| Melbourne Cup | |
| Location | Flemington Racecourse |
|---|---|
| Date | 5 Nov 1929 |
| Distance | 2 miles |
| Winning horse | Nightmarch |
| Winning time | 3:26.5 |
| Final odds | 6/1 |
| Jockey | R. Reed |
| Trainer | A. McAulay |
| Surface | Turf |
The 1929 Melbourne Cup was a two-mile handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 5 November 1929. [1]
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]
| Place | Name | Jockey | Trainer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nightmarch | R. Reed | A. McAulay |
| 2 | Paquito | M. McCarten | F. D. Jones |
| 3 | Phar Lap | Bobby Lewis | Harry R. Telford |
The Melbourne Cup is an annual Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held in Melbourne, Australia, at the Flemington Racecourse. It is a 3200-metre race for three-year-olds and older, conducted by the Victoria Racing Club that forms part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. It is the richest two-mile handicap in the world and one of the richest turf races. The event starts at 3:00 pm on the first Tuesday of November and is known locally as "the race that stops the nation".
The W. S. Cox Plate is a Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged three years old and over under Weight for age conditions, over a distance of 2040 metres, that is held by the Moonee Valley Racing Club at Moonee Valley Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in late October. The race has a purse of A$5,000,000.
Nightmarch (1925−1954) was an outstanding New Zealand bred Thoroughbred racehorse known as The Kiwi. He won the New Zealand Derby and Dunedin Cup as a three-year-old before going to Australia where he became the first horse to win both the Melbourne Cup and Cox Plate in the same year, as well as other Principal races.
Night Raid was a Leading sire in Australia of Thoroughbred racehorses. He sired two leading racehorses, Phar Lap and Nightmarch.
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