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Biggest winners & losers from Caulfield Cup barrier draw
SENTrack & RSN • October 15th, 2025 3:33 pm
The barrier draw for the $5 million Caulfield Cup took place on Wednesday morning.
Favourite Half Yours has drawn a plush barrier of 2 for the $5 million Group 1 over 2400m.
But how did the others fare?
SENTrack & RSN's Gareth Hall and Miles Pfitzner broke down the biggest winners and losers of ahead of Saturday's big one.
WINNERS
1 - Half Yours (2)
Pfitzner: “The big winner is Half Yours.
“The race is at Half Yours’ mercy. From there he can box seat like Jamie (Melham) did with him last time (in the Naturalism) and he should be too good.”
2 - Middle Earth (3)
Pfitzner: “Also Middle Earth, gate 3 is a big win. They would be the two major winners.”
3 - Meydaan (5)
Hall: “A big win for Meydaan in barrier 5.”
Pfitzner: “Absolutely needed to draw inside.”
4 - Royal Supremacy (6)
Hall: ”The Metrop winner, Royal Supremacy, with Robbie Dolan in the saddle in barrier 6.”
Pfitzner: “Yeah, maybe a sniff.”
LOSERS
1 - Land Legend (15)
Pfitzner: “That’s probably not ideal but the horse does settle now so it’s all depending on the tempo.”
2 - Valiant King (16)
Pfitzner: “It’s going to be tough from there.”
3 - Absurde (1)
Pfitzner: “Loser. That’s not a great draw.
“They are the three biggest losers out of the draw.”
4 - Vauban (13)
Pfitzner: “Vauban in 13, it gives Blake Shinn options. I’ll say loser but only slightly.”
2025 Caulfield Cup field
Barrier in brackets
- Vauban (13) - Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott / Blake Shinn - 58.5kg
- Presage Nocturne (8) - Alessandro Botti / Stephane Pasquier - 57.5kg
- Middle Earth (3) - Ciaron Maher / Mark Zahra - 56.5kg
- Meydaan (5) - Simon & Ed Crisford / Andrea Atzeni - 56.0kg
- Absurde (1) - Willie Mullins / Ben Allen - 55.5kg
- Land Legend (15) - Chris Waller / Jamie Mott - 55.5kg
- Zardozi (11) - Ciaron Maher / Harry Coffey - 54.5kg
- Adelaide River (9) - Kris Lees / Jordan Childs - 54.0kg
- Bankers Choice (14) - Ben, Will & JD Hayes / Billy Egan - 54.0kg
- Deakin (7) - Phillip Stokes / Daniel Stackhouse - 54.0kg
- Golden Snap (18) - Katsunori Tanaka / Suguru Hamanaka - 53.5kg
- Revelare (12) - Robert Hickmott / Luke Currie - 53.5kg
- River Of Stars (4) - Chris Waller / Beau Mertens - 53.5kg
- Birdman (10) - Chris Waller / Jye McNeil - 52.5kg
- Half Yours (2) - Tony & Calvin McEvoy / Jamie Melham - 52.5kg
- Royal Supremacy (6) - Ciaron Maher / Robbie Dolan - 52.5kg
- Valiant King (16) - Chris Waller / TBC - 52.0kg
- Plymouth (17) - Ben, Will and JD Hayes / Celine Gaudray - 51.0kg
