shipping: + au $4.00 shipping .rare / vintage sterling silver trotting brooch. Makybe Diva: Champion Thoroughbred & 3 time Melbourne Cup Winner Makybe Diva's story begins in England, where she was born 21 March 1999. Everyone loves their animals or whatever, but she is something out of the box.”Santic said there was a sense that Makybe Diva’s third Cup win was “just meant to be ... when she hit the front, you just heard the crowd go crazy, and it just gave me goosebumps.”Santic and trainer Lee Freedman feared briefly after her stunning Cox Plate win that she may have come to the end of her campaign.“Things weren’t right,” he said. The seven-year-old pulled clear in the closing stages to take an emphatic win ahead of On A Jeune and Xcellent. "What a great mare - she's just unbelievable. Sorry we couldn't find a match for that, please try again In the 2004 Caulfield Cup, Makybe Diva drew barrier 18 and settled at the back of the field. So I tried to put it into some sort of historical perspective.“I don’t know of too many horses who made the front page of a major city daily (newspaper) as she did on the morning of her third Melbourne Cup. Prior to the Melbourne Cup, whether Makybe Diva would start was in doubt, after her connections said she would not run if the track was "too firm". makybe diva 2005 melbourne cup champion racing cover 1. au $6.00. "This one was for you, the people," said Santic.The people backed the mare and kept her a firm favourite even as a majority of racing experts swayed by history, perhaps, or the 58 kilos she had to carry, preferred others.The people stood and cheered her back to the mounting yard after the greatest Melbourne Cup win of them all. The expectation of a nation rested uneasily with the mare’s owner. "No one was going to stop her," said Santic. You walk into a pub and a bloke will say “where is that young kid now?’’The 59-year-old described Makybe Diva as a total professional, “beige in her nature ... people had her as this exciting mare, but around the stables and in her training, she was no fuss.
But the people, Makybe Diva's people, had found their voices after holding their breath.
Lee Freedman was trying to comprehend what he'd just witnessed. Strapper Christine Mitchell held the mare's head; kept her calm.Immediately after the cup, Mitchell was crying. The 2005 Melbourne Cup was held on Tuesday, 1 November 2005. I still get it quoted to me. Copyright © 2010 - Other kids were on shoulders, craning for a look. So I respected his opinion, and when he gave it the thumbs up, that was all I needed to hear.”GLEN Boss hasn’t seen Makybe Diva for a number of years, but he still lives with her every day.Anyone he speaks to, whether they know anything about racing or not, naturally associates him with her. Invalid postcode. It followed the pattern of her previous cup-winning campaign, though she appeared to be racing better than before. He not only owned the country’s most famous horse, he could also lay claim to one of the most recognisable mullets in Australia.Glen Boss was seeking to allay Santic’s anxieties in a chat that still gives him goosebumps now, 10 years on.

But once again Makybe Diva took home first place in the race that stops a nation in 2004. Previous Winners Detailed Cup Results. It was all her. Date/Track: Not so this time. To see that plain-looking skinny mare develop into what she became was amazing.”Boss, 46, is articulate and generous with his time, knowing his part in the Makybe Diva story has not only played an enormous part in his life, but that the public feels a certain ownership as well.He can’t remember the last time he spoke to Santic. The mighty mare had come through. It wasn’t until five days later that Lee said to Glen to come down and give her a bit of a gallop because she had put on a lot of weight and she was back to her normal self.”Santic immediately decided to retire the mare following her 2005 Cup victory.IT’S one of the most famous quotes in the century-and-a-half of the Melbourne Cup, and Lee Freedman settled on it the night before Makybe Diva raced into history.Freedman spent Cup Eve crafting what he might say if she won, as he expected. To win two is a dream. She was narrowly defeated by Elvstroem, who led all the way. He felt like a kid on the night before Christmas — expectant and eager for the hours to pass as quickly as he knew his horse would run the next day.Boss recalled: “I put my hand on (Santic’s) shoulder and said ‘Do you know what Tony, I feel like we are on a runaway locomotive right now’.“I said, ‘Mate, it can’t be stopped. MAKYBE is the breeding ground of premier racehorse champions, and the home of three-time Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva.

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