The 1965 Melbourne Cup was a two-mile handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 2 November 1965. The race, run over , at Flemington Racecourse.
The race won by Light Fingers, trained by Bart Cummings who won the first of what would end up being a record 12 Melbourne Cups. Ziema ran second also trained by Cummings making it the first of five times he trained the quinella.
Field
This is a list of horses which ran in the 1965 Melbourne Cup.
PlaceHorseTrainerJockey1stLight FingersBart CummingsRoy Higgins2ndZiemaBart CummingsJohn Miller3rdMidlanderBob HoystedN Pyatt4thYangtzeR DiniH White5thPrince GrantTommy J. SmithG Podmore6thPrince CamilloR FisherG Gumblestone7thRed WillamOwen LynchR Mallyon8thTobin BronzeH G HeagneyJ Stocker9thCraftsmanAndy WhiteP Hyland10thTasman LadH H RileyD Cameron11thMissionJ F QuigleyN Eastwood12thRosicombeG AlessioF Blackburn13thSir WynyardA G SmithA Lister14thPleasantonGeorge HanlonW A Smith15thJovial KnightH G HeagneyN Miffin16thStraussJ GreenD Lake17thSail AwayS A BrownBill Skelton18thThe DipBart CummingsF Reys19thHunting HornL J PetersonA May20thDalentoJack BesankoI Saunders 21stZinga LeeW J McNabbB Gilders22ndPiper's SonM F AndersonG Moore23rdAlagonGeorge HanlonR SelkrigFellBore HeadR DillonF ClarkeFellMatlockGeorge HanlonJ JohnsonFellRiver SeineR PrendergastR Hawkins Attendance Jean Shrimpton and her then boyfriend Terence Stamp made a highly publicised visit to the Cup at a time when foreign celebrities were not common in Australia. References