BY BEN SPORLE Dual Ladbrokes Cox Plate champion Via Sistina has run her final race with trainer Chris Waller and connections Yulong announcing her retirement on Sunday. Via Sistina, the oldest mare at eight years of age (Southern Hemisphere time) to win the W.S. Cox Plate, will be remembered as a Valley Champion — one of only fourteen horses to have won the Cox Plate on multiple occasions and the holder of the 2040-metre track record around the former Moonee Valley circuit. In total she claimed 12 Group 1 races and $19.4 million in prizemoney headlined by a staggering eight-length Ladbrokes Cox Plate win in 2024 and a memorable clash with Buckaroo in 2025, making the final race on The Valley as we knew it one for the ages! “We feel that following her second Cox Plate win and her impressive victory in the Champions Stakes, she hasn’t come back this preparation as her normal, highly energetic self,” Chris Waller said in a statement. FAREWELL TO A VALLEY LEGEND VIA SISTINA
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