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Speaker 1: The Experts with Jason Lauren, your vessel specialists who specialize

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Speaker 1: in very special things.

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Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Mick Ryan and I'm an expert in roses.

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Speaker 1: Let's hear from the expert, one of my favorite segments.

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Speaker 3: That's right, special people specializing in really special things.

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Speaker 4: Now, I'm excited about this and for our very next expert,

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Speaker 4: it is basically Christmas Eve. What's great final, That's exactly right.

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Speaker 4: I'm talking about the keeper of the roses at the VC.

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Speaker 4: Now when we look at I mean Darby Day was

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Speaker 4: on Saturday, Melbourne Cupies tomorrow. You see all those beautiful

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Speaker 4: shots of those magnificent.

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Speaker 1: Lem in incredible.

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Speaker 5: Looks and smells.

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Speaker 3: Mick Ryan is the head grounds and gardens manager Victoria

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Speaker 3: Racing Club.

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Speaker 1: He joins us now, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Mick, Good morning guys.

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Speaker 5: Mick. Are you exhausted because it is game time for you?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm exhausted. It's been a long week, been a

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Speaker 6: long build up. Actually we started in April, so that's

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Speaker 6: so okay, Naive. Do you plant new roses every year?

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Speaker 2: I try to, really, Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I try keeping flement and fresh and keep changing because

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Speaker 6: they're forever breeding great roses. And when I visit the

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Speaker 6: rose farms. I love them are so I try to

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Speaker 6: introduce roses every year.

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Speaker 4: So they're in pristine condition for this week. We had

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Speaker 4: Dabby Day Saturday, tomorrow's Melbourne Cup Day. How did you

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Speaker 4: time it? So they're exactly perfect for this week.

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Speaker 2: It's it's a combination of a few things. Mainly is

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Speaker 2: our pruning. Our pruning is a secret.

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Speaker 6: Like some roses, we'd prune the end of April and

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Speaker 6: that's a long time from the reflower. So if those

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Speaker 6: roses I prune them in say August, they wouldn't fly

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Speaker 6: out after Christmas. So it depends on the variety and

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Speaker 6: a lot of experience, Like it's a lot of visual

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Speaker 6: and there's a lot of Melbourne's weather.

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Speaker 5: How precise is the science?

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Speaker 6: We aim for five pasts three on the Tuesday, first

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Speaker 6: Tuesday November, so right when they jump, that's when they're

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Speaker 6: supposed to be at their very best.

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Speaker 5: It's time to the minute.

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Speaker 3: You'll see they're watching them tomorrow just every hour going

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Speaker 3: we're on track.

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Speaker 2: From early September. I watch them, yes, every day.

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Speaker 3: If it's not looking on track, can you can you

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Speaker 3: juice them up a little bit?

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Speaker 2: I can manipulate them. Yes, yeah, right, bit of pot.

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Speaker 1: Shout round upon in their flower world, as.

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Speaker 2: Long as the stewards don't.

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Speaker 1: Like petile.

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Speaker 4: On the road.

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Speaker 3: Five past three tomorrow when those horses jump, take a look,

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Speaker 3: and the roses should.

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Speaker 2: Be hitting their their best.

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Speaker 5: That is amazing.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever had a bad year where things aren't

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Speaker 1: looking good?

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Speaker 3: And do you have some roses, you know, stored in

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Speaker 3: the fridge you roll them out and swap them out.

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Speaker 6: I wish I could do that easy, I've but as

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Speaker 6: I question a fair bit, that's a great question. The

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Speaker 6: one year they didn't flower, I think is ninety six

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Speaker 6: for memory Wow, And we made the front pages of

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Speaker 6: the paper and we lead the story of the news

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Speaker 6: that night.

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Speaker 2: So there's a war on in a rack and everything.

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Speaker 2: But then that's when I realized.

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Speaker 6: Wow, story, Yeah, the biggest story of the roses were

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Speaker 6: going to come out.

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Speaker 2: So then that's when I realized, wow.

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Speaker 1: Stupid question. Could you just dig those ones out and

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Speaker 1: go and get some that have flower?

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Speaker 2: Doesn't work?

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Speaker 5: How many there are? Can you tell us how many

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Speaker 5: rose bushes are there?

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Speaker 2: We've hit the seventeen thousand mark this year.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we've put out an old rose that's thirty five

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Speaker 6: years old. It was at the time at the end

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Speaker 6: of its life, so we replaced that. There was about

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Speaker 6: sixty ol hedges and now we're replacing with eight hundred roses.

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Speaker 6: So now it's seventeen thousand, which is a good most.

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Speaker 1: Happy on your team.

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Speaker 6: There's twenty gardeners and arborus and we've got all kinds.

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Speaker 6: So yeah, there's twenty, but it could do some more.

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Speaker 6: It's a big place now.

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Speaker 4: Melbourne cup dates the yellow rose, right, that's the flower

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Speaker 4: of the day. Yes, it might be a silly question,

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Speaker 4: but do different colored flowers grow differently at different times?

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Speaker 2: Not a silly question at all, that's right.

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Speaker 5: They do.

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Speaker 2: Rule of thumb. The yellow ones come out.

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Speaker 1: First, rights apartment, Yes do here we go.

