Winx (horse)

Winx
Sire	Street Cry
Grandsire	Machiavellian
Dam	Vegas Showgirl
Damsire	Al Akbar
Sex	Mare
Foaled	(2011-09-14) 14 September 2011 (age 13)[1][2] Jerrys Plains, New South Wales, Australia
Country	Australia
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Fairway Thoroughbreds
Owner	Magic Bloodstock Racing, R G Treweeke & D N Kepitis
Trainer	Chris Waller[3]
Jockey	Hugh Bowman
Record	43: 37-3-0
Earnings	A$26,421,176[4]
Major wins
Furious Stakes (2014) Phar Lap Stakes (2015) Sunshine Coast Guineas (2015) Queensland Oaks (2015) Theo Marks Stakes (2015) Epsom Handicap (2015) W. S. Cox Plate (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) Apollo Stakes (2016, 2017, 2019) Chipping Norton Stakes (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) George Ryder Stakes (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) Doncaster Handicap (2016) Warwick/Winx Stakes (2016, 2017, 2018) George Main Stakes (2016, 2017, 2018) Caulfield Stakes (2016) Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2017, 2018, 2019) Chelmsford Stakes (2017) Turnbull Stakes (2017, 2018)
Awards
Australian Horse of the Year (2015/6, 2016/7, 2017/8, 2018/9) Australian Champion Middle Distance Racehorse (2015/6, 2016/7, 2017/8, 2018/9) World's Top-Ranked Turf Horse (2016, 2017) World's Best Racehorse – tie (2018) Timeform rating: 134[5] Secretariat Vox Populi Award (2018)
Honours
Australian Racing Hall of Fame (2017) Winx Stakes Australia Post stamp issue Winx Grandstand at Royal Randwick Statues at Moonee Valley and Rosehill Gardens
Last updated on 15 May 2019

Winx (foaled 14 September 2011) is a retired champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse. She won 37 of 43 career starts, including, between May 2015 and her retirement in April 2019, her last 33 races in succession, including 25 Group 1s (a world record), at distances ranging from 1300 metres (roughly 6+1⁄2 furlongs) to 2200 metres (roughly 11 furlongs). 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 retained this ranking in 2017 and in 2018 was co-ranked as the best horse in the world. In 2017 she was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame, only the third horse to earn this honour while still in training. Over her career, she earned more than 26 million Australian dollars.^[6]

Winx began her racing career with three straight wins but then won only one race in her next seven starts. Towards the end of her three-year-old campaign, she rebounded to win two races in May 2015, including the Group 1 Queensland Oaks, to start her winning streak. As a four-year-old, 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 W. S. Cox Plate and Doncaster Mile. In the 2016/7 season, she successfully defended her 2015 Cox Plate win with a commanding eight length victory over rival Hartnell. She completed the season with a win in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes and was again named Horse of the Year.

For the 2017/18 season, she earned her third Horse of the Year honour after recording seven straight wins, including her third victories in the Cox Plate, Chipping Norton and George Ryder and her second win in the Queen Elizabeth. In the 2018/19 season, Winx began her seven-year-old campaign on 18 August in a race renamed in her honour and in doing so extended her winning streak to an Australasian record of 26, since extended to 33. Winx became the first horse in history to win the prestigious Cox Plate four times. She won the 2018 Secretariat Vox Populi Award, the top choice among race fans in a record 60 countries.

She finished her career on 13 April 2019 at Randwick racecourse by winning the Queen Elizabeth Stakes for the third time. She was then retired to be a broodmare.