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Missile Stakes 2025 Betting Tips - General to Salute in the Group 2 feature
The 2025 Missile Stakes at Randwick is an anticipated 1200m race featuring notable horses under set weights and penalties conditions. Leading the betting odds is Private Eye at $2.50, while General Salute is favored as the best bet after impressive performances in Sydney, with a preference for rain-soaked tracks. War Eternal presents value with a fitness advantage over its competitors. The stakes continue to be prominent with a history of winners achieving Group 1 success.
- The 2025 Missile Stakes will be contested at Randwick on Saturday, August 9
- General Salute is the top bet, favoured for wet conditions
- War Eternal offers value with a fitness advantage
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Can General Salute bounce back in the Missile Stakes? (Getty)
The Group 2 Missile Stakes features on Saturday's Randwick program and a decent field has been assembled for this 1200m event, which is contested under Set Weights and Penalties conditions.
- 2025 Missile Stakes Tips
- 2025 Missile Stakes Field & Odds
This $300,000 race has a good honour roll, especially in recent years, with Pierata (2018), Alizee (2019), Eduardo (2020) and Schwarz (2024) among the past Missile Stakes winners who have also claimed Group 1 glory.
At $2.50 with SlamBet, Private Eye heads the market for the 2025 Missile Stakes.
2025 Missile Stakes Tips
2025 Missile Stakes Best Bet - General Salute
The penny has dropped for General Salute, who won both autumn appearances in Sydney and after dishing out a galloping lesson fresh, he ran the fastest closing splits of the Tancred Stakes meeting.
While he couldn't complete a hat-trick when contesting a Group 3 in Brisbane, it was another solid performance from the gelding and a return to rain affected ground in in his favour here.
The Ryan & Alexiou are a good fresh stable and they's spacing out appearances for the five-year-old, who worked well under Tim Clark in a July 29 tick-over trial at Rosehill.
There have been some setbacks for General Salute, with Stradbroke Handicap plans aborted following a minor foot injury and there's still upside with the lightly raced galloper.
2025 Missile Stakes Value Bet - War Eternal
Class is an obvious query under the set weights and penalties conditions of this Group 2, however, War Eternal has a fitness edge over key rivals and that could prove crucial on wet ground.
1400m does see the son of Pierro out and while a drop in distance looks a slight knock for Saturday's third-up assignment, a strong horse who can run seven furlongs could be suited over a testing 1200m.
He was off the scene for 18 months prior to his 2024 resumption last May and War Eternal was consistent throughout that latest campaign, especially when he found fitness (was a third-up winner here).
All four victories have come on wet tracks (three of those wins have come at Randwick) and after an even return in a race taken out by a subsequent Group 3 winner, War Eternal improved second-up.
2025 Missile Stakes Field & Odds
| No | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Barrier | Weight | Odds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Private Eye | Joseph Pride | Nash Rawiller | 2 | 57.5kg | $2.50 |
| 2 | Robusto | Bjorn Baker | Joshua Parr | 8 | 57.5kg | $6 |
| 3 | Encap | Gary Portelli | Tommy Berry | 9 | 57.5kg | $17 |
| 4 | General Salute | Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou | Tim Clark | 1 | 56.5kg | $3.80 |
| 5 | Brudenell | Kris Lees | Dylan Gibbons | 7 | 56kg | $7.50 |
| 6 | With Your Blesisng (NZ) | John Thompson | Alysha Collett | 3 | 56kg | $14.50 |
| 7 | Romeo's Choice | Richard Litt | Tom Sherry | 10 | 56kg | $15.50 |
| 8 | War Eternal (NZ) | Bjorn Baker | Ashley Morgan | 5 | 56kg | $22 |
| 9 | Ang Pow | Richard & Will Freedman | Zac Lloyd | 4 | 54kg | $56 |
| 10 | Elettrica (NZ) | Richard & Will Freedman | Jason Collett | 6 | 54kg | $23 |
Odds courtesy of SlamBet & correct on 06/08/2025.
Verdict
Our tips for the 2025 Missile Stakes are:
General Salute
To Win
$3.80 - 4 Units
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War Eternal
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$22.00 - 1 Unit
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