The Melbourne Cup Winner is the race horse which 1st passes the line in the Melbourne Cup. The Melbourne Cup is the popular thoroughbred horse race that is held on the first Tuesday each and every November. It launched back in 1861 when a race horse by the name of Archer took out the event. Ever since the 1st race, the Melbourne Cup has developed into a world famous horse racing event. Jockeys and trainers from across the world have taken part in this amazing race.

The race that stops a nation is going to be held for the 150th time. The Melbourne Cup is a horse race in which the whole nation stops and views the horses race on their TVs or live at the horse racing track. Cup day is a public holiday for people in Victoria and it is perhaps the only sporting event that we have a public holiday for. Almost all people on this day make a bet and go somewhere where they can view the race.

Hundreds of thousands of people come to view this Melbourne Cup event each year. The amazing horse race is held on the first Tuesday in November and practically a huge number of horse racing lovers go and watch this amazing horse race. It is Australia's largest horse race in the Spring Racing Carnival that is held over a few weeks.

Bart Cummings is a popular horse trainer who has been the trainer of numerous champions in horse racing. He has trained twelve champions of the Melbourne Cup. His 1st in the Melbourne Cup occurred in 1965 and he is chasing his thirteenth this year. The spotlight is on Bart Cummings in 2010 to take out the Melbourne Cup.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars are placed on the line in the Melbourne Cup. It amounts to thousands to get a race horse into the Melbourne Cup and horse trainers are placing their very best horse forward. Some horse trainers are even able to put more than one horse in the Cup race. Punters are having a punt and there are people out of the country putting punts too. Millions are lost on Melbourne Cup day and thousands and thousands are collected.