From the race’s inauguration in 1972, all the way up to 2025, we have all The Galaxy winners listed from past editions of the Group 1 sprint race run and won at Rosehill Gardens on Golden Slipper Day each March.

2022 The Galaxy Winner Shelby Sixtysix
2022 The Galaxy winner Shelby Sixtysix. Photo: Steve Hart.

View a complete list of past The Galaxy winning sprinters, plus additional details on the champions from 2000 to the present including The Galaxy winning jockeys and trainers.

Playbill was the inaugural The Galaxy winner in 1972.

Notable past The Galaxy winners include Bletchingly (1975), Australian 2YO Triple Crown winner Luskin Star (1978), Schillaci (1992) who won a total of eight Group 1 races over his career, super Magic Millions earner Sweet Idea (2015) and of course Nature Strip (2019) who was subsequently crowed the 2019/20 Australian Champion Racehorse of the Year.

Grey Receiver (1981, 1982) is the sole dual The Galaxy winner to date.

The last The Galaxy winning mares were I Am Excited (2020), Mariamia (2023), and Zapateo (2024).

Russian Revolution (2017) was the last three-year-old The Galaxy winner.

La Baraka (1998) was the last The Galaxy winning filly.

Sweet Idea holds the current The Galaxy record winning in 2015 in a time of 1 minute 2:69 seconds.

The 2022 The Galaxy winner Shelby Sixtysix scored an upset getting in as the first emergency to continue his rise through the ranks from a Highway horse to Group 1 winner.

The Galaxy 2023 winner was that autumn’s Expressway Stakes winning mare Mariamia ($10) ridden to an upset victory by apprentice jockey Tyler Schiller to hand trainer Joe Pride his third win in the event.

The 2024 The Galaxy winner was the James Cummings-trained Brazen Beau mare Zapateo ($26) who scored a notable upset at a big price on the back of her lead-up Challenge Stakes second.

The 2025 The Galaxy winner is TBC and will be known when the Golden Slipper Day Group 1 sprint runs at Rosehill Racecourse on Saturday the 22nd of March 2025.

the galaxy winners 2000 – the present

COMPLETE LIST OF PAST the galaxy WINNERS

Year Winner
2025 TBD
2024 Zapateo
2023 Mariamia
2022 Shelby Sixtysix
2021 Eduardo
2020 I Am Excited
2019 Nature Strip
2018 In Her Time
2017 Russian Revolution
2016 Griante
2015 Sweet Idea
2014 Tiger Tees
2013 Bel Sprinter
2012 Temple Of Boom
2011 Atomic Force
2010 *Shellscrape
2009 Nicconi
2008 Typhoon Zed
2007 Magnus
2006 Proprietor
2005 Charge Forward
2004 Spark Of Life
2003 Snowland
2002 Mistegic
2001 Padstow
2000 Black Bean
1999 Masked Party
1998 La Baraka
1997 Accomplice
1996 Gold Ace
1995 Magic Of Money
1994 Jetball
1993 Sublimate
1992 Schillaci
1991 Mr Tiz
1990 Potrero
1989 Targlish
1988 Snippets
1987 Princely Heart
1986 Rich Fields Lad
1985 Manuan
1984 Mr Illusion
1983 Bronze Spirit
1982 Grey Receiver
1981 Grey Receiver
1980 Hit It Benny
1979 Mistress Anne
1978 Luskin Star
1977 Salaam
1976 Wayne’s Bid
1975 Bletchingly
1974 Starglow
1973 Kista
1972 Playbill

*Note: Ortensia was first past the post in the 2010 The Galaxy results but was disqualified for positive drug test.

 

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