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Topic: Melbourne Autumn Racing Carnival

	Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although racing in Australia is held every day except Good Friday and Christmas Day, the group one races in Melbourne are held almost exclusively throughout the carnival, which is conveniently placed between the football and cricket seasons.
		It is a set-weights three-year-old race for the male horses.
		The Melbourne Cup handicap race is held on the first Tuesday in November, and is a public holiday in Melbourne, but the Cup is witnessed by those all around Australia as well as internationally.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Melbourne_Spring_Racing_Carnival (654 words)

	Victoria Racing Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A legacy passed from the Victoria Turf Club was the annual “race that stops a nation”, the Melbourne Cup, which was first contested in 1861.
		From its foundation in 1864 until 2001 the Victoria Racing Club was the responsible authority for the conduct of thoroughbred racing in the State of Victoria, Australia.
		The Melbourne Cup is run on the first Tuesday in November, the Victoria Derby and LKS MacKinnon Stakes are held on the Saturday before the Melbourne Cup, the VRC Oaks is on the Thursday following the Cup, and Stakes day is on the Saturday following the Oaks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victoria_Racing_Club (292 words)

	Melbourne may host earlier grand prix - theage.com.au
		The Melbourne race has traditionally been the season opener for the F1 circus, and is usually staged in March, generally forming part of a bumper weekend in the city alongside the Moomba festival and the autumn racing carnival.
		If that was to happen, the Melbourne race could be brought forward next year to as early as February 29 (with the four-day meeting beginning on Thursday, February 26).
		For any race in Shanghai to take place, early construction work on the new track would need to be sped up, but it is believed that would not be too much of a problem.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/04/01/1048962756909.html (534 words)

	AUSRACING - Racing & Breeding on the Internet
		But as this year's autumn carnival draws to a close it seems racing administrators still have a long way to go to match the success of the spring.
		Left at this the race could be placed on the Australian Cup meeting which would allow trainers the option of going up in distance to races like the Rosehill Guineas or to be kept around 1600m for races such as the George Ryder and Doncaster.
		Whilst the race could remain at 1600m and be a stand alone race it could well revert back to the MV Oaks meeting where it was been held in years gone by, even going up in distance to 2000m.
	www.ausracing.net.au /international/article2.htm (1027 words)

	The Committee for Melbourne: Extraordinary Melbourne Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Melbourne was the first city in the world to sign up to the United Nations Global Compact, a joint initiative between transnational businesses and the United Nations to support and encourage responsible business operations and universal values.
		Melbourne's higher educational institutions are of an extremely high quality and attract a high number of international students.
		Redevelopment in Melbourne’s city centre and inner suburbs such as Docklands and Southbank have contributed to an increase in population in these areas, and reversed the population decline in the inner city areas.
	www.melbourne.org.au /melbourne_facts.0.html (1585 words)

	Australian Thoroughbred Racing in the Americas!
		The premiere two year old race in Victoria was established in 1971 in response to the success of the Sydney Turf Club's Golden Slipper Stakes.
		Racing's most important date on the calendar is the first Tuesday in November down-under.
		Oldest classic race on the Victorian racing calendar, the Victoria Derby is now a Group 1 event over 14 1/2 furlongs held on the first day of the Flemington Spring Carnival.
	www.australianracing.com /index.php?page_id=48§ion_id=5&PHPSESSID=75c82414ec50bbd0cc0359935e3de0fc (1430 words)

	Melbourne Racing Club > General > Racecourses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The new racing surface has been cambered from the outside running rail with the crown of the track at the outside running rail.
		Sandown's premier race day is the Shannons Sandown Classic meeting, also featuring the Sandown Guineas, which concludes the Spring Racing Carnival in Melbourne.
		In 1965, the Melbourne Racing Club (formerly Victoria Amateur Turf Club) built Sandown Racecoursewhich has become the only metropolitan racecourse to be opened in Australia in the 20th century.
	www.melbourneracingclub.net.au /general/racecourses (1706 words)

