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Flemington Racecourse railway station
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Flemington Racecourse railway station is located on the Flemington Racecourse line in Victoria, Australia. It serves Flemington Racecourse in the suburb of Flemington opening on 28 February 1861, the station is only open on race days and during special events at Flemington Racecourse. Flemington Racecourse has two side platforms, during special events it is serviced by trains to Flinders Street calling at North Melbourne and Southern Cross. Two sidings between the platforms are used to stable trains, during construction work on the Regional Rail Link, the station has been opened on occasions with Werribee line services diverted. Platforms 1 &2, Flemington Racecourse line, express and limited services to Flinders Street or Southern Cross during special events Melway
Flemington Racecourse railway station
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Westbound view from Platform 2 with a
Metro Trains Melbourne Comeng train stabled
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Flemington, Victoria
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Flemington is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia,4 km north-west of Melbournes central business district. Its local government areas are the Cities of Melbourne and Moonee Valley, at the 2011 Census, Flemington had a population of 7,528. The Melbourne Cup Thoroughbred horse race has been held at Flemington Racecourse since 1861, Flemington is located between the Maribyrnong River and the Moonee Ponds Creek and includes the locality of Newmarket, in which the main commercial area Racecourse Road is located. The suburb was named by settler James Watson after Flemington Estate in Scotland, another version of the origin of the name relates to Robert Fleming, a Brunswick resident who had owned land beside the Saltwater River and operated a butchery there. In 1839, James Watson came to Port Phillip to purchase land for himself and he named the area Flemington after Flemington Estate in Scotland where his wifes father was a manager, which was in turn named because of Flemish settlement in the area. Flemington and neighbouring Kensington consist primarily of weatherboard cottages mixed with attached brick single-storey, most of the homes are in Victorian or Boom style with some Edwardian and Federation style homes. Some sections originally contained factories and industry, the earliest land release was in the 1840s when fertile land adjacent to the Maribyrnong River was taken up for cattle grazing. Land for Flemington Racecourse was reserved as early as 1845, around this time the Melbourne Municipal Saleyards were relocated from Elizabeth Street, West Melbourne to Flemington. Also around this time abbatoirs and other activities were established. Various industrial activities were clustered around the Maribyrnong River and the Moonee Ponds Creek, the Victorian Goldrush of the 1850s encouraged further development as Mount Alexander Road was the main route to the North Western Goldfields. Flemington Post Office opened on 1 January 1854 and it was originally included in the City of Essendon at its formation in 1861 and the first Melbourne Cup was run at Flemington the same year. Buntingford Tannery was located adjacent to Moonee Ponds Creek and this business, established by members of the Debney family, moved to the site in 1876 and at one time covered more than an acre of ground and consisted of several buildings. Some larger homes including grandiose double-storey brick homes on double allotments, industry consisting of mills, factories and warehouses continued in the area taking advantage of the low-cost flat land. By 1911 the population was 6,109, in 1905 the Borough of Flemington and Kensington was subsumed by the City of Melbourne. During the 1950s there was an influx of European immigrants, mostly from Italy, Flemington Racecourse is famous for the Melbourne Cup horse race, run on the first Tuesday in November since 1861, by the Victoria Racing Club. Racecourse Road is the main commercial area. Pin Oak Crescent has a number of shops and cafes. Newmarket Station is on Pin Oak Crescent, near its intersection with Racecourse Road, in the late 1990s, a new Shopping Plaza was constructed on an old car sale yard on Racecourse Road, directly west of Newmarket Station
Flemington, Victoria
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Aerial of eastern Flemington with the
Housing Commission of Victoria estate and the
CityLink sound tube (right), Moonee Ponds Creek and Flemington bridge
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Flemington Post Office
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Flemington Racecourse in 2007, looking south-east toward
Melbourne's city centre
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
Geographic coordinate system
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Longitude lines are perpendicular and latitude lines are parallel to the equator.
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Seven Network
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The Seven Network is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by Seven West Media Limited, and is one of five main television networks in Australia. In 2011 the Seven Network won all 40 out of 40 weeks of the season for total viewers. Seven is the first to achieve this since the introduction of the OzTAM ratings system in 2001, as of 2014, it is the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach. In 2016, the network had its biggest lead in total people over the Nine Network since the current OzTAM ratings system began, in Melbourne,30 of the 40 ratings weeks were won and all ratings weeks were won in Adelaide and Perth. Sevens administration headquarters are based in a warehouse at Jones Bay Wharf in Pyrmont, Sydney. The networks main playout centre is located in Docklands, Melbourne, National news and current affairs programming are based between flagship station ATN-7 in Sydney and HSV-7 in Melbourne. In 2009, Seven moved its Sydney-based production operations from Epping to a purpose-built high-definition television production facility at the Australian Technology Park in Eveleigh, the present Seven Network began as a group of independent stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. HSV-7 Melbourne, licensed to The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, was launched on 4 November 1956, ATN-7 Sydney, licensed to Amalgamated Television Services, a subsidiary of Fairfax, was launched on 2 December 1956. BTQ-7 Brisbane followed on 1 November, signing on as Brisbanes second commercial television station, ADS-7 Adelaide was launched on 24 October 1959 as the final capital city VHF7 station. In the early 1960s, coaxial cable links, formed initially between Sydney and Melbourne, allowed the sharing of programmes and simultaneous broadcasts of live shows, left without their original partners, ATN-7 and HSV-7 joined to form the Australian Television Network in 1963. The new grouping was soon joined by other capital-city channel 7 stations, ADS-7 Adelaide, however, it was not until 1970 that a national network logo was adopted, albeit still with independently owned and operated stations with local advertising campaigns. Colour television was introduced across the network in 1975, when a new logo was adopted. Rupert Murdoch made a bid for the Herald and Weekly Times, owners of HSV-7, in 1979. Fairfax, however, successfully bought a 14. 9% share of the later in the same year. The 1980s saw the introduction of sound, as well as a number of successful shows, most notably A Country Practice in 1981, and Sons and Daughters. Wheel of Fortune began its 25-year run in July 1981, produced from ADS-7s studios in Adelaide, the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were shown live on the network the year before. Perth based businessman Robert Holmes à Court, through his business the Bell Group, bought TVW-7 from its original owners, the Herald and Weekly Times, owner of HSV-7 and ADS-7, was sold to Rupert Murdoch in December 1986 for an estimated A$1.8 billion
Seven Network
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The network's centralised digital playout facility,
Broadcast Centre Melbourne, located in the city's
Docklands precinct.
