Jump to content
Main menu
Navigation
●Main page
●Contents
●Current events
●Random article
●About Wikipedia
●Contact us
●Donate
Contribute
●Help
●Learn to edit
●Community portal
●Recent changes
●Upload file
Search
●Create account
●Log in
●Create account
● Log in
Pages for logged out editors learn more
●Contributions
●Talk
(Top)
1
See also
2
References
3
External links
1896 Melbourne Cup
Add links
●Article
●Talk
●Read
●Edit
●View history
Tools
Actions
●Read
●Edit
●View history
General
●What links here
●Related changes
●Upload file
●Special pages
●Permanent link
●Page information
●Cite this page
●Get shortened URL
●Download QR code
●Wikidata item
Print/export
●Download as PDF
●Printable version
Appearance
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1896 Melbourne Cup|
Location | Flemington Racecourse |
---|
Date | 3 November 1896 |
---|
Distance | 2 miles |
---|
Winning horse | Newhaven |
---|
Winning time | 3:28.50 |
---|
Final odds | 4/1 |
---|
Jockey | H. J. Gardiner |
---|
Trainer | Walter Hickenbotham |
---|
Owner | W T Jones William Cooper |
---|
Surface | Turf |
---|
|
The 1896 Melbourne Cup was a two-mile handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 3 November 1896.[1]
Marius Sestier filmed the Melbourne Cup.[2] The feature, which consisted of 10 one-minute films shown in chronological order, was premiered at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne on 19 November 1896.[2]
The placegetters were:[1][3]
Place
|
Name
|
Jockey
|
1 |
Newhaven
|
H. J. Gardiner
|
2 |
Bloodshot
|
E. Power
|
3 |
The Skipper
|
W. Delaney
|
See also
[edit]
References
[edit]
^ "1891 to 1900 Melbourne Cup Winners". races com au. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
External links
[edit]
t
e
t
e
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1896_Melbourne_Cup&oldid=1185954560"
Categories:
●Melbourne Cup
●1896 in Australian sport
●1896 in horse racing
●19th century in Melbourne
●1890s in Melbourne
●Horse race stubs
●Melbourne stubs
Hidden categories:
●Use dmy dates from January 2023
●Use Australian English from June 2013
●All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English
●Articles with short description
●Short description is different from Wikidata
●All stub articles
●This page was last edited on 20 November 2023, at 00:39 (UTC).
●Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0;
additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
●Privacy policy
●About Wikipedia
●Disclaimers
●Contact Wikipedia
●Code of Conduct
●Developers
●Statistics
●Cookie statement
●Mobile view