Tragedy For Winx As Her First Foal Dies
The owners of beloved mare Winx are focusing on the champion's welfare following the death of her much-anticipated first foal.
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Waller Saves Winx Relation For Another Day
Racing fans will have to wait a bit longer for the debut of champion Winx’s younger half-sister. Covent Garden, a two-year-old filly, was scratched from a race at Warwick Farm on Monday with the public holiday meeting to be run on a heavy track. She was entered to make her debut over 1200m but the[...]
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Winx Sibling Set To Make Racetrack Debut
Almost six years to the day since Winx made a winning debut at Warwick Farm, her half-sister Covent Garden will kick off her racetrack career at the same western Sydney venue. Winx posted the first of 37 wins in a midweek race on June 4, 2014 and Covent Garden will be given the chance to[...]
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Winx And Black Caviar Feature In Museum
Champions Winx and Black Caviar feature prominently in the expanded horse racing section of the revamped Australian Sports Museum. The museum at the Melbourne Cricket Ground re-opens on Saturday after undergoing a $17 million refurbishment in the past six months. The ASM houses historic items from a range of sporting codes including football, cricket, cycling,[...]
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Winx Confirmed In Foal To I Am Invincible
The owners of champion Winx have confirmed the mare is pregnant with her first foal by leading stallion I Am Invincible. Debbie Kepitis, Peter and Patty Tighe and Richard Treweeke issued a statement on Friday expressing their delight at the news with Winx expected to give birth next October. “We, the Winx ownership group are[...]
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Winx Reported To Be Carrying First Foal
The owners of champion Winx are expected to confirm she is successfully in-foal to super sire I Am Invincible in the coming days. With protocols akin to a Royal announcement, connections will wait until the results of the 45-day scan before confirming her pregnancy on Monday. A report in The Australian suggested Winx had failed[...]
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Sunshine Coast Guineas Renamed To Honour Winx
Winx will be celebrated with another race in her name with the Group Three Sunshine Coast Guineas to honour the champion who began her sequence of 33 wins in the Group Three race. The now-retired Winx won the 2015 Sunshine Coast Guineas (1600m), producing a devastating burst of speed from back in the field, a[...]
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Five Contenders For Vic Horse Of The Year
Four-time Cox Plate winner Winx headlines the five contenders for the Victorian Racehorse of the Year award for 2018/19. The Racehorse of the Year will be one of the awards announced at the annual Victorian Racing Awards on Saturday night in Melbourne. Melbourne Cup winner Cross Counter, Australian Guineas and All-Star Mile winner Mystic Journey,[...]
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Expensive Gamble Pays Off For Winx Sibling
There will never be another Winx but that hasn’t stopped a baby sister already trying to match her famous sibling. The mother of Winx, Vegas Showgirl, gave birth to the filly by late Japanese stallion Deep Impact, about 11am on Tuesday at Segenhoe Stud in the Hunter Valley. “I’ve probably seen about 20,000 foalings, the[...]
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Winx, Waller Big Winners At Nsw Awards
Champion Winx has again been celebrated as the NSW horse of the year for her final season during which she was again unbeaten. The mare has been named the NSW miler and middle distance horse of the year in addition to the top honour at the NSW Racehorse Owners event in Sydney on Thursday. Her[...]
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Bowman Returns For Post-Winx Era
With a rested body and a clear mind, Hugh Bowman returns to race riding at Randwick ready for the next chapter of his career. Not only has he made peace with that, but he’s also looking at life without Winx as the start of a new era. The champion jockey hasn’t ridden in a race[...]
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Bowman Returns For Post-Winx Era
With a rested body and a clear mind, Hugh Bowman returns to race riding at Randwick ready for the next chapter of his career. Not only has he made peace with that, but he’s also looking at life without Winx as the start of a new era. The champion jockey hasn’t ridden in a race[...]
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Bowman Admits Winx Campaign Took A Toll
As Hugh Bowman prepares to return to race riding for the first time in two months, he has admitted the emotion surrounding Winx took a mental and physical toll. The champion jockey has confirmed he will return at the Randwick meeting on Saturday week, having not ridden since May 1 after deciding to take an[...]
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Winx To Be Served By I Am Invincible
Champion Winx is to be mated with I Am Invincible in her first season at stud later this year. Her owners, Peter and Patty Tighe, Richard Treweeke and Debbie Kepitis, announced on Monday they had chosen the Yarraman Park stallion as her first mating. They issued a statement via the mare’s trainer Chris Waller saying[...]
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Winx Honoured In Special Doomben Promotion
Champion mare Winx’s great career will be remembered at the racetrack where her marvellous Group One run started. In 2015 Winx began her world record of 25 consecutive Group One wins in the Queensland Oaks which was run at Doomben. Winx’s connections have for the first time at an Australian racecourse agreed to display each[...]
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Winx To Be Honoured With Stand At Randwick
Retired champion Winx is to have a new public stand at Randwick Racecourse named in her honour. Fittingly the facility is on the Leger Lawn looking directly at the 200m-marker where Winx customarily moved up to her rivals before going straight past them. The mare recorded 20 of her 37 wins at Randwick including her[...]
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Winx To Be Honoured With Stand At Randwick
Retired champion Winx is to have a new public stand at Randwick Racecourse named in her honour. In a joint venture, Racing NSW and the Australian Turf Club will build the stand which will accommodate about 5000 people at the Leger end of the course adjacent to the Queen Elizabeth Stand. The ATC and Racing[...]
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