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‘Winning at the Melbourne Cup has always been a dream’<\/span><\/div>\n
M.J. Payne<\/span><\/div>\n

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<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Watching the race from the rails <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
‘Once the Melbourne Cup starts it is hard to explain, <\/span><\/div>\n

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it is not like any other race…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Watching the presentation of the Jockeys from Members<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Then at the 300m I thought, I don’t think anything can beat me now’<\/span><\/p>\n
M.J. Payne<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Flemington magic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Our Melbourne Cup morning starts at the iconic downtown Windsor Hotel.<\/span><\/div>\n
We enter the lobby and are offered a glass of champagne<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n
Mr Wren starts to explain we are not hotel guests<\/span><\/div>\n
‘Sir, you are in the Windsor now’ <\/i>he is told.<\/span><\/div>\n
Hats off to that service!<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Table display in the foyer at the Windsor Hotel along with my hat!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
‘The race that stops the nation’<\/span><\/div>\n
and catapults one Michelle Payne <\/span>into the limelight <\/span><\/div>\n
as the first female jockey to win the Cup,<\/span><\/div>\n
is six hours away.<\/span>

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<\/a><\/div>\n

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Our breakfast with friends at the Windsor Hotel is lovely and relaxed.<\/span><\/div>\n
It would have been a very different start for the connections of <\/span><\/div>\n
Prince of Penzance the 100-1 outsider, <\/span><\/div>\n
 bought for $50,000 by a group of Aussie mates,<\/span><\/div>\n
 and about to make one of the biggest upsets <\/span><\/div>\n
in the 155 year race history.<\/span>
Oh the nerves!<\/span>

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<\/a><\/div>\n

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In a paddock many kilometres away our (well we have a tiny bit of her!)<\/span>
 two year old filly, as yet unnamed,<\/span>
but I will call her Little Miss Pebbles, <\/span>
is enjoying a quiet spell in a grassy paddock.<\/span>
‘Eat your greens and go girl!’<\/i><\/span>

<\/span>I can’t imagine the excitement of having a horse running <\/span>
on Melbourne Cup day <\/span>but we can all dream!<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Little Miss Pebbles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This is Australia’s greatest horse race, <\/span>
and after seeing foreign horses claim the Cup, <\/span>
in three out of five of the last Melbourne Cups, <\/span>
Prince of Penzance and Michelle Payne <\/span>
claimed an important win for local talent <\/span>
and for our local horse racing industry.<\/span><\/div>\n


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<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fashions on the field<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
You never know one day, <\/span>
just one day you could be standing on the podium<\/span> <\/span>
in front of 100,000 spectators.<\/span><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Melbourne Cup award ceremony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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‘If you have a dream never give up!’ MJ Payne<\/span><\/div>\n
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Linking with Mosaic Monday<\/a>, Our World Tuesday<\/a><\/div>\n
Many thanks to all the hosts!<\/div>\n


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