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MELBOURNE CUP CARNIVAL 2013

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And now for the main event during the whole Carnival...

THE ANNUAL MELBOURNE CUP---THE RACE THAT STOPS A NATION!

The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major Thoroughbred horse race, held every year since 1861. Billed as "The race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races. Conducted by the Victoria Racing Club on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, the event starts at 3pm on the first Tuesday in November. [link] [link]

Around Melbourne, the race itself is the linchpin of a major four-day event, the Melbourne Cup Carnival, held usually from the last Saturday in October until the first Saturday in November. Races, party functions, race spectator fashions... a truly spectacular experience not to be missed! [link] [link]

Anyway, as neither of the 6TEEN "Gang of Six" has ever been to Australia (the gang excepting Jonesy & Nikki, that is), this can be treated as a mere WHAT-IF...

But WHAT IF all the 6TEEN gang (and not just Jonesy & Nikki) were in vacay mode Down Under during this year's Carnival events? Here is how they would've celebrated (here at Flemington)...


The guys are wearing their formal best, that which they currently possess, with Jonesy also sporting a white tulip and Jude with the exceptional additions of a top hat and a pince-nez!

And the girls, well, they're wearing their finest plus! Note the unique, stylish hats they get to wear!

And why all this finery? It has to do with another grand tradition when it comes to the Melbourne Cup:

'Fashions On The Field' is a major focus of the day, with substantial prizes awarded for the best-dressed man and woman. The requirement for elegant hats, and more recently the alternative of a fascinator, almost single-handedly keeps Melbourne's milliners in business. [Or so they say!] Raceday fashion has occasionally drawn almost as much attention as the race itself.

This kind of formal attire you see such race aficionados wear, whether at the Melbourne Cup Preview (a month in advance of that day) or at the Carnival itself!

HAPPY MELBOURNE CUP DAY!
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6TEEN © Fresh Animation (nka FreshTV) Inc & NELVANA Ltd.
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2013 Emirates MELBOURNE CUP (153rd) ---- WINNERS
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1st - (6) FIORENTE (trainer Gai Waterhouse; jockey Damien Oliver)
2nd - (3) Red Cadieux (trainer Ed Dunlop; jockey Gerald Mosse)
3rd - (16) Mount Athos (trainer Luca Cumani; jockey Craig Williams)
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LAST - (24) Ruscello (trainer Ed Walker; jockey Chad Schofield)
:bulletblack: FF - (21) Verema (trainer Alain de Royer Dupre; jockey Christophe Lemaire)
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