google logo melbourne cup 2007

Google Australia today celebrates the annual horse racing competition Melbourne Cup.

The Melbourne Cup is Australia’s major annual thoroughbred horse race. Billed as The race that stops a nation, it is for three-year-olds and over, and covers a distance of 3,200 metres. [...] This day was traditionally only a public holiday within metropolitan Melbourne, but is now also observed as a holiday in the ACT. [Wikipedia]

Last year’s logo showing two horses outrunning each other.