Source: Chris Roots

Win it once and you’re the best of your generation. Twice and you’re a champion. Three times and you’re a legend like Kingston Town.

Win the Cox Plate four times and you’re Winx. Immortal and the best of all time.

Trainer Chris Waller seemed almost bewildered by the quality of his charge after he watched Winx cross the line.

“Surreal,” he said. “It is like when you dream and you don’t want to wake.

“And we haven’t yet.”