The Melbourne Cup is Australia's most well known annual Thoroughbred horse race. It is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over, as part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.
It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races.
The total prize money for today’s race was AD 7.3 M.
The race was won by Cross Counter - AD 4 M, ahead of Marmelo - AD 1M, A Prince of Arran - AD .5M were the highest Placed.
We were fortunate to witness the race that stopped the nation, but at the finish only one horse triumphed and one did not survive unfortunately. We found many couples well dressed up walking on the roads to catch public transports.
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