Sunday, 29 October 2017: Champion mare Winx etched her name into the record books when she held out a determined challenge from Humidor for a famous third WS Cox Plate win at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

In becoming just the second three time winner of the Australasian weight-for-age championship Winx notched a 15th Group One win to draw level with former unbeaten sprinting superstar Black Caviar.
The $1.85 million prizemoney for the win pushed Winx past Makybe Diva to become the highest stakes earning horse in Southern Hemisphere racing history with an earnings tally of over $15.6 million.

Winx holds off Humidor for her third Cox Plate

For good measure Winx broke her own track record - shaving four hundredths of a second from the time she set in 2015.
Now that she is Australia’s greatest stakes winner the $230,000 paid for the six-year-old by part-owner Magic Bloodstock at the 2013 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale seems one of racing’s great bargains.
Bred by John Camilleri’s Fairway Thoroughbreds, Winx was raised on Coolmore Stud and sold through their draft at the Gold Coast.
Selected on behalf of owners Peter and Patty Tighe, Richard Treweeke and Debbie Kepitis by bloodstock agent Guy Mulcaster, Winx (Street Cry x Vegas Showgirl by Al Akbar) has now won 26 of her 32 career starts with three second placings.
She is one of five foals of racing age produced by the dual Listed winner Vegas Showgirl.
Crowned Australian Broodmare of the Year for the second time in August, Vegas Showgirl produced her seventh foal on the day Winx won her 20th successive race at Randwick on September 16, a filly by Exceed And Excel. She also has a yearling filly by Snitzel born last spring.
Vegas Showgirl is also the dam of last year’s G3 Kindergarten Stakes winner El Divino (Snitzel) and an unraced three-year-old colt by Snitzel named Boulder City who topped the 2016 Australian Easter Yearling Sale when purchased by Gai Waterhouse and Blue Sky Bloodstock for $2.3 million.
Vegas Showgirl, acquired agent Colm Santry for Fairway Thoroughbreds from the 2008 MM National Broodmare Sale for $455,000, is out of the dual winner Vegas Magic (Voodoo Rhythm) and is a half-sister to the G3-placed Black Magic Maggie (Westminster).

Winx All 3 Cox Plates

Plans are afoot to send Vegas Showgirl to Europe for the 2018 Northern Hemisphere breeding season to be covered by Galileo, Frankel or Dubawi.
Vegas Showgirl was a good performer in New Zealand but none of her first four dams did much on the racetrack. The only other G1 winner under her first five dams is El Khobar, a NZ-bred sprinter whose 10 wins included the G1 Doomben Ten Thousand.
El Khobar was a half-brother by Gabador to Winx’s fourth dam Vegas, a winner by the Stardust sire Stunning.
Winx’s late sire Street Cry, a son of Machiavellian, died in 2014. He is responsible for almost 1000 winners of over 3000 races and $152 million. Among his 114 stakes winners are 19 G1 winners including eight in Australia.
Street Cry also sired the US champion mare Zenyatta, a daughter of a Kris S mare who won her first 19 starts including 13 G1 races, before her only defeat in her last career start when beaten a head in the Breeders Cup Classic.