Wenona Girl (foaled 1957) was a leading Australian Thoroughbred horse racemare that had 27 wins over distances ranging from 4½ furlongs to 1½ miles. She won 22 principal races, 15 of which were later designated group one (G1) races. Wenona Girl’s principal wins included the VRC Sires Produce Stakes, AJC Sires Produce Stakes, George Adams Handicap, One Thousand Guineas, VATC Futurity Stakes, AJC George Main Stakes, AJC All Aged Stakes, AJC Adrian Knox Oaks Stakes, Rawson Stakes and Rosehill Guineas, all of which were later classified as G1 races. At the time of her retirement she was the highest stakes winning mare to have raced in Australia. At stud she was a good broodmare. Wenona Girl was later inducted into Australian Racing Hall of Fame. Breeding She was sired by the Leading sire in Australia, Wilkes (FR), her dam was the good racemare, Golden Chariot by Golden Sovereign (IRE). Golden Chariot won the VATC One Thousand Guineas and was the dam of two other stakes-winners, Emblem and Grammar Lad both sired by Wilkes. Wenona Girl was line-bred to Teddy in the fourth generation (4m x 4f). Racing career Wenona Girl was trained by Maurice McCarten who also trained the brilliant sprinter, Todman. McCarten won the Sydney trainers' premiership four times in succession and finished second to Tommy J. Smith ten times. At two years She won her first start, the 1959 AJC Gimcrack Stakes followed by with a win in the VRC Sires Produce Stakes and AJC Sires Produce Stakes. In Melbourne in the early autumn she was second (by 1½ lengths) in the Merson Cooper Stakes to Impulsive. She then returned to Sydney, finishing second (by 1½ lengths) in the Golden Slipper to Sky High and won the AJC Sires Produce Stakes from Persian Lyric and Sky High. Wenona Girl finished her two-year-old season with a tally of eight starts for 6 wins and 2 seconds. At three years As a three-year-old Wenona Girl won the Hobartville Stakes from Sky High and Persian Lyric, ran second (by a ½ length) in the Canterbury Guineas to Persian Lyric with Sky High third and won the Rosehill Guineas from Sky High and Persian Lyric. Wenona Girl was unplaced in the AJC Australian Derby which was won by Persian Lyric from Le Storm and Sky High. She won the Flight Stakes over 1 mile (1,600 metres) at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney. Racing