Live: Gout and Kennedy chasing Stawell Gift glory

We’re moments away from the primary of six semifinals within the ladies’s Present.

Paris Olympian Bree Rizzo is amongst these to look at within the semis.

We’ll hold you throughout all the outcomes.

Hudson Downes collects the ‘W’ within the males’s backmarkers’ 400m (handicap).

Downes began off 15m, successful in a time of 45.75.

Ryan Atkins (16m) and Brayden Attwood (20m) crammed out the minor placings.

Because the bumper crowds in Stawell illustrate, there’s huge curiosity on this 12 months’s occasion, with a lot of that targeted on Gout Gout and Lachlan Kennedy.

Each certified for the boys’s semis, with Kennedy contesting the primary at 12:43pm (EST).

Gout can be up within the sixth and closing semi just a little afterward.

Favorite Sophie Stokes has taken out the ladies’s 400m (handicap) in one of many early outcomes from Central Park.

Stokes, working off 38m, claimed the sash in a time of 55.66.

Charlotte McAuliffe (8m) was second in 52.82 and Alesha Bennetts (11m) third through a time of 53.21.

It is a busy day at Central Park and these are the occasions we’ll be specializing in over the following few hours (all occasions EST).

Ladies’s Present semifinals — 12pmMales’s Present semifinals — 12:43pmLadies’s Present closing —1:45pmMales’s Present closing — 2:20pm

G’day and welcome to ABC Sport’s digital protection of the 2025 Stawell Present.

It is an Easter lengthy weekend custom and there’s added pleasure this 12 months with rising dash stars Gout Gout and Lachlan Kennedy competing within the males’s race.

Each Gout and Kennedy will contest the boys’s semifinals, that are scheduled to begin in simply over an hour’s time.

We may also be throughout the ladies’s semis and closing, in addition to the opposite occasions on at present’s program.

Hope you possibly can persist with us at present as we eagerly await to see who’s topped the boys’s and ladies’s Stawell Present winner!