The 1983 Melbourne Cup was a two-mile handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 1 November 1983. The race, run over , at Flemington Racecourse.
The race was won by Kiwi who came from a seemingly unwinnable position at the 400 meter mark to hit the front with 50 meters to go and beating Noble Comment by a length and three quarters Earlier in the same year he won the Wellington Cup becoming the only horse to win the Melbourne and Wellington Cup in the same year.
Field
This is a list of horses which ran in the 1983 Melbourne Cup.
PlaceHorseTrainerJockey1stKiwiEwen S. LuptonJim Cassidy2ndNoble Comment George HanlonRobert Heffernan3rdMr. JazzBart CummingsJohn Marshall 4thNo Peer Bart CummingsJ Miller5thVelosoM G HarnesPeter Cook6thChiamare Tommy SmithMick Dittman7thFountaincourtC PfefferieNoel Harris 8thHussar's Command E B Murrary W Treloar9thChagemarGeoff MurphyDarren Gauci10thNostradamusGraeme RogersonB Clements 11thTriumphal MarchPeter HayesBrent Thomson12thToujours MioJ P CourtneyR Dawkins13thChez NousColin HayesMichael Clarke14thMachtvogelE W LaingP Jarman15thHayaiJ R LeeN Voigt16thJust a DashTommy SmithHarry White17thNoble HeightsN BeggRon Quinton18thHome MaidPaul PerryBrian Andrews 19thMervon BoyR ArmstrongBob Skelton20thBianco LadyColin HayesGreg Hall21stLa Cocotte Tony LopesP Alderman22ndEnglish WonderJohn HawkinsP Shepherd23rdCombatTommy SmithC Dinn24thAmarantGeorge HanlonJohn Letts
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