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 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.
Greg Eurell mare Pinker Pinker won the 2011 WS Cox Plate from Jimmy Choux and Rekindled Interest.
| 2012 WS Cox Plate race details | |||
| Date | Saturday 27th October 2012 | Purse: | $3,000,000 |
| Track: | Moonee Valley racecourse | Status: | Group 1 |
| Distance: | 2040 metres | Conditions: | Weight-for-age |
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 Melbourne Cup Carnival commences at Flemington.
Cox Plate Day provides a great lead up to the Group 1 AAMI Victoria Derby the following Saturday at Flemington.
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 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.
WS Cox Plate Day Group Races include;
- Group 2 Moonee Valley Cup
- Group 2 Schweppes Stakes
- Group 2 Crystal Mile
- Group 2 AAMI Vase
- Group 3 Inglis Mile
- Group 3 Red Anchor Stakes
Feature race previews courtesy of premier horse racing website Horse Racing Info.
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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’.
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