Whether you are in the Nursery area,general admission, the members’ dining rooms, or the Elms or the Birdcage says a lot about who you areThe Melbourne Cup – it unites the nation,suitable? But out there at Flemington, you’ll find a course system as entrenched and as complicated as anything lifted from an Edith Wharton or Evelyn Waugh novel. It starts off all egalitarian. The Victorian Racing Club encourages people to arrive by public transport. And most do. So you’ll fill the bloke who’s been preloading with his mates at Young and Jackson since 8am crammed against an Armadale lady who lunches, or fearing for his eye as the complicated netting of her $1000 hat keeps poking him in the face.
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Source: theguardian.com