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Melbourne Races have taken over as the pinnacle of Australian racing and boast five city tracks at four locations. Melbourne races are run at Caulfield, Flemington, Moonee Valley, and at both Sandown tracks, the Sandown Hillside and Sandown Lakeside track.

Caulfield Races

The Caulfield Cup is the biggest feature race to be decided at the Caulfield races. First run in 1879, the Caulfield Cup is the traditional lead up race for the Melbourne Cup.

Caulfield also boasts some big prizemoney races for your horses with the Blue Diamond Classic for year old horses Melbourne’s own version of the Golden Slipper while the three year olds line up in the Caulfield Guineas, a race that is quickly shaping Australian racehorse breeding industry.

Flemington Races

I can see this racecourse being renamed to honour The Cups King, Bart Cummings. At the very least there will have to be a grandstand renamed after the Flemington based trainer who has won Australia’s most famous race on 12 occasions, the last in 2008 with Viewed ridden to victory by Blake Shinn.

Bart Cumming Melbourne Cup Winners:

• Light Fingers (1965)
• Galilee (1966)
• Red Handed (1967)
• Think Big (1974 & 1975)
• Gold and Black (1977)
• Hyperno (1979)
• Kingston Rule (1990)
• Let’s Elope (1991)
• Saintly (1996)
• Rogan Josh (1999)
• Viewed (2008)

Melbourne Cup Trivia

• The First Melbourne Cup was run on a Thursday.
• During the war years 1942/44 the Melbourne Cup was run on Saturday.
• The first Melbourne Cup was run in 1861.
• The Cup was first run on a Tuesday in 1875.
• The great Phar Lap won $450,000 in 1930.
• There has never been a dead-heat for first in the Melbourne Cup.
• Number 4 has won the most Melbourne Cup (11).

The Melbourne Cup plays an integral part in the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival with 79 race meetings across the state of Victoria in 50 days. The highlights are,

• Caulfield Cup Day
• The WS Cox Plate Day
• Melbourne Cup Day
• The VRC Derby Day
• The Oaks Day

Sandown Races

The Sandown Racecourse was first built in 1965 and then redeveloped by the Melbourne Racing Club in 2003. The racecourse boasts two tracks, the Sandown Hillside course and the Sandown Lakeside Racecourse.

There are 62 meetings at the Sandown racecourse each season with the highlight the Sandown Guineas on the final day of the Melbourne Spring Carnival.

Moonee Valley Races

Moonee Valley Races is where legends are made during the running of the W.S Cox Plate, the time honoured Weight For Age championship of Australasia.

The Cox Plate is run over 2020m at Moonee Valley Racecourse in October and for the purists, it is the race that everybody wants their horse to win.

Australian turf legends to have won the WS Cox Plate include;

• Phar Lap
• Manfred
• Ajax
• Tranquill Star
• Tulloch
• Tobin Bronze
• Gunsynd
• Taj Rossi
• Surround
• Dulcify
• Kingston Town
• Strawberry Road
• Bonecrusher
• Better Loosen Up
• Super Impose
• Octagonal
• Saintly
• Might And Power
• Northerly
• Makybe Diva.

One or two handy types in that list.

W.S Cox Plate Winners since 1980:
2008 – Maldivian
2007 – El Segundo
2006 – Fields of Omagh
2005 – Makybe Diva
2004 – Savabeel
2003 – Fields of Omagh
2002 – Northerly
2001 – Northerly
2000 – Sunline
1999 – Sunline
1998 – Might And Power
1997 – Dane Ripper
1996 – Saintly
1995 – Octagonal
1994 – Solvit
1993 – The Phantom Chance
1992 – Super Impose
1991 – Surfers Paradise
1990 – Better Loosen Up
1989 – Almaarad
1988 – Our Poetic Prince
1987 – Rubiton
1986 – Bonecrusher
1985 – Rising Prince
1984 – Red Anchor
1983 – Strawberry Road
1982 – Kingston Town
1981 – Kingston Town
1980 – Kingston Town

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