Slightly fewer drunken women throwing up champagne all over their frocks, but in 1986, the Melbourne Cup was pretty much the same as it is more than 100 years later: horsies run around a track.
The crowd milling pre-race
The horses being prepared
And they’re off!
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I’m fascinated by the bloke with the cigar determined to stay in front of the camera even as he mocks the hat-waving dork (WTF is with the hat-waving) and is forced off to the left. Back he comes to stay right in centre-shot.