#Daily Mail Australia

The challenge of having a profitable punt on the Melbourne Cup is never an easy one, but Daily Mail Australia readers were given a shortcut in the form preview which tipped the first and second finishers among four horses worth a bet. Gold Trip won only the second race of his life to take out the big race at odds of 20/1 while Emissary ran second…

She was the talk of the Melbourne Cup when she was pictured straddling a wheelie bin in a blue dress and large fascinator. But Kiwi-born punter Jade Jillings' brush with fame - where she was dubbed'Wheelie Bin Girl' for her antics after the 2016 race - hasn't dimmed her love of horse racing. Years after putting the incident behind her with a series…

Abbie Chatfield enjoyed a beach day in Sydney on Tuesday after revealing she was boycotting the Melbourne Cup despite being offered'a lot of money' to attend. The radio and podcast host, 27, soaked up the sun at Bondi with her friends and paid no attention to the race that stops the nation. In an awkward twist, while Abbie said'Nup to the Cup', her…

The Melbourne Cup has a new hard-partying'Wheelie Bin Girl' - with a racegoer embracing viral TikTok fame after she was caught being sick at Australia's biggest race day. Stephanie Browne, 20, said she became'friends' with the wheelie bin around midday at Melbourne's Flemington Racecourse after travelling from Geelong with a group of friends. 'I…

Abbie Chatfield enjoyed a laid-back beach day on Tuesday after revealing she was boycotting the Melbourne Cup despite being offered'a lot of money' to attend. The radio and podcast host, 27, soaked up the sun with friends at Sydney's Bondi Beach, paying no attention to the race that stops the nation. She flaunted her incredible figure in a black…

At eight years of age, most racehorses minds are turning toward a nice retirement in a grassy paddock, but for Nature Strip the good life can wait - he has a $6.2 million first-prize cheque to collect in Saturday's running of The Everest. And collect it he will if the betting markets are to be believed, with the ace sprinter installed as an odds-on…