List of Cox Plate winners
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This is a List of Cox Plate winners, which is an Australian Group One
(G1), Weight for Age
Thoroughbred
horse race, known as the W S Cox Plate. The Moonee Valley Racing Club conducts the race, which is staged for three-year-olds and up.
Group One
Group One or Group 1 is the term used for the highest level of Thoroughbred and Standardbred stakes races in many countries. Group One races may be run under handicap conditions in Australia but in Europe weight-for-age conditions always apply. Races may be also restricted to age groups or a...
(G1), Weight for Age
Weight for Age
Weight for Age is a term in Thoroughbred horse racing which is one of the conditions for a race. It means that a horse will carry a set weight in accordance with the Weight for Age Scale. This weight varies depending on the horse’s age, its sex, the race distance and the month of the year...
Thoroughbred
Thoroughbred
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...
horse race, known as the W S Cox Plate. The Moonee Valley Racing Club conducts the race, which is staged for three-year-olds and up.
- The race distance from 1922 to 1942 was 9½ furlongs.
- The race distance from 1943 to 1971 was 10 furlongs.
- Following Australia's adoption of the Metric systemMetric systemThe metric system is an international decimalised system of measurement. France was first to adopt a metric system, in 1799, and a metric system is now the official system of measurement, used in almost every country in the world...
in 1972 the race distance became 2,000 metres. - In 1974 the distance was changed to 2,050 metres and in 1986 to today's distance of 2,040 metres.
Year |
Winner |
Age |
Breeding |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Time |
Odds |
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2011 | Pinker Pinker | 4 b m | Reset – Miss Marion | Craig Williams | Greg Eurell | 2.05.39 | 20-1 |
2010 | So You Think So You Think So You Think is a New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse, now majority owned by Coolmore Stud of Ireland. So You Think came to prominence through winning the 2009 and 2010 Cox Plates, Australia's premier weight for age race. His second Cox Plate win came at just his tenth career start... |
4 b h | High Chaparral High Chaparral High Chaparral is a racehorse, winner of the Epsom Derby in 2002, and the winner of the Breeders' Cup Turf in 2002 and 2003 .-2001: Two-year-old season:... – Triassic |
Steve Arnold | J B Cummings Bart Cummings James Bartholomew 'Bart' Cummings, AM is one of the most successful Australian racehorse trainers. He is known as the Cups King, referring to the Melbourne Cup, as the he has won the 'race that stops a nation' a record 12 times.... |
2.07.45 | 1-2F |
2009 | So You Think So You Think So You Think is a New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse, now majority owned by Coolmore Stud of Ireland. So You Think came to prominence through winning the 2009 and 2010 Cox Plates, Australia's premier weight for age race. His second Cox Plate win came at just his tenth career start... |
3 b c | High Chaparral High Chaparral High Chaparral is a racehorse, winner of the Epsom Derby in 2002, and the winner of the Breeders' Cup Turf in 2002 and 2003 .-2001: Two-year-old season:... – Triassic |
Glen Boss Glen Boss Glen Boss is an Australian jockey, considered a champion, who is best known for riding Makybe Diva to victory in three consecutive Melbourne Cups - 2003, 2004, and 2005.-External links:***... |
J B Cummings Bart Cummings James Bartholomew 'Bart' Cummings, AM is one of the most successful Australian racehorse trainers. He is known as the Cups King, referring to the Melbourne Cup, as the he has won the 'race that stops a nation' a record 12 times.... |
2.03.90 | 12-1 |
2008 | Maldivian | 6 b g | Zabeel Zabeel Zabeel was a New Zealand-bred Australian racehorse who has retired to stud and become a champion sire. He is a bay son of Sir Tristram from the Nureyev mare Lady Giselle... – Shynzi |
Michael Rodd | Mark Kavanagh | 2.06.90 | 10-1 |
2007 | El Segundo El Segundo (horse) El Segundo is a Thoroughbred racehorse. He is a bay son of Pins from the mare Palos Verdes by Flying Spur.Foaled in 2001 at Ancroft Stud, Matamata, New Zealand he was sold as a yearling for $140,000 and has spent his entire racing career in Australia under the care of trainer Colin Little.Amongst... |
6 b g | Pins – Palos Verdes | Luke Nolan | Colin Little | 2.06.33 | 6-1 |
