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Australia’s best known horse race was celebrated in dance form in 1962 when Rex Reid choreographed his Melbourne Cup for the Australian Ballet’s inaugural season.

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Walter Stringer (1907–2001)
Suzanne Musitz as a Pink Bonnet Lady in Rex Reid’s Melbourne Cup, 1963
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