MAKYBE DIVA
“...a champion becomes a legend”
Legend status: Glen Boss and Makybe Diva create history achieving the first three-peat in the 2005 Melbourne Cup. (Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)
Afforded the luxury of three consecutive ten-out-of ten rides by Australian Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Glen Boss, Makybe Diva broke all records along the way. She was the only horse to win the Cup three times and the greatest weight carrier for a mare in the history of the race. Eleven individual mares have won the Melbourne Cup dating as far back as Acrasia (1904). Of those eleven, Empire Rose (1988, 53.5kg) was the highest weight carried until Makybe Diva came along. In the second (2004) of her three Cup victories, Makybe Diva would successfully break Empire Rose’s record, carrying 55kg to victory. This would ultimately be broken the following year when she carried 58kg to win in extraordinary circumstances. As legendary racecaller Greg Miles famously said, “a champion becomes a legend!” Unusually, Makybe Diva would win by 1¼ lengths in each of her three Cup victories.
Go find the smallest child on this course, and there will be the only example of a person who will live long enough to see that again. ” “ Lee Freedman
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