Melbourne Cup 2025: Half Yours win makes history with second ever female jockey

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A decade after Michelle Payne became the first female jockey to win the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup, her close friend Jamie Melham again made history riding Half Yours to victory in the $10 million annual race.   Video footage courtesy of Nine.

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00:00Arapahoe under pressure, Goody Two Shoes presenting up the middle.

00:03They were followed by River of Stars who battles on Torrenzino and Middle Earth right down the outside.

00:09300 metres to go, Goody Two Shoes for Ireland.

00:13Led by a length and a quarter, Middle Earth and Half Yours is getting through.

00:17Goody Two Shoes with Half Yours challenging at the clock tower.

00:20Half Yours takes the lead from Goody Two Shoes, Middle Earth, River of Stars.

00:24Half Yours is coming clear for Jamie Carr for the Cups double.

00:28Half Yours, the history maker, won the Lexus Melbourne Cup by three lengths.

00:33Half Yours the winner, second Goody Two Shoes, third Middle Earth from River of Stars, Torrenzino.

00:39Vauban behind those, then came Absurd El Riffa, then came Arapahoe.

00:44Wellback Royal Supremacy changing it.

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