2023 Winx Stakes Winner Fangirl for Waller

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Chris Waller‘s class mare Fangirl relished the retirement of last year’s champ Anamoe improving on her second last spring to hand her trainer his 150th career Group 1 success in Saturday’s $1 million Winx Stakes (1400m).

2023 Winx Stakes winner Fangirl improved on her second in the race last year to kick off her spring with a Group 1 win. Photo: Steve Hart.

Waller enjoyed his impressive seventh win in the race formerly known as the Warwick Stakes and renamed in honour of his classy mare Winx who herself won this event three times between 2016 and 2018.

Now 80-time Group 1 winning hoop James McDonald continued his dominance with a third Winx Stakes victory at Royal Randwick, giving Waller’s Sebring mare Fangirl ($5) a perfectly-timed ride down the outside on the Soft (6) track first-up.

Fangirl settled back early as the stable’s Rosehill Guineas winner Lindermann led the Winx Stakes field around before making her move on the straight.

She wound up out wide and finished strongly savaging the line and denying Waller’s American import, recent Hawkesbury Crown winning mare Princess Grace ($21), who finished a brave second right on the inside rail.

Annabel Neasham’s evergreen veteran Zaaki ($4.80F) was typically strong running third as the beaten top elect, while Waller also rounded out the First Four with Hinged ($12) good in fourth.

2023 Winx Stakes Results & Finishing Order 

	Finish	No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Bar.	Weight	Penalty	Starting Price
	1	13	FANGIRL	Chris Waller	James McDonald		11	57kg		$5
	2	15	PRINCESS GRACE (USA)	Chris Waller	Brett Prebble	0.3L	1	57kg		$21
	3	2	ZAAKI (GB)	Annabel Neasham	Ms Jamie Kah	0.48L	8	59kg		$4.80F
	4	16	HINGED	Chris Waller	Kerrin McEvoy	1.01L	5	57kg		$12
	5	8	OSIPENKO (NZ)	Chris Waller	Brenton Avdulla	1.24L	17	58.5kg		$21
	6	1	THINK IT OVER	Kerry Parker	Nash Rawiller	1.46L	7	59kg		$11
	7	11	DUAIS	Edward Cummings	Jason Collett	1.77L	9	57kg		$41
	8	12	MONTEFILIA	Chris Waller	Dylan Gibbons (a)	2.21L	15	57kg		$21
	9	17e	KING COLORADO	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Ms Louise Day	2.39L	3	50.5kg		$14
	10	5	FRANCESCO GUARDI (IRE)	Chris Waller	Jay Ford	3.12L	6	59kg		$101
	11	6	COMMUNIST	Michael Freedman	Tyler Schiller	4.56L	14	58.5kg		$26
	12	9	LINDERMANN	Chris Waller	Hugh Bowman	4.97L	18	58.5kg		$14
	13	18e	NAVAJO PEAK	David Payne	Joshua Parr	5.3L	12	59kg		$71
	14	10	MAJOR BEEL (NZ)	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Tim Clark	5.67L	10	58.5kg		$26
	15	7	GOLDEN MILE	James Cummings	Chad Schofield	6.41L	2	58.5kg		$12
	16	3	MO’UNGA (NZ)	Annabel Neasham	Sam Clipperton	7.22L	16	59kg		$9
		19e	ATTRITION	Mitchell Freedman			0
		14	GOING GLOBAL (IRE)	Chris Waller	Regan Bayliss		0
		4	ARAPAHO (FR)	Bjorn Baker	Ms Rachel King		0

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

 

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