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The Australian Melbourne cup carnival horse race. The Melbourne Cup race is over in a few minutes, but TV stations have reruns and postmortems throughout the rest of the afternoon and into the night. Melbourne Cup Day is a day of great excitement and hyperbole, and those who boast of big winnings on the Cup may be like those fishermen who talk of the size of the fish that got away. The distance and the handicap ensure that the Melbourne Cup is a horse race in which the occasional punter has as good a chance of picking the winner as those who follow the form. www.barnsteadgenevac.com   (1158 words)

Melbourne Cup Carnival | About the Melbourne Cup | History | Emirates Melbourne Cup Melbourne was relatively young having been discovered in 1833 and, at the height of the Cup's inception, was experiencing the Gold Rush with many people flocking to Melbourne, and subsequently Bendigo and Ballarat, in the hope of a life changing experience. Like many Melbourne Cups before, it was a case of what might have been, as jockey Malcolm Johnson admitted to taking off too early on one of the true greats of the turf. In 2000 the gold content of the owners' Melbourne Cup trophy was increased to 18 carat and by 2005 the value of the gold cup trophy had escalated to $80,000. www.flemington.com.au /melbourne-cup-carnival/history-of-melbourne-cup.asp   (4331 words)

Melbourne Cup - Australia's Culture Portal The first Australian race meet, held in 1810, established the culture of the Melbourne Cup and was organised in Sydney by Governor Macquarie as part of a plan to improve the cultural life of Sydney. The first Melbourne Cup was run in 1861 at Flemington Race Course and was won by Archer, a horse from Nowra, New South Wales, beating the local favourite, Mormon. The greatest weight carried to victory in a Melbourne Cup was Carbine, who carried 10 stone, 5 pound (66 kg) in the 1890 Melbourne Cup and was ridden by Bob Ramage. www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/melbournecup   (1987 words)

Melbourne Cup - Melbourne Cup Day History & Tips The Melbourne Cup is Australia's most famous horse race, and is truly the "race, that stops a nation". In Melbourne it is the reason for a Public Holiday and is considered the biggest tourist attraction in its home state of Victoria. In many ways the Melbourne Cup is an anachronism - being a handicap and run over the unfashionable distance of 3200m - when in other countries the feature events are more likely to be run at weight-for-age and over 2000m to 2400m. www.ozeform.com /Racing/MelbourneCup.aspx   (260 words)

Melbourne Cup - Horse Racing Bet - Horse Racing Event The Melbourne Cup also known as the “Race that Stops a Nation” is one of the oldest horse races in the world which is held on the first Tuesday in November since 1861 by the Victoria Racing Club, on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne. The Melbourne Cup is run as a "handicap", in which the weight of the jockey, and riding gear is adjusted with ballast to a nominated figure. Originally the Melbourne Cup was held over two miles, about 3,218 meters, but in 1972 Australia adopted the metric system so the the current distance of 3200 meters was adopted. www.dannysheridan.com /horse-racing/fr-melbournecup.php   (300 words)

Eric O'Keefe :: The Melbourne Cup Cup Day, which, as any Aussie will tell you, falls on the first Tuesday in November, is a holiday throughout Victoria. Although the Melbourne Cup is one of the world's premier stakes races, U.S. trainers rarely enter. The Melbourne Cup, however, is noticeably absent from His Highness's trophy case. www.ericokeefe.com /melbournecup.php   (2749 words)

Racing: Melbourne revelling in Australian obsession It began when Taufan's Melody won the world's richest 1.5 mile handicap in Australia, the £330,000 Caulfield Cup, and reached boiling point on Saturday when the English-trained Yorkshire was allowed into the Melbourne Cup ahead of, according to many of Australian racing's big noises, better qualified local nags. There is, however, something ironic in Melbourne, the culture, culinary, and fashion capital of the country, being the one Australian city that is not synonymous with beer and horses and yet staging the biggest of the country's racing carnivals. Melbourne's climate can occasionally produce all four seasons in the space of half an hour, so you can look pretty silly in see-through chiffon when an Antarctic southerly decides to blow in without warning. www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/11/02/somj02.html   (838 words)

Melbourne Cup Carnival | About the Melbourne Cup | News His 2007 Emirates Melbourne Cup winner, Efficient, also returned to work recently in a bid to become only the fifth horse to win back to back Melbourne Cups. The Emirates Melbourne Cup (G1) is one of only a small number of 3200 metre events left on the Australian racing program as the increased pressure to run shorter distance races continues to mount. Dual Melbourne Cup winning jockey, Damien Oliver signalled he was back in Group One winning form with a treble (including two Group Is) on last Saturday's Sydney Cup meeting. www.melbournecupclub.com.au /melbourne-cup-carnival/melbourne-cup-news.asp   (288 words)

