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• Melbourne Cup: when and how to watch the richest handicap horse race in the world

  06-11-2023 15:00
  
  With showers predicted later in the day, French horse Vauban is the bookmakers’ choice, though recent favourites have rarely wonFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Melbourne Cup horse race will be run for the 163rd time on Tuesday. The 3,200-metre race will be held at Flemington and contested by some of Australia’s and the world’s best stayers.It is the richest handicap race in the wo
  
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• Melbourne Cup: most Australians have little or no interest in ‘race that stops the nation’, Essential poll finds

  06-11-2023 15:00
  
  Only 11% of respondents to survey say they have ‘high interest’, down five points from before last year’s raceGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPunters are switching off the Melbourne Cup, with a majority of Australians reporting they have little or no interest in what was once “the race that stops the nation”.According to the latest Essential poll of 1,049 voters, just 11% reported a “high interest” in the Melbourn
  
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