Traditional Kilmore Cups on a Monday afternoon were great in the day and usually featured the fist 2 year old events of the season. Crowds were always huge and it had a great picnic atmosphere.

However, NZ Cup Day is more akin to VRC Derby Day; people dress up to the nines and the crowd has Addington bursting at the seams.

Kilmore Cups of old were more like an end of year footy trips, with half the crowd in a done-for before the first leg of the daily double. Great day, but lacking somewhat in class. Not that this matters, everybody enjoyed themselves some just a bit more than is sociably acceptable today.