The 1897 Melbourne Cup was a two-mile handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 2 November 1897. This year was the thirty-seventh running of the...
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winners of the Melbourne Cup. The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major thoroughbred horse race, which is run at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne. Each year...
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achieved a quinella in the 1897 Melbourne Cup with the brother horses, Gaulus and The Grafter. The Grafter also won the Cup in 1898, surviving a protest...
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AFL Grand Final (redirect from VFL Premiership Cup)
Melbourne. 4 February 1897. p. 6. "The Football Premiership". The Age. Melbourne. 23 September 1898. p. 6. "Football disputes". The Argus. Melbourne....
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The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known locally as The 'G, is a sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria. Founded and managed by...
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Golf Club. It hosted the 1959 Canada Cup (now Mission Hills World Cup), and the 1972 World Cup. Royal Melbourne hosted the Bicentennial Classic, a tournament...
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The Caulfield Cup is a Melbourne Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held under handicap conditions. This is for all horses aged three years old...
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Princes Park (stadium) (category Sports venues completed in 1897)
from 1897. At its highest usage, the ground had a nominal capacity of 35,000, making it the third largest Australian rules football venue in Melbourne after...
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The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne, VIC. 2 April 1960. p. 66. Stephen Rodgers (1992), Every Game Ever Played – VFL/AFL results 1897–1991 (3rd ed.), Viking...
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Australian Football League (redirect from Victorian Football League (1897–1989))
Victorian Football Association". North Melbourne Courier and West Melbourne Advertiser. No. 72. North Melbourne. 19 March 1897. p. 3. McConville, Andrew (5 May...
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Sydney Swans (redirect from South Melbourne Swans)
the South Melbourne Cricket Club. While one of the early favourites to win, South Melbourne were a notable exclusion from the Challenge Cup competitions...
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Melbourne University Football Club, often known simply as University, is an Australian rules football club based at the University of Melbourne. The club...
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Lakeside Stadium (redirect from South Melbourne Cricket Ground)
Lakeside Stadium is an Australian sports arena in the South Melbourne suburb of Albert Park. Comprising an athletics track and soccer stadium, it currently...
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2024 AFL Grand Final (category 2020s in Melbourne)
was contested between the Sydney Swans and the Brisbane Lions at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday, 28 September 2024. It was the 129th annual...
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resulting in a draw. In 1861, Melbourne participated in the Caledonian Society Challenge Cup, but lost the trophy to the Melbourne University Football Club...
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original breakaway of the VFL from the VFA in 1897, Port Melbourne's greatest rival was South Melbourne. Since the AFL reserves competition merged with...
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2000 AFL Grand Final (category Melbourne Football Club)
between the Essendon Football Club and the Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 2 September 2000 rather than in its...
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The 1896 Melbourne Cup was a two-mile handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 3 November 1896. Marius Sestier filmed the Melbourne Cup. The feature...
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Galtee More The Oaks – Limasol St. Leger Stakes – Galtee More Australia Melbourne Cup – Gaulus Canada Queen's Plate – Ferdinand Ireland Irish Grand National...
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of the Melbourne Cup. This is the list of placegetters for the 1898 Melbourne Cup. Horses portal Sports portal Australia portal Melbourne Cup List of...
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Acrasia (horse) (category Melbourne Cup winners)
Acrasia (foaled 1897) was an Australian racehorse that won the 1904 Melbourne Cup. Bred and owned by bookmaker Humphrey Oxenham, Acrasia finished fourth...
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The Bledisloe Cup is an annual rugby union competition between the national teams of Australia's Wallabies and New Zealand's All Blacks that has been...
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between the Sydney Swans and West Coast Eagles, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 2006. It was the 110th annual grand final...
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Carbine (horse) (category Melbourne Cup winners)
Hickenbotham, a prominent Melbourne-based horseman, trained him. Wallace and Hickenbotham planned to enter Carbine in the 1891 Melbourne Cup and other major events...
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suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The college was established in 1851 as The Melbourne Academy in a house in Spring Street, Melbourne, by the Free...
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clubs of the time such as Melbourne, University, Carlton or Geelong and as such was not invited to compete in the Challenge Cup. The club continued to develop...
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John Longmire (category North Melbourne Football Club players)
Trophy (North Melbourne): 1998 Pre-Season Cup (North Melbourne): 1998 Individual Coleman Medal: 1990 Syd Barker Medal (North Melbourne F.C. B&F): 1990...
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Melbourne Grammar School is an Australian private Anglican day and boarding school. It comprises a co-educational preparatory school from Prep to Year...
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1976 VFL grand final (category North Melbourne Football Club)
contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and North Melbourne Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 25 September 1976. It was the 79th annual...
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New South Wales Waratahs and ACT Brumbies. They were due to face the Melbourne Rebels in the week between the first and second tests, however the Rebels...
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