Rumor has it that one of the world’s best known Thoroughbred owners might possibly attend the 150th running of the Melbourne Cup this November. Today at Flemington Racecourse, Victorian Racing Minister Rob Hulls refused to say whether or not the Queen had been invited to attend Australia’s most prestigious Thoroughbred contest.

“I know that the Queen is a great racing fan, and I honestly don’t know whether or not she has any plans to come here,” Hulls told reporters. Nor would he confirm if Premier John Brumby had extended an invitation to Her Majesty during their meeting at Balmoral last year.

The Queen is no stranger to the Cup. In 1997, the year of Might And Power’s triumph, her 4-year-old gelding Arabian Story finished in the money, a respectable sixth, in the world’s greatest two-miler. More recently, her granddaughter, Zara Phillips, attended last year’s Melbourne Cup Carnival.