Melbourne Cup

The Melbourne Cup is the biggest horse race in Melbourne (Australia) on the first Tuesday of november. The race stands as 2nd name "the race that stops a nation"; everyone in the whole of Australia explains his work aside for afternoon to the race to watch on the television or listening to it on the radio. Inhabitants of the State of Victoria have even an official day off.

The Melbourne Cup is held at Flemington Racecourse since1861 and is part of the Spring Carnival, the collective name of the small 2 months in which many horse racing take place.

On 1 november 2005 history was made when a horse for the first time, called Makybe Diva, the Melbourne Cup for the third successive year in the won.