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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Melbourne Cup Auction
• Sale Date:
  07 Nov 2014 ~ 10am: Session 1 - General & Cricket - Lots 1001 - 1373
  07 Nov 2014 ~ 2pm: Session 2 - Horse Racing & Olympics - Lots 1374 - 1658
• Lot #:
  1501
• Lot Description:
  1884 MELBOURNE CUP - MALUA: Pair of cast iron horse's head hitching posts
  with brass plaque 'Presented to J.O.Inglis - MALUA- Melbourne Cup, 1884'. Very attractive and scarce (also very heavy 80kg each!). [The Ballarat Brewing Company each year from 1875 to 1910 presented the owners of the winning Melbourne Cup horse with one or a pair of these posts. They were made at the Ballarat Iron Foundry, and each post carried a brass plate giving details of the owner, horse and date. It is rare to find a matching pair].
• Notes:
  Malua was the most versatile Australian Thoroughbred racehorse in history, winning over distances ranging from 5 ? furlongs to 3 ? miles (1,100 - 5,200 metres).Malua was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2003, and a memorial to him was erected in October 2009 at the Deloraine Museum, in the town where he was born
• Estimate:
  A$15,000 - 20,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Collectables

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