Two of the biggest stars over the Melbourne carnival would have to be Winx winning her third Cox Plate in a dramatic finish and the success over the Flemington week of the deceased stallion, High Chaparral . Winx broke her own track record at Moonee Valley and did it, sitting three wide most of the journey as Hugh Bowman put her in clear galloping room as a safety net, to ensure, the win. To start the Flemington carnival, the Sydney colt, Ace High stamped his authority on the staying three year olds with a convincing win in the Derby. Then we saw in the Melbourne Cup the European three year old Rekindling, get the job done in the 3200m Melbourne Cup for the O'brien's with Corey Brown giving him a perfect ride. This gave the stallion High Chapparral the staying double and on the Thursday in the Oaks, two High Chapparral fillies, Bring Me Roses and Hyaam would attempt to complete the treble but they could'nt run down, a gutsy Pinot who missed the start but still was able to hold on for the Waterhouse/Bott and Steve Baster combination. Pinot is by Pierro who is really transferring his talent on the track through to his sons and daughters.
Winx and the 2017 Cox Plate
High Chapparral Story
The six time Group 1 winning son of Sadler's Wells had just 13 starts over his two year racing career, winning 10 of those and never finishing out of a place. His G1 tally, which included two Breeders’ Cup Turf victories, resulted in High Chaparral being awarded the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Male Turf Horse in 2002 and 2003, as well as being named England and Ireland’s top-rated middle distance 3-year-old, and Ireland's top-rated older horse. His European wins included the G1 Racing Post Trophy (2001), the G1 Epsom Derby (2002), the G1 Irish Derby (2002) and the G1 Irish Champion Stakes (2003). He earned almost £3.5million in his racing career.
High Chaparral''s success in the Northern Hemisphere was soon to extend to Australia where he stood his first Southern Hemisphere season as a replacement for his paternal brother, Montjeu at Windsor Park Stud in New Zealand in 2005. High Chaparral’s first Southern Hemisphere crop included the horse that many predict will be his greatest legacy, the globetrotting superstar So You Think. So You Think won his first of two G1 Cox Plates, Australia’s most historic weight-for-age contest, as a 3-year-old about a month before his true third birthday in 2009, and after sitting out the autumn he added four more Group 1s, including a Cox Plate repeat, before finishing third under top weight in the G1 Melbourne Cup. So You Think was then taken overseas where he collected three European Group 1s in his first Northern Hemisphere campaign, including the G1 Coral-Eclipse and the G1 Irish Champion Stakes. So You Think repeated it in the G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup the following May and finished off an illustrious career with a decisive win in the G1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot. Like his sire before him, So You Think now stands in both Coolmore Ireland and Coolmore Australia.
So You Think
Flemington Carnival
The Derby opened proceedings on the Saturday here we saw his son from his second last crop Ace High a emphatic victor coming with a run down the centre of the track to record an easy victory. Then the biggest day on the Australian calendar the Melbourne Cup we saw his son from his second last crop in the northern hemisphere Rekindling, win the Cup from Johannes Vemeer who is by another High Chaparral paternal brother, Galileo.
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