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There is a very famous facet to the Race History of the Sunshine Coast Guineas run at Sunshine Coast on Saturday.

It was the first win of Winx in her phenomenal streak of wins. Guarantee there will not be one that good in the 2019 Sunshine Coast Guineas (1600m) at Sunshine Coast on Saturday.

2019 Sunshine Coast Guineas: Nominations

2019 SUNSHINE COAST GUINEAS - RACE HISTORY AND BACKGROUND

The Sunshine Coast Guineas is a Group 3 race for three-year-olds conducted by Queensland's Sunshine Coast Turf Club at Corbould Park racecourse at Caloundra.

The Sunshine Coast Guineas was first run in 2000 and was a Listed Race from its inception until an upgrade to Group 3 in 2014.

The Sunshine Coast Guineas has been run under set weight conditions over 1600m since 2000 with the exception of 2005 when the distance was reduced to 1560m.

The 2019 Sunshine Coast Guineas will be run over 1600m for prizemoney of $140,000.

The Sunshine Coast Guineas has grown in stature as a feature of the Caloundra Cup meeting and is now best known as the race won by champion mare Winx in 2015 at the start of her sequence of amazing successive wins.

2018 winner The Bostonian would come back to Queensland twelve months later to win the Doomben 10,000 and the Kingsford-Smith Cup.

Other notable winners of the Sunshine Coast Guineas include Atapi, Diamondsondinside, Shenzhou Steeds, Eximius, Hopfgarten and Crack Me Up.

The 2018 Sunshine Coast Guineas was won by The Bostonian from Bold Assassin and Go Dixie.