One X user posted: “Why is Half Yours, winner of the Melbourne Cup, bleeding from the mouth? Commentators ignoring it and no camera footage”. One X user called it “disgusting”. Former Aussie jockey Blake Spriggs, who retired this year, hit back at those criticising the treatment of the Melbourne Cup winner.

Half Yours has won the Melbourne Cup, with Jamie Melham becoming only the second female jockey to win Australia's most famous horse race. Goodie Two Shoes, trained by Ireland's Joseph O'Brien and ridden by Wayne Lordan, finished in second place, with Middle Earth in third.

The 2025 Group 1 Melbourne Cup trifecta paid a whopping $9,974.20 Half Yours ($8.40) was a brilliant winner of the race, beating home Goodie Two Shoes and Middle Earth. The saddlecloth numbers of the first three across the line were 14, 20 and 7.

This afternoon's Melbourne Cup is expected to be on the slower side due to forecast rain. Up to 40 millimetres is expected to fall at Flemington through the day. New Zealand and Australia Racing Hall of Famer Bret Thomson says Flemington is good at draining water,

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History was made at the Melbourne Cup as Jamie Melham claimed victory, but there were serious concerns for hurts horses and an injured jockey, while the fashions took over Flemington.