2006 | Fields Of Omagh Fields Of Omagh Fields Of Omagh was a champion middle distance Australian Thoroughbred racehorse of the early-mid 2000s. He was a half-brother to the stakeswinners, King Brian , Malcolm and Timeless Grace .Fields Of Omagh was trained at Lindsay Park, South Australia by Peter... |
9 b g | Rubiton Rubiton Rubiton was a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse of the mid-1980s.He was bred by the Oamaru Stud in Victoria... – Finneto |
Craig Williams | David A. Hayes | 2.06.89 | 18-1 |
2005 | Makybe Diva Makybe Diva Makybe Diva is a British-bred, Australian-trained Thoroughbred who became the first racehorse to win the famed Melbourne Cup on three occasions: 2003, 2004, and 2005. In 2005, she also won the Cox Plate. Makybe Diva is the highest stakes-earner in Australasian horse racing history, with winnings... |
6 b m | Desert King Desert King Desert King is a Thoroughbred racehorse. Desert King won the Irish Derby Stakes and Irish 2,000 Guineas and was the sire of 13 stakeswinners with 34 stakeswins including Makybe Diva .... – Tugela |
Glen Boss Glen Boss Glen Boss is an Australian jockey, considered a champion, who is best known for riding Makybe Diva to victory in three consecutive Melbourne Cups - 2003, 2004, and 2005.-External links:***... |
Lee Freedman Lee Freedman David Lee Freedman is a prominent Australian racehorse trainer. In partnership with brothers Anthony, Michael, and Richard, he has been a prolific winner of Australia's major races in past 20 years, with four Golden Slippers, four Caulfield Cups, two Cox Plates, and five Melbourne Cups,... |
2.09.27 | 1-1F |
2004 | Savabeel Savabeel Savabeel was a successful New Zealand-bred and Australian-trained brown colt Thoroughbred race horse foaled on 23 September 2001.In Spring 2004 he won the race considered the Weight for Age Championship of Australasia, the Cox Plate. He was the first 3YO to win the race since another son of Zabeel,... |
3 br c | Zabeel Zabeel Zabeel was a New Zealand-bred Australian racehorse who has retired to stud and become a champion sire. He is a bay son of Sir Tristram from the Nureyev mare Lady Giselle... – Savannah Success |
Chris Munce Chris Munce Chris Munce is a highly successful Thoroughbred horse racing jockey who was convicted in Hong Kong on 1 March 2007 of taking bribes in exchange for racing tips.- Overview :... |
Graeme Rogerson | 2.06.88 | 15-1 |
2003 | Fields Of Omagh Fields Of Omagh Fields Of Omagh was a champion middle distance Australian Thoroughbred racehorse of the early-mid 2000s. He was a half-brother to the stakeswinners, King Brian , Malcolm and Timeless Grace .Fields Of Omagh was trained at Lindsay Park, South Australia by Peter... |
6 b g | Rubiton Rubiton Rubiton was a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse of the mid-1980s.He was bred by the Oamaru Stud in Victoria... – Finneto |
Steven King | Tony McEvoy | 2.07.61 | 16-1 |
2002 | Northerly Northerly Northerly, foaled in 1996, was arguably Australia's best middle distance Thoroughbred horse of the early 2000s. Northerly, trained by Western Australian harness racing legend Fred Kersley, won nine Group One races, including the Australian Cup twice, and the Cox Plate, regarded as the Weight for... |
6 b g | Serheed – North Bell | Patrick Payne | Fred Kersley | 2.06.27 | 3-1 EF |
2001 | Northerly Northerly Northerly, foaled in 1996, was arguably Australia's best middle distance Thoroughbred horse of the early 2000s. Northerly, trained by Western Australian harness racing legend Fred Kersley, won nine Group One races, including the Australian Cup twice, and the Cox Plate, regarded as the Weight for... |
5 b g | Serheed – North Bell | Damien Oliver | Fred Kersley | 2.05.84 | 4-1 |
2000 | Sunline Sunline Sunline was a New Zealand bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was the world's highest earning racemare of her time, competing on 48 occasions for 32 wins, 9 seconds and 3 thirds to earn A$11,351,607. She won races in three different countries, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. She won successive... |
5 b m | Desert Sun – Songline | Greg Childs | Trevor McKee | 2.07.70 | 11-8F |
1999 | Sunline Sunline Sunline was a New Zealand bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was the world's highest earning racemare of her time, competing on 48 occasions for 32 wins, 9 seconds and 3 thirds to earn A$11,351,607. She won races in three different countries, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. She won successive... |
4 b m | Desert Sun – Songline | Greg Childs | Tevor McKee | 2.05.40 | 6-1 |
