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I GREAT FIELDS IN MELBOURNE CUP There were 278 entries for last years Melbourne Cup and twenty starters. It would not be safe to bet that the 273 nominated this year will produce a larger field. In the past thirty years the highest percentage of starters to the number of nominations was. in 1891, when Malvollo won. Of the ninety-two entered, thirty-four ran. The thirty-nine runners in Carbines year, 1890, still stand as the record field for the nice, and on that occasion there were 149 entries. 4
