The sky is blue, the grass is green, and Winx just won her 17th straight thoroughbred horse race. Because of course she did.
But the biggest and most unexpected story of the final day of The Championships at Randwick was the awful turn of events in the Sydney Cup, which was abandoned mid-race after two horses fell and were deemed to be impeding the progress of the field.
The horses that fell were Who Shot Thebarman, who ran third in the 2014 Melbourne Cup, and former Geelong Cup winner and Melbourne Cup runner Almoonqith. The latter horse was sadly put down.
Almoonqith stayed on the track, so stewards decided to abandon the race with about 1000m to run. Half the field stopped racing nearing the home turn, while a few jockeys kept going, seemingly unaware of the chaos going on around them.
Source: 35 Minutes After Winx Won, The Sydney Cup Descended Into Shocking Tragic Farce
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