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New Zealand and the Melbourne Cup
54% of last 50 winners were NZ bred.
With its reputation as being the most prestigious two mile handicap in the world, New Zealand’s breeding industry has every reason to be proud of its record in the Melbourne Cup.
In the last 50 years, New Zealand has produced 56 per cent of its winners.
Beyond this dominant win record; New Zealand is also able to lay claim to some its greatest winners.
Those to have been inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame include: Carbine (NZ), Phar Lap (NZ), Galilee (NZ), Rising Fast (NZ) and Might & Power (NZ).
New Zealand is the breeding origin of 27 of the last 50 Melbourne Cup winners.
Many argue Carbine’s 1890 triumph was the greatest of all Melbourne Cup wins.
On this occasion Carbine a) carried a record 66kg, b) beat its biggest ever field of 39, c) won untouched by 2.5 lengths, d) won with a bar shoe holding together an infected split heel and e) achieved the win in an Australasian record time that was to stand for 15 years.
Whilst commonly billed as ‘the race that stops a nation’, there is no doubt that the Melbourne Cup’s weld of influence is strongly felt across the Tasman, where stories such as Kiwi’s last to first win rate as part of NZ folklore.
NZ Bred Fast Facts
- New Zealand has bred 27 of the last 50 Melbourne Cup winners (54%).
- Carbine (NZ) holds the record for the highest weighted winner with 66kg.
- Since 1940 no two stallions have been more dominant than Sir Tristram and his sire son Zabeel.
- Sir Tristram’s three winners comprise: Gurners Lane (1982), Empire Rose (1988) and Brew (2000).
- Zabeel’s three winners comprise: Might & Power (1997), Jezabeel (1998) and Efficient (2007)
- In 2007 Efficient became the first VRC Derby winner to win the cup since Phar Lap in 1930.
- Martini Henry, a maiden winner of the 1883 VRC Derby, was the first NZ Bred winner of the Melbourne Cup.
- The earliest NZ bred winners Martini Red and Carbine were both by Musket, a stallion who had originally been brought to New Zealand to sire carriage and utility horses.
- The Australasian wonderhorse Tulloch (NZ) could well have added his name to the Melbourne Cup’s honours list had his owner Mr E.A. Haley not scratched him.
Bart Cummings is the most prolific trainer of Melbourne Cup winners. Of his 12 wins here, 8 have carried the NZ suffix. These comprise: Light Fingers, Galilee, Red Handed, Think Big (x2) Gold And Black, Hyperno and Let’s Elope.
NZ bred record in Melbourne Cup
By Phillip Quay
The New Zealand thoroughbred breeding industry can be very proud of its record in the world’s most famous 3200m event, the A$5.6 million Emirates Melbourne Cup, to be run at Flemington on Tuesday.
In the past 50 years, New Zealand has produced 54 per cent of its winners, according to statistics supplied by New Zealand Thoroughbred Marketing (NZTM).
Beyond this dominant win record; New Zealand is also able to lay claim to some of the race’s greatest winners.
Those to have been inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame include Carbine, Phar Lap, Galilee, Rising Fast and Might And Power.
Many believe that Carbine’s 1890 triumph was the greatest of all Melbourne Cup wins.
On that occasion Carbine a) carried a record 66kg, b) beat its biggest ever field of 39, c) won untouched by 2.5 lengths, d) won with a bar shoe holding together an infected split heel and e) achieved the win in an Australasian record time that was to stand for 15 years.
Whilst commonly billed as ‘the race that stops a nation’, there is no doubt that the Melbourne Cup’s weld of influence is strongly felt across the Tasman, where stories such as Kiwi’s last to first win rate as part of New Zealand folklore.
Some relevant facts on the NZ-bred horses record in the Melbourne Cup.
•New Zealand has bred 27 of the last 50 Melbourne Cup winners (54%).
•Carbine holds the record for the highest weighted winner with 66kg.
•Since 1940 no two stallions have been more dominant than Sir Tristram and his sire son Zabeel.
