Around Australia, we adore our horse racing and we figured we’d reveal Australia’s biggest or perhaps largest popular event, Its’ Melbourne Spring Festival. Sit back and have fun as we lead you through Victoria’s biggest race within Australia, revealing Melbourne’s stars of Melbourne’s Turf and of course the breeders with jockeys at the lead of this breathtaking industry. This is Australia’s finest moment for punters to acquire their money’s worth.
Once we get beyond Derby Day and by god it is an enormous event, we hype ourselves for the day that stops a nation, The Melbourne Cup. Ever since the commencement of the race, the stories of Archer being paraded down from Sydney to challenge the Trophy & who won the first two runnings of it to boot, Aussies have been engrossed. Victorian’s even get a bank holiday to party!
The love affair which was Makybe Diva and the Australian public was something to be admired. Makybe was why people continued to go to the track. To win three Melbourne Cups in succession is something else that we arguably will not ever see again. What about the daze Australians got when Dermot Weld came away & took our Trophy back to Ireland back in ‘93 with Vintage Crop. Or feasibly when he did it again back in ‘02 with Media Puzzle. What about Sheila Laxon triumphant with Ethereal, or the likeable Might And Power & Doriemus photo finish. The rain came down in ‘74 and Van Der Hum brought it home.
And then 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 conquering for him in the past. In 2008 punters and bookies alike were expecting Viewed could do it for the Cup Kings and make that weary 11 a decent dozen beyond the mantle and who would have though the soon to be 80 year old would truly complete it. Well finished Bart, you are doubtlessly the king of the Turf. This is by far the biggest horse racing event in Australia.
We will additionally not forget the hot water Luca Cumani & 2nd place victor Bauer landed in after it was apparent the horse gotten shockwave therapy, forbidden in a period of 7 days of the Melbourne Cup. The disorder was extraordinary, especially after it was found an RVL appointed vet conducted the therapeutics.
