SEE amazing photos of the Melbourne Cup as it tours Australia before the big race.
WITH the first Tuesday in November only a couple days away, the Emirates Melbourne Cup has arrived back in Melbourne ready for its ultimate Flemington destination.
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The iconic 18-carat gold, $200,000 trophy has been travelling the length and breadth of the our big brown land, bringing joy for ordinary and extraordinary Australians who get to hold the People’s Cup.
From Elephant Rock in Kununurra, Western Australia, to a camel farm near Alice Springs, the Wolf Blass winery in South Australia, the Longreach Cup in Queensland, to Shoalhaven Heads in NSW, across the ditch to New Zealand and back to Victoria, the Cup Tour has covered plenty of territory and been pawed by plenty of hands.
Always in white gloves, of course.
The Melbourne Cup Tour is in its 15th year uniting communities, visiting nearly 400 towns and cities and fast approaching 500,000km on the road.
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