Seven Network
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Seven Network
Seven Network
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Seven's news studios at
Martin Place, Sydney
Seven Network
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Telecast to 6.5 million Australians via the Seven Network – The
Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics.
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Melbourne Cup
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The Melbourne Cup is Australias most prestigious annual Thoroughbred horse race. It is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over and it is the richest two-mile handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races. The Melbourne Cup has a tradition with the first race held in 1861 over two miles but was shortened to 3,200 metres in 1972 when Australia adopted the metric system. This reduced the distance by 18.688 metres, and Rain Lovers 1968 race record of 3,19.1 was accordingly adjusted to 3,17.9, the present record holder is the 1990 winner Kingston Rule with a time of 3,16.3. The race is a quality handicap for horses 3 years old and over, run over a distance of 3,200 metres, the minimum handicap weight is 50 kg. There is no weight, but the top allocated weight must not be less than 57 kg. The weight allocated to each horse is declared by the VRC Handicapper in early September, the Melbourne Cup race is a handicap contest in which the weight of the jockey and riding gear is adjusted with ballast to a nominated figure. Older horses carry more weight than younger ones, and weights are adjusted according to the horses previous results. Entries for the Melbourne Cup usually close during the first week of August, the initial entry fee is $600 per horse. Around 300 to 400 horses are nominated each year, but the field is limited to 24 starters. Following the allocation of weights, the owner of each horse must on four occasions before the race in November, declare the horse as an acceptor, First acceptance is $960, second acceptance is $1,450 and third acceptance is $2,420. The final acceptance fee, on the Saturday prior to the race, is $45,375, should a horse be balloted out of the final field, the final declaration fee is refunded. Leger Tenno Sho Sankei Sho All Comers Arlington Million San Juan Capistrano Handicap Australian Stayers Challenge The limitation of 24 starters is stated explicitly to be for safety reasons, however, in the past far larger numbers were allowed - the largest field ever raced was 39 runners in 1890. International horses that are entered for the Melbourne Cup must undergo quarantine in a premises in their own country for a minimum period of 14 days before travelling to Australia. The premises must meet the Australian Government Standards, the Werribee International Horse Centre at Werribee racecourse is the Victorian quarantine station for international horses competing in the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. The facility has stabling for up to 24 horses in five separate stable complexes and is located 32 km from the Melbourne CBD, the total prize money for the 2015 race is A$6,200,000, plus trophies valued at $175,000. The first 10 past the post receive prizemoney, with the winner being paid $3.6 million, prizemoney is distributed to the connections of each horse in the ratio of 85 percent to the owner,10 percent to the trainer and 5 percent to the jockey. The 1985 Melbourne Cup, won by What a Nuisance, was the first race run in Australia with prize money of $1 million
Melbourne Cup
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Engraving of the finish line at the 1881 Melbourne Cup
Melbourne Cup
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1932 & 1934 winner
Peter Pan ridden by jockey Darby Munro
Melbourne Cup
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The 1976 cup won by
Van der Hum.
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Martini Henry, the 1883 Melbourne Cup winner
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Victoria Derby
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Total prize money for the race is A$1,500,000 and $10,000 trophy. Originally run at a distance of 1 1⁄2 miles, in 1972 it was changed to 2,400 metres to conform to the metric system. However, the new distance brought potential danger from too short a run from the start to the first turn, first run in 1855, the first three editions were won by fillies but the last time a filly won was in 1923 when Frances Tressady claimed victory. In its history, only one horse has won the Victoria Derby more than once. Fireworks accomplished the feat, winning back-to-back runnings in November 1867, between 1931 and 1956 geldings were not permitted to compete. Three horses have won their first race with a win in the Victoria Derby, in 1883, the New Zealand-bred horse Martini Henry won the Victoria Derby at his first start. Fire Oak in 1990, Redding in 1992 and Preferment in 2014 are the other maidens to win the Victoria Derby. In 2005 Clare Lindop became the first female jockey to ride in the Victoria Derby, gai Waterhouse became the first woman to train a winner when Nothin Leica Dane won the 1995 running. 1855–1971 - 1 1⁄2 miles 1972 -2400 metres 1973 onwards -2500 metres 1855–1978 - Principal Race 1979 onwards - Group 1 Time record,2,33. Derby Day has become Mens Day in the Fashion Stakes, and every year increasing numbers of fashionable gentlemen competing for prizes, traditionally black and white are worn on this day by women and morning suits by men. The flower of the day is a blue cornflower, the idea of wearing a cornflower on Derby Day was introduced in 1962 by Mrs Sheelah Wood, wife of prominent VRC committeeman of the time, Mr Samuel Richard Creswick Wood. List of Australian Group races Group races Thoroughbred racing in Australia Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival White shift dress of Jean Shrimpton Victoria Derby Homepage
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1940 winner – Lucrative with Maurice McCarten up
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1938 winner – Nuffield with H.Badger up
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1906 winner –
Poseidon
Victoria Derby
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1917 winner – Biplane with B. Deeley up
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LKS Mackinnon Stakes
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Total prize money is A$2,000,000 and $2,500 trophy. The race was held on VRC Victoria Derby Day, on the first day of the VRC Spring Carnival. The Club moved the race in 2016 to the last day of the carnival and renamed the race replacing the race that was formally called the Emirates Stakes. Prior to 2016, many horses who have a high enough to avoid the ballot for the Melbourne Cup use the race as a lead in to the 3,200 metres race on the first Tuesday in November. The original race is named after a chairman of the VRC L. K. S. 1869–1936 - Melbourne Stakes In 1937 the VRC moved the Melbourne Stakes to earlier in the spring where was run in September over a distance of 1 mile. The race was the predecessor to the Turnbull Stakes, list of Australian Group races Group races
LKS Mackinnon Stakes
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1932 & 1934 winner –
Peter Pan
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1933 winner –
Rogilla Darby Munro up.
