Newmarket Handicap 2025 Betting Odds - Joliestar heads a competitive market

While her Group 1 triumph was recorded over 1600m via the 2023 Thousand Guineas, she has won twice over 1200m subsequently, while the four-year-old was also unlucky in The Everest.

With Ladbrokes, Joliestar ($5) is favourite to win the 2025 Newmarket Handicap.

Stretan Angel ($7) doesn't have a great strike-rate, with two wins from 14 starts and the last of her victories came in October 2023 when successful in an 1100m Listed race up the Flemington straight.

She was still competitive throughout 2024 and the daughter of Harry Angel opened her 2025 account with a second-place finish in the Black Caviar Lightning.

Benedetta ($8) also placed first-up in the Black Caviar Lightning (third) and she'll be suited by the rise in distance second-up.

The five-year-old defeated Stretan Angel over 1200m when taking out last year's Goodwood, while she's also a two-time Flemington winner (both up the straight course).

Run under handicap conditions and contested up the Flemington straight over 1200m, the Newmarket Handicap is arguably Melbourne's most prestigious sprinting race.

While champions in Alinghi, Miss Andretti, Weekend Hussler and Black Caviar have saluted at short prices, this feature often lends itself to a long-priced winner, with Wanted ($13), Shamexpress ($15), The Quarterback ($21), Redkirk Warrior ($31), Sunlight ($13), Zoutori ($20) and Roch 'N' Horse ($101) among the recent winners of this event.

With eight wins, the legendary Bart Cummings is the most successful trainer in Newmarket Handicap history, while Damien Oliver leads the jockey tally with three victories.

Roch 'N' Horse (2022), In Secret (2023) and Cylinder (2024) have won the last three editions of the Newmarket Handicap.