The Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival is the highlight of the racing calendar year and the city of Melbourne is always abuzz from September to November as thoroughbred racing hits full steam and culminates in the running of our most famous race the Melbourne Cup at Flemington racecourse on the first Tuesday in November. The Group One Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley signals the onset of the Spring racing carnival and from then on each week we are treated to quality Group One events such as the Caulfield Guineas, Caulfield Cup, WS Cox Plate, Victoria Derby andCrown Oaks..
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The Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival not only excites the city of Melbourne, it also embraces many provincial tracks with a number of Country Cups held during October and November in between the weekly Group one horse racing in the city. Strong provincial tracks Cranbourne, Seymour, Geelong, Bendigo and Ballarat all host their own country Cups which brings the local community together for their own special horse racing day of the year.
The Geelong Cup meeting on October 22nd can sometimes through up a smokey for the Flemington carnival in November with usually a strong Cup field assembled, and the three-year-old Classic over 2200 metres offering a good distance trial for the Victoria Derby which is run over 2500 metres. Media Puzzle won the Geelong Cup in 2002 and then went on to win that years Melbourne Cup in front of a crowd of 102,533 people, while Zazzman won the Geelong Cup in 2003 and finished third in the 2004 Melbourne Cup. On A Jeune took out the Geelong Cup in 2005 and then finished a top second to Makybe Diva in that year's Melbourne Cup, so the Geelong meeting may be one to keep an eye on when it comes around.
