Answer: Gala Supreme
Gala Supreme's only other major win was the 1973 Herbert Power Handicap.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup Trainers and Horses
Answer: Delta Blues
Delta Blues is a Japanese horse that was trained by Katsuhiko Sumii.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup Winners [2]
Answer: D. Beadman
Kingston Rule won the Cup in 3:16.3. Kingston Rule was one of the 8 imported horses to win the Melbourne Cup.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup - Horses, Jockeys, Trainers
Answer: Archer
This was the first ever Melbourne Cup. Archer won in 1862 as well. He was the slowest horse to ever win a Melbourne Cup.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup Winners [1]
Answer: Dulcify
Unfortunately he did not finish, breaking his pelvis on the home turn. A very sad day for many, especially the Hayes family.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup
Answer: Handicap
The intention of a handicap race is to give every horse a chance to win. The handicapper does this by allocating a certain weight that each horse must carry during the race. This weight is in the form of ballast carried in the saddle-bags. The better the horse, the bigger the weight it carries. Older horses also carry a heavier load,
compared to younger animals. Amongst winners of the Melbourne Cup carrying large weights, Carbine's dominance of the 1890 race, under a burden of 10 stone 5lb (or 65 kilos) was a stand-out effort. In more recent times, Rising Fast carried 59.5 kilos to win in 1954, a kilo more than Think Big lumped around in his 1975 victory. Of horses who failed to pass the winning post first, Phar Lap's impost of 10 stone 10lb (70 kilos) in the 1931 cup, was a clear indicator of the handicapper's opinion of that super-horse.
From Quiz: The Magical Melbourne Cup
Answer: Archer
On Thursday, 7 November, in a field of 17 horses, Archer won the first Melbourne Cup. He would win again in 1862 in a field of 20 horses.
From Quiz: The Race That Stops A Nation
Answer: 1861
There were 17 starters in the first Melbourne Cup. The trophy was a not a cup at all, but a gold watch.
From Quiz: The Melbourne Cup
Answer: Galilee
Mr. Cummings won an amazing twelve Melbourne Cups, getting his first Cup with Light Fingers in 1965 (his 12th was in 2008 with Viewed).
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup Trainers and Horses
Answer: Artilleryman
Artilleryman was by Comedy King out of Cross Battery. He won the Melbourne Cup as a 3-year old ridden by Bobby Lewis.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup Winners [2]
Answer: Russia
Russia set a record with his time of 3:21.25. Wotan, ridden by O. Phillips in 1936, set the previous record.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup - Horses, Jockeys, Trainers
Answer: They all won the Melbourne Cup twice
Archer won in 1861 and 1862. Rain Lover won in 1968 and 1969. Peter Pan won in 1932 and 1934. Think Big won in 1974 and 1975.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup Winners [1]
Answer: Empire Rose
Ethereal won in 2001, Jezabeel won in 1998, Lets Elope won in 1991, and Empire Rose in 1988.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup
Answer: 1861
Four thousand spectators saw seventeen hopefuls line up. Twilight jumped the gun, and completed the course before being caught. Tragically, Despatch and Medora fell, and were destroyed. Archer, a five year old bay horse, trained by Etienne de Mestre and ridden by John Cutts led the field home. By winning, he earned his owner 710 pounds and a hand-beaten gold watch. The long-standing legend that Archer walked the 550 miles (880 kilometres) from his home at Nowra on the southern New South Wales Coast to the course has since been disproved by records which show he travelled by boat. What does the determination shown by De Mestre, and other trainers, to go to such lengths to get their horses to a race so far away indicate?
Probably nothing more than the fact that they were attracted by prizes very rich at the time. One wonders if any dreamed of the tradition they were starting.
From Quiz: The Magical Melbourne Cup
Answer: It was the smallest field to race
Archer was nominated to race in the third Melbourne Cup but his nomination didn't arrive in time. Due to this, many other owners scratched their horses. This left a field of only seven horses, the smallest field to ever race in the Melbourne Cup.
From Quiz: The Race That Stops A Nation
Answer: Archer
Legend has it that Archer was walked 500 miles (800km) from Nowra (south of Sydney) to Melbourne, so that he could run in the Cup. Archer also won the 2nd Melbourne Cup.
From Quiz: The Melbourne Cup
Answer: Even Stevens
Even Stevens also won the 1961 Avondale Cup, the 1962 C.B Fisher Plate and the 1962 Caulfield Cup.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup Trainers and Horses
Answer: Russia
On Target came in second and third place was Carey.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup Winners [2]
Answer: 1863
Banker competed against 6 other horses. This was the smallest field to ever contest the Cup.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup Winners [1]
Answer: 4
Harry won 4 cups in quick time. He won on Think Big in 1975 and 1976, Arwon in 1978, and Hyperno in 1979.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup
Answer: Victoria Racing Club (VRC)
The Victoria Racing Club was the result of a merger between the VTC and the VJC. The VTC had organised the first Cup, as well as those of 1862 and 1863. Both that club and the VJC then hit a wall.
