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1987 Melbourne Cup
The 1987 Melbourne Cup was a handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 3 November 1987 over 3200m, at Flemington Racecourse for a stake of $1,285,000. Background The race was won by the New Zealand bred gelding Kensei, trained by Les Bridge and ridden by Larry Olsen. The runner up was the big Kiwi mare Empire Rose trained by Laurie Laxon, and third place went to Rosedale trained by Bart Cummings. The winning margin was a half length with a further short half head to third place. Kensei was bred in New Zealand by D F Duffy & G S Hale. He was sired by Blarney Kiss (USA), who was also the sire of 1983 Melbourne Cup winner Kiwi. His dam was Kitty's Dream (NZ) who was by Nauplius (NZ). Kensei had previously won a 1800m welter race at Randwick in September, then ran second to The Brotherhood in the Group 2 Newcastle Gold Cup (2300m) and second to Balciano in the Group 1 Metropolitan (2600m) at Randwick. Earlier, in July, he had won the 1987 Grafton Cup over 2200m. ...
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Melbourne Cup
The Melbourne Cup is an annual Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held in Melbourne, Australia, at the Flemington Racecourse. It is a 3200-metre race for three-year-olds and older, conducted by the Victoria Racing Club that forms part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. It is the richest two-mile handicap in the world and one of the richest turf races. The event starts at 3:00 pm on the first Tuesday of November and is known locally as "the race that stops the nation". The Melbourne Cup has cemented itself as a part of Melbourne and Australian culture, having been run every year since 1861 (except for an intermission during World War I and World War II). The day of the race has been a public holiday for much of Victoria since 1876. It was originally run over but was shortened to in 1972 when Australia adopted the metric system. This reduced the distance by , and Rain Lover's 1968 race record of 3:19.1 was accordingly adjusted to 3:17.9. The present record holder is ...
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New Zealand Cup
The New Zealand Cup is a thoroughbred horse race run at the Riccarton Park Racecourse in Christchurch. New Zealand Cup week The New Zealand Cup is raced on the final Saturday of Christchurch "Cup week" held each year in the second week of November. For thoroughbred horses the week also features: * the New Zealand 1000 Guineas for 3 year old fillies, * the New Zealand 2000 Guineas for 3 year olds, * the Stewards Handicap sprint, and * the Coupland's Bakeries Mile. Christchurch Cup week includes premier standardbred meetings at Addington raceway including: * the New Zealand Trotting Cup for pacers on the Tuesday. * the New Zealand Free For All for pacers on the Friday. * the Dominion Handicap for trotters on the Friday. There is also greyhound racing on the Thursday, including the following Group 1 races: * the New Zealand Galaxy - C5f 295m. * the New Zealand Greyhound Cup - C5f 520m. * the New Zealand Stayers Cup - C2df 732m. History of the New Zealand Cup The New Zeal ...
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1987 In Australian Sport
Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader Mohammad Najibullah says that Afghanistan's 1978 Communist revolution is "not reversible," and that any opposition parties will have to align with Communist goals. * January 4 – ** 1987 Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route from Washington, D.C. to Boston collides with Conrail engines at Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people. ** Televangelist Oral Roberts announces to his viewers that unless they donate $8 million to his ministry by March 31, God will "call [him] home." * January 15 – Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, is forced into retirement by political conservatives. * January 16 – León Febres Cordero, president of Ecuador, is kidnapped for 11 hours by followers of imprisoned ...
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John Marshall (jockey)
John Marshall (c. 1958 – 23 December 2018) was an Australian jockey from Perth, who was best known for riding Rogan Josh to victory in the 1999 Melbourne Cup. Career statistics * Career Winners: 2,000 * Career Group 1 (G1) Wins: 36 * Career Group 2 (G2) Wins: 36 * Career Group 3 (G3) Wins: 30 * Career Listed (LR) Wins: 68 * Total Stakes (Group/Listed) Wins: 170 Marshall won the Sydney Jockey Premiership in the 1987/88 season with 86 wins, beating Jim Cassidy with 65 wins. He also finished 2nd in the Sydney Jockey's Premiership 3 times: * 1982/83 season – 52 wins (won by Ron Quinton: 90 wins), * 1986/87 season – 85 1/2 wins (won by Malcolm Johnston: 92 1/2 wins), * 1989/90 season – 67 wins (won by Mick Dittman: 75 wins). Group 1 wins **1982 ***AJC Oaks (2400m): Sheraco **1983 ***Epsom Handicap (1600m): Cool River **1984 ***AJC Derby (2400m): Prolific ***Sydney Cup (3200m): Trissaro **1985 ***Randwick Guineas (1600m): Spirit of Kingston ***Rosehill Guineas (2000m): S ...
