For Australia, we appreciate our horse racing & we figured we’d uncover Australia’s greatest and most fashionable festival, Its’ Melbourne Spring Festival. Rest back and live it up as we bring you through Australia’s greatest race around Australia, demonstrating Aussie stars of the Turf & of course the trainers & riders at the lead of this fantastic industry. This is Victoria’s very best time for punters to acquire their money’s worth.

Once we get over Derby Day and by god it’s an enormous day, we prepare ourselves for the day that stops a nation, The Melbourne Cup. Ever since the origin of the race, the stories of Archer being paced down from Sydney to contest the Cup & who won the first two runnings of it to boot, Australians have been captivated. Victorians even have a bank holiday to celebrate! This is by far the biggest horse racing event in Australia.

The love affair which was Makybe Diva and the Aussie residents was something to be admired. She was why individuals continued going to the track. To win 3 Melbourne Cups in succession is something else which we seemingly will not ever happen again. What about the bump Aussies got when Dermot Weld came away & took our Cup back to Ireland back in ‘93 with Vintage Crop. Or feasibly when he tried it again back in ‘02 with Media Puzzle. What about Sheila Laxon conquering with Ethereal, or the renowned Might And Power and Doriemus photo ending. The rain came down in ‘74 and Van Der Hum took it home.

And then maybe there was Bart. JB Cummings. The Cup’s King. The man who has trained the Melbourne Cup hero a lazy 11 times. With horses such as Light Fingers, Galilee, Think Big (twice), Hyperno, Let’s Elope and Saintly triumphanting for him in the past. In 2008 punters and bookies alike were hoping Viewed could do it for the Cup Kings & accomplish that weary eleven a decent dozen across the covering & who would have though the soon to be 80 year old would truly achieve it. Well executed Bart, you are honourably the king of the Turf.

We will also not forget the hot water Luca Cumani and second spot victor Bauer landed in after it was made public the horse received shockwave therapeutics, forbidden within seven days of the Melbourne Cup. The racket was sensational, particularly after it was discovered an RVL delegated veterinarian conducted the therapy.

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