Lantern (horse)

In the Melbourne Cup Lantern, ridden by Samuel Pope Davis, started at odds of 15/1 and won in a time of 3 minutes 52 seconds, the slowest ever recorded for the race.^[1][2]

His owner also entered the colt into the Victoria Derby the following day, while on the third day of the meeting, Lantern competed in a mile race. He won both races.^[3]

Later the same month, in the Ballarat Derby on the first day of the Ballarat Turf Club Spring Meeting, Lantern beat Gwendoline in a two-horse race.^[4] The following day Lantern started in the Ballarat Cup as favourite but was injured near the finish and was pulled up.^[5]

On 12 December 1864 it was reported that Lantern had died two days earlier. A post mortem found the cause of death to be a ruptured kidney and damaged stifle.^[6]