Yep, Its Melbourne Cup horse race day in Australia

As I explained earlier, its sort of an unofficial national holiday (it is an official holiday in Melbourne and the whole state (Victoria))

  • The largest betting agencies will get hundreds of thousands of bets every minute
  • TABCORP (the biggest) is anticipating 3000 transactions to be made each second in the immediate lead up to the Cup
  • And more than 11.2 million bets expected by the end of the day