The Everest 2027 Betting Tips - 3 long-range predictions for the 2027 Everest

Ka Ying Rising heads the NEDS market at $2, with defending champion Tempted at $4. There’s every chance another three-year-old emerges between now and race day, but we’re siding with the mare who won it in 2026, an improver who finished on her heels and a proven Group 1 sprinter at triple figures.

Tempted ran second to Ka Ying Rising as a three-year-old in the 2025 Everest and turned the tables 12 months later with the sixth win of her streak. Chad Schofield had her closer to the speed than usual, took the initiative and got enough of a break to hold off the world’s top-rated sprinter. She was beaten into fifth in the Champions Sprint (1200m) at Flemington, where she raced wide on the straight course and a post-race examination identified a respiratory issue. Her two Everest runs carry more weight for us. She’s shown she can win this race by making her own luck, and we’d take her at $4 over Ka Ying Rising at half that quote.

Ninja won the Missile Stakes (1200m) first-up over the Everest course and distance, then finished fifth in the feature itself, beaten just over 1½ lengths by Tempted. He took time to get clear in the straight and was still closing on the placegetters once he found room. Michael Freedman’s gelding will be five next spring and there’s scope for him to come back a better sprinter. He’s already shown he belongs in this company and at $26 we’re happy to back him to close the gap.

Skybird already has a Black Caviar Lightning (1000m) win to her name and her 2026 form showed she can match it with top-class sprinters over 1200m. She ran third in the T.J. Smith Stakes at Randwick, won the Gilgai Stakes on heavy ground at Flemington and finished close up behind Point Barrow and Plaintiff in the Champions Sprint. Her fifth in the Sydney Stakes at Randwick also had merit after she settled a long way back. She’ll need to secure a slot and a strong tempo would help, especially if there’s rain around. At $101, we’re happy to take the chance that conditions fall her way.