Billionaires galore as richly famous cups runneth over
Gina Rinehart, Lindsay Fox and all the Pratt siblings graced Flemington’s Birdcage for a billionaire-themed Melbourne Cup.
Gina Rinehart, Lindsay Fox and all the Pratt siblings graced Flemington’s Birdcage for a billionaire-themed Melbourne Cup.
Richest of them all, Anthony Pratt — the $13.14bn man — was along with his partner, Claudine, and those magazine-famous socks (the ones with his beaming face on them), which he wore inside a pair of bespoke patent gold lace-ups.
For the man who has everything.
The wealth had multiplied by the next time Margin Call encountered him in Penny Fowler’s popular Herald Sun marquee.
Assembled was the full set of the late Richard Pratt and his lovely wife Jeanne’s children: Anthony and his sisters Heloise (and her rock-star partner Jon Stevens) and Fiona Geminder (and her just-about-billionaire husband Raphael Geminder).
That’s a royal Melbourne flush you don’t see every day.
And perched next to Anthony on the sofa, the silver medallist on The Australian’s Richest 250: Rinehart, the iron ore billionaire and Australia’s wealthiest woman.
The lot of them later decamped for the 1.45pm lunch at Lexus, which, as we noted the other day, was the place to be on Derby Day.
Judging by Tuesday’s nearly $30bn-plus table, this column’s richest readers agree.
After the race was run, who should Margin Call bump into but trucking billionaire Fox and his wife, Paula, who had spent most of the day in chairman Amanda Elliott’s VRC committee room.
In a nice dynastic touch, the Foxes had their grandson James Fox in tow, who was sharing the day with his mate Finnigan Grollo, the son of fellow richie Daniel Grollo of the eponymous property empire.
All up, it was the kind of crowd that NSW Racing chief executive Peter V’landys would kill for — or, as he might say, for which V’landys would launch a kamikaze operation.
And that’s before we even begin on the Tabcorp marquee.
Dear me, V’landys is advised to look away before we unpack that formidable political ensemble.
Clearly, Scott Morrison — who was overseas representing the national interest at the East Asia Summit — had given his prime ministerial blessing for his fellow miracle workers to head off to Flemington Racecourse.
Even by their recent standards, it was an impressive political turnout that joined Tabcorp boss David Attenborough for Melbourne Cup Day.
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