Melbourne Cup Don't miss out on the headlines from Melbourne Cup. Followed categories will be added to My News. There’s nothing quite like the four days of the Melbourne Cup Carnival.
There are some fantastic racing carnivals around the world, but none capture the whole city or bring together people from all walks of life like Flemington does. When you’re a jockey, winning any race, let alone one of the big ones, in Cup Week is as good as it gets ..
. coming back to scale in front of those massive crowds. It’s been such a big part of my life and I can’t wait to get back, even just as a spectator this week.
• PUNT LIKE A PRO : Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet’s team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW ! The Melbourne Cup is called the race that stops a nation, but for me it was the race that changed my life. As confident a young fella as I was back then, not even I could have imagined what that win on Kiwi way back in 1983 would do for me.
I was a 20-year-old apprentice from NZ, who most Aussies had never heard of. Few even knew who Kiwi was, either. He’d won the Wellington Cup earlier in the year, but I don’t think too many Aussies took him seriously.
It’s now history he “did a Kiwi” – which has become racing language – and stormed home from last to win easily. • DAMIEN OLIVER: There’s Gold for punters in this year’s Victoria Derb.
