Colin Jesse flew in from Hong Kong for a horse race but it wasn’t the big one, the $6 million Cox Plate at Melbourne’s Moonee Valley racecourse on Saturday.

Jesse much preferred going to the St Arnaud Cup in western Victoria, where he reunited with 50 relatives.

They included his 97-year-old mother, Pat Jesse, who was beautifully dressed in a chic black and white outfit.

There was a happy, relaxed atmosphere at the biggest day of the year for St Arnaud, a farming community 250 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. The St Arnaud Cup is more than 100 years old, but there’s been horse racing in St Arnaud since the 1860s.

Colin Jesse, 72, an engineer who has lived in Hong Kong for 46 years but grew up in St Arnaud, said as a child he would run around on Cup day with many of the cousins he ca

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