thank you so much for this incredible compilation! Winx was truly the equine queen of the world and it's a thrill to watch all her performances. Bloody beautiful!!!!!!
The most impressive thing about Winx is just her motor, all the other jockeys whipping it out and all Bowman does is just hang on ! Masterclass hope we see another horse like her soon
The best thing to do as a jockey riding a racehorse is to keep as still as possible while still pushing on with your own strength. Just shows what a great jockey he is aswell! Worst thing to do is flail your arms around and unbalance the horse.
Winx and the great mare Zenyatta from the US have the same sire, Street Cry. Both were come from behind horses. laying back and zooming past the field in the stretch. Zenyatta won her first 19 races of her career, certainly nothing like 33 in a row. And in the US, mares usually dont race against the male horses like in Australia. Zenyatta however, did win the Breeders Cup against the boys and lost her last race, #20, in the Breeders cup...by a nose. She had these huge bounding strides, she was as big as most male horses and could catch up with a couple of long strides. However, after watching Winx, she takes so many strides compared to other horses, I am not sure Zenyatta could have caught her. Just cant argue with 33 races in a row. But I do find it interesting that the two greatest female horses in the world come from the same sire.
Wow! I just learned of this absolute phenom. And my jaw dropped halfway though this montage. I follow racing in the U.S. How have I never heard of this Queen until today? Zenyatta, Rachel Alexandra, and now..... Winx! Absolutely un-freaking-real. What an amazing horse she is! Just incredible to watch this level of Greatness. I think I just fell in true love with a horse.....
If you are a Zenyatta fan have a look at another aussie, Chautauqau Same exciting style as Z. Was trackside for Winx's 3rd Cox Plate and her last race. 😃😢👌
It appears you don't follow closely enough. Winx was global Horse of the Year in 2017-8. She won 37 out of 43 starts. You must also have missed another Aussie Champion in Black Caviar who was unbeaten in 25 starts including a race at Royal Ascot she won on three legs.
33 straight wins is incredible, especially when you consider how much can go wrong in a race and the quality of the opposition. One of the greatest horses of all time no doubt. 🐎 🐴
@@elgransenor1472 In her four Cox Plate wins alone there were no fewer than 16 horses from the northern hemisphere that were group one winners or runners. There were several that also ran in the Sydney races she won. If you opine that Australian racing was weak then why did so many come down here only to largely return with empty pockets.
@@flamingfrancis But they didn’t go home with empty pockets They beat everything else except Winx C Graders from Europe were beating the horses Winx was beating proving that the opposition she faced for 4 years was sub par The best European horse she faced was Benbatl who couldn’t run a place in five attempts at G1 in England Let me repeat that He ran in 5 group one races in England and DID NOT RUN A PLACE in five tries. He had to travel outside of England to find G1 races weak enough to run a place. Yet he was the second best horse to race in Australia between 2015 and 2018. The horses Winx was beating were worse than him.
@@flamingfrancis In my opinion Winx’s racing career was a laughable disgrace on two fronts After her 2nd Cox Plate run her career just became meaningless Number 1 From 2015-2019 Australia and NZ could not produce one worthy opponent for her. That’s 5/6/7 crops of horses and there wasn’t one genuine international quality G1 horse amongst them apart from her. That’s disgraceful and embarrassing for the Australasian racing and breeding industry. Where was a Northerly a Bonecrusher a Lonhro an Octagonal a Lets Elope a Vo Rogue a Saintly a Might and Power a Campaign King a Rubiton etc etc? Number 2 Seeing how poor the local racing scene was I can’t comprehend how the connections could think staying there beating up Hartnell Happy Clapper and Humidor and Gailo Chop and Who Shot the Barman over and over was a great way to showcase the talent of a once in a generation racehorse.
It was thrilling to watch the legendary winx race,she was just mesmerizing!!.I'd also like to mention our race callers as they do a phenomenal job,they are the best in the world.They inject so much atmosphere, excitement,energy,emotion and enthusiasm into our races which makes them all the more special...
I always thought Winx's greatest performance, by my eye, was the 2018 Turnbull win 8 lengths behind at the 300 and with a wall of horses in front of her I remember turning to my partner and saying "she can't win from there". She won by a length pulling away. I recently stumbled on this..... Her stride average is 23 to 23.5 feet, which is moderate, but in the Warwick Stakes, where she broke slowly, as she would do on occasion, Winx got out to 24.58 feet, which is a full foot longer than her average stride length. Her cadence is 2.63 strides per second. By contrast, Ulysses, in winning the G1 Juddmonte International at York in 2018, had a stride length of 23.16 and a cadence of 2.53 strides per second. Top European sprinter Harry Angel recorded the same figures in one major win. Winx could do better than both of these outstanding horses, and at the latter stages of a race. Physicist Dr Graeme Putt, from the University of Auckland, said Winx had been known to put in 2.7 strides per second, compared to the average of 2.3 for other horses. Practically, what this means is that, per minute, Winx could move 170 lengths compared to 140 by most other horses. She could not only lengthen her stride when she needed to, but quicken it, which was responsible for her devastating turn of foot and why she could close late in a race so easily. While track comparisons are certainly not determinative, in the 2018 Breeders’ Cup Mile, won by Expert Eye, the pace was 24.68 and 49.85 early, with 24.80 for the final furlong, but Winx had run faster - in her 2018 Chipping Norton, for instance, after an early pace of 24.87 and 48.83, she ran 23.14 for the final two furlongs. In 2017 and 2018, Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Roy H came home in times of 12.05 and 12.43, and 2017 BC Turf Sprint winner Stormy Liberal in a time of 11.55 for the final furlong. Australian superstar sprinter Chautauqua’s best final furlong time in 2016 was 11.5. Winx’s average final-furlong time in seven-furlong races of 11.1 is faster than all their times, and she has run up to a half-second faster (10.6) than her average - in the 2018 Turnbull Stakes Says it all.
