Cox Plate 2011
Cox Plate was founded in the honour of the founder of Moonee Valley, Sam Cox. The Moonee Valley board wanted to honour Sam Cox and decided to run a weight-for-age race and called it the Cox Plate. The race was placed in between the Caulfield Cup, Victoria Derby and Melbourne Cup on the Australian racing calendar. It quickly became a prestigious race and today many horse racing fans regard the Cox Plate as the greatest two minutes in racing. Prize money has soared to over $3 million.
Almost every Cox Plate winner has been an impressive horse, inlcuding Phar Lap, Dulcify, Kingston Town, Gunsynd, Rising Fast, Super Impose, Might and Power, Octagonal, and Sunline. The Cox Plate is the only southern hemisphere race to be included in the ‘Emirates World Series Racing Championship’, which is like a global “Grand Prix” of horse racing. The series also includes the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot, the Japan Cup, the Dubai World Cup, the Arlington Million, the Hong Kong Cup, the Canadian International Stakes, the Grosser Preis von Baden, the Irish Champion Stakes, and Breeders’ Cup Turf and Breeders’ Cup Classic.
With the Cox Plate inclusion to the Grand Prix circuit it is now listed as one of the world’s greatest races and in doing so always attracts punters from all over the world.