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Speaker 3: Don't be bringing flowers home because I know you're just

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Speaker 3: getting them from work.

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Speaker 5: That is so classic of anything.

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Speaker 3: It'd be like bringing brought justin Tim Lake's new album

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Speaker 3: Home Music.

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Speaker 4: How furious does it make you mick when you see

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Speaker 4: people rolling out of Flemington.

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Speaker 1: After and then they fall over the hedge, Well.

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Speaker 5: They fall into your rose.

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Speaker 2: It's everything we do.

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Speaker 6: We do for the pain customer in our members so

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Speaker 6: they can do what they please.

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Speaker 1: Anything from the past comes to mind.

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Speaker 6: Fair while ago, a gentleman in his army suit got

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Speaker 6: his suit ripped. He fell into a rose bed, and

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Speaker 6: he asked for us to pay for his new suit,

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Speaker 6: and we told him sort of your fault.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I hope you asked him to pay for the roses.

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Speaker 2: That's a good idea.

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Speaker 3: So what about okay, what about locals do want to

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Speaker 3: get their garden going?

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Speaker 1: At home?

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Speaker 4: It was still putting manure on the garden because something

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Speaker 4: so beautiful like roses smells so horrific.

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Speaker 6: We don't use the race us don't. No, it's not

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Speaker 6: a great compost for us. So we use mushroom composts

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Speaker 6: on the house.

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Speaker 5: Now do you are Do you get on the punt?

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Speaker 6: I'm a quaddy man. I take quoy in one of

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Speaker 6: those that can spread me horses. Yeah, because I like them.

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Speaker 5: Do you want a big quardy?

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Speaker 4: Would you quit your job and stop cutting the roses

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Speaker 2: Nah? I stay, Yeah, that's a passion of mine.

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Speaker 1: You get some good tickets.

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Speaker 2: The tickets are hard to get, and everybody so up

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Speaker 2: the general mission. Now everybody wants members. Yeah, general mission

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Speaker 2: and good enough everybody anymore?

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Speaker 5: Hey, Mick, This is my NaN's garden.

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Speaker 4: This is the photo of my little niece walking through

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Speaker 4: my NaN's garden. Now she's ninety four. I think, is

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Speaker 4: that is that pretty impressive?

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Speaker 2: That's gorgeous, well done. There's a look at her looks.

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Speaker 1: Like the green section of Bunnings. It's believe.

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Speaker 5: Is that beautiful?

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Speaker 1: Well done?

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Speaker 5: Yes, she's ninety four.

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Speaker 2: She came look casual for me. If she wants, she.

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Speaker 5: Might just be looking for She wouldn't take full time

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Speaker 5: at her age.

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Speaker 1: But no song. She gets to invite to the Christmas party.

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Speaker 4: I just do the roses or do you do all

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Speaker 4: the hedges?

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Speaker 6: And we do everything here the team does. We're grounds

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Speaker 6: and gardens, so we do that. We look after the bitumen,

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Speaker 6: the paving, the tracing, everything by the track. Leave looks

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Speaker 6: after the track, which we have a good, healthy competition.

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Speaker 2: That my lawns better than his.

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Speaker 5: They don't know the lawns on the track. Do that

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Speaker 5: just get squashed by the horses?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: They were right and away. Their lawn is about six

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Speaker 6: inches long.

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Speaker 5: It's long?

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Speaker 2: Where is one inch?

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Speaker 1: So what's your lawn like?

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Speaker 2: You know, it's a big lawn.

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Speaker 6: It's two big so I don't know I've got such

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Speaker 6: a big long and you have a lot of garden.

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Speaker 6: But I pulled it all out and I thought, I've got.

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Speaker 1: I'm in an apartment.

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Speaker 4: And then we've got Melbourne Cup tomorrow, Oak Stand Thursday,

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Speaker 4: Steaks down Saturday.

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Speaker 5: And then do you get to put your feet up?

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Speaker 5: You get a holiday?

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Speaker 2: No, not really.

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Speaker 6: We have to pack up and clean up and get

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Speaker 6: a rink right for New Year's Eve? So cut all

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Speaker 6: the flowers off, all the buds. Where do they all

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Speaker 6: go into the green?

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Speaker 5: All those beautiful roses.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they's sort of hopefully they're nearly finished by Champions

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Speaker 6: Day so there's not much left anyway. So they've done

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Speaker 6: their job going to Green ben and we cut them

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Speaker 6: all off in the New Year's Eve, which we're having

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Speaker 6: this year with exciding they'll be reflowing again.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, So the placeure looks beautiful Years Eve?

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Speaker 1: Well, Mick, it's it's a staple here in Melbourne.

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Speaker 3: Like you said, front page of the paper of the year,

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Speaker 3: it didn't happen, that will not happen again.

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Speaker 5: Though, not on your watch.

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Speaker 4: The roses at Flemington are iconic and they're looking spectacular.

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Speaker 1: Michael Ryan is his name?

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Speaker 3: Mick is our expert when it comes to flowers at

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Speaker 3: Flemington this morning.

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Speaker 1: How you enjoy cup tomorrow, my friend, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: We'll do. Lauren l wake up feeling good following them

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Speaker 2: on the socials.