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The National Museum of Australia held an exhibition on Richmond in 2014 [13] and holds the 1932 Brooklands 1000 Miles Race trophy awarded to Joan Richmond and Elsie Wisdom in its collections as well as a one-piece racing suit, a pair of driving goggles, her Monte Carlo Rally car number plates, personal journal, letters, photographs and ...
Day is reported as taking up horse-racing as a jockey in the late 1860s, [2] but details are hard to find. Dubbed the "Wonder Walker", [ 7 ] he rode Nimblefoot to victory in the Hotham Handicap of 5 November 1870 [ 8 ] and the same combination was judged winner of the 1870 Melbourne Cup in a very close finish, ahead of Lapdog, [ 9 ] a record ...
In 1979, at the age of 56, he competed in the Adidas Sun Superun 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) race which crossed the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne. He ran the race at a very respectable 64 minutes and was interviewed by the media. [6] Cliff then ran the Melbourne Marathon with a time of 3:21:41 in 1979. He would go on to compete in 1980, 1981, and ...
Many people from outside of Melbourne take a half or full day off work to celebrate the occasion. Many people feel that the day should be a national public holiday as sick leave is said to increase on the day and productivity wanes. As early as 1865, Cup Day was a half-holiday in Melbourne for public servants and bank officials.
Samuel Griffiths, handicapper and turf historian, scotched the story as having been fabricated by the bookmaker Joseph Bragge "Leviathan" Slack. [3] The winning time of 3:37.0 was at the time the fastest winning time in the race's history. [4] This is the list of placegetters for the 1870 Melbourne Cup. [5]
The 1922 Melbourne Cup was a two-mile handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 7 November 1922. A then record crowd of 115,000 watched a chaotic edition of the Melbourne Cup. The race had 32 starters, 13 of which were winners of major races, including 1921 race winner Sister Olive as well as the 1922 Caulfield Cup and VRC Derby winner ...
Payne was the first woman to win the Melbourne Cup in its 155-year history. She was also the fourth woman to ride in the race and was coincidentally wearing the colours of the suffragette movement: purple, green and white. [18] In an interview shortly after her Melbourne Cup win, Payne said that horse racing is a "chauvinistic sport". [19]
Stakes Day is also known as Family Day of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival, with extra events aimed at children and families scheduled throughout the day. A popular event introduced from 2004 is the Stakes Day' Fashions on the Field, giving youngsters and families the opportunities to impress at the track alongside their adult counterparts ...