•Sir Tristram’s three winners comprise: Gurners Lane (1982), Empire Rose (1988) and Brew (2000).
•Zabeel’s three winners comprise: Might And Power (1997), Jezabeel (1998) and Efficient (2007)
•In 2007 Efficient became the first VRC Derby winner to win the cup since Phar Lap in 1930.
•Martini Henry, a maiden winner of the 1883 VRC Derby, was the first NZ Bred winner of the Melbourne Cup.
•The earliest New Zealand-bred winners Martini Red and Carbine were both by Musket, a stallion who had originally been brought to New Zealand to sire carriage and utility horses.
•The Australasian legendary galloper, Tulloch, could well have added his name to the Melbourne Cup’s honours list had his owner Mr E.A. Haley not scratched him.
•Bart Cummings is the most prolific trainer of Melbourne Cup winners. Of his 12 wins here, eight have carried the NZ suffix. These comprise: Light Fingers, Galilee, Red Handed, Think Big (twice) Gold And Black, Hyperno and Let’s Elope.
mackinaw Preview
By Phillip Quay
Saturday’s A$750,000 MacKinnon Stakes at Flemington looks set once again to provide some vital clues to the outcome of Tuesday’s A$5.6 million Melbourne Cup.
In the past the MacKinnon Stakes was seen as one of the most reliable guides to finding the Melbourne Cup winner with recent horses to complete the double having included Let’s Elope, Empire Rose and Rogan Josh. However, it has been 10 years since the latter of those, Rogan Josh, completed the double.
While in recent years this has not necessarily been as much the case this year’s MacKinnon field does contain some of the leading Melbourne Cup fancies with none more so than last year’s Melbourne Cup winner and this year’s Caulfield Cup winner Viewed.
Trained by Cups King Bart Cummings, Viewed may now be lacking a little bit of brilliance for the 2000m distance of the MacKinnon on Saturday but undoubtedly he will still be right to the forefront of calculations.
Should Viewed win the MacKinnon, and win it impressively, then he will probably take over the favouritism for the Melbourne Cup from 2007 race winner Efficient.
The Caulfield Cup win by Viewed was nothing short of outstanding and it is clear that he is right at the peak of his form.
Another well fancied Melbourne Cup contestant lining up in the MacKinnon on Saturday is Vigor who finished an eye-catching third in the Caulfield Cup.
Vigor is no certainty to make the Melbourne Cup field unless he can secure an automatic start by finishing in the first two placings in the MacKinnon Stakes. The first and second horses home in the weight-for-age feature are exempt from the Melbourne Cup ballot.
Vigor is currently only 28th in the Cup order of entry and only 24 horses can gain a start.
The other MacKinnon runners still in contention for the Melbourne Cup are 2007 Caulfield Cup winner Master O’Reilly, Cox Plate placegetter Zipping, Cima De Triomphe and Newport.
Memories Rosey for Tim Bodel
By Phillip Quay
When Cambridge studmaster Tim Bodle watches the 2009 Melbourne Cup on the big screen at Cambridge’s Melbourne Cup day at Cambridge Raceway on Tuesday November 3 it will rekindle many happy memories for him.
Bodle’s father, the late Fred Bodle, was the owner/breeder of legendary 1988 Melbourne Cup winner Empire Rose.
The giant-sized Sir Tristram mare, Empire Rose, was one of the sentimental favourites of the track in both Australia and New Zealand. She stood over 17 hands high and it sometimes took several attendants and a lot of persuasion to squeeze her into the starting gates for her races.
Empire Rose used all of her size and strength to gain her splendid Melbourne Cup victory in a ding-dong finish. In the shadows of the winning post she managed to get her long neck in front at the finishing post to down northern hemisphere-bred Natski.
Empire Rose lined up four times in the Melbourne Cup for a win, a second and a fifth. She also won a Mackinnon Stakes and finished third in the Cox Plate. She amassed career earnings of close to $2 million from 48 starts spread over five seasons.
When scoring her exciting win in 1988, Empire Rose became the first mare to win the Melbourne Cup since Light Fingers in 1965.
