This is the story the Melbourne Cup needed. Sheila Laxon shows off the trophy.Credit ... Darrian Traynor/Getty Images A group of barefoot women raced down the hill, stilettos and bent fascinators ...

As the biggest prize in Australian racing returns home to wrap up its five-month world tour, check out photos from the ... Marina with the Lexus Melbourne Cup trophy at the Asakusa Shrine in ...

Check out some of the best photos as racegoers let their hair ... while connections also got their hands on the famous Melbourne Cup trophy worth another $750,000. It took the five-year-old ...

Getty Images MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 07: Mark Zahra poses with trophy after riding Without A Fight to win Race 7, the Lexus Melbourne Cup, during Melbourne Cup Day at Flemington Racecourse ...

Ronan Keating performs with Melbourne Cup winning Jockey Robbie Dolan. Picture: Jake Nowakowski Dolan, clutching his winners’ trophy which ... I must have taken 400 photos and I was happy ...

Jamie Kah is one of the leading jockeys in not only Australia but in the world, but one honour has eluded her so far in her career, winning a Melbourne ... the Cup, I'll hold it and take photos ...

David Eustace, who now trains in Hong Kong, with 2022 Melbourne Cup trophy he won with Ciaron Maher. Picture: Vince Caligiuri/Getty Images “He is going to have a great few days, we have both ...

We asked Europe correspondent Rob Harris, who is in town for the Cup carnival – because why not – for his favourite Melbourne Cup ... young me cut out the pictures of Greg Hall riding to ...