Melbourne Cup 2008 | Melbourne Cup 2008 | News.com.au MELBOURNE Cup day has started with another drama over a camera, with chief steward Des Gleeson ordering the removal of a piece of Channel 7's equipment from the Flemington mounting yard. ON the eve of the Melbourne Cup Carnival, Victoria's chief vet has told of his enormous relief in being able to stage the race that stops a nation free of equine flu. CUP fagourite Master O'Reilly has been asked to replicate the feat of 1995 Caulfield and Melbourne Cup winner Doriemus, with a penalty of an extra 3kg. www.news.com.au /feature/0,10121,5014086,00.html   (902 words)

Melbourne Cup | All Horse Racing The first Melbourne Cup held in 1861 was certainly a dramatic event. According to legend, Archer the first horse to win the Melbourne Cup was reported to have walked 850 km (560 miles) from Nowra to Flemington to be a part of a race, that one day would capture the spirit of a nation. Despite his owner's intention to race Archer for a third Melbourne Cup, he was unable to do so because of a technical error. www.allhorseracing.com /melbournecup.aspx   (759 words)

Melbourne Cup at IASbet.com Today the Melbourne Cup is the richest handicap race event in the world, worth $5 million and attracts around 100,000 on course to Flemington. The Melbourne Cup is run on the first Tuesday in November each year, it’s a Group 1, 3200 metres race. Melbourne Cup Day, which is the highlight of the four-day Carnival, has been declared a public holiday for all of Victoria. www.iasbet.com /Melbourne-Cup-2007.aspx   (372 words)

Japanese horses take 1st and 2nd in the Melbourne Cup - iht,sports,horse racing,Melbourne Cup - Sports - International ... MELBOURNE, Australia: Delta Blues edged Japanese stablemate Pop Rock to win the 3,200-meter Melbourne Cup on Tuesday and give trainer Katsuhiko Sumii a one-two finish in Australia's most prestigious horse race. The last overseas horse to win the Melbourne Cup was Media Puzzle in 2002 and the first Irish galloper Vintage Crop in 1993, both trained by Irishman Dermot Weld. Tawqeet, the pre-race Melbourne Cup favorite, had a hoof injury Monday night and was only cleared to race on Tuesday morning. www.iht.com /articles/ap/2006/11/07/sports/AS_SPT_RAC_Melbourne_Cup.php   (739 words)

Melbourne Cup Tickets 2008: Melbourne Cup Carnival The Melbourne Cup Horse Racing is generally regarded as the most prestigious "two-mile" handicap in the world. The event is held on the first Tuesday in November by the Victoria Racing Club, on the Flemington Race course, in Melbourne. The Melbourne Cup Horse Racing was originally held over two miles (about 3,218 metres) but following preparation for Australia's adoption of the metric system in the 1970s, the current race distance of 3,200 metres was established in 1972. www.worldwideticketing.com /horse-racing/melbourne-cup.htm   (171 words)

Racing and Sports - Melbourne Cup 2007, Flemington Australian Spring Carnival On the whole however, Melburnians and their interstate and international visitors for the Cup, showed why Flemington is the premier Australian race course for fashion action on the first Tuesday in November. As at the Cox Plate, Melbourne Cup punters rejected the maxi dress trend that took Sydney's Spring Racing Carnival by storm. This Melbourne Cup site is a "non-official site" and is not authorised or endorsed by, or in anyway affiliated or connected with the Flemington Racecourse, the Victoria Racing Club (VRC). melbournecup.racingandsports.com.au /melbourne-cup.asp?f=2005melbourne-cup-fashion1   (904 words)

Melbourne Cup 2007 Blog The Williams team said earlier in the week that the Melbourne Cup was their obsession and it had been 22 years since they last won it. After The Fuzz won the Geelong Cup on Wednesday 24th October the indications are that trainer David Hayes could have as many as six contenders in the $5 million Melbourne Cup. In recent years, the Geelong Cup winner has often received a one-kilogram penalty and if The Fuzz was rehandicapped for the Melbourne Cup by that amount, it would take him to 51 and place him 28th in the order of entry between Caulfield Cup runner-up Douro Valley (27th) and Dolphin Jo (29th). melbournecup.typepad.com   (2331 words)

CNN.com - Irish trainer wins Melbourne Cup double - Nov. 5, 2002 The Melbourne Cup is known internationally as the "race that stops a nation". Restaurants, hotels and betting agencies were jam-packed as Australians flocked to Melbourne Cup lunches and celebrations, which provided much more of an excuse to have a party than to study the equine form. Interest in the Cup this year was spurred by a particularly open field with a large number of non-Australian entries making the form harder to read and the potential dividends all the greater. edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/11/04/australia.melbcup.winner/index.html   (549 words)

- The Geelong Advertiser On A Jeune a gallant sixth in Melbourne Cup Melbourne Cup day was marred by a horrific fall in the third race of the program today. Melbourne Cup day has started with another drama over a camera with chief steward Des Gleeson ordering the removal of a piece of Channel Seven's equipment from the Flemington mounting yard. www.geelongadvertiser.com.au /melbournecup   (530 words)