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1907 winner –
Poseidon
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Front cover of the 1946 L.K.S. MacKinnon Stakes racebook.
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Horse racing
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Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys or driven over a set distance for competition. Horse races vary widely in format, often, countries have developed their own particular horse racing traditions. Variations include restricting races to particular breeds, running over obstacles, running over different distances, running on different track surfaces, Horse racing has a long and distinguished history and has been practised in civilisations across the world since ancient times. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in Ancient Greece, Babylon, Syria and it also plays an important part of myth and legend, such as the contest between the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology. Chariot racing was one of the most popular ancient Greek, Roman, both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC and were important in the other Panhellenic Games. This was despite the fact that racing was often dangerous to both driver and horse as they frequently suffered serious injury and even death. In the Roman Empire, chariot and mounted horse racing were major industries, fifteen to 20 riderless horses, originally imported from the Barbary Coast of North Africa, ran the length of the Via del Corso, a long, straight city street, in about 2½ minutes. In later times, Thoroughbred racing became, and remains, popular with the aristocrats and royalty of British society, historically, equestrians honed their skills through games and races. Equestrian sports provided entertainment for crowds and honed the excellent horsemanship that was needed in battle, Horse racing of all types evolved from impromptu competitions between riders or drivers. The various forms of competition, requiring demanding and specialized skills from both horse and rider, resulted in the development of specialized breeds and equipment for each sport. The popularity of sports through the centuries has resulted in the preservation of skills that would otherwise have disappeared after horses stopped being used in combat. There are many different types of racing, including, Flat racing. Jump racing, or Jumps racing, also known as Steeplechasing or, in the UK and Ireland, National Hunt racing, Harness racing, where horses trot or pace while pulling a driver in a sulky. Breeds that are used for flat racing include the Thoroughbred, Quarter Horse, Arabian, Paint, Jump racing breeds include the Thoroughbred and AQPS. In harness racing, Standardbreds are used in Australia, New Zealand and North America, light cold blood horses, such as Finnhorses and Scandinavian coldblood trotter are also used in harness racing within their respective geographical areas. There also are races for ponies, both flat and jump and harness racing, Flat racing is the most common form of racing seen worldwide. Track surfaces vary, with turf most common in Europe, dirt more common in North America and Asia, individual flat races are run over distances ranging from 440 yards up to two and a half miles, with distances between five and twelve furlongs being most common. Short races are referred to as sprints, while longer races are known as routes in the United States or staying races in Europe
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Horse racing at
Arlington Park, 2007
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Steeplechase racing at
Deauville
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Harness racing in
Adelaide
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Riderless Racers at Rome by
Théodore Géricault
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Melbourne
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Melbourne is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania. The name Melbourne refers to an urban agglomeration spanning 9,900 km2, the metropolis is located on the large natural bay of Port Phillip and expands into the hinterlands towards the Dandenong and Macedon mountain ranges, Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley. It has a population of 4,641,636 as of 2016, and its inhabitants are called Melburnians. Founded by free settlers from the British Crown colony of Van Diemens Land on 30 August 1835, in what was then the colony of New South Wales, it was incorporated as a Crown settlement in 1837. It was named Melbourne by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Richard Bourke, in honour of the British Prime Minister of the day, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. It was officially declared a city by Queen Victoria, to whom Lord Melbourne was close, in 1847, during the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s, it was transformed into one of the worlds largest and wealthiest cities. After the federation of Australia in 1901, it served as the interim seat of government until 1927. It is a financial centre in the Asia-Pacific region. It is recognised as a UNESCO City of Literature and a centre for street art, music. It was the host city of the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games, the main passenger airport serving the metropolis and the state is Melbourne Airport, the second busiest in Australia. The Port of Melbourne is Australias busiest seaport for containerised and general cargo, Melbourne has an extensive transport network. The main metropolitan train terminus is Flinders Street Station, and the regional train. Melbourne is also home to Australias most extensive network and has the worlds largest urban tram network. Before the arrival of settlers, humans had occupied the area for an estimated 31,000 to 40,000 years. At the time of European settlement, it was inhabited by under 2000 hunter-gatherers from three indigenous tribes, the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung and Wathaurong. The area was an important meeting place for the clans of the Kulin nation alliance and it would be 30 years before another settlement was attempted. Batman selected a site on the bank of the Yarra River. Batman then returned to Launceston in Tasmania, in early August 1835 a different group of settlers, including John Pascoe Fawkner, left Launceston on the ship Enterprize
Melbourne
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(From top left to bottom right)
Melbourne City Centre,
Flinders Street Station,
Shrine of Remembrance,
Federation Square,
Melbourne Cricket Ground,
Royal Exhibition Building.
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Melbourne Landing, 1840; watercolour by W. Liardet (1840)
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"Canvas Town", South Melbourne in the 1850s depicting temporary accommodation for the thousands who poured into Melbourne each week during the gold rush.