All that talent and her biggest scalp was Benbatl who has also been beaten by about 30 other horses. All that talent and it was never put to use in beating a decent opponent Big fish Little pond Very sad
@@martino7465 These are all just stats for boring nerds What defines a champion is great victories over great opponents Winx won 33 races in a row and managed 0 great victories over 0 great opponents It doesn’t matter how many strides she took per minute, all her victories were hollow and meaningless The greatest horse to ever be consigned to irrelevance
These are all just stats for boring nerds What defines a champion is great victories over great opponents Winx won 33 races in a row and managed 0 great victories over 0 great opponents It doesn’t matter how many strides she took per minute, all her victories were hollow and meaningless The greatest horse to ever be consigned to irrelevance
@@elgransenor1472 so did she need to race overseas to find these worthy contenders in your less than humble opinion? Pretty sure many champion racehorses never ventured outside their zone. Our first champion Phar Lap went to USA and flogged the best they had, then got poisoned. Zenyatta never came to win a Doncaster or Cox Plate, still my favourite American horse. Winx beat up on multiple group one winners, hard to have any rivalry when you win 33 straight, most of the time without full force. And still records times that are the quickest in history.
not many people realise that she was rarely ever pushed to her edge. Bowman never had to whip her hard or belt her neck down the line. She made it too easy.
@@graemealexander8804 Different horses.. Can't take away how good wind was. Larger fields at her distance can come heavily down to barrier draws and track conditions.
She was never pushed because she ran against donkeys. Enable went to France and the US and conquered all. Wanx raced against selling handicappers- FACT
Such an amazing horse. Just imagine seeing her up against the very best... No offence to Hartnell and Happy Clapper, but it was obvious quite early on in her career that she was far superior to her competition. She deserved the chance to compete outside Australia.
Why go to be subjected to 7000 miles trip to Japan or 10000 miles to England? Let them come here If as you reckon they are better horses come here. Money is good Climate great
@@jacktattisexactly, Australian prize money is up with the highest in the world, an international horse has to be exceptional to come here and beat us, I’m around the racing industry and have had friends go to work in top stables overseas and it is well known Australian horses are tough to beat and that is why we don’t get a whole lot of international raiders here. The horses here that winx beat by up to 8 lengths were certainly not average, without winx no one is coming here and piping all the big prize money races are they ?
Do you suppose that when Happy Clappy and Hartnell saw her at the starting gate they thought "Oh crap, we are going to lose again"? Loved watching her race!
Most watched video. I grew up in the 1980's; a Phar Lap fan, and I never thought I'd see anything like him. It always seemed so crazy that you'd worry about her losing; absurd to think she could be capable of defeat. I started going out to TAB's to watch her live, the vibe was electric. My favourite memory was sitting in there, after she'd again made mincemeat of her rivals, and someone loudly proclaimed "how good was that!" I turned around and it was the TAB chick sitting with us, because operations had ceased for the race.
You sort of have. Phar Lap won from 1400 metrea to 3200 metres, with up to 15 horses in a race, not 7. Still equal 1st with 27 Groups 1 wins. A world race win in 1932, dirt track record whilst injured with a bleeding split hoof. A 1930 Melbourne Cup win carrying 62.5kgs. 1931 led into the straight, finished 8th, carrying the heaviest weight ever, 68kgs. No other horse has attempted it. Winner, White Nose carried just 43.50kgs. Be like Winx carrying 76-78.5kgs in a sprint. Both champions, but Phar Lap ran longer distances, carried monumental weights, was shot at, held back in races & achieved more in his 5 1/2 years, with his peak still ahead of him & unfulfilled. He won 37/41 at his peak. 2x 2nds, a nose & a half neck returning from injury, a 3rd & unplaced when weighted out of the 1931 Melbourne Cup. He was a tier above.
@@graemealexander8804 take nothing away from Winx, but you couldn't have said it better. A lot of these horses are limited in some way or another, even at the highest level. Phar Lap was not limited in any way in terms of distance or frequency of racing. A horse like that is rarely seen.
@@graemealexander8804 you can't compare across eras like that. Phar Lap set records that would never even be attempted in the modern era. I honestly believe that, if we had footage of the 1928 AJC Plate there would little argument about the GOAT. But those things, as a measure, are not fair on horses racing today.
@@bgardiner3354 Correct. It is somewhat like comparing elite sprinters in athletics. The difference in "science" in tracks alone makes it a no brainer...cinders versus whiz bang synthetics. We are regularly seeing similar applied to turf horse tracks with sub terranian structures as per many elite football fields.
@@flamingfrancis absolutely. Setting aside the improvements in understanding animal health and training techniques. Harry Telford use to dose his horses with a tonic that contained often toxic amounts of arsenic. When Citation won the triple crown in 1948 when there was only 2 weeks between the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes but he won a Jersey Stakes in the two weeks between races. He then won a further 7 races before the end of the season at distances between 8 and 16F. Horses were made of different stuff back then... or maybe their opposition was not as good?
So does this horse who won 27 Group 1's, still equal 1st; the only horse to win all 4 races at Flemington including the 1930 Melbourne Cup, in a week & did it carrying 62.5kgs, 8.5kgs above the favourite nowadays. Won the the 1932 Agua Caliente, World's richest race. 7 race meeting, broke the track record on 1st run on dirt. Still in his winter coat. Was nearly lame prior, bleeding split hoof. Ran a 2 furlong section in a blistering 22 seconds. Ran distances from 1,400 metres to 3,200 metres. This champion should never be overlooked or forgotten. His record is incredible. Won 37/41 at his peak, 2x 2nds by less than a neck, a 3rd & unplaced once, weighted out of the 1931 Melbourne Cup, 68kgs. Like Winx carrying well over 75kgs. ua-cam.com/video/l37T9aQAHjU/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/CkppKT4-yI8/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/bROtR5ivyZw/v-deo.html
I don't know where to put this but I thought here would be appropriate....The brave NINI, who blanketed Winx even as she battled cancer has passed away on August 28...I followed her story and this is a great loss....RIP, NINI
Certainly was a really impressive mare and 33 straight wins. Not sure if Australia will see the likes of her again and when you consider how little she cost! Unique and a true superstar
The faster they went , the easier she won. The best mare I've ever seen on a racecourse and a true legend of the sport. 33 Straight wins and over two thirds of them at group one level. A feat that I doubt we will ever witness the likes of again. Certainly not in my lifetime.. A privilege to watch.
