Cox Plate betting

The WS Cox Plate is a Group 1 weight-for-age race over 2040m held every October at Moonee Valley in Melbourne, Australia. One of the premier events of Victoria’s spring carnival, it is widely considered the most prestigious thoroughbred race in Australasia.

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2023 Cox Plate results

Cox Plate history & race details

The Cox Plate was first run in 1922, when it was won by Tangalooma. The 2040m weight-for-age race is considered one of the toughest in the world, and it usually takes a champion race horse to win it.

Might And Power, Sunline, Northerly, Makybe Diva and So You Think are just a handful of champions to have their names etched on the trophy in recent times. Rising above all others is the the great mare Winx, who won the Cox Plate four times from 2015-2018.

The race is held at Moonee Valley, a tight-turning track in Melbourne that is a great amphitheatre in which to watch horse racing. Winx’s blistering time of 2:02.94 in 2017 set a new benchmark at track and distance, beating her own record-breaking run of 2015 by four-hundredths of a second.

The Cox Plate is run at Group 1 level — the highest in thoroughbred racing. Between 1999 and 2005, it was part of the Emirates World Series Racing Championship. Other races in this series included the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Royal Ascot, Japan Cup, Dubai World Cup, Arlington Million, Hong Kong Cup, Canadian International Stakes, Grosser Preis von Baden, Irish Champion Stakes, Breeders’ Cup Turf and Breeders’ Cup Classic.

The Cox Plate has a good record with race favourites in recent years, with seven of nine winners from 2015-2023 starting as the market elect. The shortest-priced favourite to win was Phar Lap in 1931, when the great horse started at -1428.57.

Recent favourites to win include So You Think (-200) in 2010, Makybe Diva (+100) in 2005, Northerly (+300) in 2002, and Sunline (+138) in 2000. Winx was favourite for each of her four victories, paying +360 in 2015, -125 in 2016, -555.56 in 2017, and -416.67 in 2018.

Not all winners have been at such short odds, however. Pink Pinker paid a handsome +2500 in 2011, while maiden runner Shamus Award won at odds of +2000 two years later. Fields Of Omagh was at double digits for each of his two victories, jumping at +1600 in 2003 and then at +1800 in 2006. Since the turn of the millennium, seven runners have won at double-figure odds.

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