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Rising Fast - race horse - Melbourne Cup winner

Rising Fast race horse melbourne Cup winnerLord Fury was foaled in 1949 and was by Alonzo out of the mare Faster (by Mr Standfast)

In his illustrious career he started 68 times for 24 wins, 17 seconds and 2 thirds. As well as his Melbourne Cup, he won 17 other stakes races, mostly Group 1, including two Caulfield Cups and a Cox Plate for a prize money haul of £66,765.

He also won the Mackinnon Stakes in 1954 and 1955, the Turnbull Stakes, Queen Elizabeth Stakes (twice), Blamey Stakes, CF Orr Stakes, John Feehan Handicap and Caulfield Stakes.

Rising Fast is in both the New Zealand Hall of Fame and Australian Hall of Fame.

When Rising Fast retired, the Moonee Valley Racing Club held a special farewell for the champion, who strode up the straight with a garland of flowers around his neck, while the band played "The Maori Farewell."

 

 

 

 

 

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