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The Melbourne Cup The first Tuesday, in November, is the day horse-racing people remember, at Flemington they say. When all Australia stops. There's been royalty, generals and sirs and ladies in fine furs or men dressed like Oscar Wilde or Noel Coward. There's champagne and salmon, and people playing backgammon in the car park at lunchtime they say. And there's been big punters, like Darcy Eccles and bookmakers too . With the race being thirty-two hundred metres, with a five hundred metre strait . If the jockeys want to win, it's best to have their horses in position by the time they reach the Flemington clocktower. The fir st horse to win was Archer, who won twice in succession and travelled all the way from Nowra in New South Wales, and there was Shadow King, who was entered six times. And there were whip stories about jockey Jimmy Johnson, known as the Lion-Tamer, and Harry White and Bobbie Lewis. Each rode four winners, and four horses won twice