{"id":242809,"date":"2025-11-04T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242809\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T06:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T06:30:08","slug":"melbourne-cup-half-yours-wins-australias-famous-horse-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242809\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Cup: Half Yours wins Australia&#8217;s famous horse race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Half Yours has won the Melbourne Cup, with Jamie Melham becoming only the second female jockey to win Australia&#8217;s most famous horse race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Goodie Two Shoes, trained by Ireland&#8217;s Joseph O&#8217;Brien and ridden by Wayne Lordan, finished in second place, with English gelding Middle Earth in third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Melham also rode Half Yours to victory in the Caulfield Cup last month, making her the first woman to win the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moments after her win on Tuesday, Melham told the local Nine Network: &#8220;What just happened? Oh my god. This is what we do it for, this is why we get out of bed every morning at 4am.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Half Yours has won the Melbourne Cup, with Jamie Melham becoming only the second female jockey to win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-242809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}