Horse Racing

So far undefeated in her racing career, Black Caviar has won 20 of her 20 races.

Caulfield Racecourse, southeast of Melbourne city centre, is best known for being the home track of the Caulfield Cup, a 2400-metre Group 1 handicap race for horses three years old or more.

Fleminton Racecourse, six kilometres northwest of Melbourne city centre, is the home track of the Melbourne Cup, Australia's richest and biggest horse racing event.

The Golden Slipper is the world's richest horse race for two-year-olds held in the Easter season during the Autumn Racing Carnival in Sydney.

Makybe Diva is the six-year-old mare (at the time of the 2004 Melbourne Cup) who entered the Australian horse racing record books by being the first mare to win two consecutive Melbourne Cup races (2003, 2004).

Supermare Makybe Diva is the only racehorse in history to have won three Melbourne Cup races (2003, 2004, 2005), and in successive years, too.

The Melbourne Cup is run on the first Tuesday in November. It is popularly known as the race that stops a nation.

The Melbourne Cup has been run yearly since 1861. Here are the Melbourne Cup winners and placegetters since the year 2000.

Delta Blues wins the 2006 Melbourne Cup.

Efficient wins the 2007 Melbourne Cup run in the afternoon of Tuesday, November 6, at Melbourne's Flemington Racecourse.

Viewed wins the 2008 Melbourne Cup in a 10-race program at Flemington Racecourse on November 4, the first Tuesday in November.

Sydney has four thoroughbred horse racing venues located at Royal Randwick, Rosehill Gardens, Canterbury Park and Warwick Farm.

It's a Shocking win at the 2009 Melbourne Cup.

The 2010 Melbourne Cup takes place on November 2 at Melbourne's Flemington Racecourse.

The 2011 Melbourne Cup takes place on November 1, the first Tuesday in November, at 3pm, Australian eastern daylight saving time.

Phar Lap is Australia's legendary racehorse who raced 51 times for 37 wins, three seconds and two thirds and died in North America under mysterious circumstances in 1932.

Site of some of Sydney's major horse racing events — such as the world's richest horse race for two-year-olds, the Golden Slipper — Rosehill Gardens Racecourse is located in the geographical centre of the Sydney metropolitan area, just east of Parramatta and Harris Park.