The mighty mare, Winx, has blown away an international field to win the Queen Elizabeth Stakes and equal Phar Lap’s record of 37 career wins, bowing out of racing with a 33-race winning streak dating over four years.
Against a high-powered field including Hartnell and Harlem (Great Britain), He’s Eminent and Mask of Time (Ireland), Kluger (Japan), and Shillelagh (NZ), the seven-year-old bay mare made easy work of it in front of more than 40,000 fans at Randwick Racecourse, timing her run to perfection to win by two lengths.
Mask of Time led out of the gates, with Harlem, Hartnell and Happy Clapper keeping pace with the front marker, and Winx comfortably back in 6th.
With about 600m of the 2000m course to run, jockey Hugh Bowman encouraged the all-time Australasian leading money-earner to start her run, passing Kluger with about 200m to go on the home straight.
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Race commentator Bruce McAvaney called it a “fairytale finale to the best story in the history of the sport” as Winx recorded trainer Chris Waller’s 100th Group 1 win.
It’s the third time Winx has won the Queen Elizabeth Stakes, netting a cool $2,320,000 in prize money, to end a remarkable career in which the mighty mare went 1,463 days without losing a race.
