{"id":264171,"date":"2025-11-05T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/264171\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:27:08","slug":"melbourne-cup-2025-socials-from-perth-punters-celebrating-race-at-ascot-racecourse-the-kingsman-steves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/264171\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Cup 2025: Socials from Perth punters celebrating race at Ascot Racecourse, The Kingsman, Steve\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The people of Perth pulled out all the colourful fashion trends for a day of celebrating Melbourne Cup at events held around our city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Thousands of punters swarmed Ascot Racecourse which opened at 8.30am to people racing to get bets on and where the drinks were flowing well before lunchtime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Meanwhile on Riverside Drive, Suited Events took over The Kingsman \u2014 an open-air venue next to the Supreme Court Gardens \u2014 for a day of entertainment and fashion shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">More than 2500 guests enjoyed live sets from Felix the Band, Tara Del Borello and several DJs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Celebrations extended after sunset at Steve\u2019s in Nedlands thanks to DJ Manr who kept the good vibes flowing after guests indulged in oysters, sushi, sashimi and champagne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">West Coast Eagles stars Harley Reid, Liam Baker and Jack Graham were amongst the partygoers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">SEE THE FASHION IN THE SOCIAL GALLERY BELOW<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Trailblazing jockey Jamie Melham became the second female hoop in history to win the Group 1 $10 million Lexus Melbourne Cup (3200m) aboard Half Yours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">And a WA punter also had the win of a lifetime, collecting more than $70,000 on a successful trifecta bet placed at a Girrawheen TAB outlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The people of Perth pulled out all the colourful fashion trends for a day of celebrating Melbourne Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,1626,134,23237,995,1625,84818,13882,588,85,45],"class_list":["post-264171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beauty-style","tag-entertainment","tag-horse-racing","tag-influencers","tag-lifestyle","tag-melbourne-cup","tag-social","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}