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SOME MELBOURNE CUP FEATURES The Melbourne Cup is looked upon as the greatest race run in Australia It Is the richest stake and the entry last ycarrVSj ranks as a record for the world so far as handicap events arc concerned concernedTile Tile contest was instituted in 1SG1 when the added money was 1000 and it was some years before the prize money offered was the largest run for in Aus ¬ tralia As a matter of fact at one time the Ade ¬ laide Cup was a richer stake but the keen sense of rivalry which existed between Victorian and New South Wales sportsmen of the sixties kept the real sporting interest in Melbourne and made Flemiiigton the convincing ground groundThe The added money for last yoars Cup was 2500 and a 5OO trophy 5000 went to the second and 2r 2rUO UO to tbe third out of the stake but the owner of tbe winner also collected a round sum made up of a flaO sweepstake subscribed by oach starter starterTbe Tbe MellKMiriio Clips captured bv Carbine Mai volio Glcnloth and Tnrcoola were 10000 pounders poundersThe The record attendance was registered when Mentor scored in 1SSS and it is otlicially announced that 144000 persons witnessed that race raceBay Bay horses predominate among tbe list of wlpners and no fewer than twentysix of that color have been first home Browns follow with thirteen and then chestnuts and blacks with four apiece and out solitary gray has scored Toryhoy away back in lSt In the matter of ages fourteen threeyearolds have won thirteen fiveyearolds nine fouryearolds seven sixyearolds and five aged horses horsesThe The weightcarrying record is held by Carbine 145 pounds while Archer 142 is the only other winner that has carried over 140 to victory Nine teen horses have won with between DS and 111 pounds in tbe saddle ten with between 84 and 98 and ten also between 1 12 and 1215 live with between 12C nnd 140 and two between 70 and 84 84The The starting machine was first used in connection with Patrons Cup 1S4 1S4Only Only three mans Uriseis 1S7G Auararia 1805 and AcRisia 1M 4 have won the race raceK K de Mcstre and J Tait each landed the Cup four tlnics the former with Archer twice Tim Whllllw and Calamhi and tbe latter with The Barb Gtcncoe The Pearl and The Quack The Hon J White Hon D S Wallace and W Forrester each won the event twice twiceGrand Grand Flaneur and Malna are the only successful horses that sired subsequent winners the former be ¬ ing represented by Bravo and Patron and Maliia by Malvolio MalvolioCarbine Carbine and The Grafter are the only horses which having hren placed the one year linve scored the next and they each finished second previous to carrying off the spoils Commotion Trenton and Silvenuinc were each placed two years in succession successionIll Ill the first Cup there were seventeen starters nnd the time occupied was t 2 As the horses turned for home Twilight Despatch and Medoru fell ami the last two mentioned were killed The record field stands at IB in Carbines year and tbe fastest time a24 is conjointly held by Apologue aud Blue Spec SpecNiniMefoots NiniMefoots success 1870 is always readily re ¬ called to mind because of a peculiar coincidence connected with it His owner W Craig dreamed that tbo horse won but the rider carried a crape ttiwibaivil Slack the bookmaker thereupon laid him 5CCO to four drinks against Croftou for the Metropolitan and NImblefoot for the Cup Both won aud Nimblefoots owner having died the jockej carried a crape armband
