Racing: Winx Wins Australia's Cox Plate By Eight Lengths

MELBOURNE, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Oct, 2016 ) - Wonder mare Winx claimed her 13th consecutive win with back-to-back victories in Australia's premier weight-for-age race at the Moonee Valley racecourse in Melbourne on Saturday.

Winx, the 4/5 favourite, demolished the field to land the WS Cox Plate by eight lengths to follow up her emphatic victory in last year's race.

Hartnell (4-1), who was billed to match the five-year-old mare, was a well-beaten second with Yankee Rose (12-1) third.

It was Winx's ninth Group One success and increased her career prize money to Aus$9.3 million ($7 million). Winx joins Australian turf greats such as Phar Lap, Kingston Town, Sunline, Northerly and So You Think as a multiple winner of the Cox Plate. Winx won last year's race by almost five lengths but she was even more superior under jockey Hugh Bowman in Saturday's race.