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It is based on the true story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup in 2015. [5] [6] [7] The film is book-ended with documentary footage, which shows at the start Payne as a small girl saying she wants to win the Melbourne Cup and at the end, as a young woman, winning the 'race that stops a nation'.
1954 Melbourne Cup "Here's Rising Fast going after him at every stride, Pandie Star behind them and then coming home well Commodore. Rising Fast has hit the front from Gay Helios at the furlong post, Hellion coming from the clouds on the outside, Rising Fast is too far in front however and in the run to the post Rising Fast going to win the ...
The Melbourne Cup was a film about the two mile horse race won by Newhaven which took place on Tuesday, 3 November 1896. [ 1 ] Marius Sestier filmed the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race, being in a series of films about the Melbourne Cup Carnival .
The Cup may refer to: The Cup, (also Phörpa) a 1999 Tibetan-language comedy film about Tibetan monks and the 1998 World Cup Final; The Cup, a 2011 biographical film about jockey Damien Oliver and the 2002 Melbourne Cup; The Cup, a 2009 non-fiction book about the 2002 Melbourne Cup
In his first Melbourne Cup triumph, under jockey Jim Johnson, Rain Lover won by a record eight-length margin and in a record time of 3:19.1. [1]Controversy surrounded his second win as the hot favourite and heavily backed Big Philou trained by Bart Cummings was the victim of a doping scandal and was withdrawn from the race 39 minutes before the start.
Archer, renamed Archer's Adventure, is a 1985 Australian made-for-television western drama film about the true story of Archer, the first horse to win the Melbourne Cup and his 17-year-old strapper, Dave Power.
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Kylie Maria Antonia Maybury [1] (24 October 1978 – 6 November 1984) was an Australian schoolgirl from Preston, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.. Maybury was kidnapped, raped, and murdered on 6 November 1984, [2] the date of the 1984 Melbourne Cup Day; and she was nicknamed in the Melbourne tabloid newspaper The Sun News-Pictorial as the Cup Day