Three-year-old Sydney stayer Lord Cardigan surprisingly won Australia's premier horse race and was politely applauded by the locals. The Daily Telegraph 4 November 1903 described the large turnout: … the crowd was in excess of any crowd that has been seen in Flemington for many years. Every part of the ground — the lawn, the flat, the hill, the grandstand — seemed to be a mass of heads and faces. Find more information about the Melvin Vaniman collection of photographic panoramas in the State Library of New South Wales' catalogue: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemdetailpaged.aspx?itemid=413018