	Racing and Sports - Melbourne Cup 2006, Flemington Australian Spring Carnival
		On October 4, 1926 a leggy chestnut was born in the New Zealand town of Timaru.
		He won four races in eight days over various distances and remains the only horse before or since to win on all four days of the Flemington carnival.
		Check back on Melbourne Cup Day for selection, results, and this year we will have a special race-to-race ticker information service that you can run on your computer during the day to help you be a winner.
	melbournecup.racingandsports.com.au /index.asp?f=displayNews&NID=73246 (1346 words)

	Do's and Don'ts for Autumn Carnival Dressing
		Dressing for the Autumn carnival is all about closed toe shoes (think pumps or sling backs), long sleeves, hats and gloves.
		Some may say that stilettos are the only way to go, but during a day at the races you could easily walk a couple of kilometres as you go up and down the concourse meeting friends, placing bets and watching the races from the best vantage points.
		While the race clubs do everything they can to minimise the chances of this happening, they can't be everywhere to clean up after people and it just isn't worth the risk.
	www.gallopsglamourstyle.com /index.asp?f=AJCEASTER05_Autumn_Carnival_Dressing (653 words)

	Melbourne Australia .com.au - Leisure, Lifestyle and Entertainment
		Melbourne's summer temperatures reach the high 30's (Celsius) with an average of 26 degrees.
		Autumn is the most stable time of year with fine and clear days and mild evenings.
		Melbourne's winter can be a little unpredictable with average temperatures hovering around 13 degrees.
	www.melbourneaustralia.com.au /visitorguide/climate (281 words)

	Victoria Melbourne Accommodation, Melbourne hotel accommodation, Holiday accommodation Australia
		Melbourne accommodation by suburb is listed first followed by the country regions of Victoria.
		Melbourne city centre is carefully planned and laid out in a grid pattern with wide streets, many of them tree-lined.
		Melbourne, the state capital, stands at the crown of this region, with the Bellarine and Mornington peninsulas enclosing Port Phillip Bay.
	www.victoria.visitorsbureau.com.au /a_index.html (960 words)

	flemington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Due to the downgrading of the 2005 VRC Sires' Produce Stakes to Group 2 level, the value of that race has been reduced by $100,000 to $300,000 to more equitably spread prizemoney across other Flemington feature events.
		The VRC has reinforced its commitment to the promotion of staying races by setting prizemoney for races of 2500mor further at a minimum of $100,000 on Saturdays and Public Holidays.
		Listed Races will be run for at least $100,000 while minimum prizemoney for the Club's two feature race meetings in March will be set at $75,000.
	www.melbournecup.com /cpa/htm/htm_flemington_news_full.asp?news_id=120 (268 words)

	Melbourne Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		A leafy bayside community on the 'upside-down', brown Yarra River, Melbourne is, in turns, cosmopolitan, suburban, cultivated, conservative and a haven for the avant-garde.
		While Melbourne's spring is a sight to behold, with multitudes of gardens in bloom and the festive Spring Racing Carnival heralding summer, any local will tell you that mid-autumn sees Melbourne at its most resplendent.
		Melbourne is said to be the fox capital of the Western world.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/pacific/australia/melbourne (344 words)

	Woodbine Farm - Thoroughbred Stud in New Zealand. Roll Of Honour
		On 3rd March 2006 the inaugural NZ Racing Hall of Fame event was held.
		Carbine dominated the 1890 Sydney Autumn Carnival, winning five races in four days, including the Sydney Cup on the second day and the All-Aged Stakes and the Cumberland Stakes on the third day.
		That race time has been surpassed - but the other two records are likely to stand forever.
	www.thoroughbrednet.co.nz /woodbinefarm/NZ_Racing_Hall_of_Fame.asp (496 words)

	A carnival with it all - Horseracing - Sport - smh.com.au
		Good riddance was the call from many, for this astonishing performer had a mortgage on any race she contested.
		The 2004 Victoria Derby winner missed the autumn on the east coast, with the spring carnival down south the ultimate aim.
		It was running in the Melbourne Cup but when it came around Plastered was supposed to be on a plane back to Smith's stable on the west coast.
	www.smh.com.au /news/horseracing/a-carnival-with-it-all/2005/11/05/1130823436764.html (932 words)

