Melbourne Cup 2005

The Melbourne Cup- what is it?
This day is Australia's most famous Tuesday and it's one of the world's famoust challenging horse races. The winner gets a prize money of about $5.1 million!!! It's a day when the nation stops whatever it's doing to listen to the race call, or watch the race on TV, and even those who don't usually bet, try their luck. And when I say the nation stops, then it stops! Shops are closed, lectures in school take a break and it seems they really think about to make this day to a national public holiday... Everybody ia dressing up, wearing hats, drinking champagne and watching the horse run... By the way: "Diva" won the Melbourne Cup- three times in a row!!!