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4/11/2003 edition
Melbourne Cup Betting Tips
This edition of Punt to Win:
Melbourne
Cup facts and figures
How does your Melbourne Cup horse rate?
Jardine's
Lookout, Mamool, Mummify, Millstreet
Pentastic,
County Tyrone, Holy Orders, Mr.Prudent
Distinctly
Secret, Hugs Dancer, Grey Song, Makybe Diva
Piachay,
Tumeric, Frightening, Schumpeter
She's
Archie, Zagalia, Ain't Seen Nothin', Big Pat
Bold
Bard, Debben, Fawaz, Yakama
Punt
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Interesting facts about the Melbourne Cup:
1. The Melbourne Cup was first run in 1861. Archer
easily won that race over two miles in a time of 3:52.00s. In 1968 Rain
Lover set the two miles race record time of only 3:19.10s.
2. In 1972 the race was converted to the metric distance of 3200 metres
which is 18.69 metres or 61.30 feet short of two miles. There is
no doubt that some of the metric winners would not have won had the race
remained two miles or, as many people wanted at the time, been changed
to 3218.7 metres.
3. The metric record of 3:16.30 was set by
Kingston Rule in 1990. Media Puzzle, ridden by Damien Oliver, won in the
time of 3:16.97 last year.
4. In 1985 the race reached $1 million dollars in prize money for
the first time. What A Nuisance, ridden by Pat Hyland, won the $650,000
first prize.
5. Jim Cummings trained one Cup winner, Comic Court in 1950. In
1965 his son Bart trained his first Melbourne Cup winner, the four
year old mare Light Fingers. Bart Cummings holds the trainers' record
having trained an incredible 11 winners. He last won the race in 1999
with Rogan Josh. However in 2001 and 2002 Bart Cummings missed out on
getting a runner into the Cup field. This year he has a runner, the 4YO
horse Frightening, which will be ridden by Shayne Dye.
6. When Ethereal won the Melbourne Cup in 2001, Sheila Laxon was
the first woman trainer to officially win the Melbourne Cup. However Catalogue
who won the 1938 Cup was trained by Mrs. A. McDonald. Women then could
not be registered as trainers. It was her husband who was the registered
trainer.
7. The two most successful Melbourne Cup jockeys are Bobbie Lewis
and Harry White with four wins each.
Bobby Lewis won on The Victory 1902, Patrobas 1915, Artilleryman
1919 and Trivalve 1927. He finished second four times and third on Phar
Lap in 1929. Had the race been run then under Quality Handicap conditions,
like it is now, which means a compressed weight scale, there is
no doubt Phar Lap would have won very easily.
Harry White won on the Bart Cummings' trained Think Big in 1974 and 1975.
Think Big did not win a race in between those two Melbourne Cup wins.
Harry White also won on Arwon in 1978 and another Bart Cummings'
trained horse Hyperno in 1979. So Harry White also holds a unique record
of two Melbourne Cup doubles!
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This edition of Punt to Win:
Melbourne
Cup facts and figures
How does your Melbourne Cup horse rate?
Jardine's
Lookout, Mamool, Mummify, Millstreet
Pentastic,
County Tyrone, Holy Orders, Mr.Prudent
Distinctly
Secret, Hugs Dancer, Grey Song, Makybe Diva
Piachay,
Tumeric, Frightening, Schumpeter
She's
Archie, Zagalia, Ain't Seen Nothin', Big Pat
Bold
Bard, Debben, Fawaz, Yakama
Punt
to Win 31/10/2003
Punt to Win
index
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