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The first Tuesday in November - and every true blue Aussie is digging out their morning suit, pearls, top hat, Paris chapeau, designer frock, binocs er etc, and packing the Bolly and caviar!!!!

It's Melbourne Cup Day.

The biggest horse race in the world. And the most glamourous. Who needs the Kentucky Derby? Who needs Ascot? Even Sydney folks turn (for the one and only time in the year) south, and gaze enviously towards Melbourne ...

This is our great cultural festival, our elegant tradition of high living and jet setting .. er and feasting and heck punting on a bunch of bloody nags .. even for those of us who can't on any other day tell the bitey end of a hossie from the business end..

I am breathless.... with anticipation. I have a horse called Purple Moon. Picked from a work sweep. The notes in this morning's newspaper say Purple Moon is an English stayer.... I prefer to think of ?him as a stylishly gay mount flashing his posterior at the rest of the field as he sashays home.

Hic.. yeah.. the champers got opened early. giggle.. :sneaky:



GO PURPS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, enjoy yourself, Pammie. Being from Preakness country, the world stops on the day of the horses. The ladies spend weeks thinking of their bonnets to wear, the men which horse to bet on. I enjoy watching the young ones get ready, and tell of their tales afterwards of adventures at the track.

Thanks Chonsi, can I pour you a glass of hic .. bubbly.. hic..