Cross Counter (foaled 5 April 2015) is a Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2018 Melbourne Cup. Cross Counter came up trumps. Ridden by Adam Kirby he recovered from a slow start to take the lead a furlong out and pulled away to win by two and a quarter lengths.[5]. Lupton always maintained that Kiwi was fit for the race and could have won. [15] Appleby said "You can’t realise the delight of winning this race. He produced a sustained run in the last quarter mile but failed by a head to overhaul his stablemate Old Persian.

He started at odds of 8/1 in 24-runner field which included Best Solution, Cliffs of Moher, Yucatan (Herbert Power Stakes), Magic Circle (Chester Cup), Youngstar (Queensland Oaks), Marmelo (Prix Maurice de Nieuil), Muntahaa (Ebor Handicap) and Avilius (The Bart Cummings). Cross Counter returned for a minor event at Sandown Park on 7 June in which he was ridden by William Buick and finished second of the fourteen runners behind Elwazir. On 14 September Cross Counter was one of 27 British horses to enter quarantine preparatory to being flown to Australia for the prestigious Spring Carnival meeting. Kiwi also ran in the 1985 Melbourne Cup, running fifth. With a storming run through the field, Kiwi won the race by just over a length. [14], After racing towards the rear of the field for most of the way Cross Counter began to make progress on the final turn but still had at least fifteen horses in front of him entering the last 400 metres. Kiwi (1 August 1977 – 2 February 1995) was a New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse who in 1983 won both the Wellington Cup in New Zealand and the Melbourne Cup in Australia. The speed of his race caused many race commentators to only mention Kiwi as he neared the finish line..."and here comes Kiwi out of the blue". "Thoroughbred Bloodlines – Brown Bess – Family 3-d", "Cross Counter Defeats Dee Ex Bee in Gordon Stakes", "Gifted Master battles to brave Stewards' Cup success at Goodwood", "Cross Counter wins the Gordon Stakes for Godolphin", "Large international contingent enters quarantine for Australia", "Melbourne Cup: British horses bid to finally win Australia's 'race that stops a nation, "Cross Counter wins Melbourne Cup as Kerrin McEvoy triumphs again", "Melbourne Cup: 2018 field, form guide and sweep", "Melbourne Cup 2018: Cross Counter takes out the Melbourne Cup", "Challenge to keep Cross Counter youngsters in check", "Cross Counter Secures First Dubai Gold Cup for Appleby", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cross_Counter&oldid=983140552, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 12 October 2020, at 13:47. Prince of Arran went to the front 200 metres out but was headed by Marmelo who looked the likely winner before Cross Counter came with a strong late run on the outside to win by a length. The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major Thoroughbred horse race.Each year internationally bred or owned horses compete in the race alongside local entrants. After the race Appleby commented "The Melbourne Cup has always been the plan for Cross Counter and hopefully this will put an extra half-kilo on his back and get him into the race. They had previously owned a Blarney Kiss horse and therefore wanted another, with Ann's personal preference for it to have a chestnut hair coat.[3]. He is especially renowned for his last-to-first victory in the latter event, and remains the only horse to have ever won both cups. Even to this day, Kiwi is the only horse to have won both the Wellington Cup and Melbourne Cup consecutively. After being restrained at the rear of the field he moved forward to take the lead approaching the final furlong and won by two lengths. It takes place over a distance of 2400 metres at the Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in mid October. [11], Eighteen days later at York Racecourse the gelding started favourite for the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes. In autumn he was sent to Australia and on 6 November he became the first … The race attracted only four runners and Cross Counter was made the 7/4 second choice in the betting behind Dee Ex Bee, a colt who had finished second in the Epsom Derby. With all of their trainers (Charlie Appleby, Saeed Bin Suroor and James Cummings) having entries in the race, Godolphin had three chances to finally bring home the Cup. Cross Counter is a Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2018 Melbourne Cup. It is known around the world as a seriously great race and to think we can bring it home to England is incredible. A plaque commemorating Kiwi is also located at the Waverley Racecourse. The Cup had been won by horses from France, Ireland, Germany and Japan, but despite eight second-place finishes, no British-trained horse had ever won the world's most valuable and prestigious staying race. He started 3/1 second favourite for the Goodwood Cup on 30 July but after briefly taking the lead a furlong out he was overtaken in the closing stages and finished third behind Stradivarius and Dee Ex Bee.

Later that year, he represented New Zealand in the Japan Cup, running a creditable fifth. He's been gelded – he was a bit of a boy back in the day and Charlie thought it was the best thing to do". Prince of Arran was two lengths back in third to complete a 1-2-3 for British-trained horses.

