Every year, Australians come together to celebrate the most popular horse race on the calendar, Melbourne Cup Day. The Melbourne Cup is the premier event of the Spring Racing Carnival and is held on the first Tuesday in November each year, which will be on the 2nd of November in 2021.

History of the Melbourne Cup

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• Melbourne Cup from 1861 until Nowadays. The first Melbourne Cup was arranged in Victoria (Australia) in 1861. Archer became the victor among other Melbourne Cup horses that year and the following one. The other eminent winner’s name was Phar Lap that won in 1930 and became the hero of the movie.
• Run by the Victoria Racing Club, the Melbourne Cup has gone on to become Australia’s most watched three odd minutes of television each year. King Archer and de Mestre the Master. From the very beginning, Melbourne Cup history started as a story describing legends. Under Etienne de Mestre, Archer won the maiden staging of the race.
• Contested over the traditional two-mile Cup distance of 3200m, the Melbourne Cup is run and won on the first Tuesday of November annually at Flemington Racecourse.
• Melbourne Cup 2020: Every lead-up run you need to see. Source: FOX SPORTS Half the battle when it comes to picking the Melbourne Cup winner is lining up formlines from Australia and abroad —.

When the Melbourne Cup was first run in 1861, there were two organising committees controlling horse racing in Victoria, the Victorian Turf Club (1852) and the Victorian Jockeys Club (1857).

The Melbourne Cup was introduced in 1861 by the Victorian Turf Club to trump the success of Victorian Jockey Club races such as the Two Thousand Guineas.

As a handicap race, the Melbourne Cup introduced a level of speculation that the club hoped would attract more entries, and therefore higher prize money. The two competing organisations disbanded in 1864, before merging to form the Victorian Racing Club, which has controlled racing in Victoria and the Melbourne Cup ever since.

Although the Melbourne Cup today is well-known in Australia for being run on the first Tuesday in November, this hasn’t always been the case. The 1866 Melbourne Cup race was run on a Thursday, and in 1867 the Cup was run in October. It wasn’t until 1875 that the race was run on the first Tuesday of November.

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Although the three-handled loving cup is widely recognised as the traditional cup design, this has only been the case since 1919. Before then the cups came in a variety of styles, with each year having a completely original design. Some years no trophy was presented at all. In fact, for the first few decades of the race, it was more common for no trophy to be awarded.