Rain Lover (1964-1989) was a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse best remembered for his back-to-back wins in the 1968 and 1969 VRC Melbourne Cup.
[1][2] He was owned and bred by Clifford A. Reid, who won the 1945 Melbourne Cup with Rainbird.
[1] Controversy surrounded his second win as the hot favourite and heavily backed Big Philou trained by Bart Cummings was the victim of a doping scandal and was withdrawn from the race 39 minutes before the start.
Rain Lover still went on to win the race in game fashion by a neck from Alsop and created history as the first back-to-back winner since Archer in 1861 and 1862.
Retired to stud in 1970, Rain Lover enjoyed moderate success as a sire before his death in 1989.