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Winx: The authorised biography

Winx: The authorised biography

The full story of the world's best racehorse

by Andrew Rule
Paperback
Publication Date: 05/11/2019

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In Winx: The full story of the world's best racehorse, Andrew Rule takes us behind-the-scenes into the incredible story of 'The Queen' of racing. Now with bonus material detailing the thrilling final chapters of her career.

Winx joins Phar Lap and Bradman in the history books: a national sporting idol and the world's racehorse extraordinaire.

4 Cox Plate Victories
The only horse in history
33 Consecutive Wins
Australian record holder
25 Group 1 Win
World record holder

'She just exploded,' Bowman recalls of that moment, the wonder not dimmed by time and retelling. 'She put the race to sleep in three strides. It was like a fairy tale. A star was born that day.' She wins that first Cox Plate by nearly five lengths, running away. The performance makes her name. A win with X factor.

Australia's world champion racehorse Winx has become a sporting giant, transcending racing in the same way that Muhammad Ali transcends boxing and Bradman transcends cricket. She is described by her trainer, Chris Waller, as a supreme athlete-a world-class sprinter with a freakish ability to dominate longer distances 'like Usain Bolt running in 1500-metre races'.

She is the Phar Lap of the modern age, and one of the greatest racehorses in 300 years of thoroughbred racing. In Winx: The full story of the world's best racehorse, Andrew Rule brings together the inside accounts of those closest to the 'Mighty Mare' to tell the complete story of our greatest racing legend.

ISBN:
9781760876104
9781760876104
Category:
Horse racing
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
05-11-2019
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
520
Dimensions (mm):
234x153mm
Weight:
0.54kg
Andrew Rule

Andrew Rule has been telling true stories for more than 45 years. He started as a reporter in a Victorian country newspaper in the 1970s and went on to work for some of Australia's biggest news publications: The Age, the Melbourne Herald, The Herald Sun and a national magazine.

He is known for writing about crime and its detection but has also covered global events from the Olympics to the Christchurch earthquake, a Papua New Guinea military coup, the Bali nightclub bombing and Japan's catastrophic tsunami. He has written and co-written many books ranging across subjects from horseracing to serious biographies, but most often about crime. He is currently an associate editor with News Corp.

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