	Queensland Racing - Winter Carnival
		BELOW is the text of the column, written by Queensland Racing chairman, Bob Bentley, which appears the May edition of the Queensland Racing Calendar.
		During this year’s carnival – which starts with the Richmond Grove Race Day at Doomben on May 1st and concludes after the Tattersall’s Mile race meeting at Eagle Farm on July 24th – a record $13.5 million in stakes will be distributed.
		We were delighted to learn last year that the carnival attracted the strongest off-course betting turnover on the TAB in Queensland for almost a decade.
	www.queenslandracing.com.au /wintercarnival/300404Carnival.asp (1357 words)

	Melbourne Racing Club > About Us > Timeline
		It was held in the Autumn and was won by Newminster.
		The Melbourne Racing Club is formed out of an amalgamation of the Williamstown Racing Club which lost its course after the war, and the Victorian Trotting and Racing Association which raced at Ascot and Mentone.
		Sandown's transformation into Melbourne's first dual-circuit racecourse was subsequently completed with the gala opening of the new Hillside track on Sunday 16 March.
	www.melbourneracingclub.net.au /aboutus/timeline (1329 words)

	Australian Horse Breeding and Racing news updated daily, www.thoroughbrednews.co.nz
		The feature of the final day of the Australian Jockey Club’s Autumn Racing Carnival is the $800,000, Group I, Schweppes Sydney Cup (3200m), and just as the first day of the four day carnival featured a Zabeel factor, the final day may have the same ingredient in the result of the race.
		Race favourite Fooram’s dam Sinjani is by the mighty sire of Zabeel, Sir Tristam, and Molotov’s dam Admit Anywhere is by Zabeel.
		The five-year-old is lightly raced with just 20 starts to-date, and, like Molotov, both his sire Maroof and dam should provide the staying ability for the longer distance.
	www.thoroughbrednews.co.nz /spring-racing/?id=23460 (457 words)

	Champions - Australian Racing Museum and Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the autumn of 1967, Galilee successively won the Queen’s Plate and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in Melbourne, the AJC Autumn Stakes and the Sydney Cup.
		Starting a 6-4 on favourite and carrying 9st 7lbs (60.5kg), he won the Cup by six lengths in what was considered one of the finest staying performances ever seen in Australia.
		In the spring of 1968 he returned with wins in the Memsie and Turnbull Stakes, and ran a gallant eighth in the Melbourne Cup under a crushing 64kg.
	www.racingmuseum.com.au /hof/inductees/GALILEE.htm (212 words)

	Travel Guide : Discount Melbourne Hotels, Victoria, Australia
		Melbourne is set around the shores of Port Phillip Bay.
		Melbourne's suburban neighborhoods, a short tram ride from the city centre, are for anyone wanting to encounter what and how life here is all about.
		Melbourne's spring comes with a sight of plentitude of gardens in bloom.
	www.melbournehotelpro.com /travel-guide.htm (181 words)

	Just Racing
		Racing folklore is filled with stories of big bookmakers who retired with a fortune after working primarily for 5 hours on a Saturday afternoon with a bag at a racetrack.
		This is a “hype horse” who will probably go over one day at a very short quote and when he does they’ll say he is “shinsore and will now go to the paddock”, which is not ideal for the people who take the tomato sauce odds-on quotes from now on.
		There was a nice run in the race by New Zealander The One, who was in strife as soon as the gates opened.
	www.melbourneracing.com.au (2365 words)

	Australian Thoroughbred Racing in the Americas!
		The race was run over 7 3/4 furlongs on the Kensington track with the surface fluctuating between a heavy (8) and (10) throughout the day as rain came and went and strong winds lashed Sydney.
		Saturday, 26 August 2006: Leading Cox Plate contenders Racing To Win and Eremein were upstaged by warhorse Court's In Session in the Warwick Stakes at Randwick on Friday night, but both showed they were on track for the spring.
		Monday, 1 August 2006: Early Melbourne Cup favourite Leica Falcon is out of the famous race after suffering a tendon injury to his near side front leg which will require an operation within the next two days.
	www.australianracing.com (1041 words)

	Horse Directory Australia - Racing History - Horse Profile - A - Z
		Heroic was one of the great race horses of his time winning 21 races at distances from five furlongs to two miles.
		Malua was a champion galloper racing from three and a half furlongs to three and a quarter miles against many great horses.
		In Melbourne in 1968 he won the Debutant Stakes and Maribyrnong Plate in spring and the Merson Cooper Stakes and Sires’ Produce Stakes in the autumn.
	www.horsedirectory.com.au /racinghistory/horse_profiles/a_z.html (2253 words)

