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Half Yours has won the Melbourne Cup, with Jamie Melham becoming only the second female jockey to win Australia's most famous ...

The Melbourne Cup will have a full field of 24 horses for the first time in six years after Racing Victoria announced on ...

Jye McNeil like any Australian jockey past, present and future dreamed of winning a Melbourne Cup and being welcomed back to ...

Jamie Melham will bid to become the first female jockey to claim a coveted double in Australian horse racing when she rides ...

Half Yours wins the 165th edition of the Melbourne Cup at Flemington, with jockey Jamie Melham making history as the first ...

The story of the Cup is well known - first run in 1861 when won by the mighty Archer, and a grand stage for some of all-time ...

The full field for the 2025 Melbourne Cup has been set with 24 horses competing for the greatest prize in Australian horse ...

For the first time since 2019, the Melbourne Cup will showcase a complete roster of 24 horses, a welcome change following years marked by late withdrawals. Since 2019, at least one horse had been ...