W.S. Cox Plate Past Winners List by year, All-time champions, past results, history since 1922

The W.S. Cox Plate is an Australian, Moonee Valley Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held annually through its first unit was inaugurated in 1922.

The Horses covers a distance of 2400 meters, held each year in late October.

Total prizemoney for the 2026 Cox Plate is $6 million with 1st place set to cash in about $4 million.

Cosmic Crusader delivered another stunning performance to wins in the prestigious 2026 Cox Plate of Group 1. The talented mare entered the race as the clear favourite, facing tough competition from Queensland contender Antino and TreasuretheMoment.

Cosmic Crusader has won the 2026 Cox Plate, taking home a purse of $6m after beating out Birdman and favourite Aeliena.

Racing at Flemington Racecourse for the first time in its history, the six-year-old gelding, ridden by Western Australian William Pike, won over 2040m and handed trainer Andrea Leek her first Cox Plate.

Leek is the first female trainer to win the Cox Plate after Deirdre Stein in 1985 with Rising Price and Moira Murdoch nine years later with Solvit in 1994.

W.S. Cox Plate , horse racing, Past Winners-Champions, List .

Cox Plate Champions: Complete Winners List by year, History & Results List Since 1922-2026.

Year -- Cox Plate Winners

2026 - Cosmic Crusader

2025 - Via Sistina

2024 - Via Sistina

2023 - Romantic Warrior

2022 - Anamoe

2021 - State Of Rest

2020 - Sir Dragonet

2019 - Lys Gracieux

2018 - Winx

2017 - Winx

2016 - Winx

2015 - Winx

2014 - Adelaide

2013 - Shamus Award

2012 - Ocean Park

2011 - Pinker Pinker

2010 - So You Think

2009 - So You Think

2008 - Maldivian

2007 - El Segundo

2006 - Fields Of Omagh

2005 - Makybe Diva

2004 - Savabeel

2003 - Fields Of Omagh

2002 - Northerly

2001 - Northerly

2000 - Sunline

1999 - Sunline

1998 - Might And Power

1997 - Dane Ripper

1996 - Saintly

1995 - Octagonal

1994 - Solvit

1993 - The Phantom Chance

1992 - Super Impose

1991 - Surfers Paradise

1990 - Better Loosen Up

1989 - Almaarad

1988 - Our Poetic Prince

1987 - Rubiton

1986 - Bonecrusher

1985 - Rising Prince

1984 - Red Anchor

1983 - Strawberry Road

1982 - Kingston Town

1981 - Kingston Town

1980 - Kingston Town

1979 - Dulcify

1978 - So Called

1977 - Family Of Man

1976 - Surround

1975 - Fury’s Order

1974 - Battle Heights

1973 - Taj Rossi

1972 - Gunsynd

1971 - Tauto

1970 - Abdul

1969 - Daryl’s Joy

1968 - Rajah Sahib

1967 - Tobin Bronze

1966 - Tobin Bronze

1965 - Star Affair

1964 - Sir Dane

1963 - Summer Regent

1962 - Aquanita

1961 - Dhaulagiri

1960 - Tulloch

1959 - Noholme

1958 - Yeman

1957 - Redcraze

1956 - Ray Ribbon

1955 - Kingster

1954 - Rising Fast

1953 - Hydrogen

1952 - Hydrogen

1951 - Bronton

1950 - Alister

1949 - Delta

1948 - Carbon Copy

1947 - Chanak

1946 - Leonard

1946 - Flight

1945 - Flight

1944 - Tranquil Star

1943 - Amana

1942 - Tranquil Star

1941 - Beau Vite

1940 - Beau Vite

1939 - Mosaic

1938 - Ajax

1937 - Young Idea

1936 - Young Idea

1935 - Garrio

1934 - Chatham

1933 - Rogilla

1932 - Chatham

1931 - Phar Lap

1930 - Phar Lap

1929 - Nightmarch

1928 - Highland

1927 - Amounis

1926 - Heroic

1925 - Manfred

1924 - The Night Patrol

1923 - Easingwold

1922 - Violoncello