	The Virtual FormGuide - AAP - Curtis Criticises Carnival Program
		Trainer Lee Curtis has slammed the Sydney autumn carnival program for sprinters and the lack of weight-for-age events.
		Curtis has two talented three-year-olds, Rightson and Seidnazar, in training for the big races but said the path to the Group One events was rocky.
		And he is also perplexed that the two Group One sprints in Sydney are within days of each other and in the wrong order with the TJ Smith (1200m) on April 15 and The Galaxy (1100m) four days later.
	www.virtualformguide.com /cgi-bin/tvf/displaynewsitem.pl?20060122curtiscriticises.txt (330 words)

	Record response helps make Melbourne yearling sales a roaring success
		The Premier Sales section of the Melbourne Sales was held last Sunday and Monday, and at the end of the two days 382 lots had sold for more than $24 million - an increase of 9.4 per cent on last year.
		Melbourne trainer Robbie Griffiths bought the opening lot on day two, paying $430,000 for a filly by Encosta De Lago from Nuclear Dance, which held the record for just a few hours before Rogerson trumped him.
		The three-year-old was retired after a trackwork injury leading into the Sydney autumn carnival.
	www.smh.com.au /news/horseracing/record-response-helps-make-melbourne-yearling-sales-a-roaringsuccess/2006/03/09/1141701635499.html (713 words)

	The Virtual FormGuide - AAP - Revamped Carnival Heads To Randwick
		The Randwick Guineas meeting will be the litmus test for the revamped Sydney autumn carnival with the Australian Jockey Club (AJC) also hosting Golden Slipper qualifying races for the first time.
		The two clubs are united in the battle for television rights and entered into the carnival revamp with a spirit of cooperation with the only hitch so far the clash of fashion parades on Monday.
		The 1600m Group One Randwick Guineas replaces the longer Canterbury Guineas (1900m) and trainers are divided as to the merits of the move.
	www.virtualformguide.com /cgi-bin/tvf/displaynewsitem.pl?20060317revampedcarnival.txt (356 words)

	BREEDING AND RACING JANUARY 2003 ARCHIVE PAGE
		The Melbourne Racing Club has accepted that sectional times electronically recorded at the inaugural meeting on the Lakeside track at Sandown last Saturday were incorrect.
		Singapore racing is agog at the news 6 owners who claim trainer Malcolm Thwaites “failed to take proper care” of 4 of their racehorses are suing the prominent Singapore-based conditioner.
		Murrihy noted the “image of racing would benefit”, adding: “Not being allowed to administer a treatment to a horse on race-day will not affect a horse’s chance in any way.” Stewards will have the power to withdraw a horse from its engagement should the rule be contravened.
	www.breedingracing.com /indnewsjan.php (15906 words)

	Sportal.com.au - Horseracing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Two of the stars of last year's Spring Racing carnival have been ruled out of the lucrative Autumn racing in both Melbourne and Sydney.
		The son of exciting stallion More Than Ready from former classy race mare Mannington, Benicio was considered one of the major chances for the prestigious AJC Derby in Sydney.
		El Segundo, a winner of six of his eleven starts was the favourite for the Caulfield Cup last year on the back of wins in the Listed JRA Handicap (2040m) at Moonee Valley and a strong win over former Cox Plate winner Fields Of Omagh in the Yalumba Stakes (2000m) at Caulfield.
	www.sportal.com.au /horseracing.asp?i=news&id=76669 (332 words)

	International Racing Bureau Fixtures
		John Hawkes has his eyes on the Melbourne spring carnival with Dizelle, winner of the Group 1 Emirates AJC Australian Oaks, 2400 metres, at Randwick on Wednesday.
		Part-owner Keith Biggs, who won the 1995 Melbourne Cup with Doriemus, said it was the plan of Hawkes to have a good spell before the spring.
		O'Shea had Charge Forward ready for the Melbourne autumn sprints, but a virus and wet tracks put the three-year-old out of the early races in the Global Sprint Challenge.
	www.irbracing.com /site/news_story.asp?ID=1809 (590 words)

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