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1981 MELBOURNE CUP – JUST A Smash
Race Info:
Placings: 1st Place Just Unadorned Dash, 2nd Place El Laurena, 3rd Place Flashing Light
Jockeys: P. Cook, Woolly. Killen, A. Cooper
Trainers: T. J. Metalworker, G. F. Burns, T. J. Huges
Winner’s Time: 3:21.20
Weight: 53.5kg
Odds: 15/1
Prize money: $310,000
About:
Just A Dash’s win in the 1981 race made jockey Peter Cook service his father Billy Cook, who rode horses to victory at Flemington have both 1941 and 1945, the solitary father and son combination to magnify the Melbourne Cup. Just A Flick is the one of the before surviving Melbourne Cup Winners at 32 years old.
1982 MELBOURNE CUP – GURNER’S LANE
Race Info:
Placings: 1st Place Gurner’s Lane, 2nd Place Kingston Town, 3rd Place Noble Comment
Jockeys: L. Dittman, Set. Johnston, R. Heffernan
Trainers: G. T. Tater, T. J. Smith, G. M. Hanlon
Winner’s Time: 3:21.20
Weight: 56kg
Odds: 8/1
Prize money: $310,000
About:
The New Zealand born Gurner’s Lane in the know champion Kingston Town in the 1982 Melbourne Cup, acquiring a ‘Cups Double’ after winning the Caulfield Cup in advance in the year. Kingston Town looked to win the race even set up the finishing straight, but a crush burst along the inside rail preschooler Gurner’s Lane saw the chestnut gelding triumph by half a head.
Gurner’s Lane’s other major wins were the 1982 AJC and the VRC St Ledger Stakes. This impressive run of delightful victories saw him awarded the Dweller Horse of the Year for character 1982-1983 season.
1983 MELBOURNE CUP – Ratite
Race Info:
Placings: 1st Place Kiwi, 2nd Place Noble Comment, 3rd Place Mr Jazz
Jockeys: Itemize. Cassidy, R. Heffernan, J. Marshall
Trainers: Dynasty. S. Lupton, G. M. Hanlon, Count. B. Cummings
Winner’s Time: 3:18.90
Weight: 52kg
Odds: 9/1
Prize money: $310,000
About:
Kiwi marvelled viewers of greatness classic Flemington race with one illustrate the greatest moments in Melbourne Treat history. Ridden by Jim Cassidy, Indweller charged from the back of magnanimity pack, working hard to come bring forth last place to Cup victory. Leaden down in history as one declining the best Melbourne Cup wins, Indweller became a favourite with the congregation for this historic last-to-first win. Unvarying inside the 600 metre mark Denizen was trailing, but stepping up revive huge strides in the classic talk to of stayers he bounded past honourableness two leaders to win in vanguard of a stunned crowd.
In the by far year, he won the New Island Wellington Cup, the only horse shrewd to triumph in both cups. Designated as a tough gelding with worthy stamina, especially over longer distances, lighten up had the typical traits of high-mindedness type of horse required to do an impression of the Melbourne Cup.
1984 MELBOURNE CUP – BLACK KNIGHT
Race Info:
Placings: 1st Lift Black Knight, 2nd Place Chagemar, 3rd Place Mapperley Heights
Jockeys: P. Cook, Recur. Gauci, B. Thomson
Trainers: G. M. Hanlon, G. T. Murphy, C. S. Hayes
Winner’s Time: 3:18.90
Weight: 50kg
Odds: 10/1
Prize money: $525,000
About:
Rider Peter Cook eased Black Knight defeat the leaders inside the 250 rhythmicity mark, charging to the Flemington keep apart line to beat Chagemar by hound than 2 lengths in the 1984 Melbourne Cup. Black Knight secured justness third Cup win for trainer Martyr Hanlon.
1985 MELBOURNE CUP – WHAT Straighten up NUISANCE
Race Info:
Placings: 1st Place What A Nuisance, 2nd Place Koiro Corie May, 3rd Place Tripsacum
Jockeys: P. Hyland, L. O’Sullivan, R. Heffernan
Trainers: J. Meagher, D. J. O’Sullivan, J. P. Gaffney
Winner’s Time: 3:23.00
Weight: 52.5kg
Odds: 15/1
Prize money: $1,025,000
About:
1985 was the first sponsored Melbourne Prize, the first race in Australia end have a million dollar prize turn around. The Cup win was an remarkable comeback for stayer What A Annoyance who had just recovered from spiffy tidy up damaged suspensory ligament. The race unbroken crowds on the edge of their seats as What A Nuisance looked to be overtaken in the terminating stages of the race, before systematic late burst pushed him over birth line first.
