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		<title>New NotW claims &#8230; Brown&#8217;s newspaper licences &#8230; the political hashtag &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/02/media-briefs-new-notw-claims-browns-newspaper-licences-the-political-hashtag/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/02/media-briefs-new-notw-claims-browns-newspaper-licences-the-political-hashtag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media briefs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Telegraph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[news of the world phone hacking scandal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sydney's <em>Daily Telegraph</em> should be applauded for this fine interest rates/Melbourne Cup quinella. Plus the latest from the Department of Corrections and other media news of the day.]]></description>
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		<title>Why does anyone give a damn about the Melbourne Cup?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/01/why-does-anyone-give-a-damn-about-the-melbourne-cup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/01/why-does-anyone-give-a-damn-about-the-melbourne-cup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup carnival]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=256269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Of all the things that Melburnians waste money on and are disproportionately obsessed about, the Melbourne Cup is the worst. It's proof white trash is a state of mind and has nothing to do with how much money you have, says <b>Thomas Caldwell</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lloyd Williams, $840m on, still driven by the lure of the Cup</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/01/lloyd-williams-840m-on-still-driven-by-the-lure-of-the-cup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/01/lloyd-williams-840m-on-still-driven-by-the-lure-of-the-cup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Thomson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Players]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lloyd williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=256212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>An interest rate reduction on Cup Day?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/18/an-interest-rate-reduction-on-cup-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/18/an-interest-rate-reduction-on-cup-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alan jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug legalisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For my Melbourne Cup Day bet I'll be having a dollar on a reduction in the Reserve Bank's official interest rate.]]></description>
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		<title>So you think you&#8217;ve seen the last of this great race horse?</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/sport/horseracing/has-so-you-think-run-his-last-race-in-australia-20101102-17cfu.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/sport/horseracing/has-so-you-think-run-his-last-race-in-australia-20101102-17cfu.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[horse racing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[So You Think]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=182927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is So You Think heading overseas? And have we seen the last of this great race horse on Australian soil?]]></description>
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		<title>The secret to finding Melbourne Cup riches</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/02/the-secret-to-finding-melbourne-cup-riches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/02/the-secret-to-finding-melbourne-cup-riches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Thomson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Players]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=182654</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's a big chance this year's Cup will again end up in the trophy cabinet of a wealthy entrepreneur, writes <i>SmartCompany</i> editor <b>James Thomson</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>The Cup carnival strikes up the brand</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/01/the-cup-carnival-strikes-up-the-brand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/01/the-cup-carnival-strikes-up-the-brand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Schwab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian open]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grand Prix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne major events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spring racing carnival]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=182288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Swathes of foreign visitors and corporations inject consumer dollars and marketing investment into the spring racing carnival, proving just what can be achieved when taxpayers aren’t picking up the tab.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cup-winning jockey, 50 years on</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/01/cup-winning-jockey-50-years-on-tells-of-billy-boilover/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/01/cup-winning-jockey-50-years-on-tells-of-billy-boilover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Stapleton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[horse racing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A former teenage punter and Ballarat boarding school bookie, <b>Ross Stapleton</b> fulfills a long-time ambition to interview the jockey known as "the cups specialist" – W.A. (Billy Smith) now long retired at 82 on the Gold Coast.]]></description>
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		<title>The Brumby Dump: new racing commission probing misconduct</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/01/the-brumby-dump-new-racing-commission-probing-misconduct/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/01/the-brumby-dump-new-racing-commission-probing-misconduct/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[horse racing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=182238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In its first eight months of operation, the Office of the Racing Integrity Commissioner has launched investigations into two separate complaints about misconduct in the Victorian racing industry, writes Swinburne University journalism student <b>Lauren McShanag</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Enjoy the Cup from home &#8212; in style!</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/01/daily-proposition-enjoy-the-cup-from-home-in-style/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/01/daily-proposition-enjoy-the-cup-from-home-in-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Proposition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=180910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You mightn’t have got a ticket, but you don’t need to miss out on the fun. <b>Nick Johns-Wickberg</b> has some tips on how to get the most out of the Melbourne Cup -- budget style!]]></description>
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		<title>Cup winning jockey recalls the moment 50 years on</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2010/11/01/centenary-cup-winning-jockey-recalls-the-moment-50-years-on/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2010/11/01/centenary-cup-winning-jockey-recalls-the-moment-50-years-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 01:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Billy Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=182327</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A former teenage punter and Ballarat boarding school bookie fulfils a long-time ambition to interview the jockey known as “the cups specialist” – W.A. (Billy Smith) now long retired at 82. 
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wilson Tuckey&#8217;s tips for the Cup</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2010/10/29/ironbars-lesson-for-cup-punters-watch-your-weights/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2010/10/29/ironbars-lesson-for-cup-punters-watch-your-weights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>f79</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilspon Tuckey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=182176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is the race that stops the nation, but, with 24 runners doing battle over 3200 metres, it is also one of the toughest horse races to punt on. Former MP for O'Connor <b>Wilson Tuckey</b> gives his advice on picking a winner in the Melbourne Cup.