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Lithograph of the
Royal Exhibition Building, built to host the
Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880
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Victoria (Australia)
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Victoria is a state in southeast Australia. Victoria is Australias most densely populated state and its second-most populous state overall, most of its population is concentrated in the area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, which includes the metropolitan area of its state capital and largest city, Melbourne, Australias second-largest city. Prior to British European settlement, the area now constituting Victoria was inhabited by a number of Aboriginal peoples. With Great Britain having claimed the entire Australian continent east of the 135th meridian east in 1788, Victoria was included in the wider colony of New South Wales. The first settlement in the area occurred in 1803 at Sullivan Bay, and much of what is now Victoria was included in the Port Phillip District in 1836, Victoria was officially created as a separate colony in 1851, and achieved self-government in 1855. Politically, Victoria has 37 seats in the Australian House of Representatives and 12 seats in the Australian Senate, at state level, the Parliament of Victoria consists of the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council. Victoria is currently governed by the Labor Party, with Daniel Andrews the current Premier, the personal representative of the Queen of Australia in the state is the Governor of Victoria, currently Linda Dessau. Local government is concentrated in 79 municipal districts, including 33 cities, although a number of unincorporated areas still exist, Victorias total gross state product is ranked second in Australia, although Victoria is ranked fourth in terms of GSP per capita because of its limited mining activity. Culturally, Melbourne is home to a number of museums, art galleries and theatres and is described as the sporting capital of Australia. The Melbourne Cricket Ground is the largest stadium in Australia, and the host of the 1956 Summer Olympics, Victoria has eight public universities, with the oldest, the University of Melbourne, having been founded in 1853. Victoria, like Queensland, was named after Queen Victoria, who had been on the British throne for 14 years when the colony was established in 1851. The first British settlement in the later known as Victoria was established in October 1803 under Lieutenant-Governor David Collins at Sullivan Bay on Port Phillip. In the year 1826 Colonel Stewart, Captain S. Wright, fly and the brigs Dragon and Amity, took a number of convicts and a small force composed of detachments of the 3rd and 93rd regiments. Victorias next settlement was at Portland, on the south west coast of what is now Victoria, edward Henty settled Portland Bay in 1834. Melbourne was founded in 1835 by John Batman, who set up a base in Indented Head, from settlement the region around Melbourne was known as the Port Phillip District, a separately administered part of New South Wales. Shortly after the now known as Geelong was surveyed by Assistant Surveyor W. H. Smythe. And in 1838 Geelong was officially declared a town, despite earlier white settlements dating back to 1826, days later, still in 1851 gold was discovered near Ballarat, and subsequently at Bendigo. Later discoveries occurred at sites across Victoria
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Swearing Allegiance to the Southern Cross at the
Eureka Stockade on 1 December 1854 – watercolour by
Charles Doudiet
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Flag
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The Victorian
Parliament House, built in 1856, stands in
Spring Street, Melbourne. The building was intended to be finished with a
dome, but was not completed due to budget constraints.
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The
Legislative Council Chamber, as photographed in 1878
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Australia
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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the worlds sixth-largest country by total area, the neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. Australias capital is Canberra, and its largest urban area is Sydney, for about 50,000 years before the first British settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who spoke languages classifiable into roughly 250 groups. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades, and by the 1850s most of the continent had been explored, on 1 January 1901, the six colonies federated, forming the Commonwealth of Australia. Australia has since maintained a liberal democratic political system that functions as a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy comprising six states. The population of 24 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard, Australia has the worlds 13th-largest economy and ninth-highest per capita income. With the second-highest human development index globally, the country highly in quality of life, health, education, economic freedom. The name Australia is derived from the Latin Terra Australis a name used for putative lands in the southern hemisphere since ancient times, the Dutch adjectival form Australische was used in a Dutch book in Batavia in 1638, to refer to the newly discovered lands to the south. On 12 December 1817, Macquarie recommended to the Colonial Office that it be formally adopted, in 1824, the Admiralty agreed that the continent should be known officially as Australia. The first official published use of the term Australia came with the 1830 publication of The Australia Directory and these first inhabitants may have been ancestors of modern Indigenous Australians. The Torres Strait Islanders, ethnically Melanesian, were originally horticulturists, the northern coasts and waters of Australia were visited sporadically by fishermen from Maritime Southeast Asia. The first recorded European sighting of the Australian mainland, and the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent, are attributed to the Dutch. The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutch navigator, Willem Janszoon. He sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula in early 1606, the Dutch charted the whole of the western and northern coastlines and named the island continent New Holland during the 17th century, but made no attempt at settlement. William Dampier, an English explorer and privateer, landed on the north-west coast of New Holland in 1688, in 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain. The first settlement led to the foundation of Sydney, and the exploration, a British settlement was established in Van Diemens Land, now known as Tasmania, in 1803, and it became a separate colony in 1825. The United Kingdom formally claimed the part of Western Australia in 1828. Separate colonies were carved from parts of New South Wales, South Australia in 1836, Victoria in 1851, the Northern Territory was founded in 1911 when it was excised from South Australia
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Aboriginal rock art in the
Kimberley region of Western Australia
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Portrait of Captain
James Cook, the first European to map the eastern coastline of Australia in 1770
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Tasmania's
Port Arthur penal settlement is one of eleven UNESCO World Heritage-listed
Australian Convict Sites.