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Tony Allan (jockey)
Tony Allan (born in Pukekohe, Auckland Region) is a New Zealand jockey He started his apprenticeship at age 16 to Grant Searle in Levin. He said he was inspired to become a jockey by his late father who would frequently take him to the Levin racecourse. He is best known for riding Empire Rose to victory in the 1988 Melbourne Cup. Over the course of his racing career Tony accomplished 12 Group 1 wins. Notable wins The following are some of the major races Tony has won in his career. Career In 2003, Allan admitted to using methamphetamine. However, he has subsequently worked hard to change his lifestyle and become clean. Tony retired in 2005 and moved to Japan for a break, riding trackwork for around 10 years in Hokkaido before a job with Sydney trainers Peter and Paul Snowden. On 27 May 2017 Tony made a comeback to race day riding in New Zealand. His first winner back in New Zealand was on Thursday 28 June 2017 at Waverley on My Cool Boy. On Friday 16 March 2018 Tony ro ...
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2015 Melbourne Cup
The 2015 Emirates Melbourne Cup was the 155th running of the Melbourne Cup, a prestigious Australian Thoroughbred horse race. The race, run over , was held on 3 November 2015 at Melbourne's Flemington Racecourse. The date is a public holiday in the state of Victoria. The final field for the race was declared on 31 October. The total prize money for the race was A$6.2 million, the same as the previous year. The winner was Prince of Penzance, ridden by Michelle Payne, who became the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup. He was trained by Darren Weir, who has since been banned from horseracing & charged with animal cruelty offences. Max Dynamite ran second and Criterion third. Background Prior to the race, racehorse advocacy groups and animal rights activists attempted to highlight the number of racehorse deaths due to injuries sustained during a race. The deaths of two horses in Melbourne Cup 2014 race has called into question the use of the whip and whether it result ...
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Prince Of Penzance
Prince of Penzance is a New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred race horse who won the 2015 Melbourne Cup. He was trained by Darren Weir. In the race, he was ridden by Michelle Payne, who became the first female jockey to win the race. Background Prince of Penzance is a bay gelding with a white blaze bred by Rich Hill Stud in the Matamata region of New Zealand's North Island. He was sired by Pentire, a British horse who recorded his biggest win in the 1996 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and had his biggest success in New Zealand where he sired Mufhasa (Telegraph Handicap), Rangirangdoo ( Doncaster Mile) and Xcellent as well as Prince of Penzance. His dam Royal Successor is a daughter of the Irish-bred mare Only Royale who won the Yorkshire Oaks in 1993 and 1994. The name is a reference to the place name of Penzance in Cornwall. Racing career Prince of Penzance's first notable win was in autumn 2014, in the Listed Mornington Cup Prelude. Races in the remainder of the year, ...
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Michelle Payne
Michelle J. Payne (born 29 September 1985) is a retired Australian jockey. She won the 2015 Melbourne Cup, riding Prince of Penzance, and is the first and only female jockey to win the event. Early life The youngest child of ten of Paddy and Mary Payne, Payne grew up on a farm at Miners Rest, a locality near Ballarat in central Victoria, Australia. Her mother Mary died in a motor vehicle crash when Payne was six months old, leaving her father Paddy to raise their ten children as a single father. Payne dreamt of being a winning jockey as a child, and, at the age of seven she told her friends that she would one day win the Melbourne Cup. She attended Our Lady Help of Christians primary school and Loreto College, Ballarat, and entered racing aged 15, the eighth of the Payne children to do so. She has Irish New Zealand heritage. Career She won in her first race at Ballarat, aboard Reigning—a horse trained by her father. In March 2004, Payne fell heavily at a race in Sandown ...
