When Carbine Won the Cup

DESCRIPTION: "The race was run, the Cup was won, The great event was o'er. The grandest horse e'er trod a course Had led them home once more." A description of how Carbine and his rider Ramage (?) won the Melbourne Cup
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1968
KEYWORDS: horse racing
FOUND IN: Australia
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Meredith/Anderson-FolkSongsOfAustralia, pp. 212-213, "When Carbine Won the Cup" (1 text)
Fahey-Joe-Watson-AustralianTraditionalFolkSinger, [p. 7, page headed "Horse racing played..."], "(no title)" (1 fragment)
NOTES [139 words]: According to Learmonth, p. 347, the Melbourne Cup was first run in 1861; it is run on the first Tuesday in November. Carbine, who won it in 1890, is noteworthy for having carried the most weight ("10 st. 5 lb.") of any winner.
NewZealandEncyclopedia, p. 95, says that "CARBINE was N[ew] Z[ealand's] first internationally successful racehorse. His performances on the track in Australia, and at stud in both Australia and England, gave the NZ thoroughbred industry its first claim to fame."
The article continues to state that Carbine was bred in 1885 near Auckland. He won five races as a two-year-old, had a mixed season the year after that, failed in the Melbourne Cup as a four-year-old, but won it at age five. "He had a career record of 33 wins, six seconds, three thirds, and was unplaced only once," dying at the age of 27. - RBW
Bibliography

Learmonth: Andrew and Nancy Learmonth, Encyclopedia of Australia, 2nd edition, Warne & Co, 1973
NewZealandEncyclopedia: Gordon McLauchlan, editor-in-chief, New Zealand Encyclopedia, David Bateman Limited, 1984

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