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The 1876 Melbourne Cup was a two-mile handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 7 November 1876. [1]This year was the sixteenth running of the Melbourne Cup.The race is most famous for winning jockey Peter St Albans (real name: Micheal Bowden) who became the youngest Melbourne Cup winning jockey at 12 (he was actually a few days shy of his 11th birthday). [2]
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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 ...
The Maternal and Child Nutrition Study Group estimate that under nutrition, "including fetal growth restriction, stunting, wasting, deficiencies of vitamin A and zinc along with suboptimum breastfeeding—is a cause of 3.1 million child deaths and infant mortality, or 45% of all child deaths in 2011".
The race was run over 3,200 metres (1.988 mi), at Flemington Racecourse. The Cup was won by the 4 year old gelding Subzero. Subzero was trained by Lee Freedman, his second win of five in the Cup after Tawriffic in 1989 and followed by Doriemus (1995) and Makybe Diva (2004 and 2005). It was the only win by Greg Hall in the Melbourne Cup. [1]
Taken to Australia, his winning time of 2.25.90 in the 2400-metre Geelong Cup broke the course record for the race. He went on to win the 2002 Melbourne Cup [ 2 ] with Damien Oliver on board. Oliver's brother Jason had died one week before the Melbourne Cup win in 2002.
Jim Culloty is a racehorse trainer and retired professional National Hunt jockey who won both the Cheltenham Gold Cup and Grand National in the same season. Culloty and Mick Fitzgerald both worked for Jackie Retter, who trained at Whitstone, near Exeter, before they went their separate ways, Culloty to work for Henrietta Knight while Fitzgerald went with Nicky Henderson.
The VRC Champions Stakes, registered as the LKS Mackinnon Stakes, is a Victoria Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race run under Weight for Age conditions over a distance of 2000 metres at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia on the last day of the Melbourne Cup Carnival, the Saturday after the Melbourne Cup.