Tim Bodle shared in the magic moment of Empire Rose’s Flemington victory. “It’s an amazing thrill to win a Melbourne Cup,” he says.
“It’s more of a daze. You don’t realise that you’ve won it until a month later when you’ve seen the pictures,” Bodle said.
Empire Rose was trained at the time of her Melbourne Cup triumph by then Cambridge-based Laurie Laxon who nowadays is the leading trainer in Singapore. She was ridden by 18-year-old rider Tony Allan who was cool as a cucumber in the tight finish.
Empire Rose was put down at Whakanui Stud in March 2002 after suffering from laminitis (feet problem) and developing a heart problem and is buried on the farm.
Fred Bodle established Whakanui Stud and nowadays Tim and his wife, Karen, are busy at the helm of running the farm, which does not stand a stallion but has a sizeable and prized broodmare band.
Watch Empire Rose’s epic 1988 Melbourne Cup victory - CLICK HERE
Daffodil Ready to Bloom
By Phillip Quay
Should smart New Zealand racemare Daffodil 
collect the major spoils in Tuesday week’s A$5.6 million Emirates Melbourne Cup then there will be another strong Waverley connection with the most famous handicap horse race in the world.
Daffodil’s 72-year-old trainer, Kevin Gray, was based at Waverley for much of his distinguished training career before moving south to stables at Palmerston North a couple of years ago.
Waverley was also the home of one of the most popular Melbourne Cup winners, Kiwi, who made his owner/trainer, the late Snow Lupton, a household name with a dramatic 1983 last-to-first win.
Gray, like Lupton, is the traditional type of New Zealand horse trainer – a stockman first and foremost.
Gray was a stock agent in Hawera for many years before setting up as a horse trainer in Waverley, a small township south of Taranaki in the central North Island.
Gray has had many smart horses through his hands over the years and one of the best performed during the early stages of his training career was Copper Belt, a winner of 23 races from 53 starts and amassed stake earnings of more than $150,000 which was huge money in the 1970s.
But it has been in recent years that Gray’s training results have taken on even a higher level.
His Group 1 successes in the New Zealand Oaks and Kelt Capital Stakes in 2006 with top mare Legs were career highs.
Legs was owned and bred by Waikato Stud in Matamata which also bred and owns Daffodil.
After a grinding fourth placing in the Caulfield Cup last Saturday week (three lengths in arrears of winner Viewed), Daffodil has strong credentials to run well in the Melbourne Cup and she will fly the flag for the New Zealand breeding industry.
Daffodil did not come out of a rugged Caulfield Cup finish unscathed but Gray reports she has made a good recovery.
She returned to scale after the Caulfield Cup with blood flowing from a nasty cut just below the knee.
Gray said the leg was quite swollen for several days after the race and there was some skin off as well as bruising to the bone but she has responded well to veterinary treatment for the injuries.
Daffodil was ridden by Chris Munce at Caulfield and he will be staying aboard in the Melbourne Cup. Munce was successful on another New Zealand mare, Jezabeel, in the 1998 Melbourne Cup.
Six O’Clock News
By Phillip Quay
Cambridge stayer Six O’Clock News remains a leading contender for the A$5.6 million Emirates Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington on November 3 despite an unplaced run in Wednesday’s Geelong Cup.
The Zabeel gelding finished only ninth in the Geelong Cup but trainers Paddy and Trent Busuttin have still decided to push on with the Melbourne Cup tilt.
Jockey Noel Harris said the tight Geelong track did not suit Six O’Clock News as he was unable to get his big stride into top gear.
Six O’Clock News will need to win the Group 3 Saab Quality (2500m) at Flemington next Saturday if he is to be guaranteed a start in the Melbourne Cup .
He missed out on a Caulfield Cup start after not making the field and is in danger of the same chain of events happening in the Melbourne Cup unless he wins the Saab Quality.
Six O’Clock News sounded his Melbourne Cup prospects with his fine win in the City Of Auckland Cup over 2400m at Ellerslie last January. He also finished fifth in this year’s Auckland Cup over 3200m.
