It’s the best two minutes in sport, an exhilarating contest of most of the finest horses you can gather from these parts, and the race the purists say is the greatest one Australasia has got.

And we will never see its like again.

For it’s the famous Cox Plate, Moonee Valley’s time-honoured, annual 2040-metre highlight, and it’s having its last running on Saturday before the famous Melbourne track undergoes a massive makeover.

Phar Lap, Tulloch, Makybe Diva, Might And Power, three-time winner Kingston Town and of course the mighty four-time winner Winx - and dozens more stars besides - having written chapters in the race’s illustrious history, building its reputation as the weight-for-age championship of Australasia.

So much of that history is entwined with the quirky nature of the Vall

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