[79], On 2 March, Winx won the Group 1 Chipping Norton Stakes. The two faster victories were run by Winx in 2015 and last year. [93] Winx seemed slow to respond but then picked up her stride in mid stretch and swept to the lead, then eased off slightly near the wire to win by 1 1⁄4 lengths. "She was so dominant and obviously she is getting better.
“To see her unleash as she does, I was looking for Humidor coming off her back and seeing how the others were travelling but she had them covered a long way from home.”. “The punter has invested seven-figures on her throughout her winning run and just keeps rolling the dice. The horse runs now in Lloyd Williams colours having just arrived from Aidan O'Brien's Tipperary yard. She moved ahead of Kingston Town, who won the silverware in 1980, 1981 and 1982. All rights reserved. “He was brave into third, he tried hard.".
Clearly this mare can. [7] She was sired by the Irish-bred Street Cry, who won the Dubai World Cup in 2002 [8] before becoming a very successful breeding stallion in North America and Australasia.
"[87], In the 2018 World's Best Racehorse Rankings, Winx was named joint best racehorse in the world alongside Cracksman with a rating of 130. Named in honour of W.S. “She’s just got an amazing will to win and this incredible ability that she can come from out the back of a fast-tempo race like any good horse can, but she can come from out the back in a slow-run race too. [3], Winx recorded her first major success when she won the Group 2 Furious Stakes over 1200 metres at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney on 6 September 2014. [92] On 24 June 2019, her connections announced that her first mating would be with I Am Invincible. For the 2017/18 season, she earned her third Horse of the Year honour after recording seven straight wins, including her third victories in the Cox Plate, Chipping Norton and George Ryder and her second win in the Queen Elizabeth. By the 400m mark, those to her inside were under pressure, with Hugh Bowman still waiting to push the turbo button. Winx has now won 29 races in a row including 22 Group One victories. Like Sunline, she began her career in winning fashion but unlike the […] WINX has done it again, shattering yet another record as she continues to solidify her place among the sport’s legends. Winx rolled up outside stablemate D’argento and Coolmore’s Rostropovich with main challenger Godolphin’s Benbatl. The time of 1:20.88 for 1400m (roughly 7 furlongs) broke the existing race record and was just short of Trapeze Artist's track record of 1:20:33. In comparison to other fillies and mares, she ranked only behind Treve and tied for second with Beholder.
Bowman pointed out that the mare had not run recently at the sprint distance of 1,400 metres (7.0 furlongs), and she had had trouble keeping up with the early pace.
She surpassed greats from around the world, including Frankel and Zenyatta by winning her 10th group 1 in row and now has more than $22 million in earnings.
Win it once and you're the best of your generation.
But Winx’s legacy will be the impact she has had on the Australian public. Winx was in a tremendous position before taking the lead on the final bend as she pushed to the outside and saw off a brave fight from the second placed finisher Benbatl. In fact, you never expect to win when you come to these races.
Towards the end of her three-year-old campaign, she rebounded to win two races in May 2015, including the Group 1 Queensland Oaks, to start her winning streak. It provides the farrier with more surface area for nailing on horseshoes. Waller commented, "We will never know how good she is because she just had the best horses in Australia take her on and beat them like that. “Unreal.”. She won the 2018 Secretariat Vox Populi Award, the top choice among race fans in a record 60 countries. So who might be favourite to win the race within the race? At the 200m mark, she still had three lengths to make up when Bowman dropped the whip. "[72], Winx then travelled to Melbourne to enter the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington on 6 October.
This time, it's the race within the race. I’m lost for words,” Bowman said. Winx will start short price favourite for a fourth Cox Plate today. If I was going to get beat, I didn't want it to be because I was on the inside behind horses. As a four-year-old, she was named the 2015/6 Australian Horse of the Year and middle distance champion after a seven race campaign that included wins in the W.S. "I mean she is obviously still good, she wheeled passed them at the top of the straight and she still let down. “This latest bet is the biggest we’ve ever taken on Winx and passes the $170,000 which was outlaid on her to win the Turnbull Stakes a few weeks back.”. [51], "At the top of the straight I wasn't worried last start, but today I really was", said Bowman. Hugh Bowman pumps his fist after Winx wins a record fourth Cox Plate.Source:News Corp Australia. Winx responded as they entered the straight, "excellerating away" to win by 5 1⁄4 lengths from Hartnell with Sense of Occasion in third.
As the field rounded the turn, Happy Clapper made his move along the rail while Winx moved far wide for racing room.
When the streak began back in 2015 she had to overcome a 26-year hoodoo. She makes your head hurt. Hartnell did not handle the track and was well back in eighth. Enfin, Winx, qui est devenue au passage le cheval le plus riche de l'histoire des courses mondiales, a porté la marque à 33 victoires consécutives, et 25 groupe 1 : un record à peine imaginable, et qu'on n'imagine pas battu - un peu à l'image de celle qui restera comme le cheval le plus célèbre de l'histoire des courses australiennes. I just let her flop out and then let her gather momentum. “I am feeling emotional but the electricity that came through my body when I turned into the home straight was something that I guess I only get to feel but everyone watching … oh, I don’t know.
Coming from last on the turn and still last at the 300m mark, she lengthened stride and finished fast to run Foxplay down right on the line to win by a half neck in a "remarkable" effort. Nationwide News Pty Limited Copyright © 2020. [17], After having earned only one win in her last seven starts, Winx was dropped in class for the Group 3 Sunshine Coast Guineas on 16 May.
"[45], The IFHA assigned a rating of 132 for the race, matching her personal best rating from the 2016 Cox Plate. [40], On 18 March, Winx was entered in the George Ryder Stakes at a distance of 1500 metres over another rain-soaked course. "I just made the decision to come to the outside.
Winx est née des œuvres de l'Américain Street Cry (1998-2014), membre de l'écurie Godolphin, entrainé par Saeed Bin Suroor, qui termina 3e de la Breeders' Cup Juvenile avant de s'adjuger, en 2002, la Dubaï World Cup. “We weren’t there in 1930 when Phar Lap won four races at Flemington,” he said. "I was so close to scratching her but we made the right decision. She also extended her world record to 19 Group 1 wins, while becoming the first seven-year-old mare to win a Group 1 since Makybe Diva. With the rain still falling shortly before the race, Waller walked the course and determined that it was safe for Winx to run. She had a long three-year-old year. She has been everywhere and she is still firing.
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