I put 200 to win on her very last race. Naturally she won and I didn’t win much but it was exciting to watch and win on her last race. What an amazing horse
@@David.L291 Oh, we have heard of him alright. Won ten group one races in his 14 only starts. Australia's Black Caviar was undefeated in 25 starts, 15 being group one races including one at Royal Ascot on three legs. (look up the veterinarian's report)
Try this even greater horse. Still equal 1st Group 1 wins, 27. At his peak, won 37/41, with 2x 2nds (a nose & half neck, a 3rd & once unplaced, 68kgs 1931 Melbourne Cup, around 13kg above weight for age. Ran 3rd as a 3yo in the 1929 Melbourne Cup, the jockey fought with him in the straight & punters lost £1 million pounds under great suspicion. The horse that "beat him, he raced 4 times the following season & won all 4. Won the 1930 Melbourne Cup with the 2nd heaviest weight ever, 62.5kgs. Weighted out of it in 1931, the only horse ever to carry a record weight of 68kgs. Led into the straight, before finishing 8th. The "Winner," White Nose carried 43.50kgs! Be like Winx carrying 76.5-78.5kgs. Travelled by boat to US/Mexico, when arrived was almost lame. Virtually no preparation & raced in his winter coat. Profusely bleeding split hoof, started last, ran around the field up before the turn, had a rest, then kicked on when challenged. Ran 2 furlongs in a blistering 22 seconds. 7 races held at the Agua Caliente race meet & this Australian horse broke the track record, 1st run on dirt, albeit injured. Still equal 1st, 89 years after sadly passing at just 5 1/2yo. Ran distances from 1400 metres to 3200 metres & usually fields of 15 horses, not 7. Still the only horse to win all 4 Flemington races including the Melbourne Cup in the same week. Still the greatest. ua-cam.com/video/bROtR5ivyZw/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/CkppKT4-yI8/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/l37T9aQAHjU/v-deo.html
Kinda like what happened with Sham, if it weren’t for secretariat he’d of likely no doubt been the triple crown winner. Absolutely amazing horse, overshadowed by one that exceeded his abilities to race.
I'm not sure if she ever raced in the US(Breeders Cup) Or the UK&France?..But this Horse was something truly Special! .She never looked like she had to be pushed,just kept on going through the "Gears" and some.. Amazing!!
Jerry O'Shea If Winx had raced in the UK or USA, it would have been the same scenario in those countries. She is the greatest horse ever on turf. I'm a Brit too, but she would have beaten Frankel also I believe.
@@bgardiner3354 Hiya....I have always wondered why that is? Is it the long travelling distance? Maybe the prize money and prestige is already very good in Australia ?
Must be nice being her jockey. Just sit there and hang on so you don't fall lol. That's how great she was and to me she and Senyatta are in my heart forever.
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I think Hugh Bowman said it best: "Really great race horses can sustain their best closing run for 200-300 meters." Bowman said "Winx could sustain her run for 600-700 meters if necessary." The first race in this video shows this type of run from dead last. This is basic math and riding skills... for a superb specimen. In her 17th Group I victory, she sustained her run for 400 meters. In her 2nd Queen Elizabeth, she did this again. In her 26th straight victory at Randwick, she did it again (400 meters). In every one of her victories, her sustained closing run was at least 260-300 meters. Winning 33 straight times is... just ridiculous.
Bowman knows exactly how to handle winx, all credit to him and of course the very special winx... absolute legends the pair of them...go Bowman go winx...#fjb
I've watched many horse races since 1997. Let's not compare dirt vs turf. I"m from the US. I prefer dirt. But my gawwwwwd.... Winx is the BEST turf horse of all time, and in the conversation of the best horse of all time. Trying to pick just 1 ...too tough. She is at or near the top regardless of surface, and there are PLENTY of reasons to say why she stands alone at the top. I've only recently started researching her and her races. She's done things that Secretariat, Spectacular Bid, Flightline, Affirmed, Cigar, etc have never done.
They should've went for the Melb Cup with her early days. Would've been one of the most popular wins ever. Would've got weighted out obviously later on. Best horse I've seen by a long way
The best there will ever be , if Waller set her for an Everest shed win that, Phar Lap got the country thru the great depression the Diva won 3 Cups in a row but this girl will be the best we ever see in history. In 100 yrs time no horse will have equaled what she has done nor got close. To win 4 Cox Plates is not hesrd of and if he she had raced another season it would have been 5. She didnt need to travel, only 3 horses would have lined up against her. She is the greatest the World will ever see.
Say What You Want About Winx But Her"33" Straight Wins is a Feat Never to be Duplicated Again...33 Straight Wins is Mind Boggling Regardless of The Competition
Imagine if it was possible to see Kingston Town at his peak and Winx race against eachother over 2000m? That would have been one really good race. Or even if they were the same age and could have raced eachother often, would have been very good to watch. I reckon they both would have beat eachother at different times.
Frankel was a class apart,but Regardless of all those that "doubt",....the irrefutable fact is that Australia is a HUGE horse racing country and for this once in a lifetime horse to achieve all those wins,in big,big races,secures the legend for all time. Way to go winx.
It only looks like that since I only showed the last quarter of a mile of the race. She was a thoroughbred. Quarter Horses I don’t believe race on grass either.
I do not much about hoses but what surprised me was the easy way to Win , Too much Horse , not matter what people says about the competition but to win 33 Straight. Races is. Out of this World , much respect. For Winx
Here in America most races run with 6 to 8 horses only. In Australia Winx beat million horses every race. Never ever such a successful horse will come to earth. Write it down. Never ever. Love you Great Winx
Yes Winx would have won any race any distance any conditions any pace, she was just unbelievable at adapting to whatever circumstances unfoldered during the race
Street Cry also sired Shocking, a Melbourne cup winner and Whobegotyou, a Caulfield Stakes and Guineas winner, Long John, as well as Street Sense, A Kentucky Derby winner.
I’m not Australian but Black Caviar streets ahead of Winx. Black Caviar was racing the best sprinters in the world Winx was racing very moderate opposition
Watching Bowman let her have her head and she starts clicking into the higher gears on the last two furlongs made for some of the best Saturday afternoons ever. The best Group 1 winner of my life. I saw a bloke put down $100,000 on Winx at 1.03 for $3k. Great era of racing. 😂😂😂
@@m.l.b.2908 yeah it’s disappointing especially when there is one as great as Winx. Obviously a great horse but would of liked to see how she did against the worlds best
The worlds best don’t race in the turf races at the Breeders Cup The Breeders Cup may be the best dirt racing in the world but it’s not the best turf racing If you wanted to see her race the worlds best turf horses she needed to run in the Eclipse or the Juddmonte International or the Irish Champion Stakes. During her career the races she needed to run in were the 2018 Prince of Wales against Poets Word and Cracksman, the 2018 Eclipse and Juddmonte and Irish Champion against Roaring Lion and the 2018 Champion Stks against Cracksman. I can’t really find a suitable challenge for her in 2017 and 2016 was too early in her career she was still in the process of establishing herself at home.