Cox Plate
By Phillip Quay
New Zealand’s two representatives, Nom Du Jeu and Sir Slick, are not given much chance by the TAB of upsetting hot favourite Whobegotyou in Saturday’s A$3 million Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley.
On the New Zealand TAB betting market listed on Friday Nom Du Jeu was paying $41 and Sir Slick $81.
In comparison Moonee Valley course specialist Whobegotyou is at the short odds of $2.70. Second favourite Heart Of Dreams is paying $5.50 after receiving some solid support in the past 24 hours.
Te Aroha-trained warhorse Sir Slick looks sure to set a fast pace in the race although he will have to overcome a hoof injury to even start in the weight-for-age championship.
Stewards will decide at 7am on Saturday if Sir Slick is fit enough to take his place in the field.
Cambridge trainer Murray Baker knows the odds are against Nom Du Jeu but he is still hoping the gelding can turn around his disappointing recent form.
Whobegotyou will be all the rage after his outstanding last-start win in the Yalumba Stakes and his record of four wins from as many starts at the Valley.
Having such a record at Moonee Valley is a definite strong pointer to Whobegotyou’s chances as it is a tricky course and a number of horses fail to handle the tight turning nature of the track.
Heart Of Dreams has beaten Whobegotyou on two previous occasions and he is the obvious major threat to the favourite. A handy barrier draw will assist his chances further.
Imported stayer Speed Gifted is also rated a leading prospect and there will be a lot of interest in his performance from the point of view of Tuesday week’s Melbourne Cup for which he is one of the early favourites.
As three-year-olds, Manhattan Rain (third) and New Zealand-bred So You Think (fifth) go to the Cox Plate seeking to atone for their beaten runs in the Caulfield Guineas.
The weather outlook for Melbourne is for a fine Saturday afternoon with 21C forecast.
Selections: Whobegotyou, Heart Of Dreams, So You Think.
Weights for Melbourne Cup 2009
By Phillip Quay
The last two winners of the famous Melbourne Cup, Viewed (2008) and Efficient (2007), will have to emulate the deeds of champion mare Makybe Diva if they are to win the 2009 renewal of the A$5.6 million event on Tuesday, November 3.
In the past 30 years, 26 horses have run in the Melbourne Cup with 58kg or more, but only one, Makybe Diva in 2005, has been successful when she carried 58kg to victory, Viewed and Efficient are now the joint topweights with 58kg for this year’s contest.
Viewed received a 1kg penalty for his emphatic win in last Saturday’s Caulfield Cup to lift his weight to 58kg. His penalty is the smallest for a Caulfield Cup winner since 1989 when Cole Diesel was also rehandicapped a kilogram and finished 16th in the Melbourne Cup.
Viewed's Melbourne Cup task is historically difficult when looking at his new weight and the record of past Caulfield Cup winners.
Rising Fast is the only one of 11 to win the Melbourne Cup with more than 57kg. He carried 59.5kg in 1954.
In the past 30 years only Ming Dynasty (1980) and Northerly (2002) both won the Caulfield Cup with more weight than Viewed.
They carried 58kg with Ming Dynasty escaping a penalty and finishing 17th in the Melbourne Cup while Northerly was penalised 2kg for his Caulfield Cup win but didn't start in the Melbourne Cup.
Viewed is on track to give master trainer Bart Cummings his 13th win in the big race and join 11 other horses to claim the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double in the same year.
New Zealand-bred galloper Efficient winner of the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes at Flemington earlier this month, had already been weighted at 58kg.
At six years of age, Efficient is now fully mature and he is a son of the mighty Cambridge Stud sire Zabeel whose progeny just keep getting better as they get older. And they love a trip - three of his sons and daughters (Might And Power and Jezabeel the other two) claiming the Melbourne Cup.
Melbourne Cup - The Cambridge Story
Special Feature
By Phillip Quay
Any race horse owner would agree that horse racing is a game of odds. There are many hard-luck stories, just about as many on a racetrack as you may find at a fishing wharf or on a golf course.
