The 1977 Melbourne Cup was a handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 1 November 1977 over 3200m, at Flemington Racecourse.
The race was won by the New Zealand bred gelding Gold and Black, trained by Bart Cummings and ridden by John Duggan.
Bart bought the horse in New Zealand for $4,000 for Jack and Mary Harris from Adelaide and brought in Hugh and Gloria Gage from Sydney as partners.
Gold and Black had won the 1976 Mackinnon Stakes and placed second to Van der Hum in the 1976 Melbourne Cup.
[3][4] It was third time lucky for jockey John Duggan who had been runner up in the 1975 and 1976 Cups on Holiday Waggon and Gold and Black respectively.