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1924 Melbourne Cup 100 years since ... Backwood’s
BY ANDREW LEMON
V intage Crop in 1993 famously set the pattern for northern hemisphere racehorses to fly into Australia with the express purpose of winning the Melbourne Cup. But Vintage Crop was not the first northern raider to arrive with Cup glory as the goal. Earlier quarantine protocols meant that imported horses with the Cup in mind needed a long preparation, with a local trainer. In this way, Colin Hayes had prepared the 1980 and 1986 winners, Beldale Ball and At Talaq, in South Australia.
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