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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]
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 Melbourne cup captures the public's imagination to the extent that people, whether at work, home, school, or out and about, usually stop to watch or listen to the race. Many people from outside of Melbourne take a half or full day off work to celebrate the occasion.
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]
Archer (1856–1872) was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who won the first and the second Melbourne Cups in 1861 and 1862. He won both Cups easily, and is one of only five horses to win the Melbourne Cup twice or more and is one of only four horses to win successive Cups.
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.
The course has a crowd capacity of over 120,000 and contains three grandstands. The biggest ever attendance was on Victoria Derby Day in 2006 when 129,069 people saw Efficient win the Victoria Derby. [1] On 28 November, 1986, Pope John Paul II celebrated the Mass on the racetrack inner oval. The racecourse has undergone a facelift in recent ...
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 ...