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Rider Emily Brown takes Torranzino for a run on a bush track.

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Melbourne Cup 2025

Enjoy our reporting from the lead-up to this year’s race.

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Jockey Celine Gaudray at home in Skye ahead of her maiden Melbourne Cup ride on Torranzino on Tuesday.

She broke her back in her fourth race. Now Celine Gaudray will ride in the Melbourne Cup

Broken bones and suspensions haven’t dampened the big smile of rising star Celine Gaudray who will ride in the Melbourne Cup for the first time on Tuesday, just 10 years after lobbing on trainer Pat Carey’s doorstop looking for part-time work.

  • Peter Ryan
Robbie Dolan relives the joy of winning the 2024 Melbourne Cup.

Watch the video: ‘What the hell just happened?’ Robbie Dolan relives elation of Cup win

Twelve months after he shocked the world by joining the Melbourne Cup honour roll, the Irish jockey relives the race blow by blow.

  • Danny Russell
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Presage Nocturne gets run on Sunday morning before the Cup.
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Fairytales and heavyweights: How to tip the Melbourne Cup trifecta

Racing writers Danny Russell and Peter Ryan pull apart the Melbourne Cup field searching for the winning trifecta formula.

  • Danny Russell and Peter Ryan
Melbourne Cup hopeful Buckaroo, left, runs a narrow second in the Cox Plate.
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The in-form favourite, the X-factor and the wet-track specialist: Michelle Payne rates every Cup runner

Ten years after her famous Melbourne Cup win on Prince of Penzance, Michelle Payne gives here horse-by-horse guide to this year’s race.

  • Michelle Payne and Danny Russell
Darren Weir and Michelle Payne after Prince Of Penzance won the 2015 Melbourne Cup.
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Michelle Payne’s Cup win was unforgettable. But no one mentions this man’s involvement

It will soon be time for the Racing industry to consider bringing a Melbourne Cup winner out of exile.

  • Danny Russell
Golf great Tiger Woods alongside McManus at the Irishman’s pro am.

He’s best mates with Tiger and used to own Man United. Meet the Irish billionaire with his first runner in the Cup

Irish racing’s most famous owner is a man of few words but big ambitions. Goodie Two Shoes will become his first Cup runner on Tuesday.

  • Peter Ryan
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Vauban (left) will attempt to win the Cup on Tuesday, his third running in the race.
  • Opinion

I’ve watched Gai Waterhouse transform this horse — and something is different

A horse attempting the Melbourne Cup for the third time hasn’t triumphed in more than 30 years. But something about this runner feels different — a new calmness, a sharper focus, and a maturity that wasn’t there before.

  • Ally Mosley
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Punters cheer on a winner.

How to pick a Melbourne Cup winner: A bluffer’s guide to punting

Which barrier number has the most wins in Flemington history and are you better off picking a gelding or a mare?

  • Hannah Kennelly
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How the experts are tipping the Melbourne Cup, the best bets for the day and how to place a wager

This is your complete guide to the races on Cup Day, with tips for each race, extended selections for the Melbourne Cup and the best bets of the day.

  • Danny Russell
Jamie Melham.

First Caulfield, now Melbourne. On Tuesday Jamie Melham can rewrite racing history

Jamie Melham will join her husband Ben as the first husband-wife pair to ride in the same Melbourne Cup. But can she become the first female to win the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double on favourite Half Yours.

  • Peter Ryan
Racing owners association chairman Jonathan Munz.

He quotes The Godfather and has a private jet. Some say he wields too much power in Victorian racing

Jonathan Munz is an influential racehorse owner who made his fortune in a plumbing supplies business. As the Melbourne Cup carnival begins, we profile the man who is making things happen in racing.

  • Danny Russell and Cameron Houston

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