1998 | Might and Power Might and Power Might and Power was a New Zealand bred, Australian owned and trained Thoroughbred racehorse who was named Australian Horse of the Year in 1998 and 1999. As a four-year-old, Might And Power won the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, and returned at five to become only the second horse in the history of... |
5 b/br g | Zabeel Zabeel Zabeel was a New Zealand-bred Australian racehorse who has retired to stud and become a champion sire. He is a bay son of Sir Tristram from the Nureyev mare Lady Giselle... – Benediction |
Jim Cassidy Jim Cassidy (jockey) Jim Cassidy is a New Zealand jockey who famously rode Kiwi from last into the straight to win the 1983 Melbourne Cup. He won his second Melbourne Cup in 1997 aboard Might and Power whom he also rode to victory in the following year's Cox Plate.Cassidy has won the Australian Derby three times; in... |
Jack Denham Jack Denham Jack Denham was a leading Australian horse trainer and businessman.A member of a Sydney training dynasty, Denham first rode as a jockey for his brother, and then took out his own training licence in 1948.... |
2.03.54 | 8-11F |
1997 | Dane Ripper | 4 b f | Danehill Danehill (horse) Danehill was a Thoroughbred racehorse who was bred in the United States. During his phenomenal stud career Danehill became a champion sire on both sides of the Equator... – Red Express |
Damien Oliver | J B Cummings Bart Cummings James Bartholomew 'Bart' Cummings, AM is one of the most successful Australian racehorse trainers. He is known as the Cups King, referring to the Melbourne Cup, as the he has won the 'race that stops a nation' a record 12 times.... |
2.07.65 | 40-1 |
1996 | Saintly Saintly Saintly was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who was named Australia's champion racehorse in 1997. A giant chestnut gelding by Sky Chase out of All Grace , he was bred by his trainer, Bart Cummings, who owned him in partnership with a Malaysian businessman, Dato Tan Chin Nam.Saintly gained... |
4 ch g | Sky Chase – All Grace | Darren Beadman | J B Cummings Bart Cummings James Bartholomew 'Bart' Cummings, AM is one of the most successful Australian racehorse trainers. He is known as the Cups King, referring to the Melbourne Cup, as the he has won the 'race that stops a nation' a record 12 times.... |
2.05.73 | 5-1 |
1995 | Octagonal Octagonal Octagonal is a retired champion New Zealand-bred, Australian raced Thoroughbred racehorse, also known as 'The Big O' or 'Occy'. He was by the champion sire Zabeel, out of the champion broodmare Eight Carat, who also produced Group One winners Mouawad, Kaapstad, Diamond Lover and Marquise.Trained... |
3 br c | Zabeel Zabeel Zabeel was a New Zealand-bred Australian racehorse who has retired to stud and become a champion sire. He is a bay son of Sir Tristram from the Nureyev mare Lady Giselle... – Eight Carat Eight Carat Eight Carat Pieces of Eight - Klairessa, by Klairon) was a Thoroughbred broodmare in Australasia. She is without doubt the best broodmare to have ever been in Australasia being the dam of five individual Group One winners, including Octagonal, Mouawad, Kaapstad, Diamond Lover and Marquise who... |
Shane Dye Shane Dye Raymond Shane Dye, born , in the township of Matamata New Zealand and established himself as a champion apprentice jockey in New Zealand, and, moving to Australia in the late-1980s, he quickly established himself as one of the country's best riders... |
John Hawkes | 2.06.38 | 15-2 |
1994 | Solvit | 6 b g | Morcon – Yallah Sun | D Walsh | Moira Murdoch | 2.02.6 | 10-1 |
1993 | The Phantom Chance The Phantom Chance The Phantom Chance is a New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse who won the New Zealand Derby in 1992 and Cox Plate in 1993, earning over $2 million in his 44-race career.... |
4 ch g | Noble Bijou – The Fantasy | R Vance | Colin Jillings | 2.02.8 | 4-1 |
1992 | Super Impose Super Impose Super Impose was a New Zealand bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame. In a career spanning 74 starts, Super Impose won eight Group One races and a then Australasian record $5.6 million in prize money... |
8 ch g | Imposing Imposing Imposing was a notable Australian thoroughbred racehorse.He was a chestnut son of Todman from the Arctic Explorer mare Hialeah.Some of his major race victories included the 1979 AJC Epsom Handicap, AJC George Main Stakes and the STC Hill Stakes.... – Pheroz Fancy |
Greg Hall | Lee Freedman Lee Freedman David Lee Freedman is a prominent Australian racehorse trainer. In partnership with brothers Anthony, Michael, and Richard, he has been a prolific winner of Australia's major races in past 20 years, with four Golden Slippers, four Caulfield Cups, two Cox Plates, and five Melbourne Cups,... |
