The final of the creative and design-led Lillian Frank AM MBE Millinery Award was judged by an international panel of fashion experts including VRC Ambassadors, Lady Amelia and Lady Eliza Spencer, Melbourne Cup Carnival Ambassadors Gemma Owen and Georgina Burke and daughter of the late Lillian Frank, Jackie Frank. The award re-named in 2022 to honor the late Melbourne icon, philanthropist and friend of Flemginton, Lillian Frank AM MBE was won by Canberra based milliner and third time winner Cynthia Jones Bryson.
Inspired by Michael Buble’s song Sway, Cynthia took a piece of recycled nylon she found at an op shop and turned it into a winning headpiece that took more than 30 hours to complete.
Macedon in Victoria are $50,000 richer after winning the Lexus Melbourne Cup Tour National Sweep, with the money going to Living Legends. The national sweep was introduced by the VRC in 2019 as part of the Lexus Melbourne Cup Tour and sees 24 rural and regional Lexus Melbourne Cup Tour destinations across Australia allocated a starting gate for ‘the race that stops a nation’™, the 2032 Lexus Melbourne Cup.
Victoria Racing Club Chief Executive Officer Steve Rosich said that, as custodians of Australia’s greatest race, the Club was proud to take the 163rd ‘race that stops a nation’™ to the world.
“There is no race in Australia - or indeed the world - that is quite like the Lexus Melbourne Cup,” Mr Rosich said. “Another memorable chapter was written today with Mark Zahra’s success aboard Without A Fight for the Freedman family, who have been so synonymous with Australia’s greatest race over the past 35 years.
It was a great representation of everything that makes the Lexus Melbourne Cup such an indelible part of the Australian psyche, and it was thrilling to see a great crowd of 84,492 racegoers there to be a part of it.”
The VRC is also proud to present the community of Macedon with $50,000 after winning the 2023 Lexus Melbourne Cup Tour National Sweep which will be put towards their nominated charity Living Legends.
Tickets for Kennedy Oaks Day and TAB Champions Stakes Day are still available for members and the general public via Ticketmaster. For more information visit www.vrc.com.au