Flemington Racecourse The first Melbourne Cup was run in 1861. In 1871 the Victoria Racing Club Act was passed, giving the VRC legal control over Flemington Racecourse. The racecourse is shaped not unlike a pear, and boasts a six-furlong (1,200 m) straight known as 'the Straight Six.' The track has a circumference of and a final straight of for race distances over . Races are run in an anti-clockwise direction. The course has a crowd capacity of over 120,000 and contains three grandstands. The biggest ever attendance was on Victoria Derby Day in 2006 when 129,069 people saw Efficient win the Victoria
Kananaskis Country Golf Course listed Mt. Kidd as the third Best Public Course in Alberta, with Mt. Lorette taking fifth place and "Golf Week" included Mt.Kidd on its list of Best Canadian Golf Modern Courses. In November 2011, the golf publication, "Golf Digest" included Kananaskis Country Golf Course on its top 75 golf resorts biennial list. In 2011 the Kananaskis Country Golf Course showed a province wide net economic impact of $14 million, 175 full-time equivalent jobs sustained province wide, and a $4.4 million federal, $1.9 million provincial and $800,000 local taxes generated. The Kananaskis I.D. in which the Kananaskis Country Golf Course is