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Firstly I know SFA about horse racing but I think the great mare Winx deserves a special mention after winning Cox Plate no 4 and 29 wins straight.
I don't know what it is about horse racing but the very special ones get me all emotional when I watch them do their thing. Winx, Black Caviar, Makybe Diva and Kingston Town are the ones that bring a tear to my eye, not sure why. I don't know if anyone watched the race yesterday but at around 100m to go, when she the field well and truly beat, she turned her side ways (ala Usain Bolt) and looked at the crowd as if to say "I'm the best". What an amazing athlete and at $22,934,924 in prize money, she is no 2 in the world all time (only by a million or two), not bad for a $230,000 investment.
Bravo (or rather Brava) Winx.
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Yes.
Just a brilliant racehorse.
She seems to do it so easily. Halfway through yesterdays race I could see she had it won.
I love watching champions like that.
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10-28-2018, 12:20 AM
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Yep, the always seem to be doing it in 2nd gear, like when The Hyphen stitched up Brereton in the GF!
Agree about the races fate, Bowman had the brakes on until the very latest moment and she ran around them, she took the long way home and never looked like losing. Despite what the media want to paint the opposition were not all duds!
They looked like Brereton, stunned, frantic and powerless to do anything about it!
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An amazing horse!
I think it was her previous start where she was at the tail of the field with not much to go and she switched on the afterburners and went past them like they were running in custard.
I wonder if she’ll run again? Thirty wins would be an unbelievable record but she really has nothing more to prove.
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(10-28-2018, 05:39 AM)DJC link Wrote:An amazing horse!
I think it was her previous start where she was at the tail of the field with not much to go and she switched on the afterburners and went past them like they were running in custard.
I wonder if she’ll run again? Thirty wins would be an unbelievable record but she really has nothing more to prove.
She is truly amazing but she has a great team around her. She is managed to perfection. It just goes to show the importance of preparation of athletes, she is managed and prepared to the minute.
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Horse Racing is Fixed and about as honest as a Vladimir Putin promise.......trainers/jockeys bent as a P trap. Mug punters just get taken week after week.....
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(10-28-2018, 09:31 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Horse Racing is Fixed and about as honest as a Vladimir Putin promise.......trainers/jockeys bent as a P trap. Mug punters just get taken week after week.....
So is cycling, but then Cadel Evans wins clean.
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