I didn’t want to take him to Australia and run in a prep-race — not as a three-year-old. The Caulfield Cup is a Melbourne Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held under handicap conditions, although the Melbourne Racing Club is in the process of turning the race into weight for age (WFA) conditions. After winning two minor races he was gelded before returning in the summer of 2018 to win two more races including the Gordon Stakes as well as finishing second in the Great Voltigeur Stakes and fourth in the King George V Stakes. Kiwi raced from 1980 to 1987, and died in 1995 at the age of 18. When entered for the Melbourne Cup, despite having won over a 3200-metre distance, Kiwi was considered very much an outsider and started with odds of 10/1. [21] Appleby commented "It was a tough ask to go to Australia as a 3-year-old and win the Melbourne Cup. He's a big raw horse and I think there is some more improvement to come. [8] The winning time of 2:31.39 was reported to be a new track record. [22], On his first start in Europe for almost ten months Cross Counter started the 4/1 third choice in the betting for the two and a half mile Ascot Gold Cup on 20 June. I want to run him off the plane".[12]. [20], Cross Counter made his first appearance of 2019 in the Dubai Gold Cup over 3200 metres at Meydan Racecourse on 30 March. Over the same course and distance in July, the gelding started 13/8 favourite against six opponents for a handicap race in which he was partnered by Kirby. AUSTRALIA can breathe again after the race that … [5] Kiwi's victory has become one of the most memorable performances in the history of the Melbourne Cup,[6] especially as it illustrated a classic stayer's victory. In 1986, he once again looked to repeat his 1983 "come-from-behind" victory, but pulled up lame close to the finish line. As usual, Kiwi (ridden by jockey Jim Cassidy) settled at the very back of the 24-horse field. He was sent into training with Charlie Appleby in Newmarket, Suffolk.

Source:AAP. With Buick in the saddle he kept on well in the last 400 metres and although he came home eighth of the twenty-four runners he finished less than two lengths behind the winner Vow And Declare. [16][17][18], The result of the race, following the success of Rekindling in 2017 led to questions about the weights assigned to Northern-hemisphere three-year-olds with Racing Victoria's senior handicapper Greg Carpenter saying "the way in which we integrate them into the handicap will be reviewed and evolve". It showed that a simple trainer, when equipped with a good horse, could win the greatest prize. [3] As a descendant of the broodmare Rahaam she was closely related to Cassandra Go, Halfway to Heaven, Rhododendron and Magical. He's answered all the questions we needed to know". [9] As a gelding, Cross Counter was ineligible to run in the St Leger and there was speculation that he would be sent to Australia to contest the Melbourne Cup. Teofilo's other European offspring have included Trading Leather, Pleascach and Parish Hall: he has also had great success in Australia where his major winners have included Happy Clapper, Humidor and Kermadec. He was from the seventh crop of foals sired by the Teofilo the undefeated European Champion Two-Year-Old of 2006. Cross Counter is a bay gelding with a large white star bred and owned by Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin organisation. The Wellington Cup is held in late January each year, and the Melbourne Cup in November. On his final European start of the year the gelding was sent to Ireland and started 4/6 favourite for the Irish St. Leger at the Curragh. [6] He wa then gelded and was off the track for four and a half months. On 5 November Cross Counter carried top weight of 57.5 kg as he attempted to repeat his 2018 victory in the Melbourne Cup. Melbourne Cup 2018: Cross Counter wins the race. This historical feat is highly regarded, especially as the Melbourne Cup is esteemed as the premier staying race in Australia and New Zealand. Kiwi (1 August 1977 – 2 February 1995) was a New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse who in 1983 won both the Wellington Cup in New Zealand and the Melbourne Cup in Australia. After his run in Japan, Kiwi was retired to the Luptons' farm, where he died and was buried in 1995. On winning the race, Kiwi became a household sporting hero in New Zealand, forming a key example of the underdog winning against the odds. In the Melbourne Cup over two miles at Flemington Racecourse on 6 November Cross Counter was assigned a weight of 51 kg (approximately 112 pounds or 8.0 stones) and was partnered by Kerrin McEvoy who had won the race previously on Brew and Almandin as well as having ridden several major winners for Godolphin in Europe. Though Kiwi showed promise as a racehorse, Lupton believed the horse would show strength as a distance runner. [11], Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Why Kiwi Melbourne Cup winner has been immortalised in bronze", "Kiwi wins the 1983 Melbourne Cup - NZHistory, New Zealand history online", http://muir.massey.ac.nz/bitstream/10179/734/1/2whole.pdf, http://www.letsgohorseracing.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=310:all-you-need-to-know-for-a-melbourne-cup-carnival-visit&catid=40:september-december&Itemid=65, "Australian thoroughbreds take to the rails", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kiwi_(horse)&oldid=941410479, Wikipedia articles with style issues from February 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 18 February 2020, at 12:25. Six weeks after his first appearance, with Kirby again in the saddle Cross Counter returned to Wolverhampton for a race over nine and a half furlongs. Melbourne Cup Results 2018 2018 was the year of the Blue Army: after over twenty years and countless attempts, global giants Godolphin finally won the Melbourne Cup. [2] Cross Counter's dam Waitress showed little ability on the track, failing to win in four races. After winning two minor races he was gelded before returning in the summer of 2018 to win two more races including the Gordon Stakes as well as finishing second in the Great Voltigeur Stakes and fourth in the King George V Stakes.

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