From 1869 to 1936 the LKS Mackinnon Stakes was known as the Melbourne Stakes.

The LKS Mackinnon Stakes is a Victoria Racing Club

Victoria Racing Club

The Victoria Racing Club was founded in 1864. It was formed following the disbanding of the Victoria Turf Club and the Victoria Jockey Club. A legacy passed from the Victoria Turf Club was the annual “race that stops a nation”, the Melbourne Cup, which was first contested in 1861.From its...

 Group 1

Group races

Group races are the highest standard of Thoroughbred horseraces in Australia. The Australian Pattern Committee recommends to the Australian Racing Board which races shall be designated as Group races...

 2000 metre (mile and a quarter) Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

 horse race run under Weight for Age

Weight for Age

Weight for Age is a term in Thoroughbred horse racing which is one of the conditions for a race. It means that a horse will carry a set weight in accordance with the Weight for Age Scale. This weight varies depending on the horse’s age, its sex, the race distance and the month of the year...

 conditions. The race is held at Flemington Racecourse

Flemington Racecourse

Flemington Racecourse is a major horse racing venue located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is most notable for hosting the Melbourne Cup, which is Australia's richest horse race. The racecourse is situated on low alluvial flats, next to the Maribyrnong River...

 in Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 on the Saturday before the Melbourne Cup

Melbourne Cup

The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major Thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races...

. Many horses who have a ranking high enough to avoid the ballot for the Melbourne Cup use the race as a lead in to the 3,200 metres race on the first Tuesday in November (otherwise they race in the longer Lexus Stakes). Total prize money is A$1,000,000 and $2,500 trophy. The race is named after a former chairman of the VRC

VRC

VRC is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:*Vaccine Research Center*Vancouver Rowing Club, formed in 1886*Vertical redundancy check*Veteran Reserve Corps*Victoria Racing Club...

 L.K.S. Mackinnon.

The Mackinnon Stakes / Melbourne Cup Double in the same year has been done 16 times, the latest was Rogan Josh in 1999.

Winners

• 2011 : Glass Harmonium
• 2010 : So You Think
  So You Think
  So You Think is a New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse, now majority owned by Coolmore Stud of Ireland. So You Think came to prominence through winning the 2009 and 2010 Cox Plates, Australia's premier weight for age race. His second Cox Plate win came at just his tenth career start...
  
  
• 2009 : Scenic Shot
• 2008 : Theseo
• 2007 : Sirmione
• 2006 : Desert War
  Desert War (horse)
  Desert War was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse gelding that won six Group one races including the Epsom Handicap , Chipping Norton Stakes, LKS Mackinnon Stakes, AJC Queen Elizabeth Stakes and Ranvet Stakes....
  
  
• 2005 : Lad Of The Manor
• 2004 : Grand Armee
  Grand Armee (horse)
  Grand Armee was a middle distance Australian Thoroughbred racehorse. He was a brown gelding bred by Newhaven Park Stud, New South Wales. Grand Armee was by Hennessy , his dam Tambour won $132,200 and was by Marauding . He was trained by Gai Waterhouse.Grand Armee's biggest win was in the 2003...
  
  
• 2003 : Casual Pass
• 2002 : Lonhro
  Lonhro
  Lonhro was a champion Australian racehorse who is now standing at stud. Nicknamed "The Black Flash", Lonhro was from the first crop of the champion Octagonal out of the Group One-placed Shadea , who also produced the Group One winner Niello...
  
  
• 2001 : La Bella Dama
• 2000 : Oliver Twist
• 1999 : Rogan Josh
  Rogan Josh (horse)
  Rogan Josh is an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, who won the 1999 Melbourne Cup when ridden by John Marshall for the trainer Bart Cummings.Rogan Josh was purchased for $13,000 by owner Wendy Green and began his racing career in Western Australia...
  
  
• 1998 : Champagne
• 1997 : Ebony Grosve
• 1996 : All Our Mob
  All our mob
  All Our Mob was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who was a four-time Group One winner. He was by What A Guest out of All Sold . All Our Mob, who had always shown plenty of speed but a tendency to wilt over the closing stages, blossomed in the latter half of his four-year-old season, in the...
  