Not really mac..He won the 18 Doncaster with 57kg...Wonder if he still wins if she had to give him weight instead of going off the ladies tees of wfa...hmmm..George Ryder 2 weeks prior winx beat him by 0.8l with him giving her 2kg under wfa
Her first 2 wins here were a little out of nowhere? Not nowhere but I don’t think anybody expected that - but when she spelled and came back and won that Theo Marks people started to think well shit maybe (& it wasn’t the strongest race she ever won not by a long shot but the way she won was an impossible spot) maybe she’s something special.
Again I’m an Aussie - I’m not gonna say Winx is the goat or something 😂 I know she never raced outside Oz but she was a champion. Champion ability. Freakish ability to be honest. If she raced top tier comp every start she would have won that many in a row - she had a few starts where she was nearly beaten not quite her best - but she was a champion. Freakish sectionals. She would have been competitive against anything.
@@zabaleta66 winx didn't go out of his country to win races neither did frankel and he's a champion too. What I'm trying to say is they had great horses they needed to show the world that they are the best and they didn't
thank you so much for this incredible compilation! Winx was truly the equine queen of the world and it's a thrill to watch all her performances. Bloody beautiful!!!!!!
Winx was a racing phenomenon! Her sprints home are so fast it seems that her legs almost blur. What a wonder!! Long life to you, Winx!
Must've been a bookies nightmare lol, Then again you could lay everything else haha
Not better than frankle
Just wets my eyes and gives me goosebumps everytime I watch this champion horse run!!!
The most impressive thing about Winx is just her motor, all the other jockeys whipping it out and all Bowman does is just hang on ! Masterclass hope we see another horse like her soon
The best thing to do as a jockey riding a racehorse is to keep as still as possible while still pushing on with your own strength. Just shows what a great jockey he is aswell! Worst thing to do is flail your arms around and unbalance the horse.
There will NEVER be another horse to win any thing close to 33 straight wins let alone at top level group wins.
@@michaelrose5614 straight up. Maybe in 100 years but we won't ever see it.. shes 2000s pharlap lol
she a mum now - so we might wait a little longer.
Honeysuckle is the next winx
Winx and the great mare Zenyatta from the US have the same sire, Street Cry. Both were come from behind horses. laying back and zooming past the field in the stretch. Zenyatta won her first 19 races of her career, certainly nothing like 33 in a row. And in the US, mares usually dont race against the male horses like in Australia. Zenyatta however, did win the Breeders Cup against the boys and lost her last race, #20, in the Breeders cup...by a nose. She had these huge bounding strides, she was as big as most male horses and could catch up with a couple of long strides. However, after watching Winx, she takes so many strides compared to other horses, I am not sure Zenyatta could have caught her. Just cant argue with 33 races in a row. But I do find it interesting that the two greatest female horses in the world come from the same sire.
I think if you ook close Winx can change her gait to suit the race Very intelligent horse
Thank you I was looking for that Information.
Never heard of Winx.Simply outstanding!
What a horse
Wow! I just learned of this absolute phenom. And my jaw dropped halfway though this montage. I follow racing in the U.S. How have I never heard of this Queen until today? Zenyatta, Rachel Alexandra, and now..... Winx! Absolutely un-freaking-real. What an amazing horse she is! Just incredible to watch this level of Greatness. I think I just fell in true love with a horse.....
If you are a Zenyatta fan have a look at another aussie, Chautauqau
Same exciting style as Z.
Was trackside for Winx's 3rd Cox Plate and her last race. 😃😢👌
It appears you don't follow closely enough. Winx was global Horse of the Year in 2017-8. She won 37 out of 43 starts. You must also have missed another Aussie Champion in Black Caviar who was unbeaten in 25 starts including a race at Royal Ascot she won on three legs.
@@flamingfrancis Three Legs Which was why they did NOT take Winx all that way to race in terrible conditions
Winx is related to Zenyatta I’m pretty sure. Says alot
She's a half sister to North American champions Zenyatta and Street Sense. All being sired by Street Cry
33 straight wins is incredible, especially when you consider how much can go wrong in a race and the quality of the opposition. One of the greatest horses of all time no doubt. 🐎 🐴
the quality of the opposition????
Worst era in Australian racing for 50 years
@@elgransenor1472 In her four Cox Plate wins alone there were no fewer than 16 horses from the northern hemisphere that were group one winners or runners. There were several that also ran in the Sydney races she won. If you opine that Australian racing was weak then why did so many come down here only to largely return with empty pockets.
@@flamingfrancis
But they didn’t go home with empty pockets
They beat everything else except Winx
C Graders from Europe were beating the horses Winx was beating proving that the opposition she faced for 4 years was sub par
The best European horse she faced was Benbatl who couldn’t run a place in five attempts at G1 in England
Let me repeat that
He ran in 5 group one races in England and DID NOT RUN A PLACE in five tries.
He had to travel outside of England to find G1 races weak enough to run a place.
Yet he was the second best horse to race in Australia between 2015 and 2018.
The horses Winx was beating were worse than him.
@@flamingfrancis
Who were these 16 NH horses in her Cox Plates?
@@flamingfrancis
In my opinion Winx’s racing career was a laughable disgrace on two fronts
After her 2nd Cox Plate run her career just became meaningless
Number 1
From 2015-2019 Australia and NZ could not produce one worthy opponent for her.
That’s 5/6/7 crops of horses and there wasn’t one genuine international quality G1 horse amongst them apart from her.
That’s disgraceful and embarrassing for the Australasian racing and breeding industry.
Where was a Northerly a Bonecrusher a Lonhro an Octagonal a Lets Elope a Vo Rogue a Saintly a Might and Power a Campaign King a Rubiton etc etc?
Number 2
Seeing how poor the local racing scene was I can’t comprehend how the connections could think staying there beating up Hartnell Happy Clapper and Humidor and Gailo Chop and Who Shot the Barman over and over was a great way to showcase the talent of a once in a generation racehorse.
It was thrilling to watch the legendary winx race,she was just mesmerizing!!.I'd also like to mention our race callers as they do a phenomenal job,they are the best in the world.They inject so much atmosphere, excitement,energy,emotion and enthusiasm into our races which makes them all the more special...
And those Callers have seen the best in the world and all have said that Winx was the best they had ever seen.
She is unbelievable with clear gears. I've never seen all her finishes and I am in awe. Phenominal mare. Heartstopping.
