Sport
16 June, 2022
The Melbourne Cup will visit Allora in 2022
It’s a definite but let’s follow the 12 months journey.
Perry Cronin from the Allora & District Sports Museum submitted a tender to host the 2021 Lexus Melbourne Cup Tour (LMCT) early 2021.
The Victoria Racing Club (VRC) advises the winning Tenders - unfortunately Allora wasn’t on the list.
The VRC then had a change of heart after a bit of sweet talking by Perry.
At last the Cup was on its way to Allora in September 2021 however Covid put a stop to that.
12 months later - June 2022 - a win for Allora with thanks to Perry Cronin.
The 2022 Lexus Melbourne Cup Tour will be in Allora on Wednesday 14th September and the whole town is invited to this historic event.
A bit of background on how the process works -
• After receiving a record-breaking number of applications, the Victoria Racing Club (VRC) announces the iconic trophy will travel to 33 destinations across the globe as part of the milestone 20th annual Lexus Melbourne Cup Tour.
• This will include visiting Allora and Warwick in Queensland.
• A record 90 communities applied to host this year’s tour, with the final route spanning three countries including Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
• Since the tour’s inception in 2003, the three-handled Cup has travelled far and wide across Australia and the world, travelling over 760,000 kilometres, visiting more than 560 destinations, engaging with tens of thousands of people and raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for local fundraising initiatives.
• The Lexus Melbourne Cup Tour National Sweep has also become an important addition to the tour in recent years and will return in 2022.
• Introduced in 2019, the sweep sees 24 rural and regional tour destinations across Australia allocated a barrier for the Lexus Melbourne Cup, with the town which draws the barrier of the Cup-winning horse presented with a cash prize of $50,000 to be contributed to a nominated charity for a local community initiative.
