Director Simon Wincer and the hero of The Cup, two-time Melboune Cup winner Damien Oliver.

TOWN MOOR is no ordinary racecourse. To label it as such is like calling the Tour de France “a strenuous country ride” or Buckingham Palace “the home of a London family”. Town Moor is to thoroughbred racing what the barren plains of Marathon are to long distance runners: heroic, historic, defining.