Melbourne Cup

Melbourne Cup

The Melbourne Cup is an annual Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held in Melbourne, Australia, at the Flemington Racecourse. It is a 3200-metre race for three-year-olds and older, conducted by the Victoria Racing Club that forms part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. It is the richest two-mile handicap in the world and one of the richest turf races. The event starts at 3:00 pm on the first Tuesday of November and is known locally as "the race that stops the nation." The Melbourne Cup has cemented itself as a part of Melbourne and Australian culture, having been run every year since 1861. The day of the race has been a public holiday for much of Victoria since 1876. It was originally run over two mi but was shortened to 3,200 m in 1972 when Australia adopted the metric system. This reduced the distance by 18.688 m, and Rain Lover's 1968 race record of 3:19.1 was accordingly adjusted to 3:17.9. The present record holder is the 1990 winner Kingston Rule with a time of 3:16.3.

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• Entity:  Horseraces

• Location:  Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Inaugurated:  1861
• Race type:  Thoroughbred – Flat Racing
• Sponsor:  Lexus (2025)
• Distance:  3,200 M
• Surface:  Turf
• Track:  Left-Handed
• Qualification:  Three-Year-Olds And Up
• Weight:  Handicap
• Purse:  A$10 Million (Us$6.5 Million) (2025)
• Wikidata description:  Australian Horse Race Held At Flemington, Melbourne Each Year
• Wikidata label:  Melbourne Cup
• Wikidata aliases:  Melbourne Cup, The Race That Stops The Nation, Lexus Melbourne Cup

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