You can actually see her change gait What a magnificent horse
The Doncaster and the epsom are two of her best wins she gets bumped and bashed and squeezed in and still finds a way to win! She was truly special
2015 Epsom was Bowman's best ride on her, checked badly twice and boxed in coming off the bend but she found a way. Superstar.
I don’t think we will ever see another one like Winx.
Like Larry Bird
Just watching her change gears so effortlessly is truely amazing.
What a horse
I always thought Winx's greatest performance, by my eye, was the 2018 Turnbull win 8 lengths behind at the 300 and with a wall of horses in front of her I remember turning to my partner and saying "she can't win from there".
She won by a length pulling away.
I recently stumbled on this.....
Her stride average is 23 to 23.5 feet, which is moderate, but in the Warwick Stakes, where she broke slowly, as she would do on occasion, Winx got out to 24.58 feet, which is a full foot longer than her average stride length.
Her cadence is 2.63 strides per second. By contrast, Ulysses, in winning the G1 Juddmonte International at York in 2018, had a stride length of 23.16 and a cadence of 2.53 strides per second. Top European sprinter Harry Angel recorded the same figures in one major win.
Winx could do better than both of these outstanding horses, and at the latter stages of a race.
Physicist Dr Graeme Putt, from the University of Auckland, said Winx had been known to put in 2.7 strides per second, compared to the average of 2.3 for other horses. Practically, what this means is that, per minute, Winx could move 170 lengths compared to 140 by most other horses.
She could not only lengthen her stride when she needed to, but quicken it, which was responsible for her devastating turn of foot and why she could close late in a race so easily.
While track comparisons are certainly not determinative, in the 2018 Breeders’ Cup Mile, won by Expert Eye, the pace was 24.68 and 49.85 early, with 24.80 for the final furlong, but Winx had run faster - in her 2018 Chipping Norton, for instance, after an early pace of 24.87 and 48.83, she ran 23.14 for the final two furlongs.
In 2017 and 2018, Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Roy H came home in times of 12.05 and 12.43, and 2017 BC Turf Sprint winner Stormy Liberal in a time of 11.55 for the final furlong.
Australian superstar sprinter Chautauqua’s best final furlong time in 2016 was 11.5.
Winx’s average final-furlong time in seven-furlong races of 11.1 is faster than all their times, and she has run up to a half-second faster (10.6) than her average - in the 2018 Turnbull Stakes
Says it all.
All that talent and her biggest scalp was Benbatl who has also been beaten by about 30 other horses.
All that talent and it was never put to use in beating a decent opponent
Big fish
Little pond
Very sad
@@elgransenor1472
Well someone's got a problem with little Winxy. Bwahahahaha.
@@martino7465
These are all just stats for boring nerds
What defines a champion is great victories over great opponents
Winx won 33 races in a row and managed 0 great victories over 0 great opponents
It doesn’t matter how many strides she took per minute, all her victories were hollow and meaningless
The greatest horse to ever be consigned to irrelevance
These are all just stats for boring nerds
What defines a champion is great victories over great opponents
Winx won 33 races in a row and managed 0 great victories over 0 great opponents
It doesn’t matter how many strides she took per minute, all her victories were hollow and meaningless
The greatest horse to ever be consigned to irrelevance
@@elgransenor1472 so did she need to race overseas to find these worthy contenders in your less than humble opinion? Pretty sure many champion racehorses never ventured outside their zone. Our first champion Phar Lap went to USA and flogged the best they had, then got poisoned.
Zenyatta never came to win a Doncaster or Cox Plate, still my favourite American horse. Winx beat up on multiple group one winners, hard to have any rivalry when you win 33 straight, most of the time without full force. And still records times that are the quickest in history.
not many people realise that she was rarely ever pushed to her edge. Bowman never had to whip her hard or belt her neck down the line. She made it too easy.
Small fields, big gaps. Phar Lap raced up to 15 horses.
@@graemealexander8804 Different horses.. Can't take away how good wind was. Larger fields at her distance can come heavily down to barrier draws and track conditions.
@@graemealexander8804 doesn’t matter if you put another 10 horses in all her races she still wins. , because she was the best by far.
She was never pushed because she ran against donkeys. Enable went to France and the US and conquered all. Wanx raced against selling handicappers- FACT
she was in her 6 losses
She’s a once in a lifetime horse. Just unbelievable
Don’t disrespect Black Caviar like that
Her half sister Zenyatta begs to disagree 😄
@@michiko61141. Zenyatta is not a half anything. 2. Zenyatta's record is nowhere near that of Winx.
Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths so shut up
@@itz_scarlet_rip_teddy On sand did it ever race on Turf ? Secretariat 16 wins hardly world shattering
Such an amazing horse. Just imagine seeing her up against the very best... No offence to Hartnell and Happy Clapper, but it was obvious quite early on in her career that she was far superior to her competition. She deserved the chance to compete outside Australia.
I agree. Best horses deserve to be in the best races. As it was though, she set marks in Australia that will go unchallenged forever
Why go to be subjected to 7000 miles trip to Japan or 10000 miles to England? Let them come here If as you reckon they are better horses come here. Money is good Climate great
@@jacktattisexactly, Australian prize money is up with the highest in the world, an international horse has to be exceptional to come here and beat us, I’m around the racing industry and have had friends go to work in top stables overseas and it is well known Australian horses are tough to beat and that is why we don’t get a whole lot of international raiders here. The horses here that winx beat by up to 8 lengths were certainly not average, without winx no one is coming here and piping all the big prize money races are they ?
@@amandawood986Quite true I never thought of that. I know absolutely nothing about racing But I can recognise an exceptional Horse in Winx
Do you suppose that when Happy Clappy and Hartnell saw her at the starting gate they thought "Oh crap, we are going to lose again"? Loved watching her race!
Would have been very interesting to see winx and happer Clapper level weights in a big Randwick mile under hcp conditions
So glad we got to see Winx and black cavier
Most watched video. I grew up in the 1980's; a Phar Lap fan, and I never thought I'd see anything like him. It always seemed so crazy that you'd worry about her losing; absurd to think she could be capable of defeat. I started going out to TAB's to watch her live, the vibe was electric. My favourite memory was sitting in there, after she'd again made mincemeat of her rivals, and someone loudly proclaimed "how good was that!" I turned around and it was the TAB chick sitting with us, because operations had ceased for the race.
