WS Cox Plate

The WS Cox Plate is widely recognised as Australasia’s premier weight-for-age race and Cox Plate Day at Moonee Valley racecourse is a highlight of the 2010 Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival in October. Held in the highest esteem, the $3Million WS Cox Plate is the most prestigious race of the spring at level weights and second only to the Melbourne Cup in prizemoney and ahead of the Caulfield Cup.

The WS Cox Plate is raced over 2040 metres and sandwiched between Caulfield Cup Day and AAMI Victoria Day in October, one week before the 2010 Melbourne Cup Carnival commences at Flemington.  Cox Plate Day provides a great lead up to the Group 1 AAMi Victoria Derby which takes place the following Saturday.

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The Moonee Valley Racing Club (MRVC) conducts racing at Moonee Valley racecourse and the WS Cox Plate is the showpiece event on the MVRC’s biggest day of racing in October.

Cox Plate Day at the Colosseum like Moonee Valley race track has a uniqueness of its own as the horses thunder into the straight to the deafening roar of the crowd and the whole day’s atmosphere is a fantastic part of the 2010 Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival in October.

Alongside the WS Cox Plate are six other outstanding group races that make for a wonderful day of entertainment. They are the Group 2 Moonee Valley Cup, Group 2 Schweppes Stakes, Group 2 Crystal Mile, Group 2 AAMI Vase, Group 3 Inglis Mile and Group 3 Red Anchor Stakes.

The Melbourne Cup is the race for the people while the WS Cox Plate is the race for the purists.

WS Cox Plate History

The WS Cox Plate honours Moonee Valley founder William Samuel Cox and was first run in 1922 offering just 1000 pounds in prizemoney for entrants.

A 7yo imported galloper named Violencello won the first ever WS Cox Plate and since that day the race has become one of the most important and prestigious on the racing calender, being worth $3,000,000 in prizemoney.

The WS Cox Plate has produced many wonderful memories and who can forget the day Bill Collins cried out ‘Kingston Town can’t win’ before the champion galloper went on to win one of his record three Cox Plates in a row from 1980-82.

From the ill fated Dulcify sending shivers down the back with his scintillating 1979 win to the epic Bonecrusher and Our Waverley Star duel in 1986, Ws Cox Plate will always be known as the ‘race where legends are made’.