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Silverstream School; Sophie Noyes, year 4 and Mesake Simone, year 5; 2015 Emirates Melbourne Cup.
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DescriptionPrinted in colour in the 'Leader' on July 29, 2015.
A cup was made of 18-carat gold each year, and cost $NZ195 000.
It was brought to the school by cup manager Joe McGrath, with ex-jockey Larry Olsen, who had won on Kensei in 1987.
They gave a talk on the race's 154-year history.
The 'Leader' named Sophie as Nays; I happened to hear a city librarian say that it had been wrong, and offered to save a corrected version in "Recollect'. The children further back e were not named
Don McLeod.
Date TakenJuly 2015
A cup was made of 18-carat gold each year, and cost $NZ195 000.
It was brought to the school by cup manager Joe McGrath, with ex-jockey Larry Olsen, who had won on Kensei in 1987.
They gave a talk on the race's 154-year history.
The 'Leader' named Sophie as Nays; I happened to hear a city librarian say that it had been wrong, and offered to save a corrected version in "Recollect'. The children further back e were not named
Don McLeod.
Date TakenJuly 2015About the original
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Silverstream School; Sophie Noyes, year 4 and Mesake Simone, year 5; 2015 Emirates Melbourne Cup.. Upper Hutt Libraries, accessed 24/08/2026, https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/24126