Moorefield Racecourse and the Melbourne Cup

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Melbourne Cup 1934

There were 3 categories of  horses :

Category One: Horses trained at Moorefield, who won the Melbourne  Cup – Hiraji in 1947.

Category  Two :  Horses who won at Moorefield, and won a Melbourne Cup –Westcourt 1917, Windbag 1925, and Foxzami in 1949.

Category Three : Horses who ran at Moorefield without winning , and won the Melbourne Cup –Nightmarch 1929, Old Rowley in 1940, Russia 1946, Hiraji 1947 and Rimfire 1948.

 Hiraji’s jockey, Jack Purtell died in March 2017 aged 95 .  On the Friday Oct 7 2016 I located Jack Purtell on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. A copy of my book was forwarded to him in early Nov 2016.

 

Some  Moorefield Jockeys still alive today:

Ray Selkrig, Jack Waterhouse, Frank (Johnny ) Hudson, Cliff Clare (rode in barrier trials) and Noel Best.

(Edgar Britt died on 28 Jan 2017 aged 103)

Are there any more ?

Anne Field  ko77582@bigpond.net.au

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