On the first Friday in September, The Adelaide suburb of Wayville hosts the state's biggest event. What is the event?
Royal Adelaide Show The Royal Adelaide Show (colloquially known simply as "The Show") is an annual agricultural show run by the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia. The Show always begins on the first Friday in September, and runs for 10 days (9 until 2013). It is held at the Adelaide Showground, located in Wayville, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia and is attended by up to half a million people every year, making it the State's biggest event.
Melbourne Cup The Melbourne Cup is Australia's most prestigious annual Thoroughbred horse race. It is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over, conducted by the Victoria Racing Club on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria as part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races. The event starts at 3pm on the first Tuesday in November and is known locally as "the race that stops a nation".