Melbourne briefsGetty Images Melbourne Cup winner Almandin with owner Lloyd Williams, left, and Joel Flannery at Williams' Macedon Lodge on Wednesday. The field includes Newmarket Handicap winner The Quarterback, prolific winner Our Boy Malachi and last-start Manikato Stakes placegetters Fell Swoop and Japonsime. Nine Cup day arrestsNine people have been arrested, including one for drug trafficking, at the Melbourne Cup Carnival. The woman gave a blood alcohol reading of 0.122 per cent - more than twice the legal limit. She told police she had been drinking at a Melbourne Cup function at her favourite bowls club.

Source: Stuff November 02, 2016 01:16 UTC