Melbourne Cup - 4th November 2008 - Sport & Recreation - Only Melbourne Melbourne Cup Day is Australia's most famous Tuesday when a nation stops for a horse race. Melbourne did way back in 1861 and still today, the race that stops a nation, and starting to stop the world... There is no doubt that the Melbourne Cup Carnival is unique, with no other event in Australia combining history, sport, fashion and hospitality so s Read more.. www.onlymelbourne.com.au /melbourne.php?id=45   (515 words)

Melbourne Cup 2007 Blog: August 2006 AJC Derby winner Headturner - who is favourite for the Melbourne Cup and second-favourite for the Caulfield Cup - settled towards the rear of the field in his 900m trial but worked home very strongly to finish fifth and just half a length off the winner in 55.21. MELBOURNE, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Melbourne Cup organisers are hoping the showpiece event attracts its first American-trained runner after nominations for the A$5.1 million race were closed. Melbourne Cup entries rose from 251 to 262, while Caulfield Cup entries (267) were up nine on last year and Cox Plate entries (180) down just two. melbournecup.typepad.com /melbourne_cup/2006/08/index.html   (2455 words)

NZ Racing The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major annual thoroughbred horse race. Kiwi was a race horse who in 1983 won the Wellington Cup and the Melbourne Cup. Kiwi raced from 1980 to 1987, and he was purchased by Waverley sheep farmer Snow Lupton for only NZ$1000, originally to be used as a stock horse on the farm, and was never intended to be tried as a thoroughbred racing galloper. www.nzracing.co.nz /Goracing/MelbourneCup.aspx   (548 words)

Melbourne Cup Carnival | About the Melbourne Cup | History | Facts & Statistics Melbourne Cup is postponed one week due to rain The three-year-old filly Briseis created a record that is never likely to be equalled, winning the VRC Derby, Melbourne Cup and VRC Oaks in the space of six days. Phar Lap won the Melbourne Cup as the shortest priced favourite in the history of the race at 11/8 on. www.melbournecupclub.com.au /melbourne-cup-carnival/melbourne-cup-statistics.asp   (491 words)

Victoria Racing Club | Racing Information | Betting More than $140 million is bet on the Emirates Melbourne Cup alone on totalisators throughout Australia in all manner of bets. The most common form of Emirates Melbourne Cup betting is Win and Place, which accounts for nearly 60% of all wagers. Other popular Emirates Melbourne Cup betting types are Quinellas (first two runners in any order) and Trifectas, which involve selecting the first three horses over the line in exact order. www.melbournecupodds.com   (289 words)

Melbourne Cup Carnival, Flemington, Event, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia The $5.1 million Emirates Melbourne Cup is more than just a horse race - it is a 145-year old social and cultural tradition that literally brings Australia to a standstill. The Emirates Melbourne Cup now attracts a worldwide television audience of around 700 million people in 120 countries and territories while millions more either view or listen to the event via the internet. The Melbourne Cup Carnival creates a party atmosphere unparalleled at any other Australian sporting event. www.visitmelbourne.com /displayObject.cfm/objectid.630E7BDA-E47E-44EF-9EB4B08A9407DFB3/vvt.vhtml   (136 words)

BBC SPORT | Other Sport... | Horse Racing | Efficient edges Moon in Melbourne Efficient, ridden by Michael Rodd, shrugged off poor form to win the 147th Melbourne Cup with a devastating sprint past the British-trained Purple Moon. The four-year-old gelding was withdrawn on the morning of the event in 2006 after going lame and had not won a race since. Melbourne Cup officials were given the go-ahead to proceed after the highly contagious disease was partially contained and they agreed to major concessions. news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/7078984.stm   (436 words)

The Melbourne Cup: The Race That Stops The Nation - Melbourne - Epinions.com From children and teachers at school to people who would usually be busy at work in offices, factories at building sites or in department stores, most everyone will have tracked down a radio or television set or walked into their local betting shop in preparation for the event. I myself remember exactly where I was for the running of just about every Melbourne Cup since I was about six years old, though I have never been fortunate enough to be on course for the day. Should you ever be fortunate enough to find yourself in Melbourne in the second week of November, whether you have an interest in horses and racing or not, head down to Flemington and treat your self to an event which is a national cultural icon of Australia. www.epinions.com /trvl-review-2195-BA91B9-39EEE57C-prod1   (657 words)

Racing and Sports - Melbourne Cup 2007, Flemington Australian Spring Carnival Full Melbourne Cup results available (including last place) straight after the race. 1892 Melbourne Cup sells for $140,000: The 1892 Melbourne Cup won by 50-1 outsider Glenloth has sold for $140,000 at auction to a female private collector from Victoria who bid by phone. Massive Melbourne Cup carnival crowds: The aggregate crowd of 397,413 this year was the second-highest ever over the four days of the Melbourne Cup carnival. melbournecup.racingandsports.com.au   (722 words)

Melbourne Cup Trivia. Melbourne Cup Trivia... The Melbourne Cup was first run on 7th November TAB numbers 3, 6 and 8 have won nine of the last fifteen Cups. Record trifecta dividend on Melbourne Cup - $61,867.90 in 1993. www.progroupracing.com.au /Melbourne_Cup_Trivia.htm   (679 words)

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