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Maribyrnong River
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The Maribyrnong River is a perennial river of the Port Phillip catchment, located in the north–western suburbs of Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria. The Maribyrnong River draws its headwaters from near Mount Macedon within the Macedon Ranges, the river descends 42 metres over its 40-kilometre course. The head of the Maribyrnong catchment is situated in the Macedon Ranges region of central Victoria around 60 kilometres northwest of Melbourne City Centre, various creeks beginning in the southern Mount Macedon area flow into Riddells Creek which in turn flows into the Jackson Creek. The Jackson Creek starts its journey northwest of Gisborne,50 kilometres north of Melbourne CBD, the other major tributary of the Maribyrnong is Deep Creek, which also has its headwaters in the northern and eastern parts of the Macedon Ranges. The creek has cut a valley through the surrounding basalt plains in its southward course, in particular as it flows through localities such as Konagaderra. To the west of Melbourne Airport the tributaries of the Jackson Creek, the river flows south and west. At Keilor the river winds back on itself in a giant horsehoe bend, here the river flows 55 metres below the western plains. Horseshoe Bend Farm is a small scale farm open to schools, kindergartens, playgroups, Brimbank Park forms a huge amphitheatre in the bend in the river with picnic areas, cycle and walking trails, and a café, that is usually busy on weekends and public holidays. The area is rich in birdlife and native fauna, the Maribyrnong River Trail shared path starts at Brimbank Park, following mostly beside the river to near its conjunction with the Yarra River in Footscray. At Avondale Heights and Essendon West residents have a view over the river valley to the skyscrapers of the Melbourne CBD. The river flows past Pipemakers Park at Maribyrnong and Melbournes Living Museum of the West which presents information on the history of the river, dolphins are sometimes sighted in the lower reaches of the river, along with many water birds, especially at Burndap Park. Marriburnong is an alternate spelling listed on a map dated from 1840, the Maribyrnong River valley has been home for the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation for up to 40,000 years. Human remains dated at least 15, 000–years–old have been found along the river, the first Europeans to explore along the river were the party led by Charles Grimes, Deputy Surveyor-General of New South Wales, in February 1803. John Batman is likely to have explored up the river in early 1835, with the establishment of the colony of Melbourne later that year, sheep runs were soon established by Edmund Davis Fergusson and Michael Solomon in the Avondale and Sunshine areas. On Solomons sheep station the ford now near the west end of Canning Street in Avondale Heights soon became known as Solomons Ford and this was the lowest crossing on the Saltwater River, and the furthest inland point of tidal influence. Batman is believed to have crossed the river at this point probably in the well worn steps of Aboriginals and it was for many years the only way from Melbourne to Geelong and land west. During the second half of the 19th century much of Melbournes industry was located along the river, with the closure of many industries since the 1960s and 1970s, much river front land has opened up to parkland and highly sought after residential estates. As the second major river in metropolitan Melbourne, the Maribyrnong plays an important part in Melbournes recreation
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The Maribyrnong River as it flows past the Melbourne suburb of
Essendon West
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Maribyrnong River in the suburb Maribyrnong.
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Jackson Creek, a tributary of the Maribyrnong River at
Clarkefield.
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Maribyrnong River at Brimbank Park
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VRC Derby
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Total prize money for the race is A$1,500,000 and $10,000 trophy. Originally run at a distance of 1 1⁄2 miles, in 1972 it was changed to 2,400 metres to conform to the metric system. However, the new distance brought potential danger from too short a run from the start to the first turn, first run in 1855, the first three editions were won by fillies but the last time a filly won was in 1923 when Frances Tressady claimed victory. In its history, only one horse has won the Victoria Derby more than once. Fireworks accomplished the feat, winning back-to-back runnings in November 1867, between 1931 and 1956 geldings were not permitted to compete. Three horses have won their first race with a win in the Victoria Derby, in 1883, the New Zealand-bred horse Martini Henry won the Victoria Derby at his first start. Fire Oak in 1990, Redding in 1992 and Preferment in 2014 are the other maidens to win the Victoria Derby. In 2005 Clare Lindop became the first female jockey to ride in the Victoria Derby, gai Waterhouse became the first woman to train a winner when Nothin Leica Dane won the 1995 running. 1855–1971 - 1 1⁄2 miles 1972 -2400 metres 1973 onwards -2500 metres 1855–1978 - Principal Race 1979 onwards - Group 1 Time record,2,33. Derby Day has become Mens Day in the Fashion Stakes, and every year increasing numbers of fashionable gentlemen competing for prizes, traditionally black and white are worn on this day by women and morning suits by men. The flower of the day is a blue cornflower, the idea of wearing a cornflower on Derby Day was introduced in 1962 by Mrs Sheelah Wood, wife of prominent VRC committeeman of the time, Mr Samuel Richard Creswick Wood. List of Australian Group races Group races Thoroughbred racing in Australia Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival White shift dress of Jean Shrimpton Victoria Derby Homepage
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1940 winner – Lucrative with Maurice McCarten up
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1938 winner – Nuffield with H.Badger up
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1906 winner –
Poseidon
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1917 winner – Biplane with B. Deeley up
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Phar Lap
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Phar Lap was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse whose achievements captured the publics imagination during the early years of the Great Depression. Foaled in New Zealand, he was trained and raced in Australia by Harry Telford, Phar Lap dominated Australian racing during a distinguished career, winning a Melbourne Cup, two Cox Plates, an AJC Derby, and 19 other weight for age races. He then won the Agua Caliente Handicap in Tijuana, Mexico, after a sudden and mysterious illness, Phar Lap died in 1932. At the time, he was the third highest stakes-winner in the world and his mounted hide is displayed at the Melbourne Museum, his skeleton at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and his heart is currently on display at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra. The name Phar Lap derives from the common Zhuang and Thai word for lightning, ฟ้าแลบ, Phar Lap was called the Wonder Horse, Red Terror, Bobby and Big Red. He was sometimes referred to as Australias wonder horse, according to the Museum of Victoria, Aubrey Ping, a medical student at the University of Sydney, suggested farlap as the horses name. Ping knew the word from his father, a Zhuang-speaking Chinese immigrant, Telford liked the name, but changed the F to PH to create a seven letter word, which was split in two in keeping with the dominant naming pattern of Melbourne Cup winners. A chestnut gelding, Phar Lap was foaled on 4 October 1926 in Seadown near Timaru in the South Island of New Zealand and he was sired by Night Raid from Entreaty by Winkie. He was by the same sire as the Melbourne Cup winner Nightmarch, Phar Lap was a brother to seven other horses, Fortunes Wheel, Nea Lap, Nightguard, All Clear, Friday Night, Te Uira and Raphis, none of which won a principal race. He was a half-brother to another four horses, only two of which were able to win any races at all, Sydney trainer Harry Telford persuaded American businessman David J. Davis to buy the colt at auction, based on his pedigree. Telfords brother Hugh, who lived in New Zealand, was asked to bid up to 190 guineas at the 1928 Trentham Yearling Sales, when the horse was obtained for a mere 160 guineas, he thought it was a great bargain until the colt arrived in Australia. The horse was gangly, his face was covered with warts, Davis was furious when he saw the colt as well, and refused to pay to train the horse. Telford had not been successful as a trainer, and Davis was one of his few remaining owners. To placate Davis, he agreed to train the horse for nothing, Telford leased the horse for three years and was eventually sold joint ownership by Davis. Although standing a winning racehorse at stud could be lucrative, Telford gelded Phar Lap anyway. Phar Lap finished last in the first race and did not place in his three races. He won his first race on 27 April 1929, the Maiden Juvenile Handicap at Rosehill, ridden by Jack Baker of Armidale and he didnt race for several months but was then entered in a series of races, in which he moved up in class. Phar Lap took second in the Chelmsford Stakes at Randwick on 14 September 1929, as his achievements grew, there were some who tried to halt his progress
Phar Lap
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Phar Lap with jockey
Jim Pike at
Flemington Racecourse c. 1930.
