Wednesday, November 7, 2007

About Melbourne Cup





The Melbourne Cup is a famous horse race. It takes place on the first Tuesday in November.

The whole nation stops and watches 24 horses race around a track anti clockwise for 3200m. TV coverage includes stories about the heroes- the jockeys and the horses . The celebrity, glamer and fashion that define the Melbourne cup carvinal.

Sweep is a horse race. If i checked the milliners directory on the Racetrack Fashions link I would be looking some hat fashion shop's address.

1 comment:

Marion said...

Actually, a sweep is not a race. it is when a group of people maybe in an ofice pay a small amount of money and then pick the name of a horse out of a hat. That becomes their horse for the race and if they win they get most of the money collected in the sweep!