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Makybe Diva
Makybe Diva (foaled 21 March 1999) is a champion Australian Thoroughbred horse racing, racehorse who is the only horse to win three Melbourne Cups and the only mare to win it more than once. She achieved the feat in 2003, 2004, and 2005. She also won the 2005 Cox Plate. She was the highest stakes-earner in Australian history, winning more than Australian dollar, A$14 million. She is by Desert King (a winner of the Irish Derby and Irish 2,000 Guineas) out of Tugela (horse), Tugela by Riverman (USA). Tugela was also the dam of the Australian stakes-winners, Musket and Valkyrie Diva. Makybe Diva is owned by South Australian tuna fisherman Tony Šantić, who named her after five of his employees—Maureen, Kylie, Belinda, Diane, and Vanessa—by taking the first two letters from each of their names. Background Tony Šantić's bloodstock agent John Foote purchased Tugela in foal to Desert King for 60,000 Guinea (British coin), guineas at the December 1998 Tattersall's Sale. As norma ...
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Murray Baker
Murray Baker (born 21 April 1946) is a New Zealand thoroughbred racehorse trainer and former representative cricketer. Cricket Baker played in one List A and seventeen first-class matches for Central Districts and Northern Districts from 1966 to 1975. Baker was part of the team who won the Plunket Shield and played for Huddersfield in England. Horse training Baker started training at Woodville in the 1970s. His first raceday winner was Vizier on October 4 1978, at Otaki. Another early winner was Sir Vigilant in the 1985 New Zealand St. Leger. In 2000 Murray moved his training operation to Cambridge. He has trained in partnership with: * his son, Bjorn Baker, who later moved to set up stables of his own at Warwick Farm Racecourse in Sydney, Australia. * Andrew Forsman. Murray has won many major races on both sides of the Tasman with leading horses such as: * Bonneval, twice New Zealand Horse of the Year, winner of the 2017 Australian Oaks, Feehan Stakes, New Zealand Oaks ...
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Auckland Cup
The Auckland Cup is an annual race held by the Auckland Racing Club (ARC). It is an Open Handicap for thoroughbred racehorses competed on the flat turf over 3200 metres (two miles) at Ellerslie Racecourse in Auckland, New Zealand. The race was formerly graded as a Group One (G1) event but as from 2022 is a Group 2. It was first contested in 1874. History The first meeting of the Auckland Racing Club was in May 1874. One of the events, run over a distance of miles, was named the Auckland Cup. This race was won by Mr. J Watt's three-year-old Batter. At the Summer Meeting of 1874 the Auckland Cup was run on Boxing Day over a distance of two miles and in subsequent published records of the club this race is shown as being the first official, recognised Auckland Cup contest. This race was won by Templeton who must have been an impressive horse as to inspire Thomas Bracken (composer of 'God Defend New Zealand') to write a requiem of sorts to his fading prowess called Old Templet ...
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Adelaide Cup
The Adelaide Cup is a South Australian Jockey Club Group 2 Thoroughbred handicap horse race for three-year-olds and older, run over 3,200 metres at Morphettville Racecourse in Adelaide, Australia on the second Monday in March. Total prize money for the race is A$350,000. History The first Adelaide Cup was raced on 21 April 1864 at Thebarton Racecourse, where Mile End is today. The race had stakes of 500 sovereigns with an additional sweep of 50 sovereigns to induce owners from other colonies to compete in the race. Victoria's P. Dowling's Falcon carried 10 stone, 1 pound () and ridden by jockey J. Morrison won the race in a time of 3:50.50. A crowd of 7,000 or 8,000 was present for the event. The race was run at Weight for Age over two miles from 1864–68. In 1869 the Autumn meeting returned to "the Old Course" ( Victoria Park Racecourse) where the Cup was run as a handicap race over two miles. There was no Cup raced in 1870 or 1871. The Cup resumed in 1872 and was ru ...
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