Caulfield Cup

The field is limited to 18 starters with four emergency entries which is decided by a ballot system. The prize money, wins and placings in lead up races are among the major factors that determine the eligibility of a horse. Automatic entry is awarded to winners of the Toorak Handicap, Herbert Power Stakes and the Mornington Cup.[4]

• 1985–1999 - Foster's
• 2000–2005 - Carlton Draught
• 2006–2013 - BMW
• 2014 - Crown Golden Ale
• 2015–2017 - BMW
• 2018–current - Stella Artois

• 1879–1971 - 1​¹⁄₂ miles (~2400 metres)
• 1972 onwards - 2400 metres

• 1879–1978 - Principal Race
• 1979 onwards - Group 1

The following thoroughbreds have won two Caulfield Cups.

• Paris (1892, 1894), Hymettus (1898, 1901), Poseidon (1906-07), Uncle Sam (1912, 1914), Whittier (1922, 1925), Rising Fast (1954-1955) and Ming Dynasty (1977, 1980).

The following thoroughbreds have won the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double in the same year.

• Poseidon (1906), The Trump (1937), Rivette (1939), Rising Fast (1954), Even Stevens (1962), Galilee (1966), Gurner's Lane (1982), Let’s Elope (1991), Doriemus (1995), Might and Power (1997) and Ethereal (2001).[5]

• Australian Test cricketer Clem Hill was the handicapper for the Victoria Amateur Turf Club (VATC) and responsible for setting the weights for the Caulfield Cup from 1937 to 1943.
• Jockey Scobie Breasley rode the winner of four consecutive Caulfield Cups from 1942 to 1945. This included a division of the 1943 race, which was run in two divisions. He also holds the record for most wins by a jockey of the race - five wins.[4]
• Trainer Bart Cummings holds the record for training Caulfield Cup winners with seven - Galilee, Big Philou, Leilani, Ming Dynasty (twice), Let's Elope and Viewed.[4]
• 2014 Caulfield Cup winner Admire Rakti died after his run in the Melbourne Cup from natural causes.[6]
• Horses trained outside Australia and New Zealand have been participating in the race since 1998. Six have won the race. They are Taufan's Melody (1998) for British trainer Lady Herries, All the Good (2008) and Best Solution (2018) for Saeed bin Suroor of the Godolphin stables, Dunaden (2012) for French trainer Mikel Delzangles, Admire Rakti (2014) for Japanese trainer Tomoyuki Umeda and Mer De Glace (2019) for Japanese trainer Hisashi Shimizu.
• The worst race fall in Australian history occurred at the 1885 Caulfield Cup when 15 of the 44 horses competing fell as they turned onto the straight, resulting in the death of 25-year-old jockey Donald Nicholson.[7]
• In 2007, Maldivian and Eskimo Queen were late scratchings. Maldivian, shortest price favourite for 41 years, misbehaved and injured himself in the starting stalls, frightening second priced favourite Eskimo Queen who for a time was trapped beneath the stalls.[8][9] The race started almost nine minutes late.

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  Front cover of the 1934 VATC Caulfield Cup racebook.
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  Inside cover showing raceday officials.
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  Starters and results of the 1934 Caulfield Cup racebook showing the winner, Journal.
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  Starters and results of the 1934 Caulfield Cup racebook.
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  Back cover showing entrance gate charges.

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  1886 winner – Ben Bolt.
  Drawing by Samuel Calvert
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  1915 winner – Lavendo.