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Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Female jockey makes history with 1st win at Melbourne Cup

Source: www.bostonherald.com --- Tuesday, November 03, 2015
MELBOURNE, Australia — Michelle Payne became the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday when she rode the 100-1 outsider Prince of Penzance to victory in Australia's richest horse race. Payne pushed the six-year-old Prince of Penzance through a narrow gap in the straight and surged ahead of the Irish stayer Max Dynamite, ridden by Frankie Dettori, and New Zealand-owned Criterion, ridden by Michael Walker, for the victory. ...



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