Winx (horse)
| Winx | |
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| Sire | Street Cry |
| Grandsire | Machiavellian |
| Dam | Vegas Showgirl |
| Damsire | Al Akbar |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 14 September 2011 |
| Country | Australia |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Fairway Thoroughbreds |
| Owner | Magic Bloodstock Racing, R G Treweeke & D N Kepitis |
| Trainer | Chris Waller |
| Record | 27: 21-3-0 |
| Earnings | A$12,893,425 |
| Major wins | |
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Furious Stakes (2014) Phar Lap Stakes (2015) Sunshine Coast Guineas (2015) Queensland Oaks (2015) Theo Marks Stakes (2015) Epsom Handicap (2015) Cox Plate (2015, 2016) Apollo Stakes (2016, 2017) Chipping Norton Stakes (2016, 2017) George Ryder Stakes (2016, 2017) Doncaster Handicap (2016) Warwick Stakes (2016) George Main Stakes (2016) Caulfield Stakes (2016) Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2017) |
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| Awards | |
| Timeform rating: 134 | |
| Honours | |
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Australian Horse of the Year (2015/6) Australian Champion Middle Distance Racehorse (2015/6) World's Top-Ranked Turf Horse (2016) Australian Racing Hall of Fame (2017) |
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| Last updated on 17 May 2017 | |
Winx (foaled 11 September 2011) is a Champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse. Starting in May 2015, she has won seventeen consecutive stakes races at distances ranging from 1300m (roughly 6 1⁄2 furlongs) to 2200m (roughly 11 furlongs). 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 Cox Plate and Doncaster Handicap. In the 2016/7 season, she successfully defended her 2015 Cox Plate win with a commanding 8 length victory over rival Hartnell. She completed the season with a win in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes, taking her lifetime earnings to A$12.9 million.
In the World's Best Racehorse Rankings, she was the second-ranked filly or mare in 2015, improving in 2016 to become both the world's top-ranked filly or mare and the world's top-ranked turf horse. She retains this ranking through July 2017.
In 2017 Winx was inducted to the Australian Racing Hall of Fame.
Winx is a bay mare bred in Australia by Fairway Thoroughbreds. She was sired by the Irish-bred Street Cry, who won the Dubai World Cup in 2002 before becoming a very successful breeding stallion in North America and Australasia. His other progeny included Zenyatta, Street Sense, Shocking and Whobegotyou. Winx's dam, Vegas Showgirl, was a stakes winner in New Zealand who was bought by Fairway Thoroughbreds in 2008 as a broodmare prospect for A$455,000.
Winx was sold as a yearling for $230,000 at the 2013 Magic Millions Gold Coast sale. She was part of a draft of horses from Coolmore Stud, and was purchased "to a budget" by a partnership of Magic Bloodstock Racing (owned by Peter Tighe and his wife Patty), Richard Treweeke and Debbie Kepitis. As her dam is named Vegas Showgirl, the partners named the filly for a Las Vegas burlesque show from the 1970s and 1980s. She races in Magic Bloodstock's silks: dark blue with a white epaulettes and a large white "M". She is trained by Chris Waller.
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