Almanac Teams: Winning Melbourne Cup jockeys and their footy counterparts

 

 

 

 

 

It’s a while since I’ve done a novelty team. Well, what better time than the present?

 

We’ve recently had the race that stops the nation, so I thought about a team using the surnames of Melbourne Cup winning jockeys, linking them with their footballing equivalents. How’s this team look? They’d be odds on to beat their opponents.

 

The footballers are the first named, the jockeys who share the surnames are next up in brackets.

 

B:        Andy Preston (Teddy)    Bruce Morrison  (J)   Russell Cook (Peter)

HB:     Kevin Higgins (Roy)       Alex Duncan ( Bill)      Martin Pike (James)

C:        Patrick Cripps (Herbert) Greg Williams (Craig)   Clayton Oliver (Damien)

HF:      Brad Johnson (Jim)       Brown Jonathan  (Corey)   Bob Davis (S)

F:         Donald McDonald (James)  Lindsay White (Harry)   Henry Coles (Les)

Foll:     Ben McEvoy (Kerrin)  Denis Marshall (John) Touk Miller (John)

Inter:    Jeff Cassidy (Jimmy) Joe Sellwood (Neville) Phil Munro (Darby) Jim Shanahan (Albert)

Emergencies:        George Gough (Jim) John Robson (G) Nathan Foley (Fred)

 

Coach/Trainer:     Norm Smith (TJ)

 

 

Years these jockeys won the Melbourne Cup.

 

Corey Brown : 2009, 2017  It would be remiss not mentioning that T Brown won the Cup in 1878

 

Jimmy Cassidy: 1983, 1997

 

Les Coles: 1962

 

Peter Cook: 1981, 1984   Billy Cook won it in 1941, then 1945.

 

Herbert Cripps: 1893

 

S Davis: 1864. W Davis then won in 1866.

 

Bill Duncan: 1918, 1932

 

Jim Gough: 1881

 

Fred Foley: 1916

 

Roy Higgins: 1965,1967

 

Jim Johnson: 1963, 1968, 1969

 

John Marshall: 1999

 

James McDonald: 2021

 

Kerrin McEvoy: 2000, 2016, 2018

 

John Miller: 1966

 

J Morrison : 1869

 

Darby Munro: 1934, 1944, 1946. Just for good measures his brother James L Munro ride the winner in 1925, also 1928.

 

Damien Oliver: 1995, 2002, 2013

 

James Pike: 1930

 

Teddy Preston: 1939

 

G Robson: 1892

 

Neville Sellwood: 1951, 1955

 

Albert Shanahan: 1913, 1914

 

Harry White: 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979

 

Craig Williams: 2019

 

 

T J Smith twice trained winners of the Melbourne Cup, firstly in 1955, later on in 1981.

 

You’d have to say this team is a good bet. So to paraphrase, the old adage : I’m not encouraging you to gamble, I’m encouraging you to bet.

 

Glen!

 

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