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The 2023 Melbourne Cup, known commercially as the 2023 Lexus Melbourne Cup, was the 163rd running of the Melbourne Cup, an Australian thoroughbred horse race. The race, run over 3,200 metres (1.988 mi), was held on 7 November 2023 at Melbourne's Flemington Racecourse. The final field for the race was declared on 4 November 2023. [1]
The Melbourne Cup is an annual Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held in Melbourne, Australia, ... The total prize money for the 2023 race was A$8,410,000, [14] ...
The Melbourne Cup [1] is Australia's major Thoroughbred horse race.Each year internationally bred or owned horses compete in the race alongside local entrants. Since 1882 New Zealand bred horses have won 40 Melbourne Cups, British bred horses have won five cups, US bred horses four, Irish horses two and one Japanese and German bred horse have each won the Cup.
The shortest-priced favourite in Cup history was Phar Lap when he won in 1930 at 8-11 ($1.72).; Metrication – The race was originally held over two miles (about 3,218 metres), but following Australia's adoption of the Metric system in the 1970s the current distance of 3,200 metres was adopted in 1972.
Without A Fight is a Thoroughbred racehorse.In 2023, he was the winner of the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup double, ridden by Mark Zahra and trained by Sam and Anthony Freedman, becoming the first horse in 22 years to claim the Caulfield cup-Melbourne cup double.
The total prize money for the race was A$8.56 million, a $150,000 increase from 2023. [4] It was the first Melbourne Cup to be broadcast by Nine Network after Network 10, who had broadcast the race since 2019, dropped out of the bidding for the rights to the race in June 2023. Nine Network will have broadcast rights from 2024 until 2029.
At the 2014 Melbourne Cup, Protectionist was ridden by British jockey Ryan Moore, who had won the Cox Plate on Adelaide ten days earlier. [5] He won the 3,200-metre race by four lengths from Red Cadeaux, who become the first horse to place second in three Melbourne Cups. Protectionist is the first German-trained horse to win the race. [6]
Last updated on 7 October 2023 Gold Trip (foaled 10 March 2017) is a multiple Group 1 winning French-bred Thoroughbred racehorse that is most notable for winning the 2022 Melbourne Cup . Background