Collection: Melbourne Cup

Once a year, Australia stops for a horse race. The Melbourne Cup — "the race that stops a nation" — turns the first Tuesday of November into a carnival of spring fashion, champagne picnics and office sweeps. These are the stones of that day: agate, white moonstone and citrine, long linked with victory; garnet and dragon's blood jasper, the stones of courage and daring; amber and petrified wood, carried for good fortune; and the family stones, for the family day that closes the carnival. For its beauty, its story, and whatever meaning you give it.