{"id":11777,"date":"2018-10-24T00:40:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T00:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bb-auae-prd-ext-blog-01.azurewebsites.net\/more\/28-things-need-know-winx\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T09:38:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:38:53","slug":"28-things-you-need-to-know-about-winx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/horse-racing\/28-things-you-need-to-know-about-winx\/","title":{"rendered":"28 Things You Need To Know About Winx"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winx is currently sitting on an incredible 28 consecutive race wins including a world record 21 Group 1 victories.<\/p>\n

This weekend, she is gunning for an unprecedented 4th consecutive Group 1 W.S. Cox Plate – Australia’s weight-for-age championship.<\/p>\n

Here are 28 facts you need to know about the mighty mare before the big race this weekend:<\/h3>\n
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  1. She is the world\u2019s number 1<\/strong> ranked horse in the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings.<\/li>\n
  2. She was the 2nd<\/strong> foal of her dam, Vegas Showgirl.<\/li>\n
  3. Australian horse of the year for\u00a03 <\/strong>years running (2015\/6, 2016\/7, 2017\/8).<\/li>\n
  4. Winx is aiming to win an unprecedented 4th<\/strong> straight Cox Plate in 2018.<\/li>\n
  5. $5<\/strong> was her Starting Price at her first race start and win at Warwick Farm on 4 June 2014.<\/li>\n
  6. She has had 6<\/strong> different race jockeys with Brazilian Joao Moreira the only riderto not have won on her.<\/li>\n
  7. She is now a 7 year-old <\/strong>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.<\/li>\n
  8. She has 8 x<\/strong> Group 2 victories to her name to go with her 21 x Group 1 victories and 1 x Group 3 win.<\/li>\n
  9. Won at 9<\/strong> different race distances. 1100m, 1200m, 1300m, 1400m, 1500m, 1600m, 2000m, 2040m, 2200m<\/li>\n
  10. She had 10<\/strong> starts in her three-year-old season. It was her worst season in her career where she only won 4 races. She hasn\u2019t tasted defeat since!<\/li>\n
  11. Her last defeat was on 11<\/strong> April 2015 in the Australian Oaks. She was beaten by Gust of Wind that day.<\/li>\n
  12. She has had 12<\/strong> wins where the field size was between 8-10 runners losing just the once. There are 8 runners in this year\u2019s Cox Plate field.<\/li>\n
  13. She has won three Cox Plates to date by a combined 13<\/strong>.2 lengths!<\/li>\n
  14. She takes 14<\/strong> stride every 5 seconds compared to average horse who can only manage 12 strides.<\/li>\n
  15. She has started at the 15<\/strong>00m distance 4 times for 4 victories, all at her home track of Rosehill.<\/li>\n
  16. In the last 12 months, she has an averaged a starting price of $1.16<\/strong>!<\/li>\n
  17. She has had 17<\/strong> victories at Royal Randwick, 13 of those at Group 1 level.<\/li>\n
  18. There were 18<\/strong> runners in the field when she came from last in the Sunshine Coast Guineas and scored by 1.8L. An incredible win!<\/li>\n
  19. She has won her last 7 starts by 19<\/strong> lengths!<\/li>\n
  20. She will likely eclipse the $20m<\/strong> prizemoney barrier this weekend<\/li>\n
  21. She has a huge 21<\/strong> Group 1 victories by a combined 75.8 lengths.<\/li>\n
  22. On 22<\/strong> October 2016, she ran in her 2nd Cox Plate, winning by a mammoth 8 lengths.<\/li>\n
  23. Was sold for $23<\/strong>0,000 as a yearling at 2013 Gold Coast Magic Millions Sales<\/li>\n
  24. She has 24<\/strong> wins from 30 starts in her home state of NSW.<\/li>\n
  25. She has won 25<\/strong> races when starting at odds on with her only loss coming in the 2014 Tea Rose Stakes<\/li>\n
  26. She has had 26<\/strong> wins going in the clockwise direction (NSW & QLD) from 32 starts. She is 6 from 6 in the anti-clockwise direction (VIC)!<\/li>\n
  27. Regular jockey Hugh Bowman has had 27<\/strong> wins on her from 28 race starts.<\/li>\n
  28. She has won her last 28<\/strong> 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!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Winx is currently a $1.25 chance in the Cox Plate at Moonee Valley this Saturday with BlueBet.<\/p>\n

    For the latest Cox Plate market, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Bet Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horse-racing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15867,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777\/revisions\/15867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}