Here's Rising Fast going after him at every stride, Pandie Star behind them and then coming home well Commodore.
Rising Fast has hit the front from Gay Helios at the furlong post, Hellion coming from the clouds on the outside, Rising Fast is too far in front however and in the run to the post Rising Fast going to win the Melbourne Cup by two lengths from Hellion!
The 1954 Melbourne Cup was a two-mile handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 2 November 1954.
[2] Behind him was 7/1 shot Hellion by 1 1/4 lengths and 200/1 outsider Gay Helios.
[1] The race is also noteworthy because the great racecaller Bill Collins called his first Melbourne Cup.