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Gold and Black was a New Zealand-bred racehorse which was ridden by Johnny Duggan to win the 1977 Melbourne Cup for the Cups King Bart Cummings.In 1976 Gold and Black won the Mackinnon Stakes and finished second to Van der Hum in the Melbourne Cup. In early 1977 Gold and Black fell seriously ill with travel fatigue and his life was briefly in danger but Cummings restored the horse to health for his spring campaign.