Record-breaking mare Winx has claimed her final race victory in one last dominant performance in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Royal Randwick.The Hugh Bowman-ridden horse signed off in typical fashion on Saturday, breezing through the field before pulling away to win ahead of Kluger and Hartnell at The Championships meeting.The victory means the seven-year-old mare has extended her winning streak to an unprecedented 33 consecutive races, including an incredible 25 Group One victories.Winx has also claimed her 20th victory at Randwick, where she has picked up the vast majority of her 33 race wins.Bowman brought Winx out slowly from the traps early on before settling into sixth place, and then made a signature dash to the finish on the 600-metre mark.Winx came in wide before breezing past her challengers with 200 metres to go. Kluger looked to challenge as the finish line loomed in sight, but just could not rein in the incredible mare, who finished one-and-a-half lengths in front.An emotional Bowman said the number of people who had come to see Winx's last-ever race was overwhelming. "Maybe we will never know how good she really is. "Whether they are here at Randwick today, but all around Australia, New Zealand, the world. She has taken to retirement wonderfully well and has settled in perfectly to her new [...] READ MORE. "It is most fitting that this race will now be named after our champion."
"I hadn't thought about winning a race like today ever in my lifetime. The mighty mare was voted a unanimous winner of the Australia Horse of the Year award for 2018-19 to [...] The Australian reports the news will be officially announced by the ownership group on Monday morning, after carrying the valuable foetus for 45 days. It has been very real for me all day, with the amount of people here, it is just amazing," he told the Seven Network.
She'll just act like a normal racehorse, let herself go down and become a paddock animal. Champion racehorse Winx is pregnant after three attempts in the breeding barn.The Australian reports the news will be officially announced by the ownership group on Monday morning, after carrying the valuable foetus for 45 days.The wonder horse, who won 33 races, will have a gestation period of around 11 months, meaning she'll deliver her offspring in mid-October 2020.There are reports the ownership group of Peter Tighe, Debbie Kepitis and Richard Treweeke will not sell Winx's offspring as they want to keep hold of the incredibly valuable family.Winx was paired with stallion I Am Invincible.Winx was a $230,000 yearling at the 2013 Magic Millions Sale on the Gold Coast and earned more than $26 million in a career featuring a world record 25 Group One victories.Winx will be celebrated with another race in her name with the Group Three Sunshine Coast Guineas to honour the champion who began her sequence of 33 wins in the Group Three race.The now-retired Winx won the 2015 Sunshine Coast Guineas (1600m), producing a devastating burst of speed from back in the field, a pattern that became familiar over the next four years.Among her many accolades is the Group One Winx Stakes at Randwick, the upgraded Warwick Stakes, a race she won three times including its first running at the top level in 2018.John Miller, chief executive of the Sunshine Coast Turf Club, said it was appropriate to acknowledge Winx with a race in her name.
Source: Daily Telegraph / Winx is still winning – long after she was retired from racing. "We're going to send her for a normal spell. Jockey Hugh Bowman says Winx has captured the hearts of people around the world The Hugh Bowman-ridden horse signed off in typical fashion on Saturday, breezing through the field before pulling away to win ahead of Kluger and Hartnell at The Championships meeting. "Owner Chris Waller, who was also celebrating a 100th Group One win thanks to Winx, said he was glad the fairytale ended as he hoped it would.
The mighty mare was voted a unanimous winner of the Australia Horse of the Year award for 2018-19 to [...] "And it is set to be another lucrative move for her three owners — who are committed not to sell her — as she prepares for life as a broodmare.
Earlier this month, she won a world record 23rd Group One race. "Prize money for the 2020 Guineas will be $175,000, an increase of $35,000, with the SCTC also hoping to upgrade its status.Co-owners of Winx, Queenslanders Peter and Patti Tighe, said they were thrilled,"The beginning of the mare's winning streak is a race we will never forget and as it turned out was the start of the greatest winning streak of races in history," the Tighes said in a statement. "And this mum is set to be both productive and profitable as experts predict each of her foals could fetch more than seven figures.
She looks as happy now as she did when she was racing, which is fantastic for us to see. Winx beat Black Caviar's Australian win record in August 2018 with her 26th consecutive victory. "I do everything with my heart and that's how we'll breed with her.
"This is an unusual week — you don't often get a week like this in racing where you know Saturday is going to be the last race," Kepitis said.
Earlier this month, she won a world record 23rd Group One race. After all, the highest ranked horse Winx ever beat was not from GB in the Diamond Jubilee, but rather Hay List, an Australian racehorse. "We feel she's done the most she can do for racing," Kepitis said. Winx adds another record to her collection with fourth horse of the year crown.
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