Winx is the greatest Champion racehorse I'll see in my lifetime. She retired undefeated, having won 33 races in a row, 25 of them at 'Group 1' level which is a world record.
Winx is by Street Cry from Vegas Showgirl.
I might note, just for personal reasons - and my wife and close friends can attest - that I backed her at her very first start, which she won by ten lengths going away from a good field.
There will be controversy from the overseas pundits and sports writers but the reality is there was never a better horse and there never will be, certainly not in our lifetimes. And as I always underline, European owners and trainers do not genuinely care about their animals as far as I'm concerned, taking exorbitant risks with them often, and always with those people, it's just about the money.
Australians love their animals and racehorse people (by far the majority of them) love their horses and look after them superbly.
The trainer of Winx Christ Waller broke down and was visibly in tears after the race, probably from relief as much as anything else; it's an incredibly stressful position that he has been in, with expectations far beyond the ordinarily 'high' and many people on the outside of course, just snarling and gnashing, who always wish to see tragedy happen to anything successful. Never did happen in this instance, however, and the horse has entered the history books forever.
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