AUSTRALIA’S most famous racehorse currently, Winx did her utmost to blow Saturday’s racetrack return, missing the jump by four lengths to settle last, six lengths off the lead in the Group 2 Warwick Stakes over Randwick’s 1,400 metres. Haring around the bend, Ecuador led but rolled off the fence allowing Foxplay a clear sight of the line as Winx, last of the eight runners was also the widest.

With a nod to her dam, the Akbar mare Vegas Showgirl, Winx produced an unexpected piece of compelling theatre, winning what she was entitled to lose to stun her fans to new levels of admiration. Though having smashed her timing chip in the barriers, it’s fair to say she also broke the clock in her blistering final 600 metres. Home by a head, she defeated her stablemate the Foxwedge mare Foxplay with the High Chaparral gelding Ecuador third.