WINX is the current superstar of Australian racing and she won her second Group 1 Cox Plate last weekend, bringing her recent winning streak to 13 victories. She is edging closer to the Aus$10 million mark in prizemoney but a plan to line out again next weekend in the Group 1 Emirates Stakes has now been shelved, and we will see her again in 2017.

The five-year-old daughter of Street Cry is head and shoulders ahead of any other racehorse in her family going back generations. In fact the only other runners of significant merit in the family are her half-brother El Divino and their dam Vegas Showgirl.