Melbourne Cup

The jockey incurred the wrath of stewards after an easy-to-miss manoeuvre sparked a messy chain reaction.

“I was able to tuck him in towards the inside, got a nice trip around and he travelled really well. The Melbourne Cup day meeting started out on a better-than-expected surface but the rain arrived to make the race a true test of stamina. But Moloney conceded he was beaten by a stronger horse on the day. His action caused three runners to have their momentum stalled, and in a chain reaction the 2019 Melbourne Cup winner Vow And Declare also suffered interference. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Gold Trip wins Melbourne Cup in a thriller, Emissary claims second. Moloney fell foul of Racing Victoria stewards, pleading guilty to careless riding at the 600m as he was trying to get Emissary into a position to challenge.

It was a big day on 10, with The Melbourne Cup going ahead despite punters shivering through the coldest race day since 1995.

Later in the evening, The Project (271,000 6:30pm / 358,000 7pm) continued the Melbourne Cup celebrations by interviewing Gold Trip trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, before chatting to musician Vera Blue. The 2020 race was watched by 1,410,000. 1,024,000 tuned in to watch as Gold Trip and jockey Mark Zahra took the Melbourne Cup win. A repeat of Travel Guides then took 437,000 on a road trip through Texas and the Deep South of the USA. The top multichannel was 9Gem with 218,000 tuning into England V New Zealand in the T20 World Cup, resulting in a 7.6% share. The Cheap Seats followed with 477,000, up 17%.

Jamie Lovett of Australian Bloodstock which syndicated and races Gold Trip, said there are no plans to retire the six-year-old stallion. Lovett was still in ...

The 2009 Melbourne Cup winner Shocking stands at Rich Hill Stud in New Zealand at a fee of $12,500. Fiorente, the 2013 Melbourne Cup winner, currently stand at stud in Victoria for a fee of $9900. Gold Trip could be aimed at the Tancred Stakes and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in the autumn. The long-term plan for Gold Trip would be to try and repeat his Melbourne Cup win next year. [Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained Gold Trip's Melbourne Cup win at Flemington](https://www.racenet.com.au/news/gold-trip-wins-2022-melbourne-cup-20221031) but revealed plans are being finalised for an autumn campaign for the outstanding stayer. Melbourne Cup winner Gold Trip's immediate future is on the racetrack and not at stud.

The race that stops the nation aired to a metro audience of 1.024 million viewers, and won all three key advertising demos. 10 Play saw the Lexus Melbourne Cup ...

The #1 program on Tuesday, as previously mentioned, was Ten’s The Melbourne Cup Carnival – race, which placed ahead of Seven News with 897,000, and Seven News at 6:30 which pulled in 876,000. The program with the biggest uplift however was Tuesday’s episode of The Good Doctor on Seven which had a 42% uplift in overnight figures and had a total of 502,000 viewers overall and a national BVOD audience of 42,000. Meanwhile, next in non-sport entertainment on Tuesday was an episode of The Chase Australia on Seven which pulled in 479,000 metro viewers, followed by the network’s Home and Away which has a metro audience of 455,000. The Melbourne Cup Carnival – presentation this year brought in 882,00 metro viewers, followed by The Melbourne Cup – mounting segment which saw 735,000 metro viewers tune in, while a preview of The Melbourne Cup Carnival had a metro audience of 466,000. The Stuff the British Stole was next, pulling in 444,000 metro viewers, while a repeat of Nine’s Travel Guides aired to 437,000 metro viewers. The Melbourne Cup race had 1.140 million metro viewers in 2020, a slight drop from 2019’s 1.441 million and a significant fall from 2018’s 1.836 million and 2017’s 1.79 million.

Second-placed jockey cops brutal $20k hit to Melbourne Cup prizemoney over 'careless act'

He gave me a lovely ride. “What a horse. After the race Moloney was full of praise for his horse that loomed large in the run to the post but couldn’t reel in the winner.

Melbourne Cup day was incredibly challenging for most, but keeping things simple has led to a $171k windfall for one punter - who didn't even know he'd won ...

I'd done me nut in all day, so I was just stoked to get a result," Tom told Punters. "Everyone obviously wanted to go out, but I had my two-year-old with me so we just went back to pa and nan's place and had a few drinks there – my shout obviously. "So I had those three and thought ‘I can't have a first four and not include the favourite', so I threw Deauville Legend in as well. "I love High Emocean and was on it when it won the Bendigo Cup. "I didn't have a clue who had run fourth and I couldn't check on my phone because it had gone flat. "I was celebrating Gold Trip because I'd just won a grand off a tenner.