Amongst the crowds at Christchurch Cup Day

Amongst the crowds at Christchurch Cup Day

Today is race day in Christchurch.

It's a day when people put on their fancy clothes, their fascinators and their nice shoes.

And then some of them go and get very, very drunk.

In that respect it seems New Zealand isn't too different to the race lovers who were getting boozed up at the Melbourne Cup last week. So what's going on and why are so many people doing it?

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