How many Melbourne Cups have Tony and Calvin McEvoy won?

Father-and-son training duo Tony and Calvin McEvoy are well placed to add to their impressive Group 1 winning record on Tuesday in the 2025 Melbourne Cup, as they will saddle up 2025 Caulfield Cup winner Half Yours in the race.

Tony McEvoy has a long history in Australian horse racing as a trainer, and this year’s Caulfield Cup win was his 17th Group 1 win. Remarkably, Tony and Calvin have now won seven Group 1 races as a training partnership after joining forces in 2019.

Half Yours’ Caulfield Cup win was “Team McEvoy’s” first Group 1 win in Melbourne and offers an opportunity for the modestly bred five-year-old gelding to become just the 13th horse in history to win the two Victorian majors.

Without A Fight won the double in 2023, but you have to go right back to Ethereal’s 2001 Cups double to find another horse good enough to claim both races.

A win in Australia’s greatest race on Tuesday has been a personal dream of McEvoy Snr’s ever since he gave up a 100-race career as a jockey to work under the supervision of champion trainer C.S. Hayes at Lindsay Park.

After Colin Hayes’ passing, Tony McEvoy accepted a training partner with Hayes’ eldest son Peter, but McEvoy was soon “thrown in the deep end” when tragedy struck and Peter Hayes was killed in a light plane crash.<br><br>Testimony to Tony McEvoy’s training ability, he flourished in the role, and just like his mentor, McEvoy Snr was admitted to the South Australian Racing Hall Of Fame in August of this year.</p>

<p>There is no doubt that there are elements of similarity between the tutelage of Tony McEvoy under C.S. Hayes and Tony’s partnership with son Calvin.<br><br>At Flemington on Tuesday, “Team McEvoy” will be seeking out their eighth Group 1 win under the partnership in just six years, but their is a sense of destiny about their rapidly increasing success.

Should 20-25 Melbourne Cup race favourite Half Yours make history and become the 13th horse to win the elusive double, it will cement all three in the record books, along with jockey Jamie Melham.</p>

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How many Melbourne Cups have Tony and Calvin McEvoy won?

Team McEvoy have never won the Melbourne Cup, due in large part to never having had a prior starter in the race since forming the training partnership in 2019.

Despite his formidable training career and being head trainer of Lindsay Park from 2001 to 2005, Tony McEvoy has only had two previous Melbourne Cup runners, and you have to go all the way back to the 2002 and 2004 versions of the race to find them.

In 2002, Danzadash finished last behind winner Cross Current, and in 2004, Miss Rogers finished fifth behind La Vie En Rose.

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Which horse is Tony and Calvin McEvoy starting in the 2025 Melbourne Cup?

Team McEvoy will start the race favourite Half Yours in the 2025 Melbourne Cup .

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2025 Melbourne Cup Field