Which horse is oldest Melbourne Cup winning horse? Eight-year-old horses have won the Melbourne Cup on three occasions since it was inaugurated back in 1861. The first was Toryboy in 1865. The grey ...
The Melbourne Cup's prestige and pageantry makes it a bucket ... Dating back to Archer in 1861, who won the first race and followed up the following year, there will be names that mean so much ...
Interestingly, Archer started at the fourth shortest odds in the first Melbourne Cup race in 1861, despite its win. Caulfield Cup runner-up Buckaroo is still considered a strong possibility to win ...
These horses are the cream of the crop, our experts' choice of the best of Melbourne Cup winners since the first Cup in 1861. See below how they fare against one another in our exhibition race.