LONGINES QUEEN ELIZABETH STAKES (GROUP 1)

SUPERLATIVES aside, Winx’s win in Saturday’s A$4 million Longines Queen Elizabeth Stakes over Randwick’s 2,000 metres was clinical. She sat off the leaders, as is her way, with Bowman tracking wide on the turn, avoiding trouble. Cruising up to the lead as the partisan crowd gave voice, she picked off her rivals before putting four lengths into the next best, the Deportivo gelding Gailo Chop who’d battled bravely on having tried to lead all the way. The Doncaster winner, the Teofilo gelding Happy Clapper, ran on well, sticking to the rails to take third.