The 1929 Melbourne Cup was a two-mile handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 5 November 1929.
[1] This year's Melbourne Cup was best remembered for Phar Lap who had won the Australian Derby and Victoria Derby carrying 47 kg.
The three-year-old refused to settle under Bobby Lewis and only ran third behind fellow Night Raid-sired horse, Nightmarch, which also won the Epsom Handicap.
Nightmarch became the first horse to win the Cup and the W. S. Cox Plate in the same year.
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