The dream is to own a champion. The next Phar Lap will do.
And each time a foal is born, a stallion goes to stud or the auctioneer's gavel falls on a yearling the dream begins. But if you took any notice of the statistics you would never set foot on a stud, a sale yard or even a racetrack again. The real champion racehorse comes along once in a lifetime. The majority of gallopers never manage to pay their way.
In Australasia, and nowadays much further afield, the Melbourne Cup, run every year on the first Tuesday in November among the roses of Australia's picturesque Flemington racecourse, still holds a special magic. This is the place where the nuggety stayers from around the globe compete for racing's gruelling marathon handicap - a 3200m event with a $A5.6 million prize.
The race became truly international in 1993 when Irish raider Vintage Crop stole the race from under the noses of the Australian and New Zealand trainers.
Japanese horse Delta Blues took the international invasion to another level when he was successful in 2006.
Despite the distance, the Cup has become just as much a part of New Zealand life as it is in Australia. For many Kiwis it is their once-a-year flutter at the TAB. Office sweepstakes cover just about everyone else, regardless of their racing knowledge. Why the fascination?
History lends some perspective. First, New Zealand-bred gallopers have made a habit of out performing their rivals in the Melbourne Cup. Since 1883 (when NZ-bred Martini Henry was successful) there have been 40 winners of the Melbourne Cup with New Zealand origins.
The first NZ-owned winner was Apologue (1907).
Mighty New Zealand-bred Phar Lap was one of the best remembered and internationally renowned Melbourne Cup winners. Timaru-born, he became the hero of Australian race crowds during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The mighty chestnut won on all four days of the 1930 Flemington Spring Carnival including the Melbourne Cup carrying 62.5 kgs.
Who could forget Kiwi's dashing last-to-first Melbourne Cup victory in 1983 in the hands of Jim Cassidy. Kiwi put the small central North Island township of Waverley on the map as well as his owner-trainer "Snow" Lupton.
Eight of the 11 horses who have won the Caulfield and Melbourne Cup in the same season have been Kiwi-breds. The most recent of these was the New Zealander Sheila Laxon-trained Ethereal who completed the famous double in 2001.
Horse Heaven
Finding the home of most of these Melbourne Cup greats is quite simple. Just head to one of the few horse heavens on this Earth - the Waikato, shimmering green cradle of some of the richest farming land in the world and an idyllic nursery for young thoroughbreds. It is hardly surprising that New Zealand's thoroughbred industry has become concentrated in the Walkato. The move north of the national yearling sales from Trentham to Karaka in the 1980s meant many studs and trainers transferred, too.
In particular Cambridge is a happy hunting ground for Melbourne Cup winners with no fewer than 14 winners of the epic race coming from the town.
This is one of the underlining factors why this year the inaugural Cambridge Melbourne Cup day has been organised to be held at the Cambridge Raceway on Tuesday November 3 to celebrate everything that is great about the equine industry in the town and to mark the magnificent record of local breeders in Flemington’s famous horse race.
The Cambridge Melbourne Cup day has been officially recognised by the Victoria Racing Club which has endorsed the concept of the First Tuesday NZ Trust, a community-based organisation.
The latest Cambridge-bred horse to triumph at Flemington on the First Tuesday was Efficient who produced a magnificent victory in 2007 and is a son of Cambridge Stud champion sire Zabeel.
Efficient was bred by Cambridge accountant Scott Williams, and on latest NZ TAB betting charts is the favourite for a repeat victory come this first Tuesday in November.
Prior to Efficient the Waikato breeding industry was victorious when Ethereal, owned by the Vela brothers from Pencarrow Sutd, was triumphant in 2001 and she was by another Cambridge Stud stallion Rhythm.
Mike Moroney-trained Brew, from champion racemare Horlicks by super sire Sir Tristram, was born at Cambridge Stud and won the 2000 running.
