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Horse racing – female jockeys looking to emulate Payne’s Melbourne Cup success

This will be the pinnacle of her riding career, but her legacy will be the growing number of women who saddle up for the "race that stops a nation

Trainer Aidan O’Brien is furious after veteran Aussie pulled out Jan Brueghel of the Melbourne Cup.

They used to say it was a shadow in front and a shadow behind, but these days all three-year-olds have shadow and light and this and that," he told the…