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ARGUABLY Ballarat’s social event of the year, the Ballarat Cup is all about fun, frivolity, fashion – oh yes, and the horses.
Held in November each year at the end of the spring racing carnival – with Saturday marking the 2014 Ballarat event – the cup is a perfect excuse to dress up and enjoy a drink or two while catching up with friends past and present.
Last year’s event was attended by more than 10,000 racegoers.
After once being held on a Wednesday and then on a Sunday in recent years, the 2014 Ballarat Cup will be held on a Saturday following a five-year campaign by the Ballarat Turf Club.
The fashions on the field for both men and women are hotly contested events on the day, as is The Courier’s Top 100 competition, in which readers vote for their favourite “best-dressed” race-goer.