Winx is currently sitting on an incredible 28 consecutive race wins including a world record 21 Group 1 victories.
This weekend, she is gunning for an unprecedented 4th consecutive Group 1 W.S. Cox Plate - Australia's weight-for-age championship.
Here are 28 facts you need to know about the mighty mare before the big race this weekend:
- She is the world’s number 1 ranked horse in the LONGINES World's Best Racehorse Rankings.
- She was the 2nd foal of her dam, Vegas Showgirl.
- Australian horse of the year for 3 years running (2015/6, 2016/7, 2017/8).
- Winx is aiming to win an unprecedented 4th straight Cox Plate in 2018.
- $5 was her Starting Price at her first race start and win at Warwick Farm on 4 June 2014.
- She has had 6 different race jockeys with Brazilian Joao Moreira the only riderto not have won on her.
- She is now a 7 year-old mare. This is remarkable given most mares her age are in the breeding barn while she is still at the very top of her game.
- She has 8 x Group 2 victories to her name to go with her 21 x Group 1 victories and 1 x Group 3 win.
- Won at 9 different race distances. 1100m, 1200m, 1300m, 1400m, 1500m, 1600m, 2000m, 2040m, 2200m
- She had 10 starts in her three-year-old season. It was her worst season in her career where she only won 4 races. She hasn’t tasted defeat since!
- Her last defeat was on 11 April 2015 in the Australian Oaks. She was beaten by Gust of Wind that day.
- She has had 12 wins where the field size was between 8-10 runners losing just the once. There are 8 runners in this year’s Cox Plate field.
- She has won three Cox Plates to date by a combined 13.2 lengths!
- She takes 14 stride every 5 seconds compared to average horse who can only manage 12 strides.
- She has started at the 1500m distance 4 times for 4 victories, all at her home track of Rosehill.
- In the last 12 months, she has an averaged a starting price of $1.16!
- She has had 17 victories at Royal Randwick, 13 of those at Group 1 level.
- There were 18 runners in the field when she came from last in the Sunshine Coast Guineas and scored by 1.8L. An incredible win!
- She has won her last 7 starts by 19 lengths!
- She will likely eclipse the $20m prizemoney barrier this weekend
- She has a huge 21 Group 1 victories by a combined 75.8 lengths.
- On 22 October 2016, she ran in her 2nd Cox Plate, winning by a mammoth 8 lengths.
- Was sold for $230,000 as a yearling at 2013 Gold Coast Magic Millions Sales
- She has 24 wins from 30 starts in her home state of NSW.
- She has won 25 races when starting at odds on with her only loss coming in the 2014 Tea Rose Stakes
- She has had 26 wins going in the clockwise direction (NSW & QLD) from 32 starts. She is 6 from 6 in the anti-clockwise direction (VIC)!
- Regular jockey Hugh Bowman has had 27 wins on her from 28 race starts.
- She has won her last 28 starts in the lead up to the 2018 Cox Plate. An amazing achievement. A record unlikely to be surpassed by any other horse. What a horse. Go Winx!
Winx is currently a $1.25 chance in the Cox Plate at Moonee Valley this Saturday with BlueBet.
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