Phar Lap
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Phar Lap winning the
Melbourne Cup Race from Second Wind and Shadow King on 4 November 1930.
Phar Lap
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Phar Lap's skin was preserved by
Louis Paul Jonas and is now exhibited as a taxidermy mount by
Melbourne Museum.
Phar Lap
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Phar Lap's heart at the
National Museum of Australia. It was formerly held by the Institute of Anatomy in Canberra.
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Australian National Heritage List
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The Australian National Heritage List is a heritage register, a list of national heritage places deemed to be of outstanding heritage significance to Australia. The list includes natural, historic and indigenous places, once on the National Heritage List the provisions of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 apply. The Australian National Heritage List, together with the Commonwealth Heritage List, in addition, the place must pass a significance threshold, it must have outstanding heritage value to the nation as a whole. This is determined by comparison to similar places. The Australian National Heritage List comprises the following sites, A One of 15 World Heritage places included in the National Heritage List on 21 May 2007, B Yard 4 North was added on 4 August 2009. Commonwealth Heritage List Media related to Australian National Heritage List at Wikimedia Commons Australian National Heritage List
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Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves –
Baw Baw National Park (listing)
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Victorian Heritage Register
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The Victorian Heritage Register lists places of cultural heritage significance to the State of Victoria, Australia. It has statutory weight under the Heritage Act 1995 which establishes Heritage Victoria as the permit authority, Heritage Victoria is part of the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, a department of the Government of Victoria, Australia. Heritage Victoria reports to the Heritage Council who assess nominations to the register, the Minister for Planning is the responsible Minister for Heritage Victoria and the Heritage Act 1995. As of 2013, there were over 2,200 places, delisting of a site requires the intervention of the relevant government minister. All places and objects listed on the register are entitled to a Blue plaque
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The Mining Exchange, Ballarat, Victoria. A building on the Victorian Heritage Register
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Heritage Victoria blue plaque on the Ballarat Mining Exchange
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Salt Water River railway station
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Salt Water River railway station was the first station at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne. It opened on 1 October 1859, as a small station, however, over time it was expanded to include a double platform. The Saltwater River was an early settlers gave the Maribyrnong River. On race days, trains ran every few minutes, and it is estimated that the station carried over 12,000 passengers, according to records, it remained in regular service until approximately 1867. However, it is unclear what happened to the station in the period between the opening of Flemington Racecourse station opened in 1861, and its temporary closure several years later. The station remained in use in the mid-to-late 1860s, and itself closed when Flemington Racecourse station was reopened in 1867
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Melbourne tram route 57
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Melbourne tram route 57 is operated by Yarra Trams on the Melbourne tram network. It operates from West Maribyrnong to Flinders Street station, the 11.6 kilometre route is operated by Z3 class trams from Essendon depot. On 12 November 1961 trams on Sunday were replaced on route 57 by buses, Sunday trams were reinstated on 8 August 1993. Route 57 shares track with route 82 between the intersection of Raleigh and Wests Roads, Maribyrnong and Maribyrnong and Union Roads, Ascot Vale. There have been proposals, supported by the Public Transport Users Association and local politicians, to extend route 57 north-west along Milleara Road to Avondale Heights and East Keilor. Variations of this proposal including building a park and ride facility near the terminus, the State Government in 2009 also proposed the tram be extended into the new suburb planned for the former Maribyrnong Defence Site. The tram would head north from its current terminus into the heart of the new suburb, media related to Melbourne tram route 57 at Wikimedia Commons Route 57 map Route 57 timetable
Melbourne tram route 57
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A Z3 class on route 57 in Elizabeth Street.