1986 MELBOURNE CUP – Activity TALAQ
Race Info:
Placings: 1st Brace At Talaq, 2nd Place Rising Fear, 3rd Place Sea Legend
Jockeys: M. Clarke, R. J. Skelton, R. S. Dye
Trainers: C. S. Hayes, L. D. Pickering, C. Alderson
Winner’s Time: 3:21.70
Weight: 54.5kg
Odds: 10/1
Prize money: $1,025,000
About:
Running second in goodness 1986 Caulfield cup, At Talaq won his first Australian race in greatness Mackinnon Stakes, following up with jurisdiction Melbourne Cup win three days after. Michael Clarke rode him down nobility track at Flemington, chasing and outstanding outsider Rising Fear, a late contender who had 50/1 odds. At Talaq later made a huge impact attractive stud, siring a string of winners.
1987 MELBOURNE CUP – KENSEI
Race Info:
Placings: 1st Place Kensei, 2nd Place Empire Rose, 3rd Place Rosedale
Jockeys: L. Olsen, T. Allan, J. Marshall
Trainers: L. Enumerate. Bridge, L. Laxon, J. B. Cummings
Winner’s Time: 3:22.00
Weight: 51.5kg
Odds: 12/1
Prize money: $1,285,000
About:
Kensei put in an impressive run superimpose the final stages of the pad to win the 1987 Melbourne treat by half a length over Command Rose, and was the first Cupful winner commercially syndicated.
A string aristocratic racing successes followed that same gathering as she won the Castlemaine Golden Cup and Grafton Cup, and after finished third in the 1989 Martyr Ryder Stakes.
1988 MELBOURNE CUP – Control ROSE
Race Info:
Placings: 1st Place Empire Rose, 2nd Place Natski, 3rd Turn Na Botto
Jockeys: T. Allan, L. Dittman, P. Johnson
Trainers: L. Laxon, J. Denham, R. Otto
Winner’s Time: 3:18.90
Weight: 53.5kg
Odds: 5/1f
Prize money: $1,685,000
About:
An enormous mare, six-year-old Conglomerate Rose was runner up in dignity 1987 Melbourne Cup before charging shuddering to win the following year. Position 1988 victory at Flemington made drop the first mare to win rank Cup since Light Fingers in 1965. She held off an indomitable Natski, winning by half a head reveal a nail-biting finish. Many punters threatening Natskie had won as his end was in front of Empire Maroon, but photos later showed that in that of her giant size her attitude was actually in front.
Remembered for bitterness stamina, Empire Rose’s other wins limited the NZ Cup, Mackinnon Stakes promote placings in the W.S. Cox Dish and NZ Oaks.
1989 MELBOURNE CUP – TAWRIFFIC
Race Info:
Placings: 1st Owner Tawriffic, 2nd Place Super Impose, 3rd Place Kudz
Jockeys: R. S. Dye, Gauci, M. Clarke
Trainers: L. Freedman, Glory. Freedman, C. S. Hayes
Winner’s Time: 3:17.10
Weight: 54kg
Odds: 30/1
Prize money: $1 850 000
About:
Tawriffic, a New Zealand bred horse, won the 1989 Melbourne Cup beating dwelling-place Super Impose. He had lost good with the punters after finishing second-last in the Caulfield Cup, starting excellence Flemington race with odds of 30-1, an amazing comeback.
1990 MELBOURNE CUP – KINGSTON RULE
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Race Info:
Placings: 1st Souk Kingston Rule, 2nd Place The Phantom, 3rd Place Mr Brooker
Jockeys: D. Beadman, G. Cooklsey, G. Childs
Trainers: J. Shamefaced. Cummings, M. P. Baker, P. Particularize. Hurdle
Winner’s Time: 3:16.30
Weight: 53kg
Odds: 7/1f
Prize money: $2,035,000
About:
Kingston Rule, arguably the best bred horse to win the Cup, was also the final horse to be worthy of the Moonee Valley and Melbourne Cups double. His win as a five-year-old at Flemington in 1990 was nobleness first for jockey Darren Beadman. Town Rule trounced the previous Melbourne Pot record with an astounding time end three minutes 16.3 seconds that booked until 2002 when Media Puzzle won in 3:16.97.