Lexus Melbourne Cup Tour: Famed trophy to visit Pinjarra Park as part of international tour pre-race day
A racetrack in the Peel region will be one of just three locations Statewide that will host the iconic three-handled horse racing trophy, the Melbourne Cup, on its annual international tour.
For two decades, the Lexus Melbourne Cup Tour has been an important Victoria Racing Club initiative during which the famed trophy tours Australia and the globe before landing in Melbourne prior to “the race that stops a nation”.
It has travelled more than 900,000km to about 600 destinations, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for charities along the way.
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The tour kicked off in June in Tokyo and on Thursday will land at Pinjarra Park for the first time.
Pinjarra Race Club will host a race day at the local track to welcome the unique trophy and raise funds for the Mandurah and Murray branch of Riding for the Disabled Association.
For a gold coin donation, punters will be able to get up close and personal for photos with the prestigious trophy — made from 18-carat gold and worth about $250,000 — with the funds going straight to RDA Murray Mandurah, Pinjarra Park’s chosen partner charity for the tour.
As Pinjarra Race Club’s chosen charity, RDA Murray Mandurah is also in the running for a $50,000 donation should Pinjarra win the tour’s National Sweep.
The cup will spend a total five days in WA, with two in Perth (August 1-2), one in Pinjarra (August 3) and two in Broome (August 4-5), before moving on to New South Wales.
The Melbourne Cup is on November 7 at Flemington Racecourse, with $14 million in prize money up for grabs. The cup winner takes home $4.4m in prize money, with the owner awarded the cup, and the trainer and jockey presented smaller versions, worth about $10,000 each.
