SISTER OLIVE HER INFLUENCE CONTINUES

Sister Olive is one of only two Melbourne Cup winning mares to have produced two stakes winners. In the case of Sister Olive, she produced a daughter called Mount Of Olives by Lucknow who won the 1928 South Australian Derby and a son called Manolive by Manfred who won four stakes races in the 1937 Perth Cup, the 1938 Williamstown Cup and Eclipse Stakes and 1939 CF Orr Stakes.

Manolive started at 100/1 and finished 11th in the 1938 Melbourne Cup and had finished 12th behind Buzalong in the Caulfield Cup. He cemented a unique place in history by winning the Final Handicap, the last race of the Flemington carnival on