1929 Melbourne Cup

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1929 Melbourne Cup
Melbourne Cup
Location Flemington Racecourse
Date5 Nov 1929
Distance2 miles
Winning horse Nightmarch
Winning time3:26.5
Final odds6/1
Jockey R. Reed
Trainer A. McAulay
SurfaceTurf
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The 1929 Melbourne Cup was a two-mile handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 5 November 1929. [1]

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This race saw a 14-horse field compete. [1] This year's Melbourne Cup was best remembered for Phar Lap who had won the Australian Derby and Victoria Derby carrying 47 kg. The three-year-old refused to settle under Bobby Lewis and only ran third behind fellow Night Raid-sired horse, Nightmarch, which also won the Epsom Handicap. Nightmarch became the first horse to win the Cup and the W. S. Cox Plate in the same year. [2]

This is the list of placegetters for the 1929 Melbourne Cup. [3]

PlaceNameJockeyTrainer
1 Nightmarch R. ReedA. McAulay
2PaquitoM. McCartenF. D. Jones
3 Phar Lap Bobby Lewis Harry R. Telford

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "1929 Melbourne Cup". millersguide.identika.com.au. Archived from the original on 2 November 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  2. ↑ O'Reilly, Paddy (2016). "Nightmarch (1929)". Facts, Stats & Trivia of The Melbourne Cup. Melbourne: New Holland Publishers Pty Ltd. pp. 62–63. ISBN   9781742579054.
  3. ↑ "1921 to 1930 Melbourne Cup Winners". races com au. Archived from the original on 2 November 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
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