The Caulfield Cup/Melbourne Cup Double – A Modern Day Impossibility
The Caulfield and Melbourne Cup double is one of the most prestigious achievements for any staying horse in the country (and world) and has been completed by some very good horses.
In fact, 11 horses have achieved the double including Poseidon (1906), Rising Fast (1954), Galilee (1966) and Let’s Elope (1991) to name a few.
As the Melbourne Cup expanded to include more and more international horses, this feat has been harder and harder to achieve and the last horse to complete the double was Ethereal in 2001.
Peter Moody is on the precipice of breaking this trend as he saddles up Incentivise on Tuesday who is the shortest priced favourite in the modern era.
We’ve run through every Caulfield Cup winner since the New Zealand mare famously won the ‘Cups Double’ 19 years ago to see just how they fared on the first Tuesday in November.
2002 – Northerly
Melbourne Cup – Did Not Run
The don’t make them any tougher than the ‘Fighting Tiger’ Northerly and he was in tremendous form leading into his 2002 Caulfield Cup win.
He took out the Group 1 Underwood Stakes and the Group 2 Turnbull Stakes before his famous win at Caulfield but connections decided against running him in Australia’s most famous race.
Instead he went to The Valley and won his second Cox Plate in a row.
2003 – Mummify
Melbourne Cup – Did Not Race
After his tough win in the Caulfield Cup in 2003, the Freedman team were suspect on whether their horse would run out a strong 3200m.
They instead opted for the Group 1 Mackinnon Stakes on Derby Day where he finished 8th (of 11).
Mummify would finish 19th (of 24) in the 2003 Melbourne Cup.
2004 – Elvstroem
Melbourne Cup – 4th
Elvstroem attempted to take all before him in the spring of 2004 and heading into the Caulfield Cup he had already won the Turnbull and Underwood Stakes.
After winning at Caulfield as the favourite, he then ran 8th in the Cox Plate and then fourth behind Makybe Diva in the Melbourne Cup.
A year later, he showed the world just how good he was by winning the Dubai Duty Free.
2005 – Railings
Melbourne Cup – 14th
Railings was a horse on the rise in the spring of 2005 and after comfortably winning The Metropolitan in Sydney, he headed south.
He was asked to carry just 52kg in the 2005 Caulfield Cup which played a big part in his win and he would beat only 10 horses home at Flemington two weeks later.
2006 – Tawqeet
Melbourne Cup – 19th
Tawqeet replicated Railings from a year earlier when he won the Metropolitan/Caulfield Cup double.
He was well off the mark two weeks later in the Mebourne Cup though.
2007 – Master O’Reilly
Melbourne Cup – 8th
Master O’Reilly carried just 50.5kgs when he won the 2007 Caulfield Cup and he ran well on the first Tuesday in November that year behind Efficient.
He would compete in a further three Melbourne Cups finishing 4th, 4th and 15th.
2008 – All The Good
Melbourne Cup – Did Not Run
Godolphin caused an upset in the 2008 Caulfield Cup when All The Good won the race at a big price.
He sustained a hairline fracture of the cannon bone leading into the Melbourne Cup and was forced to scratch.
2009 – Viewed
Melbourne Cup – 7th
The Bart Cummings trained Viewed shocked everyone when he won the 2008 Melbourne Cup but it wasn’t to be a year later in our most famous race.
He was forced to lump 58kg in the race after he won the Caulfield Cup but he was far from disgraced.
2010 – Descarado
Melbourne Cup – Failed To Finish
The Gai Waterhouse trained Descarado came into the 2010 Caulfield back off the back of a 16th place finish in the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes.
He won the Caulfield Cup at double figure odds and Waterhouse was dreaming of her first win in the Melbourne Cup two weeks later.
After being on the speed for most of the 3200m journey, Descarado was pulled up very quickly in the straight and failed to finish the race.
2011 – Southern Speed
Melbourne Cup – Did Not Race
After a somewhat shock victory in the 2011 Caulfield Cup with 52.5kgs, Southern Speed was sent to the Group 1 Mackinnon Stakes on Derby Day where she finished fourth behind Glass Harmonium.
2012 – Dunaden
Melbourne Cup – 14th
In a very similar story to Viewed, Dunaden won the Caulfield Cup the year after he won the Melbourne Cup.
Not quite a Cups double but still a very special achievement in its own right.
It would have been a herculean effort having been asked to carry 59kg.
2013 – Fawkner
Melbourne Cup – 6th
The Williams family has a rich history with our greatest staying races and they added another Caulfield Cup to their collection with the grey gelding Fawkner in 2013.
2014 – Admire Rakti
Melbourne Cup – Last
The Japanese stayers have had a lot of success when heading down under and Admire Rakti was dominant when winning the 2014 Caulfield Cup.
His attempt at becoming the first horse since Ethereal in 2001 to win the Cups Double ended in tragic circumstances when the horse collapsed and die after the running of the Melbourne Cup.
2015 – Mongolian Khan
Melbourne Cup – Did Not Race
Mongolian Khan was narrowed denied by Criterion in the Caulfield Stakes before winning the Caulfield Cup in 2015.
He did not take his place in the Melbourne Cup.
2016 – Jameka
Melbourne Cup – 15th
Jameka was set to be a Cups horse after a very successful staying campaign as a three year old.
She won the VRC Oaks in the spring before running second in the Australian Derby and fourth in the ATC Oaks in the autumn.
She started the $4.20 favourite in the Caulfield Cup after finishing second in the Turnbull and put in one of the more dominant performances we have seen in the race in recent years.
2017 – Boom Time
Melbourne Cup – 15th
The 52kgs that Boom Time was given in the 2017 Caulfield Cup was not enough as the Hayes trained gelding caused a boilover.
He could not replicate the feat two weeks later at Flemington.
2018 – Best Solution
Melbourne Cup – 8th
Godolphin did it again, 10 years after their last win in the race with All The Good, Best Solution won the 2018 Caulfield Cup.
He was far from disgraced on the first Tuesday in November when beaten only eight lengths by another Godolphin horse in Cross Counter.
2019 – Mer De Glace
Melbourne Cup – 6th
The Japanese did it again last year when they produced Mer De Glace to win the Caulfield Cup.
He came within 1.2 lengths of completing that elusive ‘Cups Double’ but alas, it wasn’t to be.
Can a horse finally break the drought this year?
2020 – Verry Elleegant
Melbourne Cup – 7th
She’s a champion. Nine group 1 wins including the 2020 Caulfield Cup leading into last year’s Melbourne Cup.
The great mare was far from disgraced when making her Melbourne Cup debut last year, savaging the line well late in the peice.
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