Getting a horse in the Melbourne Cup field is an expensive business — even if racing idealists call the Cup an egalitarian race. James Thomson surveys the field of horse owners.
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LLOYD WILLIAMS
Lloyd Williams, $840m on, still driven by the lure of the Cup
This is the week that Lloyd Williams waits for all year. While Williams’ $840 million fortune might be built on property development and a canny investment strategy, it is the challenge of winning a Melbourne Cup that drives Williams these days.
READ MOREThe Cup result: A case for Bob Brown to take up…
In the welter of post-Melbourne Cup coverage, it is surprising that Bob Brown has not turned the result into an environmental issue. One can only imagine how many trees, or perhaps forests, went into the production of the newspaper guides to the Cup right around the nation, And what a waste of good trees it turned out to be.
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