central park came second to rogan josh in the 1999 melbourne cup.
which horse came second to rogan josh in the 1999 melbourne cup?
central park
once rogan josh was assured of a start in the melbourne cup, bart cummings entered him to run in the group 1 mackinnon stakes on victoria derby as his final lead-up race. john marshall was chosen to ride him and rogan josh caused an upset by winning the mackinnon at odds of 12/1 and producing a career high rating of 115 and equaling the race record (2:00.3) which was set by horlicks in the 1989 mackinnon stakes. after his mackinnon win rogan josh became 6/1 second favourite for the melbourne cup and finished strongly to beat the goldolphin trained central park and win the group 1 melbourne cup three days later. the win was cummings's 11th melbourne cup. rogan josh only had one more start in australia: a 3rd in the sandown classic 11 days after the melbourne cup before finishing a brave fourth in the hong kong vase at sha tin (group 1 2400m wfa) in december 1999, and it was in this race that he produced a career high rating of 119 for his effort in the hong kong vase. he was then retired after breaking down during training in the autumn of 2000 and is only the third western australian horse to win the melbourne cup with blue spec (1905) and black knight (1984) being the other wa melbourne cup winners. of his 38 career starts he had 19 starts at group/listed level for five wins, two seconds and two thirds.
rogan josh (horse)
set for the perth carnival he was second in the group 2 c b cox stakes at 2400 metres weight-for-age before finishing second to king of saxony in the group 2 perth cup at 3200 metres. colin webster had a strong belief that rogan josh was good enough to run in the melbourne cup because of his ability to run 3200 metres. after a brief three start autumn campaign which included a second in the 1999 bunbury cup (the race he won the year before), rogan josh was then transferred to bart cummings and a tilt at the 1999 melbourne cup. cummings liked the fact that rogan josh was lightly raced even though he was now a seven-year-old.
rogan josh (horse)