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The Scone Cup is one of the biggest events in NSW country racing. Anticipated by thousands of local racing fans, the black-type mile showdown takes place on a Friday in mid-May as the feature of the Scone Cup Carnival.

2025 Scone Cup Results

Kris Lees’ Tavistock five-year-old Tavi Time ($8) got the split 200m out from the line to wind up and surge through to snare the lead and charge home for an impressive 1.8 length win in the 2025 Scone Cup results. Fourth in last year’s The Big Dance as the beaten favourite, Tavi Time will get another shot at the $3 million Randwick feature on Melbourne Cup Day having secured his spot in the field.

Scone Cup 2025 Odds & Results

Scone R7
Darley Scone Cup (L)

Final Race time:  6:06 am, 16 May 2025

Runner Details	Win	Place
1st 5. Tavi Time (1) J: Jay Ford 56.5kg T: Kris Lees	7.50	2.60
2nd 16. Strait Acer (14) J: Andrew Adkins 54kg T: John O'Shea & Tom Charlton	35.00	8.00
3rd 11. Grebeni (2) J: Kerrin McEvoy 54.5kg T: Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou	17.00	4.50
4th 4. Mighty Ulysses (6) J: Braith Nock 58kg T: Annabel & Rob Archibald	27.00	6.50
5th 6. Major Beel (10) J: Adam Hyeronimus 56kg T: Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	15.00	4.20
6th 13. Bank Maur (13) J: Kyle Wilson-Taylor 54kg T: Richard Laming	21.00	5.50
7th 17. Kadavar (5) J: Rachel King 54kg T: Chris Waller	26.00	6.50
8th 7. Loch Eagle (3) J: Dylan Gibbons 55.5kg T: Kris Lees	31.00	7.00
9th 15. Know Thyself (7) J: Ashley Morgan 54kg T: Paul Messara & Leah Gavranich	2.80	1.45
10th 9. Ducasse (4) J: Tommy Berry 55kg T: Michael Freedman	8.50	2.80
11th 8. West Of Africa (11) J: Chad Schofield 55.5kg T: Annabel & Rob Archibald	9.00	2.90
12th 12. Redstone Well (9) J: Tom Sherry 54.5kg T: Annabel & Rob Archibald	51.00	10.00
13th 3. Amenable (8) J: Nash Rawiller 58kg T: Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr	12.00	3.60
14th 19. Royal Supremacy (12) J: Harry Coffey 54kg T: Ciaron Maher	14.00	3.90

Odds are subject to fluctuation. For current odds on all of our live racing markets, please visit www.ladbrokes.com.au/racing.
Data retrieved: 27/05/2025 01:18:51 AM (Australia/Brisbane)

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Contested over 1600m, the Listed feature offers an increased $200,000 in prize money and is run under quality handicap conditions.

The key lead-up into the Scone Cup field is the Group 3 Hawkesbury Gold Cup (1600m) run over the same distance a fortnight earlier. The Hawkesbury Cup – Scone Cup double is popular one with the punters each autumn and the best out of the latter may continue onto Queensland for the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival.

Tavi Time (5th in 2025) was the last Hawkesbury Cup graduate to continue on and win the Scone Cup.

Another key lead-up is now Gosford’s The Coast race held the weekend prior and Rustic Steel (2022) was the last to do the double on the quick back-up.

The Scone Cup Carnival continues on the Saturday with a class field of fillies & mares facing off in the Group 3 Dark Jewel Classic (1400m).

The Scone Cup is now also an officially qualifying race for Randwick’s $3 million The Big Dance (1600m), held since 2022 in Sydney on the same day as the Melbourne Cup.

Rustic Steel (2022) made history as the first horse to win the Scone Cup – The Big Dance double.

The 2022 Scone Cup form was further franked with the third-placed mare Atishu running well in a host of subsequent races before her Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes win in the autumn of 2023.

The 2025 Scone Cup ran on Friday May 16, 2025 as an official The Big Dance qualifying race and was won in style by the Kris Lees trained Tavi Time ($8).  

2025 Scone Cup Finishing Order

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Scone Cup Betting

The season’s best Scone Cup 2025 betting odds and betting market links to Ladbrokes.com.au will be available the week of the race.

There was a notable upset in 2023 with Commando Hunt winning at Scone Cup odds of $19.

There was another big shock result in 2024 with Sky Lab winning first-up at $31.

2025 Scone Cup Form

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2025 Scone Cup Tips

Stay tuned for our insider Scone Cup 2025 Tips on the Big Dance lead-up event this May.

Open edition of the Scone Cup but have landed on the consistent early market mover WEST OF AFRICA (13) who, despite a wide draw, looks well rated here at a distance he’s got a good strike-rate over (5:2-0-1). The Not A Single Doubt five-year-old from the Neasham/Archibald yard has run third with merit in his last three outings and finds a winnable race to break the frustrating streak of placings now. Was tested in tougher grade in mid-March and held his own finishing a respectable third to Iowna Merc in the Group 2 Ajax Stakes. Had 59.5kg at his next start in the Muswellbrook Gold Cup over 1500m and was under a length beaten. Last start he had that same hefty weight allocation in the Tamworth Cup and caught the eye running a half-length third to Name Dropper on April 24. Should enjoy the extra furlong up to a mile now having made up ground before ultimately running out of time last start and drops back to 55.5kg. Chad Schofield comes aboard for the ride in another plus. Loves the sting out of the ground and gets conditions to suit with a Soft track on Friday. Wins.

2025 Scone Cup Field

The Scone Cup field attracts a class line-up of milers, many coming off a lead-up run two weeks earlier in the Hawkesbury Cup. The capacity of the Scone Cup final field is 16 starters, with four emergencies also allowed when acceptances are taken the Wednesday of race week.

The 2025 Scone Cup final field is now out featuring a capacity line-up of potential Big Dance qualifiers including the airborne last start The Coast champion Know Thyself chasing a fifth win on the trot.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2025 Scone Cup Nominations

The Scone Cup nominations close the Monday race week and feature a strong line-up of autumn milers that may be eyeing a Brisbane run later in the season including stepping up in distance for the Group 1 Doomben Cup (2000m).

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Scone Cup History

Inaugurated in 1947, the Scone Cup has been run by the Scone Race Club (formed in 1944) since its inception. Now run at the new racecourse (constructed in 1994), every year the Scone Cup attracts a top-class line-up of autumn milers.

In 2022 the Scone Cup winner Rustic Steel went on to make history that November at Randwick winning the inaugural multi-million dollar The Big Dance.

Scone Cup winners since 2000 are listed below.

Recent Scone Cup Winners