1985 Melbourne Cup

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1985 Melbourne Cup
Melbourne Cup
Location Flemington Racecourse
Date5 Nov 1985
Distance3200 Meters
Winning horse What A Nuisance
Winning time3:23.0
Final odds15/1
Jockey Pat Hyland
Trainer John F. Meagher
SurfaceTurf
  1984
1986  

Our Boyfriend two in front of Butternut, then Koiro Corrie May, What a Nuisance, Fil De Roi under the whip, Tristarc went to the fence, from Tripsacum, Imaprince coming with a great run. Koiro Corrie May has got to this one Our Boyfriend with Butternut, What a Nuisance, Imaprice and Fil De Roi. What a Nuisance goes to Koiro Corrie May, Korio Corrie May and What a Nuisance, What a Nuisance wins the Foster's Melbourne Cup! A nose to Korio Corrie May.

Commentator Bruce McAvaney describes the climax of the race

The 1985 Melbourne Cup was a two-mile handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 5 November 1985. The race, run over 3,200 metres (1.988 mi), at Flemington Racecourse.

The 1985 Melbourne Cup was won by What A Nuisance a horse who had just recovered from a damaged suspensory ligament. This running of the race was notably for many reasons as it was the first horse race in Australia to have a prize pool of $AU1,000,000 and it was also the first time the Melbourne Cup was sponsored as it was sponsored by Foster's. [1] Legendary commentator Bruce McAvaney called his first Melbourne Cup for Network 10, he would go on to call three more.

Field

This is a list of horses which ran in the 1985 Melbourne Cup. [2]

PlaceHorseTrainerJockey
1st What A Nuisance John F. Meagher Pat Hyland
2ndKoiro Corrie May Dave O'Sullivan Lance O'Sullivan
3rdTripsacumJ P GaffneyRobert Hefferman
4thFil De RoiI A MacDonaldR Quinton
5thButternutDoug BaertschigarM Riley
6thOur Boyfriend Sir Mark Todd Mark Barnsley
7thImaprinceB PrestonB Thomson
8thTristarcR S McDonaldW Trealor
9th Black Knight George Hanlon Peter Cook
10thOur Sophia George Hanlon Harry White
11th Kiwi Snow Lupton Noel Harris
12thDusky LegendS A MackinnonP Alderman
13thDuanette's GirlJ A GibbsDavid Peake
14thMapperley HeightsColin Hayes Darren Gauci
15thSilver AwardR W Guy Mick Dittman
16thSir ZephyrB J SmithJ Duggan
17thHayaiJ LeeJ Letts
18thLate ShowB Mayfield-Smith Jim Cassidy
19thLacka ReasonM K BullG Willetts
20thUnder OathColin HayesM Clarke
21stSpritely NativeM G LeesW Harris
22ndRising PrinceDeidre SteinK Langby
23rdFoxsealRick Hore-LacyP D Johnson

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References

  1. "1981 to 1990 Melbourne Cup Winners". races.com.au. 14 November 2022.
  2. "1985 Melbourne Cup". millersguide.identika.com.au. 14 November 2022.