Half Yours wins Melbourne Cup

Jamie Melham becomes the second female jockey to win Australia’s most well-known horse race after Half Yours won the Melbourne Cup.

The Irish gelding Middle Earth came in third place, followed by the English gelding Goodie Two Shoes, who was trained by Ireland’s Joseph O’Brien and trained by Wayne Lordan.

Melham became the first woman to win the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double after winning Half Yours in the Caulfield Cup last month.

Favorites Al Riffa and Presage Nocturne, both trained in Ireland, came in 19th and 7th place.

Absurde, trained by Irishman Willie Mullins, placed 8th, while Meydaan, trained by British father-and-son trainers Simon and Ed Crisford, placed 10th.