Waller Saves Winx Relation For Another Day

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Chris Waller

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She was entered to make her debut over 1200m but the -trained filly was withdrawn on race morning.

Instead, Covent Garden is an acceptor for an 1100m maiden race for two-year-olds at on Wednesday.

She is among seven unraced juveniles in a field of 10 for the Harry Angel @ Darley Handicap.

Waller has also entered Covent Garden for a possible home track debut at on Saturday.

Covent Garden is by out of the Al Akbar mare .

Vegas Showgirl has produced eight foals but so far only Winx and the ill-fated Group Three winner , a son of leading sire , have made it to the races.

Winx, by Street Cry, dominated Australian racing during her 43-start career with 37 wins including 33 in a row spanning a four-year period of dominance from 2015.

Hugh Bowman, who formed a history-making association with Winx, has been booked to ride Covent Garden at Canterbury.

She is only the second Winx sibling prominent breeder has opted not to sell.

Camilleri sold a half-brother to Winx by Snitzel for $2.3 million at the 2016 .

Named Boulder City, the colt was retired to stud without racing.

He served his first book of almost 100 mares in 2018 at a modest stud fee of $5000.

Winx ran her last race in front of a sold-out Randwick crowd in April, 2019 as she swept to victory in the Stakes for the third time.

She is due to foal in the spring this year after a mating with Australia's most expensive sire, I Am Invincible.

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