The Melbourne Cup

(yes i did copy and paste from Google)The Melbourne Cup is Australia's most famous annual Thoroughbred horse race. It is a 3200-metre race for three-year-olds and over, held on the first Tuesday of November each year at the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria. The race is part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival and attracts more than 100,000 spectators. The Melbourne Cup is also known as the 'race that stops a nation' and is a public holiday in Victoria.(yes i did copy and paste from Google)