One X user posted: “Why is Half Yours, winner of the Melbourne Cup, bleeding from the mouth? Commentators ignoring it and no camera footage”. One X user called it “disgusting”. Former Aussie jockey Blake Spriggs, who retired this year, hit back at those criticising the treatment of the Melbourne Cup winner.

Blake Shinn, the reigning champion in Victoria, Australia, took a heavy fall two races after finishing sixth in the Melbourne Cup at Flemington

It is the first Tuesday in November, which means it is time to run the Melbourne Cup and we have all the details you need to pick a winner in the big one.

Australian jockey Jye McNeil has been hit with a monster ban following a dangerous act while riding in the Melbourne Cup. Half Yours has won the 165th Melbourne Cup with Aussie star Jamie Melham becoming the second female jockey to win the Great Race.

The Cup is still Australia’s biggest one-day race gambling event. But there are signs it’s no longer stopping the nation like it used to.

Jamie Melham has become the first woman to win the prestigious Caulfield Cup-Melbourne Cup double with a brilliant ride aboard Half Yours, a decade after Michelle Payne smashed racing’s glass ceiling.

Melbourne Hospitality Holdings is proposing a 160-room hotel along with a 542-space parking garage in the Eau Gallie Arts District.

The escalating Melbourne crime crisis has continued to take its toll on small businesses with a popular Carlton café forced to shut at night after a destructive break in.