Stakes Day: Famous faces bring style to Stakes Day at Flemington
Celebrities are among the crowds who flocked to Flemington for the final day of the Melbourne Cup Carnival on Champions Stakes Day.
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Perfect spring weather and top racing action have drawn the celebrities to Flemington for Champions Stakes Day, the final day of the Melbourne Cup Carnival.
With 71,000 at Flemington on Derby Day, 73,000 on Cup Day and 45,000 on Oaks Day the four-day crowd total for the carnival will be well shy of the 300,000 tipped by the VRC in October.
However, a strong turnout of racegoers who perhaps were keen to get to the track but had been reticent to endure the ordinary weather served up early this week, should give that total figure a decent push over the 200,000 mark today.
The Birdcage is playing host to Khanh Ong, Harvey Petito, Tess Shanahan, Demi Brereton, Brooke Warne, Jackson Warne, Sarah Todd, Olivia Molly Rogers, Jack and Mikayla Crisp, Trent Knox and Julia Tink, Josh Dunkley and Tippah Dwan, Rob Mills and Georgie Tunny, Georgia Love and Lee Elliott, Erin Maxwell, and Naomi Holt.
Channel 10, the party marquee of the Birdcage, has welcomed Steve Price, Peter Helliar, Mark Wales, Jack Vidgen, Brihony Dawson, Ryan Gallagher, Audrey Kanongara and David Subritzky.
Also at Ten are trained police investigators Dr David Craig, Reece Dewar and Graeme Simpfendorfer from the hit series Hunted, making 10 not the place for people to get up to mischief today.
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