Wonder Race: Who will win the battle to be crowned Australia’s greatest racehorse?

When you talk comparisons between the greatest thoroughbreds of all time, the spectre of Phar Lap always looms large, but now he has a rival in Winx. Little wonder they are the Wonder Race favourites. WATCH THE VIDEO

• Wonder Race: Winx favourite to beat the best

Sydney’s super mare Winx will forever linked with the legendary Phar Lap if she can win her farewell race, the $4 million Longines Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday.

Winx is aiming for her 37th career win, and her 33rd in succession, in the weight-for-age event, the richest race of Sydney’s autumn carnival.

If Winx wins as expected — bookies believe she is virtually unbeatable and are offering odds of just $1.06 to win the Queen Elizabeth Stakes — she will be retired with the same number of career wins as Phar Lap.

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The mighty Phar Lap won 37 of his 51 starts before his tragic death in America soon after winning the 1932 Agua Caliente Handicap.

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Winx’s four-year unbeaten reign that has yielded 32 consecutive wins including a world record 24 Group 1 successes has prompted comparisons with Phar Lap.

There are many who now believe she is the greatest of all time with a record that boasts four Cox Plates, four George Ryder Stakes, four Chipping Norton Stakes, three George Main Stakes, two Queen Elizabeth Stakes, an Epsom and Doncaster Handicap.

But Phar Lap was also phenomenal racehorse. He won one of his first 10 starts then developed into a winning machine with 36 wins from his last 41 starts.

Phar Lap became a national icon during the Great Depression years as he dominated his rivals over all distances, race and track conditions, often winning his races by huge margins. His major wins included the Melbourne Cup, two Cox Plates, AJC and Victoria Derbies and Futurity Stakes.

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During the 1930 Melbourne Cup Carnival, Phar Lap famously won four races in seven days. He won the Melbourne Stakes on Derby Day, then the Cup on the Tuesday, Linlithgow Stakes two days later before ending the week by winning the CB Fisher Plate.

Following his death, Phar Lap’s heart was donated to the Institute of Anatomy in Canberra, his skeleton to New Zealand’s National Museum in Wellington, and his stuffed body was placed in the Australia Gallery in the Melbourne Museum.

Winx and Phar Lap are the final two entries in “The Wonder Race”, created by created by The Daily Telegraph to try and determine who was the best racehorse of them all.

They are among 12 champions in the final field alongside Carbine, Bernborough, Kingston Town, Peter Pan, Tulloch, Lonhro, Octagonal, Might And Power, Makybe Diva and Sunline.

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TAB Fixed Odds price assessors have framed a hypothetical betting market on “The Wonder Race” with Winx favourite at $4.50 ahead of Phar Lap at $6.

A reader poll has been set-up on Twitter where using the #TheWonderRace you can have your say on who might win.

Revered racecaller John Tapp and myself have discussed the merits of each of the 12 runners which can be viewed at www.dailytelegraph.com.au including Monday’s final two entries, Winx and Phar Lap.

Form guru Gary Crispe has used his exclusive Timeform ratings to analyse the chances of all 12 runners.

On Wednesday, just three days before Winx’s farewell race, the Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Tapp will call a simulated race, “The Wonder Race” live at 12.30pm at www.dailytelegraph.com.au to determine who is the greatest of them all.