2025 Champions Mile Review: What The Jockeys Said

Ceolwulf was brave when fighting back to beat Pericles, who looked the winner at the 200m mark. Find out what the jockeys said below

It is always important to hear what the jockeys say after the race as you can forgive a horses bad run or even find a winner next start so head to the post race comments below.

STEPARTY (Harry Coffey) – 9th

Travelled well but under full pressure at that level, lost his action in the ground.

PRIDE OF JENNI (Declan Bates) – 8th

She just hated this heavy track today, a long way out she was sort of dipping and diving underneath me and I just wasn’t able to use that stride to get away, just purely simply hated the ground, I think.

LAKE FOREST (Tom Marquand) – 7th

ust hated the ground. We knew he was a top of the ground horse but he’s travelled half way across the world so he wasn’t going to scratch, shame so much rain came.

VON HAUKE (Ethan Brown) – 6th

He didn’t handle the conditions.

MR BRIGHTSIDE (Craig Williams) – 5th

He wanted to hang out throughout the race so he definitely wasn’t at his best. Most importantly he’s come through the race okay.

TREASURETHE MOMENT (Damian Lane) – 4th

She ran super. To present as well as she did, in that ground, I thought she really toughed it out. She really struggled with her footing over the last four hundred metres so to run fourth in such a good race, in a testing run race, I thought a really good effort. Just a testing run mile on a heavy track really found her out.

STEFI MAGNETICA (Jason Collett) – 3rd

She copped a bit of a squeeze early, not really comfortable when the pace went on so to finish where she did, she went very well.

PERICLES (Ben Melham) – 2nd

Terrific run. He was there to win, just got out toughed by a tough bugger on the day.

CEOLWULF (Chad Schofield) – 1st

Very gutsy. He jumped really well today and he took the most out of that good jump and put himself in a more forward position and when the race heated up around the 600 metres, I was still going really well.

Mr Brightside was gone and I had to get off his back and get going. He ambled into it and then he had a good look when he hit the big Flemington stretch for the first time and he got a bit lost for a while until Pericles got in front of him and then he could see him with his blinkers and he was the stronger horse late.

If you asked me how I was feeling at the 400, I’d have said it was race over. He ambled up and came into it but in the Flemington straight he put his head up and baulked. That allowed Pericles to get a margin on me, and when he saw him he went again. It looked tough and hard fought but that gawk at the top of the straight cost him a bit.

View What The Jockeys Said In The Champions Stakes Here