BNI Riverside wins at the SKÅL Melbourne Cup Lunch
Apart from pulling beer wagons and making glue, horses aren’t much fun, especially the ones that don’t run as fast as they should. Bloody Daffodil! Where were you?!
I’ve never won anything on the Melbourne Cup. It’s always a fun day for sure, except for the last five seconds of the race when you realise the betting slips in your hand are not worth the paper they are printed on. Personally, I put this down to backing the wrong animal.
The SKÅL Melbourne Cup Lunch has a slightly different approach. They race mud crabs. Sure, you don’t have some of the sensory highlights that come with the track experience—the pounding of hooves as the horses thunder past the finish line, the sweat on their rippling muscles, the sickly smell of spew on your shoes. There’s nothing like it, but mud crabs have something you don’t get with horses—winning!
The BNI Riverside table placed bets on two rounds of crab races. The first one, ‘Nuthin Leica Lobster’, didn’t go so well—in fact I thought it may have been dead, but in the second race ‘Chilli’ slowly bolted out of the ring elbowing a worthy competitor on the way past. (Do crabs even have elbows?)
Our team, along with head coach and motivator Oliver, was very pleased with the effort. All the training and hard work paid off. And, as is customary with mud crab races, the competitors were unceremoniously cooked up and served up for lunch.
And so, with 125 bucks in our pocket, a head full of booze and a gut full of fresh mud crab we staggered off into the setting sun to find another bar in which to bask in the glory of our Melbourne Cup win.
Videos
- The photo finish. Technically the body of the crab must be over the line to win.
- The post-race interview. The crab was well-spoken. Not sure what Oliver had to say – something about croissants, we think.
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