Half Yours has justified his favourite tag to win the Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) in emphatic fashion.

The win delivered jockey Jamie Melham her 18th Group 1 triumph but notably her first in one of the Melbourne spring majors.

Melham also became the first female rider to win the prestigious race.

Half Yours was trained to victory by father and son training combination Tony and Calvin McEvoy.

The Caulfield Cup turned into a true staying test after Adelaide River established a substantial mid race lead.

Filling the minors was the Chris Waller-trained duo of River Of Stars and Valiant King which both went around at big odds.

HALF YOURS AND JAMIE MELHAM – IT’S HISTORY AT CAULFIELD 🏆

The favourite swamps them late to win a remarkable Caulfield Cup! The McEvoy father and son combo have done it as Jamie Melham becomes the first woman to ride the winner of the 2400M Classic 💪 pic.twitter.com/e56lVA3dW5

— 7HorseRacing 🐎 (@7horseracing) October 18, 2025

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1st – HALF YOURS (Jamie Melham) Everything was perfect; it worked out perfectly for him and he had to dig deep and he’s an absolute superstar horse. What Tony and Calvin have done with him, they’ve just made this absolute professional of a horse. He’s push button; he doesn’t like jumping that well so I had to really get up him today, and he just spat the bit out and relaxed. Just saying Caulfield Cup is going to make me cry. I’ve had an incredible career and ridden 17 Group 1s now, but that major has obviously eluded me, and I just wanted to get one. But now I want maybe three more, maybe a Melbourne Cup. This horse is going to run the trip out

2nd – RIVER OF STARS (Beau Mertens) Great run. She ran fantastic. Had a lovely run off a hot tempo, got held up a little bit rounding the home turn but I didn’t lose too much momentum and I was just really pleased with the way she sprinted through that gap. She was extremely tough and just happy to see her run really well.

3rd – VALIANT KING (Jye McNeil) The barrier probably cost him winning to be honest. Absolute epic run for a Melbourne Cup.

4th – PRESAGE NOCTURNE (Stephane Pasquier) He finished good because he hadn’t run since four months (ago). It was good preparation for the Melbourne Cup.

5th – ROYAL SUPREMACY (Robbie Dolan) He finished the race off really good. It gives us options to go to the two miles on the first Tuesday. He just reared up a few times in the gates, just wanted to get on with the job and did race a little bit keen for a few strides but hit the line really good.

6th – BIRDMAN (Teo Nugent) Began only fairly for me, was the first one loaded and probably went to sleep in the stalls. On the back foot early, had a nice run through, best work was late and loved the way he rounded off the race late.

7th – ABSURDE (Ben Allen) Massive run. A little bit disappointed. We just copped interference right as he was picking up. If we hadn’t have copped that, he would have been right there in the finish.

8th – DEAKIN (Daniel Stackhouse) He ran well. I was just disappointed with him late, I thought he would have been a bit stronger. I had to use him to get out of that pocket I was in and put him in the race, I thought we were a big chance on the corner, blended into it nicely and just as little but disappointing late but we’ll keep pressing on.

9th – MEYDAAN (Andrea Atzeni) I thought it was a good run, he just got a bit lost coming down the hill when the pace lifted. To be fair to him, once we straightened up he really finished strongly. Maybe the track’s a little bit tight for him.

10th – ZARDOZI (Harry Coffey) She travelled like she was going to produce more in the straight but then was very one-paced and was probably peaking on her run with 100 to go. She’s racing dour and I think she needs a little bit of give in the ground.

11th – MIDDLE EARTH (Mark Zahra) He was a bit dour. Travelled well probably until the half-mile then couldn’t pick up and was dour to the line.

12th – ADELAIDE RIVER (Jordan Childs) He just wanted to pull too hard during the early and middle stages and that affected his finish.

13th – VAUBAN (Blake Shinn) I felt he was unsuited by the Caulfield track today. He was on his Sydney leg and just didn’t seem to corner that well on the corners, so the big flat track at Flemington will suit him much better.

14th – GOLDEN SNAP (Suguru Hamanaka) I was quite hopeful so we’re quite disappointed. It felt like it was tougher than Japanese ground and he just didn’t handle it.

15th – PLYMOUTH (Celine Gaudray) Really honest run from a young horse. From the wide draw we were able to get into a beautiful position but he’ll be one to look out for this time next year.

16th – BANKERS CHOICE (Billy Egan) He did really well. I think just a drop in grade, at this distance, I think he’s going good enough to put away a good country cup.

17th – REVELARE (Luke Currie) He raced a bit closer than what I’d hoped, but had a nice enough run. He just came straight off the bridle and didn’t pick up at all.

18th – LAND LEGEND (Jamie Mott) He was obviously disappointing. He felt to me he was out of breath halfway, so he might be holding his breath.