Cox Plate

Date24 Oct 2026

Distance 2040m

TypeGroup 1

LocationMoonee Valley racecourse

Winner 2025Via Sistina

COX PLATE PRIZE MONEY

Fast facts

In 2024, Via Sistina, running 2:01.07, shattered the previous record held by Winx, who ran 2:02.94 in 2017. She won again in 2025.

Twenty three-year-olds have won the Cox Plate, with the most recent being Shamus Award in 2013.

Surround (1976), trained by Geoff Murphy and ridden by Alan Trevena, is the only three-year-old filly to win the Cox Plate.

Eleven horses have won multiple Cox Plates, with the great Winx heading the list with four from 2015 to 2018.

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COX PLATE RESULTS

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Cox Plate Winners

Here is a list of Cox Plate winners and runners-up in the past few years:

Year	Winner	Second	Third	Time
2025	Via Sistina	Buckaroo	Treasurethe Moment	2:05.03
2024	Via Sistina	Prognosis	Broadsiding	2:01.07 (TR)
2023	Romantic Warrior	Mr Brightside	Alligator Blood	2:03.16
2022	Anamoe	I’m Thunderstruck	El Bodegon	2:10.17
2021	State Of Rest	Anamoe	Verry Elleegant	2:06.97
2020	Sir Dragonet	Armory	Russian Camelot	2:08.4
2019	Lys Gracieux	Castelvecchio	Te Akau Shark	2:04.2
2018	Winx	Benbati	Humidor	2:03.4
2017	Winx	Humidor	Folkswood	2:02.9
2016	Winx	Hartnell	Yankee Rose	2:06.4
2015	Winx	Criterion	Highland Reel	2:02.9
2014	Adelaide	Fawkner	Silent Achiever	2:03.8
2013	Shamus Award	Happy Trails	Fiorente	2:05.3
2012	Ocean Park	All Too Hard	Pierro	2:04.1
2011	Pinker Pinker	Jimmy Choux	Rekindled Interest	2:05.3
2010	So You Think	Zipping	Whobegotyou	2:07.4
2009	So You Think	Manhattan Rain	Zipping	2:03.9
2008	Maldivian	Zipping	Samantha Miss	2:06.9
2007	El Segundo	Wonderful World	Haradasun	2:06.3
2006	Fields Of Omagh	El Segundo	Pompeii Ruler	2:06.9
2005	Makybe Diva	Lotteria	Fields Of Omagh	2:09.3
2004	Savabeel	Fields Of Omagh	Starcraft	2:06.9
2003	Fields Of Omagh	Defier	Lonhro	2:07.6
2002	Northerly	Defier	Grandera	2:06.3
2001	Northerly	Sunline	Viscount	2:05.8
2000	Sunline	Diatribe	Referral	2:07.7

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