Lady in blue: Is this happy racegoer the unwitting star of Melbourne Cup 2016?

THE off-track star of this year’s Melbourne Cup says she is “so embarrassed” about pictures that circulated of her mounting a wheelie bin at Flemington.

THIS year’s undoubted star of the Melbourne Cup has spoken of her embarrassment at becoming 2016’s “girl in the blue dress”.

But, she insists, she was “just having a laugh”.

Smartly outfitted in a navy blue dress and a dainty straw fascinator the woman, who has chosen not to be identified, appeared to dominate Cup coverage in photographs of her fun day at the races.

The young blonde lady attracted the attention of different photographers who captured her enthusiastic Cup Day antics in images that went around the world overnight.

In several pictures snapped on course, the girl can be seen horsing it up atop a wheelie bin, lying with a friend in the rough and generally revelling in the day at Flemington.

On Wednesday, the woman said her new found fame was “really hard and embarrassing”.

She told the Daily Mail, she and her friends were “just having a laugh” when they were snapped.

‘It’s just so embarrassing — all my family’s going to see it,’ she said.

The woman’s social media profiles have reportedly been shut down following online abuse from strangers.

The lady in the blue dress and dainty fascinator attempts a fireman’s lift of a male friend on the course at Flemington. Picture: Getty.

The move doesn’t work as anticipated and the pair end up on the grass, helped by a blond friend in a beige suit amid other racegoers. Picture: Getty.

The girl in blue and her beige-suited friend start horsing around on the back of a wheelie bin. Picture: Getty.

Under the gaze of a security guard, girl dismounts from her pretend horse. Picture: Getty.

Her fascinator still firmly in place, the girl in blue with her friend lie laughing ‘in the rough’. Picture: Getty.

And unlike Melbourne Cup 2015’s girl in blue, who was filmed shoving a policeman into a flower bed, this year’s blue lady kept it strictly legal.

In photographs which have been published online overseas, the girl can be seen engaging in spirited fun with a couple of different male friends.

Ms Finn’s actions went around the world in video and pictures. Picture: Channel 7.

Last year the ‘girl in the blue dress’, Sarah Finn pushed policeman Steve Cooper into a flower bed at Flemington and was charged. Picture: Channel 7.

Last year’s girl in the blue dress, 24-year-old Sarah Finn, was charged after she yelled “should I push you” to Acting Superintendent Steve Cooper and ran at and launched him into a garden.

Ms Finn was convicted of assault and later ordered to pay $1067 in fines.

This year’s lady in the blue dress appears to have made it home unscathed.