2023 Cox Plate Results

• 1st: #1 Romantic Warrior ($3.60F)
• 2nd: #3 Mr Brightside
• 3rd: #4 Alligator Blood
• 4th: #9 Duais

It was a Ladbrokes Cox Plate 2023 result for the ages with jockey James McDonald going back-to-back after his success on Anamoe last spring when narrowly getting up on the outside aboard the Danny Shum-trained Hong Kong raider Romantic Warrior ($3.60F). Denied by a nose was the Team Hayes-trained Mr Brightside, while Alligator Blood snared third after looking the winner inside the final 50m.

Click here to read more on the exciting 2023 Ladbrokes Cox Plate win by Romantic Warrior.

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

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Each October at Moonee Valley Racecourse a new champion adds its name to the list of Cox Plate winners when the Group 1 weight-for-age classic takes place as part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.

Known as the ‘race where champions are made’, the Cox Plate is run over 2040m and offers $5 million in total prize money. The current Cox Plate winners’ cheque is for a juicy $3 million.

Bet on the Next Cox Plate Winner

Betting on the next Ladbrokes Cox Plate winner will be provided for punters right here as soon as Ladbrokes.com.au have their 2023 Cox Plate odds available.

Cox Plate winners have come via a number of different lead-ups over the past 30 years, but just once since 2005 didn’t come off a Group 1 race when Adelaide (2014) won the race following an international Group 2 placing in France. The then Irish-trained galloper made history as the first Northern Hemisphere-trained Cox Plate winner.

That followed another historical Cox Plate result from 2013 when the Danny O’Brien-trained three-year-old Shamus Award became the first maiden to take out the iconic spring classic.

Many champion racehorses have won the Cox Plate over the years and notable dual Cox Plate winners include Phar Lap (1930-31), Flight (1945 and 1946), Tobin Bronze (1966-197), Sunline (1999-200), Northerly (2001-2002), Fields Of Omagh (2003 and 2006), So You Think (2009-2010), and star mare Winx (2015-18) who joined Kingston Town on a trio of wins with her 2017 Cox Plate victory and then surpassed him with her historical fourth win in 2018.

Winx is one of the most notable past Ladbrokes Cox Plate winners as in 2016 she took out the race for the second time by a record-breaking eight length margin. She returned as favourite in 2017 and saluted again, joining the only other triple Cox Plate winner to date Kingston Town (1980-82) and with the win also surpassed her own 2015 race record wining time. The Cox Plate result of 2018 saw Winx become the race’s only four-time champion.

In 1954 Rising Fast completed a unique triple taking out the ‘Big 3’ spring majors in a single season with wins in the Caulfield Cup, Cox Plate and Melbourne Cup.

Seven horses have completed the Cox Plate – Melbourne Cup double including Makybe Diva.

The inaugural champion Violoncello (1922) won his next three starts that spring while the most recent Cox Plate winner was Chris Waller’s star mare Winx who went back to back in 2015-16, the first dual winning mare since Sunline.

The 2019 Cox Plate winner Lys Gracieux from Japan also made history joining Adelaide (2014) as the sole northern hemisphere-trained champions, before the 2021 success of the Joseph O’Brien-trained State Of Rest from Ireland.

The 2022 Cox Plate winner was Godolphin’s gun galloper Anamoe who improved on his devastatingly close second as a three-year-old the previous year.

In 2023 the internationals were on top with Hong Kong-trained favourite Romantic Warrior just denying the locals right on the line.

The W.S. Cox Plate winners since 2000 can be found below.

Cox Plate Winners

Year	Place	Horse	Time
2023 WS Cox Plate	1st	Romantic Warrior	2 minutes 03.16 seconds
	2nd	Mr Brightside
	3rd	Alligator Blood
2022 WS Cox Plate	1st	Anamoe	2 minutes 10.17 seconds
	2nd	I’m Thunderstruck
	3rd	El Bodegon
2021 WS Cox Plate	1st	State Of Rest	2 minutes 06.97 seconds
	2nd	Anamoe
	3rd	Verry Elleegant
2020 WS Cox Plate	1st	Sir Dragonet	2 minutes 8.46 seconds
	2nd	Armory
	3rd	Russian Camelot
2019 WS Cox Plate	1st	Lys Gracieux	2 minutes 4.21 seconds
	2nd	Castelvecchio
	3rd	Te Akau Shark
2018 WS Cox Plate	1st	Winx	2 minutes 3.64 seconds
	2nd	Benbatl
	3rd	Humidor
2017 WS Cox Plate	1st	Winx	2 minutes 2.94 seconds
	2nd	Humidor
	3rd	Folkswood
2016 WS Cox Plate	1st	Winx	2 minutes 6.35 seconds
	2nd	Hartnell
	3rd	Yankee Rose
2015 WS Cox Plate	1st	Winx	2 minutes 2.9 seconds
	2nd	Criterion
	3rd	Highland Reel
2014 WS Cox Plate	1st	Adelaide	2 minutes 3.8 seconds
	2nd	Fawkner
	3rd	Silent Achiever
2013 WS Cox Plate	1st	Shamus Award	2 minutes 5.3 seconds
	2nd	Happy Trails
	3rd	Fiorente
2012 WS Cox Plate	1st	Ocean Park	2 minutes 4.1 seconds
	2nd	All Too Hard
	3rd	Pierro
2011 WS Cox Plate	1st	Pinker Pinker	2 minutes 5.4 seconds
	2nd	Jimmy Choux
	3rd	Rekindled Interest
2010 WS Cox Plate	1st	So You Think	2 minutes 3.9 seconds
	2nd	Zipping
	3rd	Whobegotyou
2009 WS Cox Plate	1st	So You Think	2 minutes 3.9 seconds
	2nd	Manhattan Rain
	3rd	Zipping
2008 WS Cox Plate	1st	Maldivian	2 minutes 6.9 seconds
	2nd	Zipping
	3rd	Samantha Miss
2007 WS Cox Plate	1st	El Segundo	2 minutes 6.3 seconds
	2nd	Wonderful World
	3rd	Haradasun
2006 WS Cox Plate	1st	Fields Of Omagh	2 minutes 6.9 seconds
	2nd	El Segundo
	3rd	Pompeii Ruler
2005 WS Cox Plate	1st	Makybe Diva	2 minutes 9.3 seconds
	2nd	Lotteria
	3rd	Fields Of Omagh
2004 WS Cox Plate	1st	Savabeel	2 minutes 6.9 seconds
	2nd	Fields Of Omagh
	3rd	Starcraft
2003 WS Cox Plate	1st	Fields Of Omagh	2 minutes 7.6 seconds
	2nd	Defier
	3rd	Lonhro
2002 WS Cox Plate	1st	Northerly	2 minutes 6.3 seconds
	2nd	Defier
	3rd	Grandera
2001 WS Cox Plate	1st	Northerly	2 minutes 5.8 seconds
	2nd	Sunline
	3rd	Vixcount
2000 WS Cox Plate	1st	Sunline	2 minutes 7.7 seconds
	2nd	Diatribe
	3rd	Referral