Makybe Diva

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Makybe Diva is a Thoroughbred racing horse trained by Britain, trained in Australia who became the first horse to win the Melbourne Cup on three successive occasions (2003, 2004, and 2005). In 2005, he also won the Cox Plate. Makybe Diva is the highest earner in Australian horse racing history, ending with a victory of over A $ 14 million after retiring in November 2005. He is one of only five horses that won the Cup more than once, and the only horse amongst list some winners. He was also one of only 14 mares (11 mares and three others) who won the Cup.

He is by Desert King (Irish Derby winner and Irish 2,000 Guineas) from Tugela by Riverman (USA). Tugela is also an Australian winning basket winner, Musket and Valkyrie Diva. Makybe Diva is owned by South Australian tuna fisherman Tony? Anti ?, who named him after five of his employees - Maureen, Kylie, Belinda, Diane, and Vanessa - by taking the first two letters of each of their names.

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Before race

Tony's blood-blooding agent John Foote bought Tugela with foals to the Desert King for 60,000 guineas in Sale Tattersall in December 1998. As was the case with Santic horse purchased by the Englishman, he was taken to Dick Fowlston's Britton House Stud in Somerset for sent before being sent to Australia. Tugela gave birth to a foal at five minutes past midnight on March 21, 1999. The foal was offered for sale on horse sales of Tatts Newmarket in 1999, but did not back up. Named Makybe Diva, the foal remained at Britton House Stud until August 2000, when he and Tugela were sent to Australia.

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Season 2002-2003

Originally trained by David Hall, Makybe Diva made his racetrack debut in late July 2002, at the age of three, at a girl in Benalla, Victoria, and fourth. At the next start, two weeks later - and now classified as a four-year-old player - Makybe Diva started the winning sequence of six races at a girl in Wangaratta, culminating in betting wins, three months later, in the Werribee Cup (2,000 m) and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2,500 m). The last win was significant because it qualified the horse for the Melbourne Cup the following year, and allowed his coach to give him a lightweight fall campaign, consisting of only two starts in a relatively short race.

Makybe Diva's early career was unusual because he could not follow a big race against his age horses, like Oaks, because he stumbled across the United States to the northern hemisphere cultivation calendar. This means that, for the purpose of Australian racing, where horses "aged" on August 1 of each year, he was confined with horses sucked about six months earlier, in the Southern Hemisphere spring.

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The 2004-2005 season (Melbourne Cup 2)

His campaign in spring 2004 was aimed at winning the Melbourne Cup for the second time. This follows the pattern of the previous cup winning campaign, though he looks better than ever. The second in Group 2 John F Feehan The bet of more than 1,600 m (5,200 ft) in the Moonee Valley shows its competitiveness in the shorter races. At the 2004 Caulfield Cup, Makybe Diva pulled the 18th barrier and settled in the back of the field. He was defeated by Elvstroem, who led all the way.

Makybe Diva sent out $ 3.60 favorites, and won the 2004 Melbourne Cup. In riding the horse, the horse defeated a field featuring several Irish St. winners. Leger, Vinnie Roe, Caulfield Cup winners, Mummify and Elvstroem, Mamool from Godolphin's cage, and winner of the 2002 Bowling Media Melbourne Cup.

Continuing the race in February, Makybe Diva completed very close behind Elvstroem both at C F Orr Stakes and St George Stakes, at Caulfield. On March 12, he won the Australian Cup, weighing more than 2,000m (6,600ft), and was in the process of breaking the Australian record and setting an unofficial world record for 2000m on the grass. He went on to win the most important Sydney WFA race, BMW Stakes, with the last blast up to first. In April and May, he raced in Japan, where he failed in two starts, the latter being over 3,200 m (10,500 ft) in Group One Tenno Sho (The Emperor's Cup).

Makybe Diva was named the Australian Champion Racehorse of the Year for the 2004/05 season. Along with this, he is also named Australian Champion Stayer and Australian Champion Filly and Mare. A three-quarters brother for Makybe Diva, by Redoute Choice, was sold in April 2005 for an Australian record price of $ 2.5 million. Furthermore, named Musket, the foal won its debut at Canterbury in August 2006, and in 2008 won Gr.2 Shannon Stakes at Rosehill.