On the first Tuesday in November every year, at 5 p.m. (NZ time), New Zealand
and Australia come to a standstill for about 3 minutes and 20 seconds for
the call of the Melbourne Cup.
Relive some of New Zealand's greatest triumphs in ‘the race that stops a nation’.
An amendment to the Gaming Act at the end of 1910 banned bookmakers from New Zealand racecourses. Bookies were officially farewelled at the Takapuna racecourse.
Two weeks after winning one of North America's richest races, the Agua Caliente Handicap, the Australasian champ died of a mystery illness in California.
