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Melbourne Cup 2025: Who Will Win 'the Race that Stops a Nation?'
Jamie Melham secured victory aboard More Felons in the 2025 Melbourne Cup, with a NZ$11.9 million prize pool attracting top international competitors.
- On Tuesday, Jamie Melham, jockey, rode Half Yours, five-year-old gelding, to victory in the 165th Melbourne Cup at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, earning $5.15 million.
- The Melbourne Cup is widely known as the 'Race that Stops a Nation,' run over 3200 metres with organisers expecting some 90,000 people at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne.
- Melham dedicated the win to Melham's late grandfather, who died last week, while the stewards said Half Yours, five-year-old gelding, had a minor cheek laceration but no treatment was needed.
- Michelle Payne, 2015 Melbourne Cup-winning jockey, embraced Jamie Melham after Tuesday’s race and told the Nine Network she was moved, saying `I've got tears in my eyes`.
- The spring carnival carries a NZ$11.9 million total prize pool, and fans could stream the 2025 Melbourne Cup for free on TVNZ+ or Sky Sports with live commentary on Newstalk ZB and GOLD SPORT at 5pm.
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Jamie Melham becomes first female jockey to win historic Australian horse racing double
Jamie Melham has ridden Half Yours to victory in the 165th Melbourne Cup, becoming the first female jockey to win a historic double.
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‘Welcome to the club’: Payne’s special embrace after Melham wins dramatic Melbourne Cup
Half Yours has won the 2025 Melbourne Cup, ridden by jockey Jamie Melham. The horse came home to take the win ahead of Goodie Two Shoes and Middle Earth and makes Melham the first female jockey in history to win the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double in the same year
·Sydney, Australia
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