Eureka (near Hamilton) woman Jeanette Broome, who owns just a handful of broodmares, managed to produce a horse that beat the world's best in 1998 when Jezabeel claimed the Cup victory.
Other Cambridge breeders who can claim Melbourne Cup success include Sir Patrick Hogan of Cambridge Stud, and Nelson Schick of Windsor Park Stud, Whakanui Stud (breeder of 1988 winner Empire Rose) and Trelawney Stud.
Established by the late Seton Otway, Trelawney Stud has had a huge role to play in Melbourne Cup history with seven winners having come off the property including Bart Cummings’ 1966 Cup winner Galilee.
Schick's Windsor Park Stud, a major commercial breeding operation for more than 25 years, bred the 1997 Cup winner Might and Power, rated the world's leading stayer before his recent retirement.
“There is definitely a lot of prestige and recognition in having a Melbourne Cup winner come from one's stud," he says. "it is one horse race that touches a lot of people's lives and counts a lot with the international horse buyers. Each time a New Zealand-bred horse wins the Melbourne Cup, the spin-off for our breeding industry is huge,” says Nelson Schick of Windsor Park Stud.
Sir Patrick,, one of the most influential breeders of Melbourne Cup winners, with Cambridge Stud’s two great sires, Sir Tristram and Zabeel, having produced six winners between them has been an avid supporter of the Cambridge Melbourne Cup day since it was first mooted. Not only that but Sir Patrick bred the 1982 Cup winner, Gurner’s Lane.
“I commend the organisers of this event,” said Sir Patrick Hogan, “and fully endorse this exciting concept. I believe it will encourage greater knowledge of the Melbourne Cup to people in New Zealand, not only within the racing fraternity but just as importantly to the business sector.”
Late in the afternoon on Tuesday, November 3, horses from both hemispheres will take their place at the starting gates. Just over three minutes later the winner of this year's Melbourne Cup will be led back to the birdcage by its owners to the cheers of more than 100,000 Flemington racegoers. Someone will hand over the gold cup, everyone will make their speeches and the punters will celebrate or commiserate. Back in Cambridge , the first signs of dusk will appear and the foaling lights will flick on one by one at the stud farms. The next batch of Melbourne Cup winners will be born and the dreams will begin again.
The full list of Cambridge-bred Melbourne Cup winners is:
1947 Hiraji
1949 Foxami
1959 Macdougal
1966 Galilee
1971 Silver Knight
1976 Van Der Hum
1982 Gurner’s Lane
1987 Kensei
1988 Empire Rose
1997 Might And Power
1998 Jezabeel
2000 Brew
2001 Ethereal
2007 Efficient
By Phillip Quay
Caulfield Cup winner Viewed will be looking to join an elite club of famous gallopers when he tackles the A$5.6 million Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington on November 3.
Bart Cummings-trained Viewed won the A$3 million Caulfield Cup in rampant fashion at Caulfield on Saturday.
He will be looking to join an elite club of horses who have completed the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups double in the same year.
The last horse to achieve the feat was Waikato owned, bred and trained mare Ethereal who completed the famous Cups double in 2001.
Only 11 horses in the entire history of the races have managed to win both races in the same year. The first to score the double was Poseidon in 1906.
Others in the “club” are The Trump (1937), Rivette (1939), Rising Fast (1954), Even Stevens (1962), Galilee (1966), Gurner’s Lane (1982), Let’s Elope (1991), Doriemus (1995) and Might And Power (1997).
Viewed will also be attempting to become only the sixth horse to win dual Melbourne Cups.
Makybe Diva was the most recent and she registered three successive Melbourne Cup victories in 2003, 2004 and 2005.
Other dual Melbourne Cup victors have been Archer (1861 and 1862), Peter Pan (1932 and 1934), Rain Lover (1968 and 1969) and Think Big ((1974 and 1975).
Bart Cummings will be chasing his 13th Melbourne Cup success with Viewed on the first Tuesday.
It was Viewed's first win since his Melbourne Cup victory last year and took his record to 32 starts for nine wins and six placings and prizemoney in excess of $7 million.
