Melbourne Cup in November

Each year, on the first Tuesday in November every Australian citizen at home, at school, workplace, in restaurants, and wherever they would be watching horse racing.

Horse racing has been around since 1861, and became the largest horse racing in Australia, even in the world. Melbourne Cup is a race horse with a long track 3200m. Since this is the famous horse race, the day when horse racing was held in the set as a national holiday in the state.