15 1924 - 2024 She won the rich VRC Newmarket Handicap carrying 1.5 kilograms over weight for age. Winx, a middle distance specialist, strung together a sequence of 33 successive top-class victories before her retirement in 2019. Unlike Black Caviar, she had tasted defeat in earlier starts. Her total of 37 career wins (a record 25 at Group 1) included four Cox Plates, three Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick and two Turnbull Stakes at Flemington. These achievements surpassed those of earlier turf legends. Phar Lap accumulated 37 wins, 14 in succession. Carbine was only once unplaced, with 33 wins, 15 in succession. Bernborough in the late 1940s strung together 15 great wins. As Black Caviar was extending her winning streak during 2012, she passed two early champions. Until then, the Australasian record for successive wins in first-class company was 19, shared by the mare Desert Gold and her contemporary Gloaming, the bay gelding with a white blaze, whose racing career stretched from 1918 to 1925. ‘Australasian’ is the key word, for most of the wins of both horses were in New Zealand. Desert Gold was New ABOVE: One of the cigarette cards produced by B. Muratti Sons & Co. OPPOSITE: Photo of Gloaming, signed by owner George Dean Greenwood.
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