Starting favourite certainly hasn’t been a shortcut to Cox Plate glory in recent years. © 2020 Racing Victoria Limited (RV) and other parties working with it. Sixteen of those 25 won their final Cox Plate lead-up. Green Moon, last year’s Cox Plate beaten favourite who like It’s A Dundeel missed a run in the Caulfield Stakes, also hasn’t started since the Underwood Stakes, while international contestants Side Glance and Mull of Killough haven’t run since the Arlington Million on 17 August. Each October at Moonee Valley Racecourse a new champion adds its name to the list of Cox Plate winners when the Group 1 weight-for-age classic takes place as part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. But It’s A Dundeel has some more disturbing stats against him than the poor record of those in the market. The next most productive race is the Turnbull Stakes with five, four Cox Plate winners have backed up from the Caulfield Cup, while the other races to have provided multiple Cox Plate winners are the Caulfield Guineas and Epsom Handicap with three each. Four-year-olds have the best record in the Cox Plate with 26 wins (five-year-olds have won 22) including the past three. Previous winners to sire a winner: Heroic (1926) sired Ajax (1938); Rubiton (1987) sired Fields Of Omagh (2006, 2003). Thirteen times since 1979 a horse has won the Cox Plate having had their previous start in the Caulfield Stakes. Winx . The first division was won by champion mare Flight (11/2); the second division was won by 50/1 longshot Leonard. Cox Plate past winners. Six of the other eight winners since 2003 started at double-figure odds. Many thought it could never be done. Cox Plate winners have in the past gone on to compete very successfully in the Melbourne Cup. Backing the favourite in the Cox Plate was a licence to print money from 1979 to 1990 – when 10 of the 12 winners were sent out public elect – but just five have won since and only two in the past decade (Makybe Diva $2 and So You Think ($1.50). A further six have finished second, while there have been four third placings. So You Think. He will carry number two and jump from barrier two, a symmetry that has been shared by the past three winners. In the past 30 years, 64 male three-year-olds have had a crack at the Cox Plate for four wins. VIC and SA racing materials, including fields, form and results, is subject to copyright which is owned respectively by RV and TRSA and other parties working with them. At least It’s A Dundeel won the Underwood Stakes, while Turnbull Stakes champ Happy Trails, The Metropolitan winner Seville and Caulfield Guineas victor Long John are the last-start winners in this year’s race. All but two of the 13 who came through the Caulfield Stakes were placed in the 2000m Group 1 at Caulfield, those being among the 25 last-start placegetters to have won the Cox Plate since 1979. All Too Hard righted the ship last year when he was runner-up to Ocean Park after winning the Guineas. Solvit (1994) and Pinker Pinker (2011) both had their final hit out on 1 October before winning the Cox Plate on the earliest possible date for the race – 22 October. His biggest problem, from a historical viewpoint, is the minor hoof injury that kept him out of the Caulfield Stakes, thus meaning he hasn’t started since the Underwood Stakes on 21 September  – 35 days before the Cox Plate. Neither of those were in the Caulfield Stakes, which has been clearly the most popular place to round out preparations for Cox Plate winners in the past 30 years. The most recent example is legendary runner Makybe Diva, who won the 2005 Cox Plate before going on to win the 2005 Melbourne Cup, her third (and last) consecutive Melbourne Cup victory. This may mean that the information listed on this page may not be correct. It’s A Dundeel and Super Cool are the four-year-olds in this year’s race. In addition to having to become the first horse to win the Cox Plate from barrier 12 – he drew 13 but moves in one slot with the scratching of Atlantic Jewel – It’s A Dundeel also has to do something only Fields of Omagh has achieved since 1979. Reading the past winners list for the Cox Plate is like a who’s who of quality Australian horses, stretching back to the first event in 1922. So You Think carried number five and jumped from gate five in 2010, Pinker Pinker was all the 11s in 2011 and Ocean Park was number nine from gate nine last year. If it wasn’t for All Too Hard you’d put the line through Long John. The first winner of the Cox Plate was Violencello, who took home the grand prize of 1000 pounds. Before the Underwood, the Kiwi’s only other run this campaign was in the Memsie Stakes and only Fields of Omagh, in the year of his first success (2003), has won the Cox Plate at his third run back from a spell. Better Loosen Up, Dane Ripper, Sunline (twice), Savabeel, Makybe Diva and El Segundo also won off a 21-day break – the longest break between runs for a Cox Plate winner since 1979. At this time, the Cox Plate was a Principal Race, graduating to a Group 1 event in 1979. The year after Red Anchor, Drawn ran third in the Cox Plate after winning the Guineas, but the next 13 Guineas winners who contested the Cox Plate all finished unplaced. The next most productive race is the Turnbull Stakes with five, four Cox Plate winners have backed up from the Caulfield Cup, while the other races to have provided multiple Cox Plate winners are the Caulfield Guineas and Epsom Handicap with three each. It’s A Dundeel had enough against him in Saturday’s Sportingbet Cox Plate without the burden of favouritism. Known as the ‘race where champions are made’, the Cox Plate is run over 2040m and offers $5 million in total prize money. HERALD Sun sports journalist Jon Anderson stacks up his best Cox Plate winners since he first attended the race as a fascinated 14-year-old in 1970. The Cox Plate has been run since 1922, we take a look at the previous winners of the horse race on our past winners page. Jockey outed by stewards for causing interference in Saturday's Caulfield Cup, Caulfield Cup quinella still at double-figure odds for November race at Flemington, Hear from every hoop after the running of Saturday's Caulfield Cup. Cox Plate Points of interest: The Cox Plate was divided in 1946. Rekindled Interest, third placegetter in the 2011 Cox Plate, is the other runner in this year’s race who heads into Saturday with two lead-up runs. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic many states are adopting changes to their feature race programs. The Form Focus data that helps us with History Says extends back to 1979 and in that time no Cox Plate winner has not previously started in October. Shamus Award striving to become the first maiden to win the Cox Plate, which was first run in 1922, while Long John is out to become the first Caulfield Guineas winner to win it since Red Anchor in 1984. For those into quirky stats, Happy Trails might be worth a wager. The list of horses that have won the Cox Plate reads like a Who’s Who of Australian racing greats.

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