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The Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival is an extended horseracing meeting that takes place at Flemington racecourse in Victoria, Australia featuring several individual racedays that have become associated as Australia's greatest horseracing meeting, if not the social highlight of the year in Melbourne as well. The Spring Carnival is noted for generating huge betting pools on the horseraces, big purses for the races themselves with the VRC putting up more than AU$14 million in prize money during the meeting, and socially it is the epicenter for parties and new fashion.
The racedays are built around the Melborune Cup itself, Australia's single greatest and most famous horserace, for which you will find a seperate review. There are plenty of other Group 1 races besides the Cup, however, with the Victoria Derby, the VRC Crown Oaks, and the Stakes all attracting huge crowds. More than 400,000 attended the Melbourne Cup Carnival in 2006. |
