Melbourne Cup comes to Croydon

Derek Barry
Updated September 21 2016 - 8:22am, first published September 20 2016 - 1:44pm
The Melbourne Cup hitches a lift on the Gulflander into Croydon.
The Melbourne Cup hitches a lift on the Gulflander into Croydon.

The gold rush returned to Croydon last week in the form of the $175,000, 18-carat gold Emirates Melbourne Cup, as part of its tour of Australia and New Zealand.

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Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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