Melbourne Cup | Australia’s most famous Tuesday

August 22, 2008 · Filed Under Blog Matters 
At 3.00 pm AEST, on the first Tuesday of every November, Australians everywhere stop for one of the world’s most famous horse races - the Melbourne Cup. The Melbourne Cup Day is Australia’s most famous Tuesday. Australians stops whatever they are doing to listen to the race call, or watch the race on TV. Even those who don’t usually bet, try their luck with a small wager or entry into a ’sweep,’ a lottery in which each ticket-holder is matched with a randomly drawn horse.

The Melbourne Cup is also one of the richest at around $AU5.1 million in winnings and one of most challenging horse races in the world. The race is run over 3,200 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 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. It is a day when all Australians are considered to have an equal chance on the turf as well as on the lawn.

Check out the Melbourne Cup link above, it is Australia’s ultimate horse racing site. Punters Paradise is a social networking site for racing with a daily report including the latest horse racing news, horse racing tips, betting info, melbourne cup, a horse racing forum and photos of Australian horse racing.

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