2025 Melbourne Cup Results, Winners, As it happened: Jamie Melham makes history as Half Yours wins
It’s that time again — not just Australia’s greatest race, but one of our most iconic traditions — the Melbourne Cup! 🇦🇺🐎
Come 3pm on the first Tuesday in November, the whole country will stop to watch the massive field tackle the famous 3200 metres — or two miles if you prefer the old school. What started as a local staying test has become one of the world’s premier handicap races, drawing the best from across the globe.
The Cup’s story is part of our national DNA. First run back in 1861, when Archer took the honours, it’s been won by legends like Carbine (1890), Phar Lap (1930), Rising Fast (1954), and the incomparable Makybe Diva, the only horse to ever win three on the trot (2003–05).
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Flemington - Race 10 Results
1400m Channel 9 Trophy
🏆 Persian Spirit – Jockey: H. Coffey – Trainer: S. Wilde – Odds: 4.30/1.70
🥈 Sunshineinmypocket – Jockey: E. Brown – Trainer: C. Maher – Odds: 1.50
🥉 Ndola – Jockey: L. Currie – Trainer: B, W & J. Hayes – Odds: 1.80
Persian Spirit wins race 10
Persian Spirit has the Channel 9 Trophy, the last race on Melbourne Cup Day.
Ridden by Harry Coffey sprinted away to win easily.
Nick Russian’s tip - and it’s not about the races
Bar Bambi nightclub proprietor and one-time lord mayoral candidate Nick Russian said his business had done OK during winter, but many others in the CBD had not.
“We were fortunate. We’re still busy the whole way through,” Russian said.
Nick Russian (left) and Daniel Beckwith at the Lexus marquee in the Birdcage.Credit:Penny Stephens
“But I find it amazing how many people seem to leave Melbourne these days. They just pack up – Bali, Europe, or wherever.”
He quipped more people would come into the CBD if there were fewer protests.
Jockey who rode Half Yours before Melham’s triumphs
Jockey Ash Morgan admitted “it was a hard watch” when Half Yours won the Melbourne Cup before he quickly scored a consolation win with Matt Dale-trained So You Pence in the $250,000 Barn Dance at Randwick in Sydney.
Morgan won on Half Yours in the Caloundra Cup, then took it to fifth next start at Rosehill. He was due to ride it again in the Kingston Town Stakes at Randwick, but he was one scratching away from a start and instead raced in the Naturalism at Caulfield, where Jamie Melham began her winning streak aboard the Tony and Calvin McEvoy-trained star.
“It was a hard watch,” Morgan said of the Cup. “[If he won here] he would have gone Metrop, Caulfield Cup … and I would have kept the ride. But I was committed to Private Harry here that day and I couldn’t get down to Melbourne.
“But I’m happy for Tony and Calvin. They are a great team.
“But if you told me this time last year I would be in contention for an Everest, Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup ride, I’d be pinching myself.
“I was here last year, but I was on a few 100-1 shots.”
After a long day, here’s what to know about race 10
Race 10 (5.15pm) Channel 9 Trophy (1400m)
(1st) 12 Persian Spirit
Jockey: Persian Spirit Trainer: Simon Wilde
(2nd) 19 Boltsaver
Jockey: Jye McNeil Trainer: Thys Archard
(3rd) 7 Sunshineinmypocket
Jockey: Ethan Brown Trainer: Ciaron Maher
(4th) 3 Ndola
Jockey: Luke Currie Trainer: Ben, Will & JD HayesRace 10
Russell says: Word of warning as we approach the last – make sure you tuck away 20 bucks for a train trip and snack on the way home. This race smacks of a box trifecta, searching for a small outlay and a decent dividend. I like the soft-track form of Persian Spirit (No.12) and Boltsaver (No.19), and will throw in a couple of roughies, Nostringsattached (No.15) and Ten Commandments (No.18). That way, you can either pay for tonight’s dinner, or keep the bank balance in check if it loses. Which, as we are constantly reminded, is a big chance.
Suggested bet: Box trifecta – 1st: 12, 19, 15, 18. $10 for 41 per cent.
Marquee dance floors kick off
With the main race done and dusted at the Melbourne Cup, the marquee dance floors in the Birdcage are kicking off.
Friends reunited on the dance floor in Crown included Liberal MP Sam Groth, his wife Brittany Groth, influencer turned podcast host Bec Judd and former footballer Chris Judd.
Sam Groth at the Crown marquee.
