This week in numbers

99

Melbourne Cup winner Gold Trip was the first horse in 99 years to win the event with just one previous race win. It was the first time a horse has won the Melbourne Cup at a top weight of 57.5kg since Makybe Diva in 2005.

21

The search for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has turned up 21 coffins in unmarked graves in the city’s Oaklawn Cemetery. Officials said 19 adult-size graves and two child-size had been found. The coffins, then the remains, will be examined to see if they match reports from 1921 that the victims were males buried in plain caskets.

10

Singer Taylor Swift is the first artist to claim the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart’s entire top 10 tracks. All 10 songs are from her new album, Midnights. The achievement puts her ahead of previous record-holder Drake, who had nine hits in the top 10 for a week in September 2021.

2

months in prison. The sentence handed to two Belgian activists who targeted Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring painting in a climate protest. Half of the sentence was suspended by a judge in The Hague, meaning the men will serve one month. One man glued his head to glass protecting the 17th-century masterpiece at the Mauritshuis museum while another poured a can of tomato soup over his head. The second man, wearing a “Just Stop Oil” T-shirt, then glued his hand to the wall next to the painting.

14

Dutch Formula One driver Max Verstappen notched up his 14th firstplace finish of the season in the Mexican Grand Prix, beating previous season record-holders Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel, who both had 13 wins in a single season, in 2004 and 2013 respectively.

100

coaches set a new record for the longest passenger train. Swiss company Rhaetian Railway’s 1906m-long train made a one hour, 10 minute trip through the Alps, a journey of 24.9km that took it through 22 tunnels and 48 bridges.