaigned in Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia and Dubai.

With a large field and in a high pressure mile on a big track, wide gates aren't a disadvantage in the Doncaster Mile (barriers 12,13,14,16 and 18 have been among the most successful since the mid 90's).

2025 Doncaster Mile Field & Odds

No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Odds
1	Another Wil	Ciaron Maher	Jamie Melham	18	56.5kg	$9
2	Gringotts (NZ)	Ciaron Maher	Tommy Berry	6	55.5kg	$6
3	Tom Kitten	James Cummings	Ben Melham	1	55.5kg	$7.50
4	Geoglyph (JPN)	Tetsuya Kimura	Damian Lane	24	55kg	$26
5	Pericles	James Cummings	Blake Shinn	16	55kg	$26
6	Militarize (NZ)	Chris Waller	Chad Schofield	7	55kg	$41
7	Royal Patronage (FR)	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Tim Clark	19	54.5kg	$10
8	Stefi Magnetica	Bjorn Baker	Jason Collett	5	54.5kg	$17
9	Anisette (GB)	Chris Waller	Michael Dee	20	54kg	$81
10	Moira (CAN)	Chris Waller	Zac Purton	21	54kg	$16
11	Just Folk	Gavin Bedggood	Daniel Moor	10	54kg	$26
12	Celestial Legend	Les Bridge	Regan Bayliss	11	54kg	$51
13	Kovalica (NZ)	Chris Waller	Kerrin McEvoy	17	53.5kg	$26
14	Port Lockroy	Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald	Craig Williams	13	53.5kg	$26
15	Al Mubhir (GB)	William Haggas	Andrea Atzeni	4	53kg	$61
16	New Energy (IRE)	Ciaron Maher	Dylan Gibbons	22	52.5kg	$101
17	Iowna Merc	Bjorn Baker	Ashley Morgan	15	52kg	$51
18	Encap	Gary Portelli	Reece Jones	3	51kg	$26
19	Firestorm (NZ)	Chris Waller	Jay Ford	8	50kg	$9
20	Linebacker (NZ)	John O'Shea & Tom Charlton	Zac Lloyd	14	49kg	$6.50
21e	Rise At Dawn (NZ)	Ben, Will & JD Hayes	Karis Teetan	2	51kg	$26
22e	Swiftfalcon	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	Tyler Schiller	12	49kg	$7.50
23e	Sandpaper	Bjorn Baker		23	50kg	$126
24e	Ducasse	Michael Freedman		9	50kg	$41

Odds courtesy of Betr & correct on 02/04/2025.

Verdict

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Our tips for the 2025 Doncaster Mile are:

Linebacker

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$6.50 - 4 Units

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Kovalica

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$26.00 - 2 Units

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Geoglyph

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$26.00 - 1 Unit

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