MELBOURNE CUP THE FIRST TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER
the Geelong super filly, Briseis, became the first horse to win a Melbourne Cup on the First Tuesday in November. She had already won the Derby against colts the previous Saturday, and she went on to win the Oaks on Thursday. No other horse in history has won this trio. First Tuesday in November it has been ever since, with just these five exceptions: 1882 The Assyrian When the Cup was run on Tuesday 31 October. 1916 Sasanof Torrential rain forced a postponement to the following Saturday. 1942 Colonus 1943 Dark Felt 1944 Sirius The war years when Melbourne Cup Day holiday was suspended and the race was run on the second or third Saturday of the month. First horse to win a Melbourne Cup on a Tuesday in November: 1875 Wollomai First horse to win a Melbourne Cup on the First Tuesday in November: Briseis, 1876, the three-year-old filly whose jockey that day, Peter ‘St Albans’ Bowden, was just shy of his twelfth birthday. But that is another story.
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