Today is Melbourne Cup Day, the first Tuesday every November and all eyes, Australia and New Zealand on the biggest race on the racing calendar.
This year there will be no crowd, no fashion parades, in fact not even the horse owners will be allowed to attend. At a recent Cup meeting there was no commentary over the loudspeaker, the only noise apart from horses hooves, the sound of jockeys yelling.
NZ usually features with NZ owned and trained horses. This year only one - The Chosen One.
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It's also a huge shame to see that the Australian attitude toward horse racing and welfare lags inexcusably and massively behind the UK/Irish (generally European) bodies. At least the fine is sort of proportionate to his cut of the earnings, whereas in the UK this is an issue that needs some work.
One would do well to bear this in mind: jurisdictions vary from country to country/region to region.