Well Victorians have the day off tomorrow.
It must be something special.
This is the first year I can’t give a tip. This is the most open field ever, it is a lottery of barriers, field position, pace and jockey nous.
Good luck, think of it as the senate rerace in WA
I don’t even bother with the sweep at work any more. The office folk don’t acknowledge that we work in the field, we don’t acknowledge Melbourne cup lunch (We are in FNQ after all).
We get to sit on the beach and look at bikini clad backpackers while we eat lunch. They get to eat crappy sausage rolls and waste their Accrued Time Off while looking at stupid hats.
It’s a win/win situation :)
Tomorrow already??
I’ve completely missed the build-up to it this year.
A right to self-stupification? The case against cannabis
By Peter Hitchens
http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2013/11/04/3883471.htm
Skeptic Pete said:
A right to self-stupification? The case against cannabis
By Peter Hitchenshttp://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2013/11/04/3883471.htm
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Ok, Pete is going for Super Cool.
“John Stuart Mill of his own free will on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill”….
QED
Teleost said:
“John Stuart Mill of his own free will on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill”….QED
Socrates himself was permanently pissed..
Nods to member of brotherhood
Oh shit….
That’s all of ewes…………………
I had an online betting account once. Probably the last time I used it was Melbournian Cup last year.
Skeptic Pete said:
A right to self-stupification? The case against cannabis
By Peter Hitchenshttp://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2013/11/04/3883471.htm
Suffer thee the fate of inescapable liberalism.
I did consider putting a bet on Hawkspur, but it’s a lot of effort and the betting ads on telly are really putting me off. I shall be taking a book to work today as we will be DEAD this afternoon- we always are on Melb Cup Day.
Morning Punters.
It’s hard this year, well every year really.
I’m going for a bit of value.
$10 each way Brown Panther.
Remember you heard it here first.
Good luck.
> Well Victorians have the day off tomorrow.
Some of us.
University exams continue through the “holiday”. Mrs M has to play Saint Seans and Kabalevski piano accompaniments for a university cello exam while the Cup is on.
I’m sure that more people watch the Melbourne Cup in NSW than in Victoria. NSW and Qld people switch on the TV at work to watch it and run sweepstakes. Victorians go on holiday, treating it like any other holiday. They don’t even run sweepstakes on it. First time I went to a Victorian “Melbourne Cup” party I was shocked to find that nobody either watched or listened to the race, nobody cared. Even now after living for 16 years in Victoria I’m not yet used to the complete indifference of Victorians towards the race.
>Mrs M has to play Saint Seans
That great Irish composer.
Family tradition.
Go to the bros place, drink wine, eat munchies, run sweep, watch race, hand out prizes, more wine, more munchies.
wow – I remembered the password to my betting account.
places $20 worth of random bets
Perhaps it should be renamed the Irish Cup.
The field has 9 horses from Ireland and only 5 each from Australia and Britain.
party_pants said:
places $20 worth of random bets
How did you select your random numbers?
mollwollfumble said:
party_pants said:
places $20 worth of random bets
How did you select your random numbers?
Here’s a great system (patent pending).
Assign horse numbers to current holiday forum posters. Based on who posts first, place bets.
mollwollfumble said:
party_pants said:
places $20 worth of random bets
How did you select your random numbers?
By moving the mouse around and clicking.
Favourites, in turn
Fiorente, Dandino, Sea Moon etc.
Gerard Whately sounds like he has just wet his pants.
So, homosexual toilet won her first Melbourne Cup.
In order as called:
Fiorente
Red Cadeaux
Mt Athos
?
Dandino
Ethiopia
Brown Panther
Supercool
…
Dunaden
…
Ruscello
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Ruscello led for most of the race, with Tres Blue behind it in second place.
Lucky I didn’t bet then; I woulda picked Hawkspur. I donated $10 to a horse charity instead.
Come to think of it, has any jockey ridden three Melbourne Cup winners before?
Damien Oliver has now.
mollwollfumble said:
Come to think of it, has any jockey ridden three Melbourne Cup winners before?
Damien Oliver has now.
Harry White rode 4.
It seems like one of the horses is being taken out the back to be shot :(
mollwollfumble said:
In order as called:
Fiorente
Red Cadeaux
Mt Athos
?
Dandino
Ethiopia
Brown Panther
Supercool=
No, Fawkner at 6th was the said to be the first Australian horse home, I was wrong in saying Ethiopia.
party_pants said:
It seems like one of the horses is being taken out the back to be shot :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_xYoxbq9YY
poikilotherm said:
party_pants said:
It seems like one of the horses is being taken out the back to be shot :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_xYoxbq9YY
I don’t want to see footage of it.