  
• 1995 : Danewin
• 1994 : Paris Lane
• 1993 : The Phantom
  The Phantom (horse)
  The Phantom was a Group One winning New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse who made several trips to Australia, and completed a remarkable comeback later in his career. From three to five, The Phantom's highlights included wins in the Memsie and the Underwood Stakes, and he was third in the 1989...
  
  
• 1992 : Veandercross
  Veandercross
  Veandercross was a New Zealand bred Thoroughbred gelding who won 14 stakes races, , and was chosen Australian Champion Racehorse of the Year for the 1992/93 season....
  
  
• 1991 : Let's Elope
  Let's Elope
  Let's Elope is a Champion Thoroughbred racehorse in Australia.Bred by Highview Stud in Hamilton, New Zealand, Let's Elope was a giant chestnut mare who in 1991 became the first mare in more than 50 years to complete Australia's famed Caulfield Cup - Melbourne Cup double...
  
  
• 1990 : Better Loosen Up
  Better Loosen Up
  Better Loosen Up was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Japan Cup in 1990 and was named Australia's champion racehorse in 1991. He campaigned from two to seven years of age, and won 17 of his 45 starts, including eight Group One races...
  
  
• 1989 : Horlicks
  Horlicks (horse)
  Horlicks was an outstanding Thoroughbred racemare from New Zealand. She won the internationally-contested 1989 Japan Cup in a world record time of 2:22 for 2,400 metres - a remarkable feat given that many of the world's classic races, such the Belmont Stakes, are run over this distance...
  
  
• 1988 : Empire Rose
  Empire Rose
  Empire Rose was one of the most popular Thoroughbred mares to race in New Zealand and Australia. She was a gigantic chestnut, only just fitting into the barrier stalls in Melbourne....
  
  
• 1987 : Rubiton
  Rubiton
  Rubiton was a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse of the mid-1980s.He was bred by the Oamaru Stud in Victoria...
  
  
• 1986 : At Talaq
• 1985 : Rising Prince
• 1984 : Bounty Hawk
• 1983 : Veloso
• 1982 : My Axeman
• 1981 : Belmura Lad
• 1980 : Belmura Lad
• 1979 : Dulcify
  Dulcify
  Dulcify was an New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse. His British-bred sire was the 1970 Irish 2,000 Guineas winner, Decies, a grandson of Pharis, the very important French sire whom Thoroughbred Heritage says is considered one of the greatest French-bred runners of the century...
  
  
• 1978 : Family Of Man
• 1977 : Sir Silver Lad
  Silver Lad
  Silver Lad was a Thoroughbred racehorse and sire who won the New Zealand Derby in 1976. In Australia he was known as Sir Silver Lad to differentiate him from another Silver Lad....
  
   (NZ)
• 1976 : Gold And Black
• 1975 : Kiwi Can
• 1974 : Leilani
  Leilani (horse)
  Leilani was a champion Thoroughbred racemare that was bred in New Zealand and raced in Australia. She won six Group One races and a total of 12 black type equivalent races, during her short racing career...
  
  
• 1973 : Australasia
• 1972 : Stormy Seas
• 1971 : Skint Dip
• 1970 : Voleur
• 1969 : Roman Consul
• 1968 : Rain Lover
  Rain Lover
  Rain Lover was a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse. He was one of the very few horses to win the Melbourne Cup more than once. Rain Lover was sired by the good racehorse, Latin Lover his dam Rain Spot was by Valognes .He was owned and bred by Clifford A. Reid, who won the 1945 Melbourne...
  
  
• 1967 : Winfreux
• 1966 : Tobin Bronze
  Tobin Bronze
  Tobin Bronze was an Australian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse who competed with great success during the 1960's.A chestnut son of Arctic Explorer from the Masthead mare Amarco he proved to be a crowd favourite due to his stunning good looks and winning 24 of his 44 Australian race starts.His...
  