2.05.5 | 16-1 |
1991 | Surfers Paradise Surfers Paradise (horse) Surfers Paradise was a New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse who is best remembered for winning the Cox Plate in 1991. By Crested Wave, Surfers Paradise was named after Queensland's iconic beachside strip.... |
4 br g | Crested Wave – Lady Aythorpe | Lance O'Sullivan Lance O'Sullivan Lance Anthony O'Sullivan was one of New Zealand's best-known jockeys, now retired.He won a record number of races totalling 2479, mainly in the 1980s including the 1989 Japan Cup on champion mare Horlicks, which broke the world record over 2400m... |
David J. O'Sullivan | 2.03.8 | 14-1 |
1990 | Better Loosen Up Better Loosen Up Better Loosen Up was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Japan Cup in 1990 and was named Australia's champion racehorse in 1991. He campaigned from two to seven years of age, and won 17 of his 45 starts, including eight Group One races... |
5 b c | Loosen Up – Better Fantasy | M Clarke | David A. Hayes | 2.01.5 | 2-1F |
1989 | Almaarad | 6 ch c | Ela-Mana-Mou – Silk Blend | M Clarke | Colin Hayes Colin Hayes Colin Sidney Hayes was a champion trainer of thoroughbred racehorses based in Adelaide, Australia.During his career he trained 5,333 winners including 524 individual Group or Listed winners. He won 28 Adelaide and 13 Melbourne Trainers' Premierships.-Early days:Colin was born in Semaphore, South... |
2.03.2 | 11-4F |
1988 | Our Poetic Prince | 4 br h | Yeats – Finisterre | N Harris | J Wheeler | 2.06.9 | 5-4F |
1987 | Rubiton Rubiton Rubiton was a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse of the mid-1980s.He was bred by the Oamaru Stud in Victoria... |
4 br h | Century – Ruby | Harry White Harry White (jockey) Harry White was a top Australian jockey in the late 70s. He usually rode for the "cups king" Bart Cummings. He rode the winners of four Melbourne Cups on Think Big and Hyperno for Bart Cummings and also on Arwon for George Hanlon.... |
P C Barns | 2.02.9 | 7-4F |
1986 | Bonecrusher Bonecrusher (horse) Bonecrusher Is a retired champion New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse who was widely admired in both Australia and New Zealand. Bred by Bill Punch, his dam's sire was a son of a French champion, Tantieme. Bonecrusher was purchased by Peter Mitchell for just $3,250 at the Waikato Yearling Sales,... |
4 ch g | Pag Asa – Imitation | G Stewart | F T Ritchie | 2.07.2 | 9-10F |
1985 | Rising Prince | 5 ch h | Round Top – Bonlene | K Langby | Ms D Stein | 2.05.3 | 7-1 |
1984 | Red Anchor Red Anchor Red Anchor was a notable Thoroughbred racehorse who raced in Australia with wins in eight Principal Races.A chestnut son of Sea Anchor from the mare Decoy Girl by Decoy Boy, he was foaled in 1981 in New Zealand and was trained by trainer Tommy Smith after originally being trained by Paul... |
3 ch c | Sea Anchor – Decoy Girl | Mick Dittman | T J Smith Tommy Smith (racing) Thomas John Smith AM MBE also known as Tommy Smith or T. J. Smith was a leading trainer of thoroughbred racehorses based in Sydney, Australia. He is acknowledged for his record number of Sydney Trainers Premierships and for training many champion racehorses including Tulloch, Gunsynd and Kingston... |
2.03.7 | 8-11F |
1983 | Strawberry Road Strawberry Road Strawberry Road was a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who went on to race in Germany, France, the United States, and Japan... |
4 b h | Whiskey Road – Giftisa | Mick Dittman | Doug Bougoure | 2.09.1 | 11-2 |
1982 | Kingston Town Kingston Town Kingston Town was an outstanding Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won a record three Cox Plates and 11 other Group One races in a career spanning from 1979 to 1982... |
6 bl g | Bletchingly Bletchingly Bletchingly was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse and stallion. A brilliant sprinter, he was by the successful speed stallion Biscay out of Coogee . Bletchingly was bred by Stanley Wootton on the Baramul Stud in the Widden Valley, and was a three-quarter brother to another high-class... – Ada Hunter |
P Cook | T J Smith Tommy Smith (racing) Thomas John Smith AM MBE also known as Tommy Smith or T. J. Smith was a leading trainer of thoroughbred racehorses based in Sydney, Australia. He is acknowledged for his record number of Sydney Trainers Premierships and for training many champion racehorses including Tulloch, Gunsynd and Kingston... |
2.05.5 | 7-4F |
1981 | Kingston Town Kingston Town Kingston Town was an outstanding Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won a record three Cox Plates and 11 other Group One races in a career spanning from 1979 to 1982... |
