Feted by many as the world’s greatest racehorse, champion mare Winx is about to become a star of the big screen as well as the racetrack.

A feature film celebrating her record 33 straight wins, titled a A Horse Named Winx, will be released nationally in September.

Written and narrated by journalist Andrew Rule and directed by Janine Hosking, the film will also delve into the challenges of managing the Winx legend and health scares along the way.

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“I only now feel like I am ready to tell the story of what we went through,” said trainer Chris Waller, who orchestrated Winx’s incredible run of wins along with regular jockey Hugh Bowman.

As a yearling, Winx sold for $230,000 and went on to a world record 25 Group One wins, with total prize money exceeding $26 million.

She became known as the “people’s horse”, and her final victory at the Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 2019 attracted a worldwide television audience of millions.

In 2020, Winx’s first foal was stillborn, but earlier in 2024 her second, by stallion Pierro, fetched a world record price of $10 million at Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

Winx retired with a record 37 wins, the same as Phar Lap almost a century ago.

The story of Phar Lap was also made into a movie in 1983.

That highly acclaimed film was directed by Simon Wincer and starred Tom Burlinson as the loveable stable boy Tommy Woodcock.

A Horse Named Winx has been funded by Screen Australia with Screen NSW.

Channel 7’s legendary commentator Bruce McAvaney observed in Winx’s final race in 2019 that “we’ve never had a horse mean so much to so many people”.

McAvaney also said that Winx was “the greatest thoroughbred Australia has ever seen”.

– With Cameron Noakes