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Victoria Derby

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The Victoria Derby is a Victoria Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held under Set Weights conditions over a distance of 2,500 metres at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia scheduled annually on the first day of VRC Spring Carnival, Victoria Derby Day. [1]

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AAMI

Australian Associated Motor Insurers Limited (commonly referred to as AAMI) is an Australian general insurance provider offering car, home, travel, life and business insurance.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian dollar

The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD) is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including its external territories Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

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Briseis (Australian horse)

Briseis foaled in 1873, was a brown Australian Thoroughbred filly that is regarded as one of the greatest mares ever foaled in Australia.

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Centaurea cyanus

Centaurea cyanus, commonly known as cornflower or bachelor's button, is an annual flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Europe.

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Chester (horse)

Chester (1874–1888) was an Australian thoroughbred racehorse and a leading sire.

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Comic Court

Comic Court (1945–1973) was a most versatile post-war Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse who set race records at distances of 6 furlongs (1,200 metres) and 2 miles (3,200 metres).

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Delta (horse)

Delta (1946−1960) was a champion Australian thoroughbred racehorse who won a number of top level races including the 1949 VRC Derby, 1949 Cox Plate and the 1951 Melbourne Cup.

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Dulcify

Dulcify (1975–1979) was a New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Efficient (horse)

Efficient (foaled 23 August 2003) is a grey Thoroughbred racehorse gelding, bred in New Zealand, who won the 2007 Melbourne Cup and the 2006 Victoria Derby, both times ridden by Michael Rodd.

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Elvstroem

Elvstroem (foaled 14 November 2000 in Australia) was a bay Thoroughbred racehorse, by world champion sire Danehill from the former champion three-year-old filly, Circles of Gold.

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Flat racing

Flat racing is a form of horse racing which is run on a level racecourse.

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Flemington Racecourse

Flemington Racecourse is a major horse racing venue located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Gai Waterhouse

Gabriel Marie "Gai" Waterhouse (née Smith; born 2 September 1954) is an Australian horse trainer and businesswoman.

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Grand Flaneur

Grand Flaneur was an outstanding Australian Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, who won nine successive races, including the AJC Derby, the Victoria Derby and the Melbourne Cup, before he retired undefeated.

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Group races

Group races, also known as Pattern races, or Graded races in some jurisdictions, are the highest level of races in Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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Horse trainer

A horse trainer is a person who tends to horses and teaches them different disciplines.

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Hydrogen (horse)

Hydrogen was a champion Australian thoroughbred racehorse.

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James Scobie (horseman)

James Scobie (18 July 1860 – 6 October 1940) was an Australian jockey and racehorse trainer.

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Jockey

A jockey is someone who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession.

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List of Australian Group races

This List of Australian Group races are recognized as a list Australia's classified Black type thoroughbred horse races.

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Mahogany (horse)

Mahogany (foaled 1990) (Last Tycoon from Alshandegha) was an Australian thoroughbred who raced in the mid-1990s.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival

The Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival is the name of an Australian Thoroughbred horse racing series held annually in Melbourne during October and November.

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Metric system

The metric system is an internationally adopted decimal system of measurement.

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Morning dress

Morning dress is the formal dress code for day attire, consisting chiefly of, for men, a morning coat, waistcoat, and formal trousers, and an appropriate gown for women.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Phar Lap

Phar Lap (4 October 1926 – 5 April 1932) was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse whose achievements captured the Australian public's imagination during the early years of the Great Depression.

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Poseidon (horse)

Poseidon (19 August 1903 - 3 February 1930) was an Australian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse.

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Red Anchor

Red Anchor was a New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who raced in Australia with wins in eight Principal Races.

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Sailor's Guide

Sailor's Guide was an outstanding Thoroughbred racehorse that was conceived in England and foaled in Australia.

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Set Weights

Set Weights (SW) is a condition for a Thoroughbred horse race.

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Sky High (horse)

Sky High was an outstanding Australian Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.

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Stylish Century

Stylish Century was a notable Australian thoroughbred racehorse.

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Taj Rossi

Taj Rossi (foaled 1970) was a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Tarzino

Tarzino (foaled 29 September 2012) is a retired Thoroughbred racehorse bred in New Zealand and trained and Australia.

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The Barrier Miner

The Barrier Miner was a daily English language broadsheet newspaper published in Broken Hill in far western New South Wales from 1888 to 1974.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing.

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Thoroughbred racing in Australia

Thoroughbred horse racing is an important spectator sport in Australia, and gambling on horse races is a popular pastime with A$14.3 billion wagered in 2009/10 with bookmakers and the Totalisator Agency Board (TAB).

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Tobin Bronze

Tobin Bronze (1962–1994) was an Australian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse who competed with great success during the 1960s. A chestnut son of Arctic Explorer from the Masthead mare Amarco, he was a crowd favourite and won 24 of his 44 Australian race starts. His record in weight for age races was 16 starts for 12 wins, 3 seconds and 1 third. He also won many races under handicap conditions, such as the 1967 VATC Caulfield Cup while carrying and the AJC Doncaster Handicap under. In addition, he won the 1967 VATC Toorak Handicap with 9 st 12 lb (62.5 kg), a weight-carrying record for this event that still stands. A 20 October 2009 Sydney Morning Herald article ranked Tobin Bronze's win in the 1966 Cox Plate as one of the "Top 5 Cox Plate moments". Only the champion stayer Redcraze has ever carried more weight to victory in a Caulfield Cup. After three seasons in Australia, Tobin Bronze was sold to American interests but not before winning his final race start in Australia, the 1967 W.S. Cox Plate, before a huge crowd. He was moderately successful overseas, where he won a further four times from 16 starts. However, he failed to properly adapt to the dirt tracks used in America. Racing in the United States for the first time, Tobin Bronze finished third in the Washington, D.C. International Stakes. Sent to California to race in 1968, on 2 March Tobin Bronze won in his third start in the United States, capturing the Azucar Purse at Hollywood Park Racetrack. At stud, Tobin Bronze was the sire of fifteen stakes race winners including Trojan Bronze, the 1975 San Luis Rey Handicap winner, and Noble Bronze, who won the 1978 California Derby. Tobin Bronze died in California in 1994. Following its formation in 2000, he was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2003.

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Tulloch (horse)

Tulloch (foaled in New Zealand) (1954–1969) was a Thoroughbred racehorse, who is regarded as one of the three finest racehorses in Australian racing history.

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Victoria Racing Club

The Victoria Racing Club was founded in 1864.

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White shift dress of Jean Shrimpton

On 1965 Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia, English model Jean Shrimpton wore a white minidress that sparked controversy and was later described as a pivotal moment in women's fashion.

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VRC Derby, VRC Derby Stakes.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Derby

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