Last Saturday saw the running of the $1 million Supernova, the $2 million Ingham and the $1.5 million Gold Rush. They were Australia’s 106th, 107th and 108th million-dollar-plus races for 2025.

Unless I’m missing something, that’s it for the calendar year. We are now starved of megabucks racing for (checks notes) 18 days, until the Perth Cup on January 1.

For an idea of the explosion of cash in Australian racing over the past decade (at least at the top end), consider that in 2015 we had 32 seven-figure races, conducted at just eight tracks — Randwick (9), Flemington (8), Rosehill (4), Ascot (3), Caulfield (3), Gold Coast (2), Moonee Valley (2) and Doomben (1).

The richest was the $6.2 million Melbourne Cup, won by Prince Of Penzance.

This year’s 108 were run across 16 tracks, with Eagle Farm (6), Morphettville (4), Sunshine Coast (2), Cranbourne, Kembla Grange, Newcastle, Pakenham and Rockhampton joining the party.

Randwick alone hosted 36, led by the $20 million Everest.

In 2024, Via Sistina shared the honours in this category with Broadsiding, each winning four seven-figure races.

This time, Via is out on her own. She won six million-dollar-plus races this year for a total haul of $10,845,250 from nine starts (up from $7,356,400 in 2024).

Gringotts, Jimmysstar and Joliestar won three such races apiece in 2025. Another 11 horses won two.

Among the trainers, Chris Waller regained his crown with 19 big-money wins (up from 12 in 2024) from Ciaron Maher with 11 (down from 17).

Four stables shared the bronze medal with five wins apiece — Tony Gollan, O’Shea/Charlton, Price/Kent and Joe Pride.

It won’t surprise you to learn that our most prolific jockey in seven-figure races this year was James McDonald with 15 wins, from Damian Lane (7), Mark Zahra (7) and Tyler Schiller (6).