There is nothing like rain to ruin a party, particularly one where participants have travelled around the world to join the fun.

As the water seeped from the heavens a day out from the Melbourne Cup, the connections of historic American hopeful Parchment Party had cause to weep into their Budweisers and lower the Stars and Stripes to half-mast.

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If the weather for Derby Day was magnificent, Melbourne did its most Melbourne thing by following a sweaty Sunday where the temperature hovered in the low 30s until late in the night with an absolute stinker on Monday.

As a result, the track at Flemington is certain to be heavy for

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