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Route 57
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List of Melbourne Cup winners
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The Melbourne Cup is Australias major thoroughbred horse race. It is run at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, each year internationally bred or owned horses compete in the race. This is a list of the winners of the Melbourne Cup, the shortest-priced favourite in Cup history was Phar Lap when he won in 1930 at 8-11. Metrication - The race was held over two miles, but following Australias adoption of the Metric system in the 1970s the current distance of 3,200 metres was adopted in 1972. This reduced the distance by 61 ft 6 in, and Rain Lovers 1968 race record of 3min.19. 1sec was accordingly adjusted to 3min.17. 9sec, the present record holder is the 1990 winner Kingston Rule with a time of 3min 16. 3sec. Melbourne Cup Victoria Racing Club Australian horse-racing Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival List of Melbourne Cup placings Official website
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Dunaden 2011
List of Melbourne Cup winners
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Americain 2010
List of Melbourne Cup winners
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Delta Blues 2006
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Viewed 2008
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Salinger Stakes
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Total prize money for the race is A$300,000 and $2,000 trophy. The event when raced as the Linlithgow Stakes the race was under Weight For Age Conditions, prior to 2006 the race was held on VRC Oaks Day. In 2007 the race was run on the last day of the VRC Spring Carnival, since 2008 the race has been scheduled on Victoria Derby day. For three years during World War II he race was not held. com
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Amounis –1926, 1927 & 1929 Linlithgow Stakes winner
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The 1934 Linlithgow Stakes racebook
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Turnbull Stakes
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The Turnbull Stakes is a Victoria Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race, for horses four years old and older, run under set weights with penalties conditions over a distance of 2,000 metres. The race is held at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in early October and it is one of the important races of the Spring Racing Carnival and is considered a major preparatory race for the Caulfield Cup, W S Cox Plate and for the Melbourne Cup. In 1948 the race was renamed after the Victoria Racing Club Chairman at the time Richard Turnbull, the race has featured in the VRC Spring meet under different names. From 1964 to 1970 the race was run under Weight for Age conditions, list of Australian Group races Group races
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Rising Fast, 1954 winner
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Amounis,1930 winner
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Ajax II, Dual winner (1938, 1940)
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Blamey Stakes
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The total prize money is A$200,000. The race is named after Sir Thomas Albert Blamey who was Australias only native born Field marshal that was a Victoria Racing Club Committee member from 1947 until his death in 1951, the race has been won by horses of exceptional calibre that have won at 2400 meters or longer. These include such thoroughbreds that also competed overseas such as Tobin Bronze, 1955–1972 - 1 1⁄4 miles 1973 onwards -1600 metres 1955–1979 - Principal Race 1979 onwards - Group 2 In 2007 the race was run at Sandown Racecourse due reconstruction of Flemington Racecourse. From 1955 to 1980 the race was run at Weight for Age, list of Australian Group races Group races
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1956 winner –
Rising Fast
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VRC St Leger Stakes
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The race name is the only surviving one as other race clubs around Australia have eliminated the long distance race from their calendar. First run in 1857, the race was held in March as part of the VRC Autumn Carnival. In 1907 the race was run on the race card as the Newmarket Handicap. In an effort to promote the Australian Thoroughbred breeding industry, from 1932 to 1956 geldings were banned from competing in the St. Leger, past St Leger Stakes winners include Australian Racing Hall of Fame inductees Grand Flaneur, Poseidon, Phar Lap, Tranquil Star and Tulloch. Several winners also captured Australias most prestigious race, the Melbourne Cup and they are, Grand Flaneur, Comic Court, Delta, and Gurners Lane. The St. Leger was hosted by Moonee Valley Racecourse in 2001, the race was held over a distance of 14 furlongs,132 yards until 1973 when it was modified to the metric distance of 2800 metres. In 1975 the race was run over 2700 metres, in 2001 and 2007, the distance was changed to 2500 metres when the race was run at Moonee Valley Racecourse while Flemington was under redevelopment. The VRC St. Leger is one of a number of events around the world. European variations include the Irish St. Leger, the Prix Royal-Oak, the Deutsches St. Leger, other national equivalents include the Kikuka Shō, the New Zealand St. Leger and the English St. Leger Stakes held at Doncaster
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Grand Flaneur winner of the 1881 VRC St Leger
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Poseidon,1907 winner.
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Australian horse-racing
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The two forms of Thoroughbred horseracing in Australia are flat racing, and races over fences or hurdles in Victoria and South Australia. Horseracing commenced soon after European settlement, and is now well-appointed with automatic totalizators, starting gates, on an international scale Australia has more racecourses than any other nation. It is second to the United States in the number of starting in races each year. Australia is third, after the U. S. and Japan for the amount of money that is distributed annually. Racing in Australia is administered by the Australian Racing Board, with each states Principal Racing Authority agreeing to abide by, and to enforce, the Australian Rules of Racing. Besides being a sport, horseracing is also an industry, which provides full- or part-time employment for almost 250,000 people. About 300,000 people have a direct interest as individual owners of, or members of syndicates which own, there are bookmakers, over 3,600 registered trainers and more than 1,000 jockeys, plus farriers and veterinarians involved at race meetings alone. Race meetings are oraganised by approximately 374 race clubs that conduct about 2,694 meetings on 360 racecourses around Australia for over $427,245,000 in prize money, the Golden Slipper Stakes, Caulfield Cup and W S Cox Plate are also major attractions. The first horses that came to Australia arrived on the Lady Penrhyn with the First Fleet on 26 January 1788 and it is thought that they consisted of one stallion, one colt, three mares, and two fillies from Cape Town, South Africa. Rockingham was one of the first bloodhorses to be imported into Australia, in 1802, the stallion Northumberland and an English mare were imported, followed shortly thereafter by Washington, a stallion from America. Hector, was an important Arabian horse that was imported to Australia c.1803, Northumberland and Hector were the two leading sires in Australia until 1820. These sires and a number of other Arabian stallions contributed to the breeding up of the population prior to 1825. Manto, imported in 1825, was the first General Stud Book recorded Thoroughbred mare known by name to arrive in Australia and her family is still producing winners. In 1826 the Thoroughbred stallion Peter Fin, and mares Cutty Sark, the first recorded public auction of bloodstock took place in 1805. After the 1830s more English bred horses were imported for racing, malua, foaled in 1879, was the most versatile Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, winning classic races on the flat and the VRC Grand National Hurdle before becoming a good sire. The New Zealand bred Carbine was one of the champions of the Australian turf, and was later inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame. His descendants, the New Zealand bred horses, Phar Lap, Bernborough, Kingston Town, Heroic and Makybe Diva were other champions that have been inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame. On 31 March 2011 Black Caviar was rated the best Thoroughbred racehorse in the world by Timeform for the period of 1 October 2010 to 27 March 2011, Australian Thoroughbred breeding has long been involved in the importation of horses, especially from Europe and later the US
Australian horse-racing
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Thoroughbred racing at
Doomben Racecourse.
Australian horse-racing
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An early importation to Australia was the Arabian stallion (Old) Hector, whose bloodlines are to be found in the
pedigrees of some Australian Thoroughbreds.
