A decade after Michelle Payne smashed racing’s glass ceiling, Jamie Melham became the first woman to win the coveted Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double with a brilliant ride aboard Half Yours in a dramatic race at Flemington .

Melham produced an outstanding ride for father-and-son trainers Tony and Calvin McEvoy on the 10th anniversary of Payne’s history-making achievement as the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup on Prince Of Penzance .

On a rain-affected Cup Day that attracted a crowd of 84,374, rival jockey Jye McNeil was suspended for 18 meetings for causing interference in the famous race, and Blake Shinn was taken to hospital after breaking his leg in a nasty fall in the following one.

But this Cup day belonged to Melham, who was embraced by Payne after piloting Half Yours

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