Melbourne Cup Carnival

Melbourne Cup Carnival is the world's oldest international equestrian festival, founded in 1861, has nearly 150 years of tradition, and the United States of America's Kentucky Racing Festival, Liverpool, England, Malaysia and France's Grand Horse Day are recognized as the world's four most prestigious international equestrian festivals.

The Melbourne Cup Carnival, organised by the Victorian Jockey Club (Racing Victoria), is one of the most important festivals for Australians. In Australia, it is hailed as a "national breath-holding race." (The race that stops a nation), means that when the Melbourne Cup is held, All Australians will drop their hands and come to watch the game, its importance and influence is evident.

The Melbourne Cup horse race is open to pure breeders aged three or over, 3200 metres away, on the first Tuesday of each November, at the Flemington Racecourse in the north-west suburb of Melbourne at (Flemington Racecourse). There will be about ten horse races, half an hour apart, and the Melbourne Cup refers to the most attractive, most attractive game, usually in Game 7.

The development of Melbourne Cup Carnival has become an integrated festival of fashion, flowers, food, wine and horse racing, and the competition day has been designated by the Melbourne municipal authorities as a public holiday, even if it is not interested in horse racing. You can also indulge in the revelry of the whole city. Around the festival, flags and balloons strewn the streets of Melbourne with the names of horses and knights, and more than 100, 000 spectators will flock to the Flemington Racecourse on the day to watch the event. Racecourse has also become a high-class social arena, such as the British royal family has its own box, Prince Charles and Princess Diana used to be on the horse festival dignitaries.

(Flemington), home to Flemington, is Australia's horse-racing capital, about 5 kilometers from the heart of Melbourne, and the Flemington Racecourse is one of the most equipped racecourse in the world. And Australia's largest public rose garden, where more than 10000 rose trees peaked in the first week of November, when horse racing became a sea of flowers and enchanted to wander through the woods. In the centre of the garden, a white Princess of Wales rose was planted to commemorate a special guest of the Melbourne Cup: Princess Diana, who visited Princess Diana in 1985.

In addition, Melbourne Cup Carnival has a custom rule: women must wear hats to participate in horse racing, so the annual hat competition and outdoor fashion competition on the sidelines of the racetrack seem to be more attractive to women. Every woman has racked up her brains in the design of the hat. Some use feathers of different colors, some are full of flowers, and some even use fresh fruit as an embellishment on the brim, in short, trying to be novel and chic. The miniskirt was also said to have been imitated by the world after its first appearance on the Melbourne Cup Carnival. The racecourse, which will also select the best-dressed men and women, was reported on the full page by local media, and the racecourse has become a showcase for Australian socialites to compete for each other.

How to:

• Train: from Flinders Street Station (Flinders Street Station), South Cross Station (Southern Cross Station) or North Melbourne Station (North Melbourne Station) take the Flemington Racecourse Line (Flemington Racecourse railway line), to the terminal to get off; note that this line is open only during the holidays;
• Trams: at the intersection of Elizabeth Street (Elizabeth Street) and Flinders Street (Flinders Street), take the No. 57 tram to the main entrance of Flemington Racecourse;
• Taxi: there is a taxi stop outside the racecourse to facilitate the audience to arrive and leave.

Melbourne was a famous champion in the history of horse racing:

• The most famous horse race in the (Phar Lap): Melbourne Cup won the Melbourne Cup in 1930; Fast as Lightning played 51 times in its lifetime, 37 of which won the championship. In the Great Depression of 1929 and 1930, many poor people made small money by betting on the horse, which gave Australians a sense of joy and inspiration in difficult times. Being poisoned to death during a race in the United States in April 1932, the Australian people felt heartbroken that its remains were later made into specimens and were present at the Melbourne Museum in April 1932, "Lightning like Lightning" was poisoned to death while competing in the United States in April 1932.
• Flower-wearing (Makybe Diva): won the Melbourne Cup the most number of races, winning three consecutive titles in 2003, 2004 and 2005.