5 bl g | Bletchingly Bletchingly Bletchingly was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse and stallion. A brilliant sprinter, he was by the successful speed stallion Biscay out of Coogee . Bletchingly was bred by Stanley Wootton on the Baramul Stud in the Widden Valley, and was a three-quarter brother to another high-class... – Ada Hunter |
Ron Quinton | T J Smith Tommy Smith (racing) Thomas John Smith AM MBE also known as Tommy Smith or T. J. Smith was a leading trainer of thoroughbred racehorses based in Sydney, Australia. He is acknowledged for his record number of Sydney Trainers Premierships and for training many champion racehorses including Tulloch, Gunsynd and Kingston... |
2.06.7 | 4-6F |
1980 | Kingston Town Kingston Town Kingston Town was an outstanding Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won a record three Cox Plates and 11 other Group One races in a career spanning from 1979 to 1982... |
4 bl g | Bletchingly Bletchingly Bletchingly was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse and stallion. A brilliant sprinter, he was by the successful speed stallion Biscay out of Coogee . Bletchingly was bred by Stanley Wootton on the Baramul Stud in the Widden Valley, and was a three-quarter brother to another high-class... – Ada Hunter |
M Johnston | T J Smith Tommy Smith (racing) Thomas John Smith AM MBE also known as Tommy Smith or T. J. Smith was a leading trainer of thoroughbred racehorses based in Sydney, Australia. He is acknowledged for his record number of Sydney Trainers Premierships and for training many champion racehorses including Tulloch, Gunsynd and Kingston... |
2.07.3 | 6-4F |
1979 | Dulcify Dulcify Dulcify was an New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse. His British-bred sire was the 1970 Irish 2,000 Guineas winner, Decies, a grandson of Pharis, the very important French sire whom Thoroughbred Heritage says is considered one of the greatest French-bred runners of the century... |
4 b h | Decies – Sweet Candy | Brent Thomson | Colin Hayes Colin Hayes Colin Sidney Hayes was a champion trainer of thoroughbred racehorses based in Adelaide, Australia.During his career he trained 5,333 winners including 524 individual Group or Listed winners. He won 28 Adelaide and 13 Melbourne Trainers' Premierships.-Early days:Colin was born in Semaphore, South... |
2.04.9 | 7-4F |
1978 | So Called | 4 b h | Sobig – Calling | Brent Thomson | Colin Hayes Colin Hayes Colin Sidney Hayes was a champion trainer of thoroughbred racehorses based in Adelaide, Australia.During his career he trained 5,333 winners including 524 individual Group or Listed winners. He won 28 Adelaide and 13 Melbourne Trainers' Premierships.-Early days:Colin was born in Semaphore, South... |
2.08.7 | 5-1 |
1977 | Family Of Man | 4 b h | Lots of Man – Colleen | Brent Thomson | George Hanlon George Hanlon George Hanlon was an Australian race horse trainer. Inducted in the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2002, Hanlon trained three Melbourne Cup winners; Piping Lane in 1972, Arwon in 1978 and Black Knight in 1984.... |
2.05.3 | 10-1 |
1976 | Surround | 3 gr f | Sovereign Edition – Micheline | P Cook | Geoff T. Murphy | 2.04.3 | 6-1 |
1975 | Fury's Order | 5 ch h | Indian Order – Our Fury | Brent Thomson | W McEwan | 2.20.4 | 7-1 |
1974 | Battle Heights | 7 br g | Battle-Waggon – Wuthering Heights | G Willetts | R Douglas | 2.09.9 | 7-1 |
1973 | Taj Rossi | 3 b c | Matrice – Dark Queen | S Aitken | J B Cummings Bart Cummings James Bartholomew 'Bart' Cummings, AM is one of the most successful Australian racehorse trainers. He is known as the Cups King, referring to the Melbourne Cup, as the he has won the 'race that stops a nation' a record 12 times.... |
2.08.3 | 7-1 |
1972 | Gunsynd Gunsynd Gunsynd was a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who won 29 races and A$280,455 in prizemoney. In his seven starts over one mile he was only once defeated, by half-a-head in the Epsom Handicap.... |
5 gr h | Sunset Hue – Woodie Wonder | Roy Higgins Roy Higgins Roy Henry Higgins MBE is a former Australian jockey who rode in the late 1960s and the 1970s. He grew up in the southern New South Wales town of Deniliquin where he was apprenticed to local horse trainer Jim Watters... |
T J Smith | 2.01.9 | 6-4F |
1971 | Tauto | 6 b/br g | Good Brandy – San Patricia | L Hill | R Agnew | 2.03.9 | 12-1 |
1970 | Abdul | 3 gr c | Sovereign Edition – Fyfe | P Jarman | Geoff T. Murphy | 2.05.5 | 33-1 |
1969 | Daryl's Joy | 3 br c | Stunning – Rutha | W Skelton | S A Brown | 2.05.4 | 6-1 |
