The accolades continue to roll in for Winx, after her 28th successive win, the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.

She is a super mare and has been well protected by her trainer, Chris Waller, he has never altered the game plan that has been firmly set months ago.

Waller didn’t get excited when the mare was near to last, when the horses came into the final stretch Winx needed an opening, the response came quickly, she was as game as they come.

Hugh Bowman always had the situation under control, but many in the crowd may have thought otherwise, and Flemington is the longest straight in Australia now, since Victoria Park in Adelaide has been closed.

Winx will be fully wound up in three weeks time for her fourth, and last assault, on the W S Cox Plate, she will forge away, creating a new record that may never be eclipsed.

There was nothing there to really test her on Saturday, and the Cox Plate may not be any different, as fewer horses are graduating to weight for age.

There was not another single horse in the field to oppose Winx , Grunt looked as if he was a Stakes possibility, and still might be the horse after winning the Makybe Diva Stakes, however, after his antics in the saddling paddock, and finishing last, he looks a likely candidate for an operation.

Winx winning the Turnbull Stakes