IF you decided to back Winx at 2/17 (it’s a price, honest) for the Group 1 Colgate Optic White George Main Stakes at Randwick last Saturday morning, and if you decided to get up to have an early breakfast and watch the race live, you may have been doubting the wisdom of both decisions – or at least of the former – as Hugh Bowman niggled her along, fully eight or nine lengths behind the leader, as they raced around the sweeping home turn. But that’s Winx for you. She picked up her rivals as she always does, she swept down the outside and she powered to victory.

That’s Winx’s racing style, and it only enhances her appeal. She is like an equine Scurlogue Champ, and she has now won her last 20 races. She is box office south of the equator but, such is her prolificacy and her magnetism, she is also drawing the northern hemisphere in.