You sort of have. Phar Lap won from 1400 metrea to 3200 metres, with up to 15 horses in a race, not 7. Still equal 1st with 27 Groups 1 wins. A world race win in 1932, dirt track record whilst injured with a bleeding split hoof. A 1930 Melbourne Cup win carrying 62.5kgs. 1931 led into the straight, finished 8th, carrying the heaviest weight ever, 68kgs. No other horse has attempted it. Winner, White Nose carried just 43.50kgs. Be like Winx carrying 76-78.5kgs in a sprint. Both champions, but Phar Lap ran longer distances, carried monumental weights, was shot at, held back in races & achieved more in his 5 1/2 years, with his peak still ahead of him & unfulfilled. He won 37/41 at his peak. 2x 2nds, a nose & a half neck returning from injury, a 3rd & unplaced when weighted out of the 1931 Melbourne Cup. He was a tier above.
@@graemealexander8804 take nothing away from Winx, but you couldn't have said it better. A lot of these horses are limited in some way or another, even at the highest level. Phar Lap was not limited in any way in terms of distance or frequency of racing. A horse like that is rarely seen.
@@graemealexander8804 you can't compare across eras like that. Phar Lap set records that would never even be attempted in the modern era. I honestly believe that, if we had footage of the 1928 AJC Plate there would little argument about the GOAT. But those things, as a measure, are not fair on horses racing today.
@@bgardiner3354 Correct. It is somewhat like comparing elite sprinters in athletics. The difference in "science" in tracks alone makes it a no brainer...cinders versus whiz bang synthetics. We are regularly seeing similar applied to turf horse tracks with sub terranian structures as per many elite football fields.
@@flamingfrancis absolutely. Setting aside the improvements in understanding animal health and training techniques. Harry Telford use to dose his horses with a tonic that contained often toxic amounts of arsenic. When Citation won the triple crown in 1948 when there was only 2 weeks between the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes but he won a Jersey Stakes in the two weeks between races. He then won a further 7 races before the end of the season at distances between 8 and 16F. Horses were made of different stuff back then... or maybe their opposition was not as good?
When she speeds up she gives off the impression she’s hovering on the grass
So does this horse who won 27 Group 1's, still equal 1st; the only horse to win all 4 races at Flemington including the 1930 Melbourne Cup, in a week & did it carrying 62.5kgs, 8.5kgs above the favourite nowadays. Won the the 1932 Agua Caliente, World's richest race. 7 race meeting, broke the track record on 1st run on dirt. Still in his winter coat. Was nearly lame prior, bleeding split hoof. Ran a 2 furlong section in a blistering 22 seconds. Ran distances from 1,400 metres to 3,200 metres. This champion should never be overlooked or forgotten. His record is incredible. Won 37/41 at his peak, 2x 2nds by less than a neck, a 3rd & unplaced once, weighted out of the 1931 Melbourne Cup, 68kgs. Like Winx carrying well over 75kgs.
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I don't know where to put this but I thought here would be
appropriate....The brave NINI, who blanketed Winx even as she battled
cancer has passed away on August 28...I followed her story and this is a
great loss....RIP, NINI
One of the very greatest racehorses of all time.
Certainly was a really impressive mare and 33 straight wins. Not sure if Australia will see the likes of her again and when you consider how little she cost! Unique and a true superstar
The faster they went , the easier she won.
The best mare I've ever seen on a racecourse and a true legend of the sport.
33 Straight wins and over two thirds of them at group one level.
A feat that I doubt we will ever witness the likes of again.
Certainly not in my lifetime..
A privilege to watch.
As I watch Winx I remember all my favorite racehorses...
Secretariat
Lady's Secret
Zenyatta
Amazing horses....🖤🖤🖤🖤
Over here Phar Lap Kingston Town Rising Fast
A class of her own…beautiful horse.I can say I was around when the best horse ran, WINX .❤️❤️❤️❤️
You really gotta feel for hartnell and happy clapper
And all the overseas contenders
But they were also great horses in their own right for sure
Also for the jockey who rode her for wins in her first two starts....Jason Collett, fine jockey and person.
Yep Hartnell would have won a lot of money
What would enable have done to winx beat harmell every time enable would of destroyed winx
Watching her bundle up before she kicked everyone's asses was so beautiful. Winx understood the assignment.
I love the first race, where Winx comes from dead last up the outside to blitz everyone. Incredible to watch!
Legend has it Bowman still hasn't moved... She's a bloody ripper.
What A Horse. Amazing turn of speed and the jockey hardly ever moves on her. One out of the box for sure.
I put 200 to win on her very last race. Naturally she won and I didn’t win much but it was exciting to watch and win on her last race. What an amazing horse
I've never even heard of this horse but maybe there's Australian's who've never heard of Frankel? Only by chance did I find out about this horse today
@@David.L291 winx is half sister of great mare zanyetta hope u heard abt her
@@David.L291 Oh, we have heard of him alright. Won ten group one races in his 14 only starts. Australia's Black Caviar was undefeated in 25 starts, 15 being group one races including one at Royal Ascot on three legs. (look up the veterinarian's report)
Oh the Aussies know about Frankel alright. There's probably over a dozen progeny of Frankel currently racing in Australia
@@amansalhotra8329 Winx was better.
We'll never see anything like this again
Cigar, once in a lifetime horse, my hero. But watching Winx for the first time melted my heart. The greatest horse I have ever seen run!
Try this even greater horse. Still equal 1st Group 1 wins, 27. At his peak, won 37/41, with 2x 2nds (a nose & half neck, a 3rd & once unplaced, 68kgs 1931 Melbourne Cup, around 13kg above weight for age. Ran 3rd as a 3yo in the 1929 Melbourne Cup, the jockey fought with him in the straight & punters lost £1 million pounds under great suspicion. The horse that "beat him, he raced 4 times the following season & won all 4. Won the 1930 Melbourne Cup with the 2nd heaviest weight ever, 62.5kgs. Weighted out of it in 1931, the only horse ever to carry a record weight of 68kgs. Led into the straight, before finishing 8th. The "Winner," White Nose carried 43.50kgs! Be like Winx carrying 76.5-78.5kgs.
Travelled by boat to US/Mexico, when arrived was almost lame. Virtually no preparation & raced in his winter coat. Profusely bleeding split hoof, started last, ran around the field up before the turn, had a rest, then kicked on when challenged. Ran 2 furlongs in a blistering 22 seconds. 7 races held at the Agua Caliente race meet & this Australian horse broke the track record, 1st run on dirt, albeit injured. Still equal 1st, 89 years after sadly passing at just 5 1/2yo. Ran distances from 1400 metres to 3200 metres & usually fields of 15 horses, not 7. Still the only horse to win all 4 Flemington races including the Melbourne Cup in the same week. Still the greatest.
