List of Melbourne Cup winners
- List of Melbourne Cup winners
This is a list of the winners of the Melbourne Cup, a Thoroughbred horse race at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia.
Winners
* The shortest-priced favourite in Cup history was Phar Lap when he won in 1930 at 8-11 ($1.72).
* Metrication - The race was originally held over two miles (about 3,218 metres), but following Australia's adoption of the Metric system in the 1970s the current distance of 3200 metres was adopted in 1972. This reduced the distance by 61ft 6in, and Rain Lover's 1968 race record of 3min.19.1sec was accordingly adjusted to 3min.17.9sec. The present record holder is the 1990 winner Kingston Rule with a time of 3min 16.3sec.
ee also
* Melbourne Cup
* Australian horse-racing
* Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival
External links
* [http://www.melbournecup.com/ Melbourne Cup Homepage (Official)]
References
* [http://www.studbook.org.au/RaceWinnersHistory.aspx?RACEID=4001 Australian Studbook - VRC Melbourne Cup Race Winners]
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