1968 | Rajah Sahib | 3 br c | Pakistan II – Gay Princess | George Moore George T. D. Moore George Thomas Donald Moore OBE was an Australian jockey and Thoroughbred horse trainer. He began his career in racing in 1939 in Brisbane where he quickly became one of the top apprentice jockeys and where in 1943 he won the Senior Jockeys' Premiership. He then relocated to Sydney and in 1949 went... |
T Hill | 2.04.8 | 7-4F |
1967 | Tobin Bronze Tobin Bronze Tobin Bronze was an Australian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse who competed with great success during the 1960's.A chestnut son of Arctic Explorer from the Masthead mare Amarco he proved to be a crowd favourite due to his stunning good looks and winning 24 of his 44 Australian race starts.His... |
5 ch h | Arctic Explorer – Amarco | Jim Johnson Jim Johnson (jockey) Jim Johnson is remembered primarily for winning the Melbourne Cup on Gatum Gatum and twice on Rain Lover. He was also noted for his unusual riding style of virtually standing up. He also rode in a strange, jerky way... |
Graeme H. Heagney | 2.04.8 | 1-6F |
1966 | Tobin Bronze Tobin Bronze Tobin Bronze was an Australian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse who competed with great success during the 1960's.A chestnut son of Arctic Explorer from the Masthead mare Amarco he proved to be a crowd favourite due to his stunning good looks and winning 24 of his 44 Australian race starts.His... |
4 ch h | Arctic Explorer – Amarco | Jim Johnson Jim Johnson (jockey) Jim Johnson is remembered primarily for winning the Melbourne Cup on Gatum Gatum and twice on Rain Lover. He was also noted for his unusual riding style of virtually standing up. He also rode in a strange, jerky way... |
Graeme H. Heagney | 2.07.2 | 9-10F |
1965 | Star Affair | 3 ch c | Star Kingdom Star Kingdom Star Kingdom was a Thoroughbred race horse bred in Ireland in 1946. Exported to Australia he was an outstanding sire, being the leading sire for five seasons, the leading sire of two-year-olds seven times as well as heading the broodmare sires' list three times.Foaled on 30 April 1946, Star... – Royal Lark |
P Hyland | Angus Armanasco | 2.02.0 | 3-1 |
1964 | Sir Dane | 4 br h | Summertime – Cas | Roy Higgins Roy Higgins Roy Henry Higgins MBE is a former Australian jockey who rode in the late 1960s and the 1970s. He grew up in the southern New South Wales town of Deniliquin where he was apprenticed to local horse trainer Jim Watters... |
R J Shaw | 2.03.9 | 11-2 |
1963 | Summer Regent | 5 br g | Summertime – Mayina | J Riordan | R T Cotter | 2.06.2 | 10-1 |
1962 | Aquanita | 6 b/br h | Wateringbury – Reinita | F Moore | R J Shaw | 2.04.3 | 4-5F |
1961 | Dhaulagiri | 5 b g | High Peak – Solar Circle | G Lane | B Courtney | 2.04.8 | 9-2 |
1960 | Tulloch Tulloch (horse) Tulloch was a Thoroughbred racehorse, who is regarded as one of the three finest racehorses in Australian racing history... |
6 b h | Khorassan – Florida | Neville Sellwood | T J Smith Tommy Smith (racing) Thomas John Smith AM MBE also known as Tommy Smith or T. J. Smith was a leading trainer of thoroughbred racehorses based in Sydney, Australia. He is acknowledged for his record number of Sydney Trainers Premierships and for training many champion racehorses including Tulloch, Gunsynd and Kingston... |
2.01.1 | 2-1F |
1959 | Noholme Noholme Noholme was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who was the 1959 Australian Horse of the Year and who took nearly a full second off the race record in winning the prestigious Cox Plate. In 1959 he was Australian Horse of the Year.He was sired by Star Kingdom , the Leading sire in Australia on... |
3 ch c | Star Kingdom Star Kingdom Star Kingdom was a Thoroughbred race horse bred in Ireland in 1946. Exported to Australia he was an outstanding sire, being the leading sire for five seasons, the leading sire of two-year-olds seven times as well as heading the broodmare sires' list three times.Foaled on 30 April 1946, Star... – Oceana |
Neville Sellwood | Maurice McCarten | 2.02.7 | 4-1 |
1958 | Yeman | 6 ch g | Sabaean – Wardress | L Whittle | H Wiggins | 2.16.4 | 33-1 |
1957 | Redcraze Redcraze Redcraze was a champion New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse who raced both in Australia and New Zealand, winning major races in both countries.... |
7 ch g | Red Mars – Myarion | George Moore George T. D. Moore George Thomas Donald Moore OBE was an Australian jockey and Thoroughbred horse trainer. He began his career in racing in 1939 in Brisbane where he quickly became one of the top apprentice jockeys and where in 1943 he won the Senior Jockeys' Premiership. He then relocated to Sydney and in 1949 went... |