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@@graemealexander8804 Just one thing though, Never did you mention the name of the horse lol
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Just when I thought we'd never see a more dominant runner than Black Caviar along came this superstar
Wow winx is the best ever not just her 33 wins but how she won them 28 group ones no body will ever do that again ❤❤❤
I’ll always feel sorry for Hartnell and Haylist. Both absolute champions but wrong place, wrong time
Kinda like what happened with Sham, if it weren’t for secretariat he’d of likely no doubt been the triple crown winner. Absolutely amazing horse, overshadowed by one that exceeded his abilities to race.
Hartnell a champion...a gr3 English hack...he raced his guts out though and winning the Epsom hcp with top weight was good..
I'm not sure if she ever raced in the US(Breeders Cup) Or the UK&France?..But this Horse was something truly Special!
.She never looked like she had to be pushed,just kept on going through the "Gears" and some.. Amazing!!
Jerry O'Shea
If Winx had raced in the UK or USA, it would have been the same scenario in those countries.
She is the greatest horse ever on turf.
I'm a Brit too, but she would have beaten Frankel also I believe.
@@silversurfer7341 that's a big call... but Frankel never had to race anything like her in his career. Would gave been a hell of a race.
The Breeder's Cup us a non-event for Australian horses. Had she raced overseas it would have been at Royal Ascot
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It would.
I personally think that Winx may well have beaten him .
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Hiya....I have always wondered why that is?
Is it the long travelling distance?
Maybe the prize money and prestige is already very good in Australia ?
Oh Hell Yeah Winx Thanks Girl Your Races to the Line We're Magical 🏆🏇🎆
Best race horse to ever see this planet.
Must be nice being her jockey. Just sit there and hang on so you don't fall lol. That's how great she was and to me she and Senyatta are in my heart forever.
that is incredible .. what a lovely horse and rider
I backed her when she won that first of 33 in Queensland, turning for home I nearly tore up my ticket she seemed too far back. What a legend !
I love to watch horse race on tv! I love horses they are loveable; caring; warmth; i detest Animal Cruelty! Animals Have Rights Also! It is a sunny day; i am watching it November 2024! The holidays are Aproaching?😢😢😢😢😢
The ultimate horse, love her so amazing
I think Hugh Bowman said it best: "Really great race horses can sustain their best closing run for 200-300 meters." Bowman said "Winx could sustain her run for 600-700 meters if necessary." The first race in this video shows this type of run from dead last. This is basic math and riding skills... for a superb specimen. In her 17th Group I victory, she sustained her run for 400 meters. In her 2nd Queen Elizabeth, she did this again. In her 26th straight victory at Randwick, she did it again (400 meters). In every one of her victories, her sustained closing run was at least 260-300 meters. Winning 33 straight times is... just ridiculous.
Pure emotion when I compare what this Australian jockey/trainer combo did for that horse compared to South African horse racing today. Just tears😒😔😔😔
I can safely one of the only horses I’ve never lost money on. Absolute champion!
You must of won what? $2.40 AUD 🤣
@@beavacuda futures markets. There was plenty of money to be made.
@@beavacuda 2.35 haha
$1.05 😂
Bowman knows exactly how to handle winx, all credit to him and of course the very special winx... absolute legends the pair of them...go Bowman go winx...#fjb
Please! You could have stuck a first year apprentice on her and she would have been as successful
@@bgardiner3354 Dont think they could handle the sheer power to be fair, but what would I know!
These records will NEVER be beaten, not in our lifetime our the history of planet earth...FACTS 🐎
She's the best I have ever seen,just a absolute classy racehorse in any era
Unbelievable.. she was just awesome
I've watched many horse races since 1997. Let's not compare dirt vs turf. I"m from the US. I prefer dirt. But my gawwwwwd.... Winx is the BEST turf horse of all time, and in the conversation of the best horse of all time. Trying to pick just 1 ...too tough. She is at or near the top regardless of surface, and there are PLENTY of reasons to say why she stands alone at the top. I've only recently started researching her and her races. She's done things that Secretariat, Spectacular Bid, Flightline, Affirmed, Cigar, etc have never done.
@@jamesshitz7803 Did your horses turn up to Challenge her ? NO, then shut the cakehole.
Very unique horse. Like Frankel, her running gait was so different from the other horses.
They should've went for the Melb Cup with her early days. Would've been one of the most popular wins ever. Would've got weighted out obviously later on. Best horse I've seen by a long way
The best there will ever be , if Waller set her for an Everest shed win that, Phar Lap got the country thru the great depression the Diva won 3 Cups in a row but this girl will be the best we ever see in history. In 100 yrs time no horse will have equaled what she has done nor got close. To win 4 Cox Plates is not hesrd of and if he she had raced another season it would have been 5. She didnt need to travel, only 3 horses would have lined up against her. She is the greatest the World will ever see.
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Wrong Frankel was the best horse the world will ever see
Lol
Say What You Want About Winx But Her"33" Straight Wins is a Feat Never to be Duplicated Again...33 Straight Wins is Mind Boggling Regardless of The Competition
Has to be one of the greatest horses ever no doubt about it.The Rolls Royce of racing.👌👌👌👌👌👌
Would love to of seen winx v Frankel in there primes.... the best of the best heads up
That first race is unreal
She bought great joy to lovers of horses and racing. It is enough to just watch a real champion do her thing.
Imagine if it was possible to see Kingston Town at his peak and Winx race against eachother over 2000m? That would have been one really good race. Or even if they were the same age and could have raced eachother often, would have been very good to watch. I reckon they both would have beat eachother at different times.
Imagine if Australia stopped gatekeeping every time Enable was mentioned, Frankel too. Gatekeeping is all Australian racing is now.
@@havanadaurcy1321 imagine if the Europhiles didn't get so defensive every time they think the battlements are at risk
@Hoa Tattis he's just a troll... try not to pay them too much attention. They eventually slink off
@@bgardiner3354 One thing for sure...I can tell you where his Havana cigar is firmly planted.
Agree. Both are champs. The King still the best I have seen. Would also like to see Luskin Star race Winx.
Definitely up there with the very best ever on turf. She was a true phenomenon.
Her half sister Zenyatta, wasn't bad on dirt either.
1. Zenyatta is not a half anything to Winx. They are by the same sire. 2. Zenyatta's record is nowhere near that of Winx. Nowhere
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Yes they were both sired by streetcry.
