The best publicly accessible marquee is the International Lounge and to book you must join the Melbourne Cup Business Network (free).
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Makybe was the first to win the Melbourne Cup three times, in 2003, 2004 and 2005 (four other horses have won it twice).
The Melbourne Cup winner in 2011 was French-trained and Qatari-owned.
McEvoy knows all about taking part in sporting showdowns Down Under, having won the Melbourne Cup in 2000 on Brew, and once being aboard a winner owned by Australia's cricket captain Ricky Ponting.
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While seven weeks of events precede Cup Day, it is the weeklong Melbourne Cup Carnival that really gets into high gear, with two other major races of note, kicking off on Sunday with fashionable Derby Day, which boasts an even higher level of sartorial splendor than the Cup itself.
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Like seven of his American teammates and six from the international squad, Woods is using the event as a tune-up for the Presidents Cup in Melbourne.
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They move on to face unbeaten New Zealand in the first of this year's Bledisloe Cup fixtures in Melbourne next Saturday.
Tadulala first came to prominence representing Fiji in the 2000 Rugby League World Cup before joining Melbourne Storm where he stayed for three seasons.
Between race-goers and the rest of Cup-obsessed Melbourne, a well-dressed mass exodus to restaurants and bars starts around 4PM and continues into the wee hours.
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Cooper's previous good disciplinary record was one factor taken into consideration, but the 22-year-old will now miss next Saturday's match against New Zealand in Melbourne and the 7 August Bledisloe Cup test in Christchurch following his spear tackle on opposite number Morne Steyn, for which he was sin-binned.
David Bowers hopes to travel 10, 000 miles (16, 090 km) from his home in Melbourne, Australia, to see the Bantams in February's League Cup final.
Despite being on the fringes of the squad, the 22-year-old fly-half was not selected for the 2007 World Cup in France, and his decision to join the new Melbourne Rebels Super 15 franchise on a two-year deal has all but ended his chances of playing at the 2011 tournament in New Zealand.
The 23-year-old top seed, who won her first major tournament in Melbourne last year, burst into tears after she successfully defended her claim to the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup, becoming one of only eight women, including Steffi Graf, Martina Hingis and Serena Williams, who have done so.
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