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The 2015 Cox Plate is scheduled to be raced at 5:40pm AEDT, on Saturday October 24 at the Moonee Valley racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria.
The race will be broadcast on both Free-to-Air television via Channel Seven, and on Foxtel via Sky Racing 1.
2015 COX PLATE: PREVIEW AND TIPS
Channel Seven and Sky Racing 1 will both begin their broadcasts at 12:00pm AEDT, with the first race of the day to be run at 1:15pm AEDT.
The Cox Plate is scheduled to get underway at 5:40pm AEDT. Based on past results, the race should go for a little over two minutes before there is a winner.
Both the Channel Seven and Sky Racing 1 broadcasts will conclude at 6:00pm AEDT after the race is run.
Winx is the favourite to win, currently at odds of $4.9 going into the race, however Criterion at $6.5 and Arod at $9.7 are both into single figures. Pornichet, at $51.3, is the the furthest out of any horse in the race.
Cox Plate betting odds
1. Criterion – $6.5
2. Fawkner – $20.2
3. Happy Trails – $18
4. Hartnell – $18.4
5. Mourinho – $35.8
6. The Cleaner – $15
7. Pornichet – $51.3
8. Arod – $9.70
9. Complacent – $31.8
10. Gailo Chop – $34.5
11. Kermadec – $13.3
12. Preferment – $16.3
13. Highland Reel – $10.6
14. Winx – $4.9
The Cox Plate is a 2040m race for horses aged three years and over under weight for age conditions. It is held every year at the Moonee Valley racecourse, having first been raced in 1922, when it was won by Violoncello.
It is named in honour of William Samuel Cox who founded the Moonee Valley racing club in 1883 and was a pioneer of thoroughbred racing in Australia.
The distance of the race has changed several times in its history. From 1922-1942 it was nine-and-a-half furlongs, then from 1943-1971 it was ten furlongs. After the adoption of the metric system it became 2000 metres in 1972, changed to 2050 metres in 1974 and then to 2040 metres in 1986, which remains the current length.
Last year the Cox Plate was won by Irish thoroughbred Adelaide, ridden by Ryan Moore and trained by Aidan O’Brien, winning with a time of 2:03.76.
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