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
Gedling Country Park morning at 9am, the course is an undulating single lap figure of eight. Gedling Country Park Gedling Country Park is a country park in Gedling, Nottingham, England. The park is on the grounds of the former Gedling Colliery, which closed in 1991 and was subsequently used as a civic amenity site before closing to the public. The site was converted into the present country park in 2015. A café and visitor centre were opened at the park in 2017 at a cost of £1.5 million. There is a diversity of wildlife, mining heritage, footpaths, trails and woodland. There is bird