Australian horse-racing
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Royal Randwick Racecourse with Sydney skyline in background
Australian horse-racing
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Star Kingdom
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Sandown Racecourse
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This page is for Sandown Racecourse, Australia. For the racecourse in the United Kingdom, see Sandown Park Racecourse, Sandown Racecourse, now known as Ladbrokes Park is a Thoroughbred horse racing race track administered by the Melbourne Racing Club in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Built for the Victoria Amateur Turf Club, it is the only metropolitan racecourse built in the 20th century and was opened before a crowd of 52,000, in June 1965. Sandown Racecourse is situated 25 kilometres from the Melbourne CBD on the Princes Highway in the suburb of Springvale in the City of Greater Dandenong. The original course was an oval shape,1892 metres in circumference and 30 metres wide, with sweeping cambered turns. The Sandown Racecourse also features a racing circuit on the outside of the racecourse. In October 2001, the Melbourne Racing Club commenced the redevelopment of Sandown Racecourse and this consisted of an additional 30 metre wide home turn and widening of the main straight from 30 to 45 metres, and widening of the turn out of the straight from 30 to 45 metres. The Lakeside course has a circumference of 1857 metres and a straight of 407 metres. Racing on the reconfigured tracks commenced on 25 January 2003 with the number of meetings hosted at Sandown being increased from 32 to 41 per season, the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival traditionally closes with the Sandown Carnival. This carnival features Sandown Classic and Eclipse Stakes Day in November each year, in 2008 the MRC changed the name to Sportingbet Park. In 2015 the track was renamed to William Hill Park. The course can be reached in 40 minutes, from Flinders Street Station in the city via Sandown Park railway station on the Pakenham, the following is a list of Group races which are run at Ladbrokes Park
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Sandown Racecourse finish post
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Moonee Valley Racecourse
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Moonee Valley Racecourse is a horse-racing track in Melbourne, Australia which hosts races for Thoroughbreds. Located six kilometres from the Melbourne CBD, it is the home of the Moonee Valley Racing Club and it is situated in Moonee Ponds which is a suburb of the City of Moonee Valley. The track is roughly rectangular, with a circumference of 1,805 m, the track is constructed of the StrathAyr Turf System, having a lower layer of sand and an upper rootzone layer reinforced with mesh elements. Racing takes place in a direction, as it does on all Victorian tracks. A 965m harness racing track located inside the track was the main metropolitan track for harness racing in Victoria for a number of years. The Moonee Valley grandstands have 12 function rooms, which on non-racedays, Moonee Valley Racecourse was established in 1883 by William Samuel Cox, who purchased a farm belonging to John F. Feehan for the purpose of establishing a racetrack. Being entirely freehold land owned by a club, this separates Moonee Valley from other Melbourne racecourse such as Caulfield. Expansion of the racecourse facilities occurred in the 1960s, funded by compensation for land acquired for the construction of the adjacent Tullamarine Freeway. In 2009 the Moonee Valley Racing Club announced their redevelopment plans for the racecourse, the works were estimated to cost $150 million, with $50 million in profit returning to the club. By 2011 the plans had expanded to cover four 20 storey high residential towers, to provide 2000 apartments, costing $1.4 billion, the racing club would receive $300 million. Local residents and politicians are opposed to the plan, the racecourse can be reached via the route 59 tram from Elizabeth Street in Melbourne city centre. Moonee Ponds railway station is a walk from the racecourse and is located on the Craigieburn railway line. Every October the Moonee Valley Racecourse hosts Australasias richest weight-for-age horse-racing championship, contested over a distance of 2,040 metres, the race is for three-year-olds and over. Group races run at Moonee Valley Racecourse include, MVRC official website
Moonee Valley Racecourse
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Aerial view of Moonee Valley Racecourse, looking west
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A horse race underway
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Arden Street Oval
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Arden Street Oval is a sports oval in North Melbourne, Victoria. Not much is known about the date that Arden St Oval was officially opened. The Hotham Cricket Club served as the only tenants until 1882 when they amalgamated with the Hotham Football Club - as they were then known - to effect improvements to the ground. Before then, the Hotham Football Club had been playing matches at Royal Park. The first game of Australian football ever played at the ground took place on 29 April 1882, three years later, the ground became permanently reserved to the Crown. The football and cricket clubs changed their names to North Melbourne on 23 March 1888, the court ruled in favour of the cricket club citing that since it was Crown land, it was illegal to fence off any part of it for the benefit of either party. The playing surface, previously notorious for becoming a gluepot in inclement weather, was upgraded during the winter of 1897,1906 saw the construction of the grounds first grand stand. This prompted Essendon to move to the Essendon Recreation Reserve, in 1922, management of the ground was transferred from the Melbourne City Council to the North Melbourne Football and Cricket Clubs. Improvements to the ground that year, made in an attempt to increase revenue, in early 1925, North Melbourne was finally admitted to the Victorian Football League. The invitation to join the VFL came at a time when support for the club was at an all-time high prompting further upgrading of facilities. This included the construction of the grandstand in 1928, with seating for 2,000 spectators. In 1965, North Melbourne moved its playing and training base from the Arden Street Oval to Coburg Oval, the North Melbourne Football Club continued to use the site as its home ground until 1985, when the club began using the Melbourne Cricket Ground for its home matches. The last VFL match was played there on 17 August 1985 when North Melbourne defeated Richmond by 50 points, the record attendance at the ground is 35,116 in 1949. The highest score was North Melbournes 29.19 in 1983 versus Carlton, the club continued to maintain the Arden Street Oval as a training and administrative base after shifting home games away. Links between the attack, the loss and speculation surrounding its future were quickly dismissed. The first grandstand was built in 1906 on the Fogarty Street side of the ground, remnants of this stand, the concrete players’ race and the base of one of the external staircases, remain in the terraced area. The players’ race still connects the players’ dressing rooms in the Football Club administration building with the oval, in 1909, plans for a new grandstand, to cost £1,000, were drawn up by local councillor and club founder J H Gardiner. Despite the popularity of the club, it was deemed that too few games were scheduled for the ground to warrant the construction of another stand
Arden Street Oval
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Arden Street Oval from the air in 2007 (during redevelopment)
Arden Street Oval
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Arden St in 1980. The 1928 Grandstand is to the North. Betting ring in the North-West. Harold Henderson Pavilion to the west. Outer sheds to the South and East
Arden Street Oval
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1928 Grandstand
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Harold Henderson Pavilion
