Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival

Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival

Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival is a Melbourne, Australia Thoroughbred horse racing series held from October through November.

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Racegoers watch a race during the 2008 Crown Oaks Day meeting at Flemington Racecourse on November 6, 2008 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images AsiaPac) Apparently the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival , a premier horse racing event in Melbourne, Australia is like England's Royal Ascot races, minus the classiness. Women gather at the 2008 Royal Ascot. At the Royal Ascot , it's not uncommon to see distinguished women in the stands. Sure they're wearing stupid hats , but honestly, that's just tradition. On the other hand, at the Melbourne Races you're more likely to see boozed up women parading around in skimpy ... Read Full Story
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Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your own article! Read Full Story
It might be fall in States, but spring has just sprung up Down Under and we're ready to get out and play at some of the continent's best seasonal festivals. The biggest event this season is definitely the Spring Racing Carnival in Melbourne. You might wonder that a bunch of horse races grabs the attention of so many Aussies and anyone visiting at the time, but the highlight of the carnival—the Melbourne Cup—is correctly dubbed "the race that...  
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Since Fashions on the Field began at Flemington in the 1960s - "Something for the ladies", it was dubbed at the time - the spring racing carnival has been acknowledged as a giant social blender: the gutsy, serious world of horse racing with the perfumed, frivolous world of frocks.  
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A FOREIGN dictator with an ''appalling'' human rights record and links to murders of his political opponents will have two runners in Victoria's spring racing carnival. Chechnyan President Ramzan Kadyrov - who was described as ''a new Stalin'' by a ...  
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FOREIGN criminal syndicates are ready to target Melbourne's spring racing carnival, according to police intelligence.  
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Although racing in Australia is held every day except Good Friday and Christmas Day, the Group One races in Melbourne are held almost exclusively throughout the carnival, which is conveniently placed between the football and cricket seasons. During the winter (where football is dominant), and summer (where cricket is dominant), racing takes a 'back seat' position in relation to the cricket or football in terms of media coverage and attendances. However, in spring and autumn, the mass media turns its attention to the racing. There is also a Melbourne Autumn Racing Carnival, a time where Group One races are also held.

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