Sam Groth at the Crown marquee.Credit:Penny Stephens
The two couples were last seen partying to DJ Dom Dolla at the LIV Golf event in Adelaide, where Groth attracted controversy over his use of taxpayer-funded travel allowances for accommodation and flights.
We also spotted deputy premier Ben Carroll, who started off in the Committee Room and then was marquee hopping.
“I’ve just been to Lexus and I’m going to say hello to Crown,” he says. “It’s a bit of support for all our businesses that are making and selling Melbourne right now.”
Carroll says he had not backed a winner for the day but is pleased to see Melbourne’s weather at least held off for the main race.
“Isn’t it just great to see what this means for Melbourne – this was our original major event and has been going for 150 years,” he says.
Melissa Leong is In The ‘Mood For Love’
The vivid colours, dramatic make-up and flip of her bob were clear signals that TV host Melissa Leong has been deep diving in the fashion film archives.
“Yes, I was heavily inspired by In The Mood For Love,” says Leong, about the influential Wong Kar-wai movie from 2000.
The movie moment was a fallback when Leong saw the weather report.
Shinn suffers serious leg injury
Kerrin McEvoy won race 9 on Dance to the Boom but his first thoughts were with fellow hoop Blake Shinn who fell from his horse during the race.
Shinn tumbled to the turf and is being attended by on-course medics.
“Firstly, I just hope Blake Shinn is OK,” McEvoy told Nine.
“You don’t like to see a riderless horse after a race.”
Nine reported Shinn has a serious leg injury and will be taken to hospital via ambulance but he is conscious and sitting up.
Race 9 Results
1400m The Hong Kong Jockey Club Stakes
🏆 Dance To The Boom – Jockey: K. McEvoy – Trainer: B. Baker – Odds: 21.40/4.40
🥈 Roll On High – Jockey: D. Stackhouse – Trainer: B, W & J. Hayes – Odds: 6.90
🥉 Jenni The Fox – Jockey: D. Bates – Trainer: L. Yeomans – Odds: 6.90
Dance To The Boom wins the stakes
What the Cup jockeys said (part one)
“He ran well. The pace wasn’t that strong through the first part, had to give them a start. He picked up into it well. Good honest run.”
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The Bird is the word in race 9
(1st) 15 Surfin’ Bird
(2nd) 5 Bossy Nic
(3rd) 11 Keep Your Cool
(4th) 7 Electric Impulse
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Burma Star wins the Amanda Elliott
🏆 Burma Star – Jockey: J. Moreira – Trainer: C. Waller – Odds: 11.50/2.60
🥈 Tagline – Jockey: D. Stackhouse – Trainer: M. Laurie – Odds: 9.40
🥉 Ripley – Jockey: E. Brown – Trainer: C. Maher – Odds: 2.00
Burma Star wins the Amanda Elliott
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“I come from a town in the Riverland in South Australia that’s 105 people,” Wenske says. “A few less than this gathering.”
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The finishing order
2ND: 20. Goodie Two Shoes. $9.20
3RD: 7. Middle Earth. $8.30
5th: 23. Torranzino
6th: 4. Vauban
7th: 1. Al Riffa
8th: 9. Absurde
9th: 13. Changingoftheguard
10th: 8. Meydaan
11th: 17. Furthur
12th: 3. Arapaho
13th: 10. Flatten The Curve
14th: 12. Smokin’ Romans
15th: 22. Royal Supremacy
16th: 24. Valiant King
17th: 16. Onesmoothoperator
18th: 15. More Felons
19th: 6. Presage Nocturne
20th: 18. Parchment Party
21st: 19. Athabascan
22nd: 11. Land Legend
23rd: 5. Chevalier Rose
24th: 2. Buckaroo
Exacta: $345.40
Trifecta: $10,041.80
First four: $176,561.60
Michelle and Jamie's hug
Here's what happened as soon as Jamie Melham and Michelle Payne saw each other.
Race 7- Half Yours Win Lexus Melbourne Cup 3200m —
🏆 Half Yours – Jockey: J. Melham – Trainer: T. & C. McEvoy – Odds: 8.40/2.80
🥈 Goodie Two Shoes – Jockey: W. Lordan – Trainer: J. O'Brien – Odds: 9.20
🥉 Middle Earth – Jockey: E. Brown – Trainer: C. Maher – Odds: 8.40
Half Yours wins the Melbourne Cup
We're underway
Approaching the gates now
Rain has eased
Modest hopes for first US runner
Horses in the mounting yard, 10mins until jump
The horses are parading around the mounting yard.
10 minutes to jump and the rain looks to have eased just in time.
It’s almost time for the race that stops the nation.
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