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
Flemington, Pennsylvania Flemington, Pennsylvania Flemington is a borough in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,330 at the 2010 census. Flemington is located in southern Clinton County at (41.126246, -77.469943), along Bald Eagle Creek and the remnant of the Bald Eagle Crosscut Canal. It is bordered to the east by the city of Lock Haven, the county seat. Pennsylvania Route 150 passes through the center of Flemington, leading northeast into Lock Haven and southwest to Mill Hall. According to the United States Census Bureau, Flemington has a total area of , of which , or 1.30%, is water. As of