Melbourne Cup Day

Today, was Melbourne Cup Day. For those who are not familiar with this special day, it’s the most known horse race of Australia. Everyone who lives within 88 kms of the CBD of Melbourne gets the day off. Isn’t it kind of strange to think that a horse race can cause a public holiday? They do say that it’s the race that stops a nation. So many people come to this race, and it’s pretty hyped up. I remember last year, it was miserable as, in terms of weather. It was raining, windy and all the nice ladies who wore their nice hats, shouldn’t have bothered. They only got thrown in the wind. But today was absolutely beautiful. It was in the 80’s I reckon, and we had a bbq at my mum in law’s partner’s place. I can only imagine how much money they made on all the cold beverages they had at Flemington Race course. I heard that over 100,000 people were expected to show up. And when they showed the audience on camera, there were SOOO many people.

But Makaby Diva, the favorite to win this race, made Melbourne Cup history by winning its 3rd consecutive Melbourne Cup. It had won the previous two years, and was very heavily favorited to win today. It’s a very short race, like 3 minutes 20 seconds..and it goes by that quickly. But it was a pretty amazing race. I didn’t quite agree with the trainer, saying that if the ground wasn’t a certain “wetness” then they were going to pull out of the race. That comment seemed like the trainer was saying if it wasn’t fit for what HE wanted, so that his horse could have the best advantage, then they wouldn’t have raced. But people had said that regardless of the conditions of the race track, that it wouldn’t have made a difference. The horse and the jockey retired after this race. I believe the horse had racked in 14.2 million dollars in prize money. The horse was a beautiful horse, and won by an amazing amount. But it’ll be good for next year, because another horse will get the chance to win.

-current mood-YUCKY because it's muggy outside.