The Race History of the Golden Eagle run at Randwick on Saturday has only been short but such quality.
Lake Forest won a brilliant edition with so many future major winners. Will it occur again for the 2025 Golden Eagle (1500m) at Randwick on Saturday?
2025 GOLDEN EAGLE - RACE HISTORY AND BACKGROUND
The Golden Eagle is a feature race run under Set Weights conditions for four year olds conducted by the Australian Turf Club.
The Golden Eagle is run over 1500m. 2019 was the first running of the race.
There is no other feature race in the country for 4yos only.
Being run for prize money of $10,000,000, 10% of that prizemoney is immediately donated to the winning owners' charity of choice.
Designed to keep the four year olds in training, there is an option for Everest horses to step up in trip as well.
It was the richest race run at Rosehill and one of the top three in the country. It was moved however to Randwick from 2025.
Also run on the same day are new races the $3m Russell Balding Stakes (previously run each year under the name of the previous year's Everest winner) and the $750,000 Rosehill Gold Cup.
The first winner was Kolding who had won the Epsom at his previous run. It meant Chris Waller trained the winner of the Everest and Golden Eagle inside a fortnight – races worth more than $21m in stakes.
It was the Epsom again in 2020 as the Oaks winner Colette came through the mile race to get up late on a wet track at Rosehill.
Year Three saw yet another G1 winner take the Eagle as the Victorian I'm Thunderstruck rattled home. In Year Four it was the Melbournians again with I Wish I Win staving off a flood of G1 winners to score.
The first international winner occurred in 2023 as Japan's Obamburumai surged from well back to nab the Godolphin pair in the shadows.
They did it again in 2024 but this time it was William Haggas back once more with Lake Forest who had to survive a protest after late interference.
That 2024 running provided some of the best global form around with nearly half the field winning subsequent G1s.
The 2024 Golden Eagle was won by Lake Forest from Lazzat and Tom Kitten.