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		<title>Melbourne Cup: the little horse that could</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/sport/horseracing/a-minor-miracle-away-from-the-glory-of-a-cup-run-20101027-173um.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/sport/horseracing/a-minor-miracle-away-from-the-glory-of-a-cup-run-20101027-173um.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[horse racing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=181827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Little regarded Gothic Crown is just one giant step away from taking his place in the Melbourne Cup field. And if it can win Saturday's Lexus Stakes then his trainer, Todd Balfour, could have a horse alongside sheikhs and Bart Cummings, writes the <i>SMH</i>'s <b>Andrew Eddy</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Photo galleries of drunk people at the Melbourne Cup</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/and-the-wankley-goes-to-photo-galleries-of-drunk-people-at-the-melbourne-cup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/and-the-wankley-goes-to-photo-galleries-of-drunk-people-at-the-melbourne-cup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wankley Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herald Sun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalistic ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lazy journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently people get drunk on the public lawns at the Melbourne Cup. Who knew? There is no news in this, just a ritualised annual tabloid photo-gallery parade of shame, vulnerability and intrusion. But try telling that to the <em>Hun</em>.]]></description>
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		<title>Interest rate horse puns: their cups runneth over</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/interest-rate-horse-puns-their-cups-runneth-over/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/interest-rate-horse-puns-their-cups-runneth-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[headlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lazy journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[puns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subeditors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/interest-rate-horse-puns-their-cups-runneth-over/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The priceless coincidence of two major news events occurring within an hour of each other yesterday had the nation's top journalists jockeying relentlessly in their favourite pursuit: tenuously-linked punnage.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Interest rate rise small change for mug punters</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/interest-rate-rise-small-change-for-mug-punters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/interest-rate-rise-small-change-for-mug-punters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserve bank of australia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/interest-rate-rise-small-change-for-mug-punters/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday's interest rate rise was, in monetary terms, roughly what we spent yesterday per head losing on the Cup. And if we just offset the cost of all the hats and champagne with the lost working hours spent on office sweeps...
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		<title>Big cup done and dusted by Irish trifecta</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/big-cup-done-and-dusted-by-irish-trifecta/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/big-cup-done-and-dusted-by-irish-trifecta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bart cummings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[horse racing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday's gigantic sting by Shocking caught thousands upon thousands of pundits, coat-tuggers, gombeens and gobshites who all said that Bart could do no wrong, writes <b>TP Maher</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>The Cup races into first</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/last-nights-tv-ratings-134/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/last-nights-tv-ratings-134/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Glenn Dyer's TV Ratings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Official stats have 2.563 million watching the Melbourne Cup yesterday, but with people watching in pubs and clubs and work, the audience was probably twice that and then a lot more.]]></description>
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		<title>PHOTO GALLERY: The drunks, the bogans and the freaks of the Melbourne Cup</title>
		<link>http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/racing/gallery-fn4cyin0-1225793807095?page=1</link>
		<comments>http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/racing/gallery-fn4cyin0-1225793807095?page=1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's the inevitable photo gallery after every Melbourne Cup, rubbish everywhere, passed out sunburnt men and drunken girls being carried by friends. Australians are a classy lot.]]></description>
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		<title>Gittins: Have a flutter on the economy</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/business/four-on-the-trot-but-time-to-pull-the-reins-before-christmas-20091103-hv88.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/business/four-on-the-trot-but-time-to-pull-the-reins-before-christmas-20091103-hv88.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we can afford to gamble A$137 million on the Melbourne Cup, then we can afford to raise interest rates 0.25 percentage points, says <b>Ross Gittins</b>. Especially since we probably won't see another rise until February.]]></description>
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		<title>Shocking. Watch punter Kevin go off</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/shocking-watch-punter-kevin-go-off/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/shocking-watch-punter-kevin-go-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The PM was on Shocking in the Melbourne Cup. Which pretty much covers his response.]]></description>
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		<title>The Melbourne Cup: just a drunken school formal for grown ups</title>
		<link>http://www.groupthink.com.au/2009/11/03/the-race-to-stupidity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.groupthink.com.au/2009/11/03/the-race-to-stupidity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Bob Dumpling</b> lets loose on the Melbourne Cup and the mess that happens on the other side of the track. No horses involved, just drunk D grade celebrities and fake charities funding the TAB. Time to grow up Australia.]]></description>
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		<title>On the punt with Ramzan Kadyrov</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/first-dog-on-the-moon-436/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/first-dog-on-the-moon-436/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Dog's tips for the Grozny Cup]]></description>
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		<title>The 1896 Melbourne Cup</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/the-1896-melbourne-cup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/the-1896-melbourne-cup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Footage from the 1896 Melbourne Cup: slightly fewer drunken women throwing up champagne all over their frocks, but pretty much the same as it is over 100 years later.]]></description>
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		<title>The powerful myth of the Melbourne Cup</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/the-cup-a-sublime-ritual-on-offer-for-the-price-of-a-wager-20091102-htce.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/the-cup-a-sublime-ritual-on-offer-for-the-price-of-a-wager-20091102-htce.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep, get all the clichés out, today is the race that stops a nation, the sport of kings. But the Melbourne Cup is also a strong example of the distinct Australian social classes, from the supermodels in the birdcage to the country horse lovers.]]></description>
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