Conceived in Ireland and foaled in England, Makybe Diva won the Melbourne Cup three times, culminating in 2005 with a succession of triumphs for wins in the Australian Cup, BMW Stakes, Memsie Stakes, Turnbull Stakes, Cox Plate and record breaking third Melbourne Cup. Makybe Diva was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2006 and elevated to legend status in 2010.
Makybe Diva
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Flemington Racecourse. "You can stop watering the track now. Makybe Diva has retired." ...
Date: 2005
From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].
Reference: DCDL-0000364
Description: A member of the ground staff for the Flemington race course is flooding the track with water. Another staff member tells him that he can stop the flooding now as Makybe Diva has been retired. The reference is to the Melbourne cup that Makybe Diva has just won for the third time. She is now being retired. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
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"Makybe Diva wouldn't know the meaning of 'hard going'!" "Up to my withers in crooks & ...
Date: 2005
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)
Reference: DCDL-0000429
Description: The cartoon shows an image of President George Bush dressed as a cowboy and riding a horse up to its withers in muck. In the muck are the words 'Delay, Miers, Rove, Libby'. The president wonders if Makybe Diva, the horse that has just won the Melbourne Cup, would know the meaning of 'hard going' compared with the problems he himself is facing. Lewis Libby is Vice President Dick Cheney's former aide and Karl Rove is the President's top political adviser - they were both charged with leaking the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame. Harriet Miers is the President's personal attorney who he has appointed to the Supreme Court amid a lot of controversy. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).