Saw her close up in the mounting yard, she was ALL hindquarters!
Definitely a freak.
She was something very, very special.
In the same bracket as Enable, and Zenyatta
Frankel was a class apart,but Regardless of all those that "doubt",....the irrefutable fact is that Australia is a HUGE horse racing country and for this once in a lifetime horse to achieve all those wins,in big,big races,secures the legend for all time.
Way to go winx.
Yes I think we have jealous babies on here.
You 2 need to get a room
Bu atı keşfettiğim icin cok mutluyum winx kazanmayi fotofinishe hic birakmamis hep fark atmis iste bu at :)
What about the virtual ladbrokes cup?
Is Winx a thoroughbred or quarter horse , her races seem like a quarter horses length of race
It only looks like that since I only showed the last quarter of a mile of the race. She was a thoroughbred. Quarter Horses I don’t believe race on grass either.
Ok thank you for the information
The mother of Consistency.
I do not much about hoses but what surprised me was the easy way to Win , Too much Horse , not matter what people says about the competition but to win 33 Straight. Races is. Out of this World , much respect. For Winx
What a champion
Here in America most races run with 6 to 8 horses only. In Australia Winx beat million horses every race. Never ever such a successful horse will come to earth. Write it down. Never ever. Love you Great Winx
She has got to be the GREATEST HORSE of ALL TIME. HANDS DOWN.
Imagine breeding Winx with the mighty Frankel
Too different...
I am sure we have good sires here in Australia
My grandma, her friends own Winx and Black Caviar
Congrats on being born in to wealth
@@juanh6334 thanks! She is so sweet and LOVES apples she’s also a very smooth ride for the little kids
Congrats to our queen on her new baby. 🙂
would have love to see her vs Zenyatta
Can't help but feel devastated for Hartnell.
Reckon Winx could've won any race she was placed in from a Lightning Stakes to a Melbourne Cup.
Yeah it's like Sham v Secretariat. Sham would have won a lot of races if it wasn't for Secretariat.
Yes Winx would have won any race any distance any conditions any pace, she was just unbelievable at adapting to whatever circumstances unfoldered during the race
Why did she only run in exactly the same races against the same horses over and over again then?
Moreso Happy Clapper who was bridesmaid more than Hartnell.
@@lesparker5605 I dont think she was a two miler I have not heard of anyone that said she was.
Street Cry also sired Shocking, a Melbourne cup winner and Whobegotyou, a Caulfield Stakes and Guineas winner, Long John, as well as Street Sense, A Kentucky Derby winner.
Zenyatta
So who do Aussies think is the better horse? Black Caviar or Winx?
I’m not Australian but Black Caviar streets ahead of Winx.
Black Caviar was racing the best sprinters in the world
Winx was racing very moderate opposition
@@elgransenor1472 I've researched more. They are different distance running horses. Who would win in a fight? A lion or a shark?
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The gear she can hit over the last 100m is ridiculous.
“ Remember forever, how you feel right now”
Other horses feel like donkeys in front of Winx. Truly amazing.
Watching Bowman let her have her head and she starts clicking into the higher gears on the last two furlongs made for some of the best Saturday afternoons ever.
The best Group 1 winner of my life. I saw a bloke put down $100,000 on Winx at 1.03 for $3k. Great era of racing. 😂😂😂
Best horse in the world %100 any track ,any conditions any race wat ay champ
are these in order? in the video it seemed to have went from win #21 to win #25
Cigar was a good horse, but I don't know if he had any little cigarettes
Amazing horse but still disappointed she never came to America to race in the Breeders Cup
You're basically guaranteed to never see a good horse from Australia at the Breeders' Cup due to the timing conflict, unfortunately.
@@m.l.b.2908 yeah it’s disappointing especially when there is one as great as Winx. Obviously a great horse but would of liked to see how she did against the worlds best
The worlds best don’t race in the turf races at the Breeders Cup
The Breeders Cup may be the best dirt racing in the world but it’s not the best turf racing
If you wanted to see her race the worlds best turf horses she needed to run in the Eclipse or the Juddmonte International or the Irish Champion Stakes.
During her career the races she needed to run in were the 2018 Prince of Wales against Poets Word and Cracksman, the 2018 Eclipse and Juddmonte and Irish Champion against Roaring Lion and the 2018 Champion Stks against Cracksman.
I can’t really find a suitable challenge for her in 2017 and 2016 was too early in her career she was still in the process of establishing herself at home.
She was a pure freak💪
You gotta feel for poor happy clapper!
Not really mac..He won the 18 Doncaster with 57kg...Wonder if he still wins if she had to give him weight instead of going off the ladies tees of wfa...hmmm..George Ryder 2 weeks prior winx beat him by 0.8l with him giving her 2kg under wfa
Takes a Special Horse to Win 33 Straight Races Riddled With Group 1 Events And Never Once Have a Hiccup in Form
What a wonderful relationship trainer Jockey and winx
Her first 2 wins here were a little out of nowhere? Not nowhere but I don’t think anybody expected that - but when she spelled and came back and won that Theo Marks people started to think well shit maybe (& it wasn’t the strongest race she ever won not by a long shot but the way she won was an impossible spot) maybe she’s something special.
Again I’m an Aussie - I’m not gonna say Winx is the goat or something 😂 I know she never raced outside Oz but she was a champion. Champion ability. Freakish ability to be honest. If she raced top tier comp every start she would have won that many in a row - she had a few starts where she was nearly beaten not quite her best - but she was a champion. Freakish sectionals. She would have been competitive against anything.
I mean the 2018 Turnbull - 32.2 the last 600 to win from a mental position. Horses just don’t go really any faster at the end of 2000.
She was a great champion one of the best anywhere in any country! Hope she passes on her genetics /greatness.
I doubt this horse could hold against world class horses.
Don't get me wrong i love winx
@@vivirespana2331 Australasian horses are world class horses.
@@zabaleta66 winx didn't go out of his country to win races neither did frankel and he's a champion too.
What I'm trying to say is they had great horses they needed to show the world that they are the best and they didn't
@@zabaleta66 they were too afraid of breaking the perfect record
It is a shame there is a greater horse who ran the same distances & further to 3200 metres & has even superior genes, but none exist. Phar Lap.
Poor Happy Clapper 😂 would’ve won heaps more if not for Winx
Same with Hartnell!!
Just one. She's the greatest animal that ever raced. Horse, greyhound, human. Nobody else.
Happy Clapper ... the horse that just couldn't.