T J Smith Tommy Smith (racing) Thomas John Smith AM MBE also known as Tommy Smith or T. J. Smith was a leading trainer of thoroughbred racehorses based in Sydney, Australia. He is acknowledged for his record number of Sydney Trainers Premierships and for training many champion racehorses including Tulloch, Gunsynd and Kingston... |
2.05.6 | 4-1 |
1956 | Ray Ribbon | 5 b c | Perilous – Lady Yelverton | Jack Purtell | G S Barr | 2.04.9 | 4-1 |
1955 | Kingster | 3 br c | Star Kingdom Star Kingdom Star Kingdom was a Thoroughbred race horse bred in Ireland in 1946. Exported to Australia he was an outstanding sire, being the leading sire for five seasons, the leading sire of two-year-olds seven times as well as heading the broodmare sires' list three times.Foaled on 30 April 1946, Star... – Canvas Back |
W Camer | J Green | 2.04.4 | 33-1 |
1954 | Rising Fast Rising Fast Rising Fast was an outstanding New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse. In 1954 he became the only horse in history to win the Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate races in the same season - the Spring Grand Slam - and since that time no Melbourne Cup winner has performed such a feat... |
5 b/br g | Alonzo – Faster | Jack Purtell | Ivan Tucker | 2.03.8 | 11-8F |
1953 | Hydrogen | 5 br h | Delville Wood – Sweet Sound | Bill Williamson | E Hush | 2.05.25 | 3-1 |
1952 | Hydrogen | 4 br h | Delville Wood – Sweet Sound | Darby Munro | E Hush | 2.04.5 | 11-8F |
1951 | Bronton | 3 ch c | Helios – Battle Royal | Jack Purtell | R Sinclair | 2.05.5 | 25-1 |
1950 | Alister | 3 ch c | Whirlaway – New Flower | Jack Purtell | H Wolters | 2.06.25 | 4-1 |
1949 | Delta | 3 br c | Midstream – Gazza | Neville Sellwood | Maurice McCarten | 2.04.75 | 20-1 |
1948 | Carbon Copy | 3 ch c | Helios – Havers | Harold Badger | D McCormick | 2.04.25 | 5-1 |
1947 | Chanak | 3 b c | Hellespont – Studio | Harold Badger | Jack Holt | 2.05.0 | 9-2 |
1946 | Flight Flight (horse) Flight was an Australian Thoroughbred racemare that was the highest stakes winning mare in Australasia. Her courageous efforts made her a crowd favourite during the post World War II era and she had victories over some of the great horses of the time including Shannon, Bernborough, Royal Gem and... |
6 b m | Royal Step – Lambent | J O'Sullivan | Frank Nowland | 2.05.0 | 3-1 |
1946 | Leonard | 4 ch h | Dhoti – Jeanne Hachette | W Briscoe | Lou Robertson | 2.06.0 | 50-1 |
1945 | Flight Flight (horse) Flight was an Australian Thoroughbred racemare that was the highest stakes winning mare in Australasia. Her courageous efforts made her a crowd favourite during the post World War II era and she had victories over some of the great horses of the time including Shannon, Bernborough, Royal Gem and... |
5 b m | Royal Step – Lambent | J O'Sullivan | Frank Nowland | 2.08.75 | 11-2 |
1944 | Tranquil Star Tranquil Star Tranquil Star was one of the hardiest and best performed Australian-bred Thoroughbred race-mares. She is the only mare to have won the double of the Caulfield Stakes, now known as the Yalumba Stakes, and the Cox Plate, which is the most prestigious weight-for-age race in Australia... |
7 ch m | Gay Lothario – Lone Star | Scobie Breasley Scobie Breasley Arthur Edward "Scobie" Breasley was an Australian jockey. He won the Caulfield Cup in Melbourne five times: 1942-45 consecutively on Tranquil Star, Skipton, Counsel and St Fairy; then on Peshawar in 1952... |
R Cameron | 2.06.75 | 7-1 |
1943 | Amana | 4 ch h | Talking – Capris | A Dewhirst | R J Shaw | 2.03.75 | 5-2F |
1942 | Tranquil Star Tranquil Star Tranquil Star was one of the hardiest and best performed Australian-bred Thoroughbred race-mares. She is the only mare to have won the double of the Caulfield Stakes, now known as the Yalumba Stakes, and the Cox Plate, which is the most prestigious weight-for-age race in Australia... |
5 ch m | Gay Lothario – Lone Star | K Smith | R Cameron | 2.00.75 | 6-1 |
1941 | Beau Vite | 5 br h | Beau Pere – Dominant | Darby Munro | Frank McGrath, Sr. | 1.58.25 | 1-3F |
1940 | Beau Vite | 4 br h | Beau Pere – Dominant | E McMenamin | Frank McGrath, Sr. | 1.57.75 | 7-4F |
1939 | Mosaic | 4 br h | Posterity – Inlaid | Darby Munro | J H Abbs | 1.56.5 | 50-1 |
1938 | Ajax | 6 ch h | Heroic Heroic (horse) Heroic was a great Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who won 21 races from 5 furlongs to 2 miles and was a Leading sire in Australia.-Breeding:... – Medmenham |
Harold Badger | F Musgrave | 1.56.75 | 1-2F |