New Zealand mare Daffodil, owned by Waikato Stud, finished fourth in Saturday’s Caulfield Cup and was making up strongly at the finish.
By Philip Quay - Positive PR
Proven Waikato-bred stayer Efficient remains the outright favourite on the New Zealand TAB’s latest betting market for the A$5.6 million Emirates Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington on Tuesday November 3.
Efficient, a son of Sir Patrick Hogan’s champion Cambridge Stud sire Zabeel, is $5 favourite on the New Zealand TAB. Second favourite at $6 is the impressive winner of Saturday’s Caulfield Cup, Viewed, who won the 2008 Melbourne Cup.
Efficient missed the Melbourne Cup last year because of an injury to his fetlock in his right front leg.
Efficient was bred by Cambridge accountant Scott Williams and is out of the Defensive Play mare, Refused The Dance. He is trained by John Sadler for a partnership which includes Scott Williams and Melbourne multi-millionaire, Lloyd Williams (no relation), along with Wellington trio Graeme Hunt and brothers Tony and Mike Sellars.
Efficient showed he was right on target for a second Melbourne Cup victory with an excellent win in the Turnbull Stakes earlier this month.
His next target will be a start in Australasia’s most famous weight-for-age race, the Tattersalls Cox Plate (2040m), at Moonee Valley on October 24.
Current favoured runners on the New Zealand TAB are: $5 Efficient; $6 Viewed; $7 Speed Gifted; $8 Alcopop; $12 Roman Emperor; $16 Daffodil, $18 C’est La Guerre; $21 Master O’Reilly, Shocking, Vigor; $26 Kirklees, Capecover; $31 Ista Kareem, Mourilyan, Zipping, Balsatico; $41 Six O’Clock News, Allez Wonder, Precedence, Munsef, Hoorang, Changingoftheguard, Vision And Power, Warringah, Whobegotyou.
Cambridge wins again on Melbourne Cup Day!
The Cambridge Life Skills Institute Trust will be a benefactor from the funds raised by the inaugural Cambridge Melbourne Cup race-day at Cambridge Raceway on Tuesday, November 3.
Cambridge Life Skills was established 15 years ago to increase the wellbeing of students and their families in the greater Cambridge community and provides free counselling to the 15 schools in the district benefiting 5-15 year-olds.
“We hope to raise enough money with this event to make a difference in the lives of local kids and those families that need help,” said Cambridge Melbourne Cup race-day project manager Michael Head.
“At first glance Cambridge looks as though it might be immune from the social issues that affect the rest of country – but clearly it’s not. We’ve got kids at risk and November 3rd presents itself as an opportunity for everyone to help this worthwhile cause,” Head said.
The range of issues handled by the Skills for Life Trust include; truancy, bullying, shoplifting, self harm, anger management, grief and social skills.
Skills for Life Trust Chairperson, Beryl Emery, says: “We have six counsellors with full case loads and urgently need to raise $40,000 to appoint another counsellor who can take up the load. We have young people on our waiting list. If we are unable to respond to these children and families with early intervention, the social structure of our town may well be impacted in a negative way.”
For more information on hospitality ticket purchases or about the Cambridge Melbourne Cup Day contact Michael Head (project manager)
on 0275 744 940.
Archive stories
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Cambridge next best thing to Melbourne
Cambridge Launches Official Melbourne Cup day - New Zealand Thoroughbred Marketing
Cambridge embraces Melbourne Cup - TVNZ
Cambridge saddles up for big Melbourne Cup party - Waikato Times
Cambridge To Celebrate Melbourne Cup Success - Racing and Sports Australia
Media
Cambridge Edition has been appointed official Print Media Partner. The Edition will dedicate substantial space in the Edition for a ‘weekly countdown’ to ensure everyone is kept informed on progress and to promote sponsors and supporters.
Classic Hits has been appointed official Radio Media Partner. Classic Hits will promote the Wedding on the Green with a 4 week competition promoting the event.
Television coverage will be announced once the Victoria Racing Club has confirmed its Television Media Partner.