Two clubs competing with each other at a time when fields were limited by a dearth of local racehorses, with the subsequent inability to offer financial incentives large enough to entice entries from places further apart, led to the decision to join forces.
Subsequently, the VRC was able to organise meets more frequently and of a higher standard. First seretary of the VRC was Mr. R.C. Bagot, whose name is perpetuated in the New Year's Day Bagot Handicap.
From Quiz: The Magical Melbourne Cup
Answer: The Pearl, 1871
In 1871, The Pearl, at odds of 100/1, won in a field of 23 horses. The next horse to win at odds of 100/1 was Wotan in 1936, in a field of 20 starters.
From Quiz: The Race That Stops A Nation
Answer: Seven
This was in 1863 when the Cup was won by Banker. The largest field was 38 in 1890 (won by Carbine).
From Quiz: The Melbourne Cup
Answer: Russia
Russia also won the 1947 AJC Craven Plate and the 1947 P.J. O'Shae Stakes.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup Trainers and Horses
Answer: Rogan Josh
Rogan Josh was trained by Bart Cummings and ridden by John Marshall.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup Winners [2]
Answer: 1910
Comedy King was the first imported horse to ever win the Melbourne Cup. Since then 7 other imported horses have won, including the 2007 winner, Delta Blues. Trafalgar and Apple Pie finished second and third in the race.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup Winners [1]
Answer: 49.5kg
Beldale Ball won from My Blue Denim and Love Bandit.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup
Answer: Phar Lap
A chestnut gelding, Phar Lap continues to be an icon in the eyes of Australasians. Foaled in the New Zealand town of Timaru in 1925, his dam was the New Zealander Entreaty; his sire the imported Great British stallion, Night Raid. Phar Lap won 37 of 51 starts - including the 1930 Melbourne Cup. After racing unsuccessfully in the 1931 Cup, Phar Lap went to North America. There he amazed onlookers with a record win in the Agua Caliente Handicap in Mexico. Shortly afterward, tragedy struck. The horse had a colic attack and died. There were suggestions that strapper Tommy Woodcock had accidentally overdosed Phar Lap with a substance known as Fowler's Solution, which would have induced the condition, but nothing was ever proved.
From Quiz: The Magical Melbourne Cup
Answer: Carbine
In a field of 39 horses, the great Carbine, born and bred in New Zealand, carried a huge 65.5 kg (10st 5lb in 1890) in his Cup winning run. To put this in perspective, in the modern era (from 1972) Melbourne Cup winners who have been heavily weighted have been; 1975 Think Big - 58.5 kg, 1977 Gold and Black - 57 kg, 1979 Hyperno - 56 kg, 1982 Gurner's Lane - 56 kg, 1994 Jeune - 56.5kg, 1997 Might and Power - 56 kg. In 1990, the Victoria Racing Club restored Carbine's original stall to celebrate the centenary of his Melbourne Cup victory.
From Quiz: The Race That Stops A Nation
Answer: 1930
In his racing career Phar Lap started 51 times. He had 37 wins, 3 seconds, and 2 thirds.
From Quiz: The Melbourne Cup
Answer: Nightmarch
During his racing career, Nightmarch won twenty-three races, fourteen less than his more famous half-brother, Phar Lap.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup Trainers and Horses
Answer: Ingoda
Ingoda was a born in 1906 in New Zealand. Maid of the Oaks was the dam of 1861 and 1862 winner, Archer. Gallant Elsa was the dam of 1943 winner, Dark Felt. The 1967 winner, Red Handed, was out of Red Might.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup Winners [2]
Answer: L. Coles
Even Stevens was a horse from New Zealand who won both the Melbourne Cup and the Caulfield Cup in 1962.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup - Horses, Jockeys, Trainers
Answer: 1922
King Ingoda was a 4-year old owned by Messrs C. L. Dubois & R. W. Bennett. Ingoda won with 8-1 odds. The Cypher and Mufti finished second and third, respectively.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup Winners [1]
Answer: Mark Twain
Mark Twain attended the Cup in 1895, during a lecture tour of Australia. He makes further fascinating observations about the race in his travel book: "Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World."
From Quiz: The Magical Melbourne Cup
Answer: Rain Lover
Rain Lover won in both 1968 and 1969, matching the feat of Archer, who won the first two runnings, in 1861 and 1862.
From Quiz: The Race That Stops A Nation
Answer: White Nose
Phar Lap, carrying almost 70kgs, was the favourite for this race but, due to such a heavy weight, was easily beaten by White Nose, carrying only 47.17kgs.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup Trainers and Horses
Answer: Windbag
Windbag was a bay stallion who finished in 3.22.75. Manfred came in second and Pilliewinkie came third. Windbag was ridden by J. Munro and trained by G. Price.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup Winners [2]
Answer: Archer and Lantern
Their time was 3:52. Archer winning in 1861 and Lantern in 1864.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup - Horses, Jockeys, Trainers
Answer: Carbine
Carbine beat 38 other horses. This was one of the the largest fields to ever contest the Cup.
From Quiz: Melbourne Cup Winners [1]
