(Brad Bishop writes on Australian thoroughbred and harness racing.)

It's hard to find two more diametrically opposed events on the Australian racing calendar than the Melbourne Cup and Golden Slipper - the Cup a 3200-metre handicap for tough, experienced stayers; the Slipper a set-weights six-furlong scamper for precocious two-year-olds.

Horses advanced enough for the hustle and bustle of a Golden Slipper rarely have what it takes to get two miles later in their career.

Those fast enough to win the Slipper certainly aren't expected to be strong enough to match it with horses bred to staying bloodlines that are maturing in the spelling paddock when the early two-year-olds races are being run.

But it has been done before. Sky High contested the 1961 Melbourne Cup, 18 months after winning the Golden Slipper.

He finished down the track behind Lord Fury, but making it to the starting stalls on the first Tuesday in November was a feat unmatched by any of the other 53 Golden Slipper champions.

On Sunday, Sky High's achievements will be recognised when he assumes a place alongside equine immortals including Phar Lap, Carbine, Tulloch, Kingston Town and Makybe Diva in the Australian Racing Hall of Fame.

Not only is Sky High the only Slipper winner to run in a Melbourne Cup, he is the only Slipper winner to have taken out the Victoria Derby.

But they were just two of the feature victories by the younger brother to another Golden Slipper champion, Skyline.

He might have failed in the Melbourne Cup, but 1961 will hardly go down as a disappointment with the Lightning, Futurity, All Aged, Caulfield (now Yalumba) and Mackinnon Stakes among his top-level wins, plus an Epsom Handicap.

He won both the Lightning and Caulfield Stakes again in 1962, along with the Rawson (now Ranvet) and Chipping Norton Stakes and returned to win the Rawson Stakes again in 1963.

The were among 29 wins from 55 starts for the Jack Green-trained stallion who also logged 19 minor placings.

It's a record that will see him share the spotlight with Western Australian warrior Northerly as this year's Racing Hall of Fame inductees.

Fred Kersley's son of Serheed proved himself adept under both weight-for-age or handicap conditions and his prizemoney tally of $9,341,850 remains the most by a male Australian horse.

Back-to-back Cox Plates (2001/02) and the 2002 Caulfield Cup attribute for much of his booty, but he also counts the 2000 and 2002 Australian Cups, two Underwood Stakes, a Yalumba and Railway Stakes among his 19 wins from 37 starts.

Two trainers and two jockeys will also be formally inducted on Sunday night.

Queensland legend Jim "JJ" Atkins, who sadly died less than a month before his induction, will be welcomed into the trainers' category along with another Sunshine Stater, Harry Plant, the man who put the polish on Bernborough.

The jockey induction will be a celebration for South Australia with John Letts and Billy Pyers to be feted.

Letts is famous for winning the Melbourne Cup at his first attempt, aboard Piping Lane in 1972, while he scored further success with Belldale Ball in 1980.

Pyers won a Golden Slipper and Caulfield Cup, but his biggest success came offshore in the 1967 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

Sunday night's associate inductee will be Henry Byron Moore, the Victoria Racing Club secretary from 1882 to 1925, who has been acknowledged as the man responsible for the phenomenon that is VRC Oaks Day.

The ceremony will also see an existing member of the Hall of Fame assume a place alongside Phar Lap, Bart Cummings and Scobie Breasley as a legend of the sport.

The Champion Racehorse of the Year awards are also to be presented with star mare Typhoon Tracy a raging favourite to take out the main award.