Winx - Just Simply Amazing

[Guest 2Admin2]

Wow!  What a run first up.  Congrats Winx, Waller and Bowman.  

[Irish 270]

Awesome.  I see they did some sort of survey in Oz as to what path she should take this campaign.  Can't remember all %ages exactly but 56% said go for a 4th Cox Plate.  20-something% said UK for the Queen Anne.  9% said the Breeders and 4% suggested 'other races'. 

Would the Arc be an option for her?

I wish they would retire her.  Let her put her feet up and reminisce on an amazing career.  My blood pressure would be a lot better.  

[Guest]

http://www.news.com.au/sport/superracing/winx-creates-history-by-winning-chipping-norton-stakes-at-randwick/news-story/ff056dd25f1e3c4a9f067990e6a1e44c

[skoozi 38]

Simply amazing, I hope she leaves some great foals and has along breeding career in front of her.

[jess 1,244]

Just ..... breathtaking. 

What a mare.  

[Gruff 2,790]

It’s actually Ridiculous, there was one Race last campaign at Randwick where she looked no chance(I know there may of looked more) and that was the day she was goin to get beat and still won. Love to see her Overseas

[Gruff 2,790]

I got the Mongolian khan/Tarzino /Winx/Jameka multi a few years back and they were giving $7 for Winx in Cox 

[Paddymc 24]

She is a marvel to watch - when she flattens out in the straight - could watch her all day

[rdytdy 5,341]

56 minutes ago, Gruff said:

It’s actually Ridiculous, there was one Race last campaign at Randwick where she looked no chance(I know there may of looked more) and that was the day she was goin to get beat and still won. Love to see her Overseas

She is overseas. 

[rdytdy 5,341]

She is an absolute champion. Love watching her race. 

[globederby12 1,495]

What a turn of foot. Jeeze,  I find watching this horse just brings goose bumps to the skin. 23 straight, 16 group ones , a horse to polarize two nations .

Simply mindboggling.

[Trump 2,741]

2 hours ago, rdytdy said:

She is an absolute champion. Love watching her race. 

You might  - but Don't shout too loud or BarryB will accuse you of being unpatriotic! 

[La Zip 468]

15 hours ago, Irish said:

Awesome.  I see they did some sort of survey in Oz as to what path she should take this campaign.  Can't remember all %ages exactly but 56% said go for a 4th Cox Plate.  20-something% said UK for the Queen Anne.  9% said the Breeders and 4% suggested 'other races'. 

Would the Arc be an option for her?

I wish they would retire her.  Let her put her feet up and reminisce on an amazing career.  My blood pressure would be a lot better.  

I actually believe her very lucky owners will be doing her, the mare, an incomprehensible injustice I’d they don’t take her to Royal Ascot because most overseas enthusiasts will not concede she is the best horse in the world until she graces European turf.   So I don’t know what is stopping them. Keeping her here is the easy option.  For people who have been heavily involved in racing since they were born, I find them total bogans, with no appreciation of international racing and the “responsibility”they have, not just to the racing public,  but to the Australasian thoroughbred industry as a whole. 

[jeepers 276]

If she were mine I would not take her to see the Queen.If the Poms or any other country don't think she's the best in the world,then invite them here to Aust in a special race set aside for the occasion and see if they can beat her.Why take her to outside her time zone just to satisfy some unsettled racing critic. She's too valuable to take the risk of playing with her hormones which may affect her ultimate ability.

[Berri 2,131]

Just create an invite only match race at Elerslie where the rest of the world can experience an independent and unique racing surface. Get the NZRB to halt the FOB platform because it's going to be delivered late, so we may as well use the funds on a project that has a better chance of succeeding, invite all the VIP punters from Australia to Elerslie so that they can bet and won't be thrown a red card if they bet from Aussie, put them up at the most expensive hotel with caviar, call girls, a ticket or three to the Warriors match so that we can demonstrate our prowess on the field as well, bring back Buck, get Dave Ellis to syndicate a horse on the day of the races for under a 40% profit margin, Tan, Sweeny et al hold a worldwide tipping competition so the World can appreciate (you know....get their feel) their talent, and ask Glenda to attend a race meeting where she is seen to have a bet, talk with the trainers and owners and makes statements like "everything is going just fine" despite there being a 1.8m profit hole for January and the VIP punters going to fairer shores.

That'll just about do it.....

[Blue 1,095]

Sorry Berri, won't happen. She'll slip a little on the way to the barrier and it'll be abandoned.

[jess 1,244]

She'd be a fascinating study in biomechanics (and in a number of other ways of course ...) -  she just looks so effortless and efficient in the way she gallops.

Paddymc summed it up .. could watch her all day.

[Ragamuffin 122]

Amazing mare, hope they don't travel her overseas, she gets anxious enough in the gates, has nothing to prove I wouldn't risk anything going amiss, she'll make more in the paddock foaling now than risking racing on

[Ponderosa8 1,352]

2 hours ago, La Zip said:

I actually believe her very lucky owners will be doing her, the mare, an incomprehensible injustice I’d they don’t take her to Royal Ascot because most overseas enthusiasts will not concede she is the best horse in the world until she graces European turf.   So I don’t know what is stopping them. Keeping her here is the easy option.  For people who have been heavily involved in racing since they were born, I find them total bogans, with no appreciation of international racing and the “responsibility”they have, not just to the racing public,  but to the Australasian thoroughbred industry as a whole. 

Because the connections of Frankel didnt bring him down to Australia to race, how could most overseas enthusiasts have said he was the best in the world. I reckon they just took the easy option but not sure I'd call his owner Khalid Bin Abdullah a bogan though.

[Trump 2,741]

Why go overseas when she's already rated best in world on grass? A 4th Cox Plate would make history - in much the same way as Makybe's 3 Melb Cups. If she wins the QE and the Cox, she'll create a legend and bank another $4m or so for her owners As for breeding? Makybe, Sunline, Black Caviar - nothing from them as yet. 

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Trump said:

Why go overseas when she's already rated best in world on grass? A 4th Cox Plate would make history - in much the same way as Makybe's 3 Melb Cups. If she wins the QE and the Cox, she'll create a legend and bank another $4m or so for her owners As for breeding? Makybe, Sunline, Black Caviar - nothing from them as yet. 

Which one of the 4 has the best breeding?

[skoozi 38]

From what I can remember of reading Tesio's theories, they use up their nervous energy racing and do not have anything left to pass on to there foals. I think you can find some great race mares that have left stakes winning progeny, they may not have raced on too long before going to the breeding paddock.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, skoozi said:

From what I can remember of reading Tesio's theories, they use up their nervous energy racing and do not have anything left to pass on to there foals. I think you can find some great race mares that have left stakes winning progeny, they may not have raced on too long before going to the breeding paddock.

Winx's dam was one tough horse that performed well.

[von Smallhaussen 3,226]

29 minutes ago, poundforpound said:

Urban Sea won The Arc, and left two Arc winners in Sea The Stars and Galileo.

Just saying.

yep - racing has made a fool of better people than you and me p4p! I can't remember his name though 

[Trump 2,741]

Of the 4 champion mares, Black Caviars female line has been very impressive in the breeding barn - the most impressive.