Red Cadeaux ought to pick up a lot on bets. It wasn’t among the top 8 favourites, despite coming in second in 2011.
party_pants said:
poikilotherm said:
party_pants said:
It seems like one of the horses is being taken out the back to be shot :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_xYoxbq9YY
I don’t want to see footage of it.
It’s a family guy sketch.
What happened with the horsey?
Divine Angel said:
What happened with the horsey?
On the video it shoots the trainer in the leg and them whips him.
What happened with the horsey?
it was knackered.
Apparently the smarmy git Tom Waterhouse tried to place a million dollar bet on Fiorente but the bookies wouldn’t take it :)
Divine Angel said:
What happened with the horsey?
http://www.springracingcarnival.com.au/news-and-video/latest-news/racing/statement-from-racing-victoria-head-of-veterinary
Racing Victoria’s Head of Veterinary and Equine Welfare, Dr Brian Stewart, has issued the following statement after the running of the 2013 Emirates Melbourne Cup at Flemington.
“It is with regret that we confirm that Verema had to be euthanized after suffering a fracture to its right foreleg during the running of the Emirates Melbourne Cup.
“This was an unfortunate accident that happens infrequently in racing and our sympathies are extended at this time to the Aga Khan, Alain de Royer Dupre and the connections of Verema.”
A post mortem will be performed at the University of Melbourne Veterinary Clinic as is standard practice.
Divine Angel said:
What happened with the horsey?
http://www.springracingcarnival.com.au/news-and-video/latest-news/racing/statement-from-racing-victoria-head-of-veterinary
Racing Victoria’s Head of Veterinary and Equine Welfare, Dr Brian Stewart, has issued the following statement after the running of the 2013 Emirates Melbourne Cup at Flemington.
“It is with regret that we confirm that Verema had to be euthanized after suffering a fracture to its right foreleg during the running of the Emirates Melbourne Cup.
“This was an unfortunate accident that happens infrequently in racing and our sympathies are extended at this time to the Aga Khan, Alain de Royer Dupre and the connections of Verema.”
A post mortem will be performed at the University of Melbourne Veterinary Clinic as is standard practice.
Ta p_p
Did it fall (to cause injury), was there a crash, did it just break?
mollwollfumble said:
> Well Victorians have the day off tomorrow.Some of us.
University exams continue through the “holiday”. Mrs M has to play Saint Seans and Kabalevski piano accompaniments for a university cello exam while the Cup is on.
I’m sure that more people watch the Melbourne Cup in NSW than in Victoria. NSW and Qld people switch on the TV at work to watch it and run sweepstakes. Victorians go on holiday, treating it like any other holiday. They don’t even run sweepstakes on it. First time I went to a Victorian “Melbourne Cup” party I was shocked to find that nobody either watched or listened to the race, nobody cared. Even now after living for 16 years in Victoria I’m not yet used to the complete indifference of Victorians towards the race.
I’ve watched and/or listened to the race for as long as I can remember.
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The Cup Day holiday was originally only a half-day holiday, and only granted to people living or working in Melbourne. Then, a few years ago, the Government gazetted the day as a full-day holiday, not only in Melbourne, but across Victoria.
>>The Cup Day holiday was originally only a half-day holiday, and only granted to people living or working in Melbourne. Then, a few years ago, the Government gazetted the day as a full-day holiday, not only in Melbourne, but across Victoria.<<
But local areas can substitute. In Warrnambool, they have a one day holiday for their May Races. Here in Hamilton it would be a lot wiser to substitute for our big Sheepvention thing in August. Inmy own practice we have substituted by agreement with staff for Easter Tuesday. But most of the town doesn’t do this.
Originally here we had two half day holidays, Hamilton Racing Cup and Hamilton Pacing Cup. We did our Easter substitution a very long time ago to get rid of two silly, irrelevent half days which were never declared more than about a month ahead.
In Melbourne I think there used to be a half day holiday for Show Day too.
buffy said:
In Melbourne I think there used to be a half day holiday for Show Day too.
Some time later (IIRC), the Kennett Government moved the September school holidays so that they included Melbourne Show Day – meaning the kids, and their teachers, didn’t get an extra day off. The fact that it fell on a Thursday, and that many people turned it into a four-day weekend, was a minor detail.
From – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Australia#Victoria … “Melbourne Show Day used to be observed on the Thursday in the last full week of September as a public holiday until 1994.”