AT RANDWICK The Winx Stakes opens the Group 1 season on Saturday. Fourteen accepted, Chris Waller has seven of them, and Autumn Glow meets Sheza Alibi for the first time. The Memsie follows at Caulfield on 29 August.
Australian and New Zealand racing and bloodstock, and the Hong Kong and regional racing that connects to it. The spring and autumn carnivals, the sales ring, and the shuttle trade that ties all three hemispheres together.
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Fourteen for the Winx
The two best horses in the country meet for the first time, and one of them cost ten thousand dollars.
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Ten things to know today: Australasia
Sheza Alibi accepts for the Winx Stakes, the trials get washed around, and Caulfield starts its last season before the bulldozers.
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Two unbeaten reputations, one 1400 metres
Autumn Glow and Sheza Alibi have never met. On Saturday they open the Group 1 season against each other at Randwick.
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Spring starts, and the rain gets a vote
The Memsie is eleven days out, Caulfield is racing on the Heath, and Victoria’s weather has been rearranging everyone’s plans.