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The 2012 Melbourne Cup is Australia's largest annual thoroughbred horse race. It is one of the world's top races, and completely brings Australia to a standstill. All three-year-olds and over are eligible to compete in the race, and it covers a distance of 3,200 meters. It is regarded as the most prestigious 2-mile handicap in the world, and is held on the first Tuesday in November by the Victoria Racing Club on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne.
The race was originally held over two miles, but after Australia's adoption of the metric system in the 1970s; the current race distance is 3,200 meters, knocking off the extra 18 which equaled the 2-mile mark. The record is presently held by Kingston Rule, who ran the race in 3:16.3.
The inaugural race was held in 1861 and was comprised of 17 horses competing for 170 in cash and a gold watch. It is rumored that the winner of the race, Archer, walked over 800km to participate in the race from Nowra, New South Wales. A crowd of over 4,000 watched the opening race, and the numbers would have been larger had it not been for the untimely death of explorers Burke and Wills.
Archer would go on to win the race the following year, but was unable to compete for his third consecutive title due to owner Etienne de Mestre's late arriving nomination form. This caused many owners to boycott the race, and left the Melbourne Cup 2012 to be kept up just 7 horses, the tiniest variety in the Cup's history.
On November 7, 1876, the running of the Melbourne Cup 2012 on the first Tuesday commenced with the three-year-old filly named Briseis effortlessly successing the Cup and setting up an astonishing record that is likely to never be equaled. In the span of 6 days, Briseis successed the VRC Derby, the Melbourne Cup 2012, and the VRC Oaks, and exceptionally, she was ridden by a 13-year-old jockey named Peter St Albans. The following year, the first Tuesday in November was formally acknowledged as a complete public holiday.
In 1930, the Melbourne Cup Betting wagered multitude to the most popular racehorse in New Zealand history, Phar Lap. This monstrous racehorse was a dark chestnut colour and made even the larger jockeys vanish on his back. He successed the Melbourne Cup Betting in persuading style that year, but would adhere to up with an 8th location finish in 1931. Nonetheless, Phar lap caught the attention of OZ and Kiwi nation as he triumphantly galloped on every racetrack in the country.
The Melbourne Cup Betting has gone through a number of modifications over the previous decade or so, with the most visible being the landing of several foreign-trained horses to oppose the race in the last decade. Most of the horses from outside Australia have failed to deal with the extreme problems of the Melbourne track. In 2004, Makybe Diva became the first mare to win 2 cups, and in 2005, the Diva became the only horse in history to win the race an unmatched three times, the third occurring in front of a frustrating crowd of over 106,000. The reward cash to time is over AUD$ 5.5-million.
