{"id":950575,"date":"2026-11-03T03:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950575\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T03:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:04:13","slug":"melbourne-cup-results-2026-live-horses-race-time-tips-scratchings-chris-waller-horse-asterix-scratched-jules-neale-photos-in-birdcage-billionaires-bet-on-hopewell-rock-changes-odds-fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950575\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Cup Results 2026 LIVE: Horses, race time, tips, scratchings; Chris Waller horse Asterix scratched; Jules Neale photos in Birdcage; Billionaire\u2019s bet on Hopewell Rock changes odds, favourite, trainer Nick Ryan banned over syringes in car; Form guides, expert tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Cup winning jockey Michelle Payne has changed her tip at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 winner, who was the first female jockey to win the great race, is with James McDonald\u2019s ride Trustyourinstinct this afternoon, having first tipped Hopewell Rock.<\/p>\n<p>She was initially wary given some rain was forecast, but is keener now there are clear skies over Flemington.<\/p>\n<p>And the fact the horse\u2019s billionaire owner put $1m on Hopewell Rock makes her think he is trying to distract punters from Trustyourinsintinct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve changed my selection last minute just because of the rain forecast,\u201d she told NOVA this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s funny [that] the owner, he\u2019s had a bet to win $10 million on another runner\u2026 I thought he could have been steering people away from one of his main chances&#8230; I think he\u2019s in with a really good shot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne Cup winning jockey Michelle Payne has changed her tip at the last minute. The 2015 winner, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85],"class_list":["post-950575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}