Horse racing - Diva Cox Plate glory

Makybe Diva won yesterday's Cox Plate, the Australian leg of the World Racing Championship, to enhance her reputation as one of the country's greatest race horses. The seven-year-old mare stormed home to add Australia's weight-for-age championship...

Makybe Diva won yesterday's Cox Plate, the Australian leg of the World Racing Championship, to enhance her reputation as one of the country's greatest race horses. The seven-year-old mare stormed home to add Australia's weight-for-age championship (2,040 metres) to her stunning list of achievements and surpass New Zealand mare Sunline as Australasia's greatest stakes winner, lifting her career earnings past A$11.4 million ($8.6 million).

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