1965 Melbourne Cup

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1965 Melbourne Cup
Melbourne Cup
Location Flemington Racecourse
Date2 Nov 1965
Distance2 miles
Winning horse Light Fingers
Winning time3:21.1
Final odds15/1
Jockey Roy Higgins
Trainer Bart Cummings
OwnerW J (Wally) Broderick
Conditions Fast
SurfaceTurf
  1964
1966  

A furlong and a half to go and Ziema's hit the front, Light Fingers under the whip trying to run him down from Yangtze, Midlander and then Tobin Bronze and Prince Grant. It's Ziema in front, Light Fingers throwing in a desperate challenge. Ziema about a neck in front, Light Fingers pegging him back. Light Fingers goes to Ziema hit the line locked together. Dead heat! A dead heat in the Melbourne Cup!

Commentator Bill Collins describes the climax of the race

The 1965 Melbourne Cup was a two-mile handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 2 November 1965. The race, run over 2 miles (3,218.7 m), at Flemington Racecourse.

The race won by Light Fingers, trained by Bart Cummings who won the first of what would end up being a record 12 Melbourne Cups. Ziema ran second also trained by Cummings making it the first of five times he trained the quinella. [1]

Field

This is a list of horses which ran in the 1965 Melbourne Cup. [2]

PlaceHorseTrainerJockey
1stLight Fingers Bart Cummings Roy Higgins
2ndZiemaBart CummingsJohn Miller
3rdMidlanderBob HoystedN Pyatt
4thYangtzeR Dini H White
5thPrince Grant Tommy J. Smith G Podmore
6thPrince CamilloR FisherG Gumblestone
7thRed WillamOwen LynchR Mallyon
8th Tobin Bronze H G HeagneyJ Stocker
9thCraftsmanAndy White P Hyland
10thTasman LadH H RileyD Cameron
11thMissionJ F QuigleyN Eastwood
12thRosicombeG AlessioF Blackburn
13thSir WynyardA G SmithA Lister
14thPleasanton George Hanlon W A Smith
15thJovial KnightH G HeagneyN Miffin
16thStraussJ GreenD Lake
17thSail AwayS A Brown Bill Skelton
18thThe DipBart CummingsF Reys
19thHunting HornL J PetersonA May
20thDalentoJack BesankoI Saunders
21stZinga LeeW J McNabbB Gilders
22ndPiper's SonM F AndersonG Moore
23rdAlagonGeorge HanlonR Selkrig
FellBore HeadR DillonF Clarke
FellMatlockGeorge HanlonJ Johnson
FellRiver SeineR PrendergastR Hawkins

References

  1. O'Reilly, Paddy (2016). "Light Fingers (1965)". Facts, Stats & Trivia of The Melbourne Cup. Melbourne: New Holland Publishers Pty Ltd. pp. 98–99. ISBN   9781742579054.
  2. "1965 Melbourne Cup". millersguide.identika.com.au. 21 September 2021.