Melbourne Cup 2024: The day and the race that was
In an era when Australia’s famous race has become the plaything of the big stables, leviathan owners and internationals, Knight’s Choice’s boilover victory was a throwback to yesteryear.
‘The Australian horse has done it’: Inside the Flemington bubble as an underdog wins the Cup
The Melbourne Cup legend may be wearing thin, but don’t tell anyone who was at Flemington on Tuesday.
- by Greg Baum
Analysis
‘This was the winning break’: Anatomy of one of the greatest rides in Cup history
How a little-known jockey on an unfancied horse made the impossible possible in the 2024 Melbourne Cup.
- by Danny Russell
Top of the pops: The jockey who turned three chairs on The Voice then won the Cup
Robbie Dolan could have given up racing for music, but now he’s a Melbourne Cup winner.
- by Rob Harris
Melbourne Cup results: The finishing order
The official finishing order for the Melbourne Cup, run over 3200 metres at Flemington. Knight’s Choice won in a boilover, from Warp Speed and Okita Soushi.
- by Scott Spits
The Melbourne Cup best dressed: Out of the red and into the pink
Elegance returned to the races with a form guide full of colour and chic silhouettes.
- by Melissa Singer and Damien Woolnough
Melbourne Cup 2024 as it happened: Knight’s Choice wins the race that stops the nation
Outsider Knight’s Choice won the Melbourne Cup, in a dramatically close race which went to a photo finish.
- by Roy Ward and Lachlan Abbott
Updated
‘I got a bit excited’: The moment Jamie Kah’s Cup dream was dashed
Vision from Kah’s helmet-cam shows a glimpse of the finishing post with nothing but grass ahead, before two horses rush past.
- by Peter Ryan and Andrew Wu
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