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Nov 1

The Melbourne Cup

by Jessica Owers on 1 November 2011

It’s extraordinary even to racing people. At this time of year, just these few weeks around November, everyone is speaking about racehorses. The man who has never touched a horse, who spends his day crunching numbers or selling houses, suddenly knows who will run the best two miles around Flemington. Suddenly, he knows a horse’s form, and uses words like ‘scope’ and ‘balanced’....