  
• 1965 : Yangtze
• 1964 : Sir Dane
• 1963 : Summer Fair

• 1962 : Aquanita
• 1961 : Sky High
  Sky High (horse)
  Sky High was an outstanding Australian Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Some of his major race victories include the 1960 STC Golden Slipper Stakes, 1960 VRC Derby, 1961 and 1962 VRC Lightning Stakes and the 1961 AJC Epsom Handicap.-Breeding:...
  
  
• 1960 : Tulloch
  Tulloch (horse)
  Tulloch was a Thoroughbred racehorse, who is regarded as one of the three finest racehorses in Australian racing history...
  
  
• 1959 : Trellios
• 1958 : Monte Carlo
• 1957 : Sailor's Guide
  Sailor's Guide
  Sailor's Guide was an outstanding Thoroughbred racehorse that was conceived in England and foaled in Australia. He is notable in that he won races in the United States, Canada, and a number of principal Australian races, and was a high stakes earner....
  
  
• 1956 : Sir William
• 1955 : Rising Fast
  Rising Fast
  Rising Fast was an outstanding New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse. In 1954 he became the only horse in history to win the Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate races in the same season - the Spring Grand Slam - and since that time no Melbourne Cup winner has performed such a feat...
  
  
• 1954 : Rising Fast
  Rising Fast
  Rising Fast was an outstanding New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse. In 1954 he became the only horse in history to win the Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate races in the same season - the Spring Grand Slam - and since that time no Melbourne Cup winner has performed such a feat...
  
  
• 1953 : Hydrogen
• 1952 : Dalray
• 1951 : Delta
• 1950 : Comic Court
  Comic Court
  Comic Court was a most versatile post-war Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse who set race records at distances of 6 furlongs and 2 miles...
  
  
• 1949 : Comic Court
  Comic Court
  Comic Court was a most versatile post-war Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse who set race records at distances of 6 furlongs and 2 miles...
  
  
• 1948 : Snowstream
• 1947 : Don Pedro
• 1946 : Flight
  Flight (horse)
  Flight was an Australian Thoroughbred racemare that was the highest stakes winning mare in Australasia. Her courageous efforts made her a crowd favourite during the post World War II era and she had victories over some of the great horses of the time including Shannon, Bernborough, Royal Gem and...
  
  
• 1945 : Tranquil Star
• 1944 : Tranquil Star
• 1943 : Amana
• 1942 : Tranquil Star
• 1941 : Beau Vite
• 1940 : Beau Vite
• 1939 : Ortelle's Star
• 1938 : Ajax
• 1937 : The Trump
  The Trump (horse)
  The Trump was an Australian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double as well as two other principal races in 1937. He showed his versatility by winning races over distances of six furlongs to two miles...
  
  
• 1936 : Gay Blonde
• 1935 : Sylvandale
• 1934 : Peter Pan
  Peter Pan III
  Peter Pan was a chestnut Australian Thoroughbred stallion by Pantheon out of Alwina by St Alwyne . He was foaled at the Baroona Stud north of Sydney Australia in 1929. His sire, Pantheon was an outstanding racehorse winning 10 races from 44 starts in England and Australia...
  
  
• 1933 : Rogilla
  Rogilla
  Rogilla, was a chestnut Australian Thoroughbred gelding, who was a versatile racehorse performing in Australia. Known as the Coalfields Champion in Newcastle, Rogilla raced during a vintage era of the Australian turf. He won in each of the six seasons that he raced as a three-year-old to a...
  
  
• 1932 : Peter Pan
  Peter Pan III
  Peter Pan was a chestnut Australian Thoroughbred stallion by Pantheon out of Alwina by St Alwyne . He was foaled at the Baroona Stud north of Sydney Australia in 1929. His sire, Pantheon was an outstanding racehorse winning 10 races from 44 starts in England and Australia...
  
  
• 1931 : Phar Lap
  Phar Lap
  Phar Lap was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse whose achievements captured the public's imagination during the early years of the Great Depression. Foaled in New Zealand, he was trained and raced in Australia. Phar Lap dominated Australian racing during a distinguished career, winning a Melbourne...
  
