The Melbourne Cup is a prize in which sport
2015 Melbourne Cup injury. 2015 Melbourne Cup The 2015 Emirates Melbourne Cup was the 155th running of the Melbourne Cup, a prestigious Australian Thoroughbred horse race. The race, run over , was held on 3 November 2015 at Melbourne's Flemington Racecourse. The date is a public holiday in the state of Victoria. The final field for the race was declared on 31 October. The total prize money for the race was A$6.2 million, the same as the previous year. The winner was Prince of Penzance, ridden by Michelle Payne, who became the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup. Max Dynamite ran
Melbourne Cup (greyhounds) Melbourne Cup (greyhounds) The Melbourne Cup is the world's richest and most prestigious greyhound race. In 2016 it was reported that the race had a prize-winning pool of 600,000. The Cup was first run in 1956 and was worth £500 to the winner. The race is the final event of the three-week Superdogs series which carries over $1 million in total prize money. The Cup is run over at Sandown Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in November annually, following the Melbourne Cup for thoroughbred horses. Some of Australian greyhound racing's most memorable moments and most significant events have occurred in