On the track Verry Elleegant stormed to victory in the Melbourne Cup but in the stands it was slightly less elegant with trackside revellers chugging champagne straight out of the bottle.
The so-called race that stops a nation has been held in Melbourne since 1861 and regularly attracts crowds of more than 100,000, but was this year restricted 10,000 fully-vaccinated people.
Cooped-up Australians threw off the shackles of gruelling lockdowns for the Melbourne Cup, but some party animals may have overdone the celebrating just a touch.