  
• 1930 : Phar Lap
  Phar Lap
  Phar Lap was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse whose achievements captured the public's imagination during the early years of the Great Depression. Foaled in New Zealand, he was trained and raced in Australia. Phar Lap dominated Australian racing during a distinguished career, winning a Melbourne...
  
  
• 1929 : High Syce
• 1928 : Gothic
• 1927 : Silvius
• 1926 : Manfred
• 1925 : Pilliewinkie
• 1924 : Gloaming
  Gloaming (horse)
  Gloaming was an outstanding Thoroughbred racehorse, owned, trained, and based in New Zealand. He set many records which includes the Australasian record of 19 successive wins, many in Principal Races. Gloaming was unusual that he was a champion who won many major races in both Australia and New...
  
  
• 1923 : Rivoli
• 1922 : Harvest King
• 1921 : Eurythmic
  Eurythmic (horse)
  Eurythmic was a versatile Australian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who had the ability to produce a brilliant finishing run in staying races and he also won important sprint races, too. At four he won 12 of his 13 starts including the Caulfield Cup and Sydney Cup. When Eurythmic finished racing he...
  
  
• 1920 : Eurythmic
  Eurythmic (horse)
  Eurythmic was a versatile Australian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who had the ability to produce a brilliant finishing run in staying races and he also won important sprint races, too. At four he won 12 of his 13 starts including the Caulfield Cup and Sydney Cup. When Eurythmic finished racing he...
  
  
• 1919 : Cetigne
• 1918 : Magpie
• 1917 : Cetigne
• 1916 : Lavendo
• 1915 : Traquette

• 1914 : St. Carwyne
• 1913 : Anna Carlovna
• 1912 : Duke Foote
• 1911 : Trafalgar
• 1910 : Son Of The Marsh
• 1909 : Alawa
• 1908 : Peru
• 1907 : Poseidon
  Poseidon (horse)
  Poseidon was an Australian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse. He won 19 races over distances ranging from five furlongs to three miles...
  
  
• 1906 : Solution
• 1905 : Tartan
• 1904 : Gladsome
• 1903 : Wakeful
• 1902 : Wakeful
• 1901 : Wakeful
• 1900 : Lancaster
• 1899 : Mora
• 1898 : Battalion
• 1897 : Battalion
• 1896 : Disfigured
• 1895 : Hova
• 1894 : Ruenalf
• 1893 : Loyalty
• 1892 : Autonomy
• 1891 : Marvel
• 1890 : Carbine
  Carbine (horse)
  Carbine , was an outstanding New Zealand bred Thoroughbred racehorse, who competed in New Zealand and later Australia. During his racing career he won 30 stakes or principal races...
  
  
• 1889 : Abercorn
• 1888 : The Australian Peer
• 1887 : Silver Mine
• 1886 : Isonomy
• 1885 : Trenton
• 1884 : Malua
  Malua (horse)
  Malua was the most versatile Australian Thoroughbred racehorse in history. Malua won over distances ranging from 5½ furlongs to 3¼ miles .-Breeding:He was a son of St. Albans from Edella by Peter Wilkins...
  
  
• 1883 : Commotion
• 1882 : Darebin
• 1881 : Wheatear
• 1880 : Chester
  Chester (horse)
  Chester was a good Australian Thoroughbred racehorse and a leading sire. He defeated some of the best horses in training over distances ranging from five furlongs to three miles. He was the Leading sire in Australia on four occasions.-Breeding:...
  
  
• 1879 : First King
• 1878 : Chester
• 1877 : Robinson Crusoe
• 1876 : Rapid Bay
• 1875 : Kingsborough
• 1874 : Dagworth
• 1873 : Dagworth
• 1872 : Contessa
• 1871 : Warrior
• 1870 : Tim Whiffler
• 1869 : Glencoe
  Glencoe II
  Glencoe was a notable Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1868 Melbourne Cup and eight other principal races.-Pedigree:...