Melbourne Cup Breakfast Meeting

We gathered at the Firehouse Restaurant for a fun filled morning to get Melbourne Cup day off to a great start.  Bev's International Toast was a tribute to the Japanese who had the favourite horse in the Cup and so we toasted the Yurakowa Club in Japan.  Sergeant Ron had us all telling 'horsey' stories or we would be fined - although I'm not sure he actually followed through on that.

 

Gren, with his able assistant, Jill, once again coordinated the Sweeps and made sure we all knew which horse/s we had been allocated for the race later in the day.

 

We had our own Ascot Race and had four winners who had backed the 'red hatted jockey'.  Congratulations Hugh, Ros, Deepti and Dianne on winning a mystery bet at the TAB for their efforts.

 

Geoff Malthouse won the 'best tie' of the day from some stiff competition and Deepti won the best hat competition.  It was a great morning and had us all in a wonderful frame of mind, ready for the rest of the day.