Future Stars Series

The series is a key feature for the Thursday  and Friday night meetings held at Pakenham, with $1.2 million in prizemoney on offer throughout.

The lucrative maiden series serves to kickstart promising racing careers and provide a broad section of trainers and owners with an opportunity to chase the riches.

Conditions for the Future Stars series are below:

  • The series will be open to three-, four- and five-year-old horses only
  • 12 maiden heats of $75,000 each over distances of 1200m or 1400m
  • A $300,000 final run over 1400m as a Class 3 Handicap contest
  • The heats and final will feature fields of 12 with the winner of each heat automatically qualifying for the final
  • If qualified horses do not accept for the final, then their spots are offered to the highest-rated second placegetters among the heats
  • The final heat will be a 1400m repechage open only to those maidens who contested an earlier heat with priority given to the highest placegetters
  • The heats will cater for a broad spectrum of maidens, with two to exclude first starters
  • One heat will be open only to maidens prepared by Victorian trainers who registered fewer than 15 Victorian metropolitan wins in the racing season

The program for the 2025 Sportsbet Future Stars Series is ad follows:

HeatLocationDateRace Conditions
1PakenhamFri 10 Jan$75k 3YO C&G Maiden Pate 1200m
2PakenhamFri 10 Jan$75k 3YO Fillies Maiden Plate 1200m
3PakenhamFri 17 Jan$75k 3,4,5YO Maiden Plate 1200m
4PakenhamFri 17 Jan$75k 3,4,5YO Maiden Plate 1400m
5PakenhamThurs 23 Jan$75k 3YO Maiden 1400m
6PakenhamThurs 23 Jan$75k 3,4,5YO Maiden Plate 1200m
7PakenhamThurs 30 Jan$75k 3,4,5YO Maiden Plate 1400m
8PakenhamThurs 6 Feb$75k 3,4,5YO Maiden Plate 1200m
9PakenhamThurs 6 Feb$75k 3,4,5YO Maiden Plate 1400m
10PakenhamThurs 13 Feb$75k 3,4,5YO Maiden Plate 1200m
11PakenhamThurs 13 Feb$75k 3,4,5YO Maiden Plate 1400m
12PakenhamThurs 20 Feb$75k 1400m Maiden Plate (repechage Heat) (Q/C)
FinalPakenhamThurs 27 Feb$300k Class 3 1400m