1937 | Young Idea | 5 br h | Constant Son – Persuasion | Darby Munro | Jack Holt | 1.58.5 | 2-1F |
1936 | Young Idea | 4 br h | Constant Son – Persuasion | H Skidmore | Jack Holt | 2.01.0 | 4-1 |
1935 | Garrio | 3 b c | Chivalrous – Garrulity | K Voitre | Lou Robertson | 1.58.5 | 14-1 |
1934 | Chatham Chatham (horse) Chatham was an outstanding Australian Thoroughbred racehorse that was bred by Percy Miller at the Kia Ora Stud near Scone in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales.-Pedigree:... |
6 b h | Windbag – Myosotis | S Davidson | F Williams | 2.03.0 | 2-1F |
1933 | Rogilla Rogilla Rogilla, was a chestnut Australian Thoroughbred gelding, who was a versatile racehorse performing in Australia. Known as the Coalfields Champion in Newcastle, Rogilla raced during a vintage era of the Australian turf. He won in each of the six seasons that he raced as a three-year-old to a... |
4 ch g | Roger de Busli – Speargila | Darby Munro | Les Haigh | 1.58.5 | 10-1 |
1932 | Chatham Chatham (horse) Chatham was an outstanding Australian Thoroughbred racehorse that was bred by Percy Miller at the Kia Ora Stud near Scone in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales.-Pedigree:... |
4 b h | Windbag – Myosotis | J Munro | F Williams | 2.02.75 | 10-9F |
1931 | Phar Lap Phar Lap Phar Lap was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse whose achievements captured the public's imagination during the early years of the Great Depression. Foaled in New Zealand, he was trained and raced in Australia. Phar Lap dominated Australian racing during a distinguished career, winning a Melbourne... |
5 ch g | Night Raid Night Raid Night Raid was a Leading sire in Australia of Thoroughbred racehorses. He sired two leading racehorses, namely Phar Lap and Nightmarch.... – Entreaty Entreaty Entreaty was a black New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred mare, who was unplaced in her only race start. She produced twelve horses, one of which was the legendary Phar Lap.... |
James Pike | Harry Telford | 2.01.5 | 1-14F |
1930 | Phar Lap Phar Lap Phar Lap was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse whose achievements captured the public's imagination during the early years of the Great Depression. Foaled in New Zealand, he was trained and raced in Australia. Phar Lap dominated Australian racing during a distinguished career, winning a Melbourne... |
4 ch g | Night Raid Night Raid Night Raid was a Leading sire in Australia of Thoroughbred racehorses. He sired two leading racehorses, namely Phar Lap and Nightmarch.... – Entreaty Entreaty Entreaty was a black New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred mare, who was unplaced in her only race start. She produced twelve horses, one of which was the legendary Phar Lap.... |
James Pike | Harry Telford | 1.59.25 | 1-7F |
1929 | Nightmarch Nightmarch Nightmarch, foaled in 1925 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... |
4 br c | Night Raid Night Raid Night Raid was a Leading sire in Australia of Thoroughbred racehorses. He sired two leading racehorses, namely Phar Lap and Nightmarch.... – Marsa |
Roy Reed | A McAulay | 2.01.5 | 5-4F |
1928 | Highland | 7 b/br g | Highfield – Regulator | W Duncan | Jack Holt | 2.06.75 | 9-2 |
1927 | Amounis Amounis Amounis was a good Australian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse. He won 33 races over distances ranging from 6 to 12 furlongs . Of these wins, 27 were in "Principal Races" , 16 of these races have since been promoted to Group One status... |
5 br g | Magpie – Loved One | J Toohey | Frank McGrath, Sr. | 2.00.5 | 3-1EF |
1926 | Heroic Heroic (horse) Heroic was a great Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who won 21 races from 5 furlongs to 2 miles and was a Leading sire in Australia.-Breeding:... |
5 ch h | Valais – Chersonese | H Cairns | Jack Holt | 1.58.0 | 4-5F |
1925 | Manfred | 3 b c | Valais – Otford | F Dempsey | H McCalman | 1.57.0 | 4-5F |
1924 | The Night Patrol | 6 b h | Stedfast – Dark Flight | G Young | James Scobie | 1.59.2 | 6-1 |
1923 | Easingwold | 5 ch h | Eaton Lad – Bahloo | G Harrison | Jack Holt | 1.57.25 | 6-4F |
1922 | Violoncello | 6 ch h | Valens – Catgut | J King | C H Bryans | 1.57.5 | 2-1 |
- † The 1946 Cox Plate was run in two divisions.
See also
- W S Cox Plate
- Australian horse-racing
- Melbourne Spring Racing CarnivalMelbourne Spring Racing CarnivalThe Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival is the name of a Melbourne, Australia Thoroughbred horse racing series held annually during October and November .-The Carnival and its status in the wider community:...