| The Day Australia Stops | |
| mafisKumA | Melbourne Cup Melbourne Cup Day is Australia's most famous Tuesday. It's a day when the nation stops whatever it's doing to listen to the race call, or watch the race on TV, and even those who don't usually bet, try their luck. At 3.00pm AEST, on the first Tuesday in November, Australians everywhere stop for one of the world's most famous horse races - the Melbourne Cup. In Melbourne, Cup Day is the peak of the Spring Racing Carnival, when champagne and canap#233;s, huge hats and race track fashions sometimes overshadow the business of the day - horse racing. Said American writer, Mark Twain, of a visit to the Melbourne Cup in 1895: Nowhere in the world have I encountered a festival of people that has such a magnificent appeal to the whole nation. The Cup astonishes me. The first Melbourne Cup was run in 1861 at Flemington race course and was won by Archer. It has run every year since. Through wars and depression, and the good times too, the Melbourne Cup racing carnival has been one of the stayers of Australian cultural experience. One of the world's most challenging horse races The Melbourne Cup is one of the world's most challenging horse races, and one of the richest (total prize money for 2005 - $AU5.1 million), and picking a winner is not easy. The race is run over 3200 metres and is a handicapped race. This means that the better the horse is, the more weight it has to carry in the race. The Cox Plate, a weight-for-age race run late in October at the Moonee Valley race course, also in Melbourne, is considered the race most likely to provide an insight into a horse's form. But even this is unreliable as a predictor of likely Melbourne Cup performance. The distance and the handicap ensure that the Melbourne Cup is a horse race in which the mug punter has as good a chance of picking the winner as those who follow the form. Phar Lap, in his last Melbourne Cup campaign in 1931, carried a 68kg (10 stone) handicap. Even a horse with a heart as big as Phar Lap's couldn't overcome the extra weight and the race was won by White Nose. Phar Lap: Australia's most famous racehorse Phar Lap is Australia's most famous racehorse. Foaled in New Zealand in 1926 by Night Raid out of Entreaty he grew to 17 hands and over his career won more than 65 thousand pounds in prize money and won 37 of his 51 starts. From September 1929 he was the favourite in all but one of his races. Phar Lap died in suspicious circumstances, some believing he was poisoned. After his death his bones were donated to Dominion Museum in New Zealand, his hide was mounted and put on display at the Museum of Victoria, and Phar Lap's big heart resides at the National Museum of Australia. |
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| mafisKumA | Punter places $1m Cup bet on Makybe Diva A mystery punter has placed a $1 million bet on Makybe Diva to win Tuesday's Melbourne Cup. Bookie Michael Sullivan of Sportingbet, who took the wager on Sunday, stands to lose $3 million if the champion mare, who is the $4 favourite on TAB fixed odds, creates history to win the Cup for an unprecedented third successive year. It is the biggest individual bet in a Melbourne Cup since Kerry Packer's famous forays a decade a ago. |
| mafisKumA | Diva makes history with third-straight Cup Makybe Diva, the first horse to win a third Melbourne Cup will be retired from racing after her run with history. This year's Cox Plate champion and winner of the past two Melbourne Cups won by a length from On A Jeune, who edged out third-placed Xcellent by a nose. |
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