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For Melham, the first female jockey to complete the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double, it was a dream come true.<\/p>\n
“You don’t even dream of this day. When you think about it, you don’t think you’re going to win the Melbourne Cup,” she said.<\/p>\n
“All week I’ve been thinking about it, been excited, but no feeling can describe what I felt just then, I’m speechless. Absolutely speechless.<\/p>\n
“This is what we do it for, this is why we wake up at stupid o’clock every morning, work our arses off – to come to these big days and win in front of the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is why we put up<\/p>\n
with everything \u2026 it looks like an amazing, glamorous industry on the outside and it does have those parts, but God there’s some tough parts.<\/p>\n
“There’s some really tough parts. This is why we push through, for days like this, to go down in history, winning the Melbourne Cup. What the hell just happened?”<\/p>\n
Melham praised the support of the McEvoys.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re another incredible supporter of mine,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve been there for me since I was a 15-year-old kid and continue to this day to be there for me and support me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey deserve this so much.\u201d<\/p>\n
A winner of two of five starts before making his way to the McEvoy stable, including a Geelong maiden, Half Yours boosted his record to eight wins from 15 starts for $8,919,840 in earnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BALLARAT trainers Tony and Calvin McEvoy have a capped a fairytale run with Half Yours, landing a history-making Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) triumph at Flemington. On the heels of landing their first Melbourne major as co-trainers in last month\u2019s Group 1 Caulfield Cup, the father and son team added another with their star stayer […]<\/p>\n