Call it the handing over of the baton, call it two friends celebrating a huge emotional moment together.

Or just call it history.

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"Welcome to the club," Michelle Payne said to Jamie Melham as the two most famous female jockeys in Australia embraced on the Channel Nine set at Flemington after the Melbourne Cup.

A decade after Michelle Payne broke through racing's glass ceiling with a historic win on Prince of Penzance, Jamie Melham outdid her mate in the history-making stakes, winning the Melbourne Cup on Half Yours but also becoming the first female jockey to win both the Melbour

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