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Speaker 1: Fitzy and with with Kate Ritchie podcast Big.

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Speaker 2: Day to Day Melbourne Cup. You can watch the Lexus

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Speaker 2: Melbourne Cup Day live from ten am on Channel ten

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Speaker 2: and ten play. And I tell you what I've been

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Speaker 2: loving Michelle Payne and the coverage, being a previous winner

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Speaker 2: herself in twenty fifteen and it's been great to hear

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Speaker 2: her insights and she joins us now. Michelle, thank you

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Speaker 2: so much.

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Speaker 3: It's great to join you and loving working with the

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Speaker 3: Channel ten team and bring you all the information from

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Speaker 3: the track and thanks for having me on. I have

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Speaker 3: to say, Kate, you're one of my favorites.

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Speaker 4: That is so nice. That is so nice that you

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Speaker 4: say that, because I was I was listening to that

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Speaker 4: voice and I thought, my goodness, it's been a while

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Speaker 4: since we've spoken to Michelle. I know that when I

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Speaker 4: chatted to you last time, I was fangirling, a bit starstruck,

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Speaker 4: and then boys, you'd like to know this. I did

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Speaker 4: reach out to Michelle. It was probably a couple of

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Speaker 4: years ago now before for a tip for no not

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Speaker 4: I'm probably the only person who doesn't reach out to

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Speaker 4: you for tips, Michelle. I reached out because on my

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Speaker 4: news resolutions every year I've wanted to learn to horse

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Speaker 4: ride properly. So now I'm thinking, if you've just announced

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Speaker 4: your retirement, maybe you might like to tell you.

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Speaker 3: We could take you on as an apprentice and bring

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Speaker 3: your toad.

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Speaker 4: I would love that. No, it's a pleasure to speak

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Speaker 4: to you, Michelle.

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Speaker 1: Michelle, you know what I learned. And I've quoted you

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Speaker 1: in saying this, because when we spoke to you after

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Speaker 1: you'd had the win, the way you described how you

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Speaker 1: could feel how much was left in the tank of

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Speaker 1: the horse, I found fascinating.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I love that you know that connection that

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Speaker 3: you have with them. And I had written Prince Appenzence

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Speaker 3: twenty three of his twenty four starts in lead up

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Speaker 3: to the Melbourne Cup and every track work gallop that

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Speaker 3: he had, So when you know them so well, you

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Speaker 3: know what they've got to offer. And at the six

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Speaker 3: hundred meter mark, I was like, oh God, here we are.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're in a position to win our greatest

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Speaker 3: race in my dream from as young as five years old.

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Speaker 3: It was just a moment and a feeling that I

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Speaker 3: will never ever forget.

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Speaker 4: He blew them away, Prince of Penzance. Where is he now?

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Speaker 4: And do you still visit him, Because the way you

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Speaker 4: talk about it is this long running relationship you worked

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Speaker 4: so hard to achieve, like the ultimate kind of goal together.

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Speaker 4: It kind of be sad to think that it wasn't ongoing,

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Speaker 4: you know, in some kind of romantic.

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Speaker 3: Way it is. I actually asked if I could have

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Speaker 3: him on my farm when he retired. But he's with

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Speaker 3: his trainer and living legends, so he just living the

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Speaker 3: best life and he looks unbelievable, Like I get to

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Speaker 3: see him from time to time.

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Speaker 1: When you have a horse like the Melbourne Cup and

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Speaker 1: it's such a long race, So when you've got a

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Speaker 1: race other than a sprint, what else are you thinking

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Speaker 1: about when you're out there? Do you have moments where

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Speaker 1: you have a song going through your head or is

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Speaker 1: it just I mean it's quite a long time in

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Speaker 1: the saddle. Are you thinking about constantly where you are

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Speaker 1: in the race.

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Speaker 3: I mean I do remember clearly thinking down the back

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Speaker 3: straight in the Melbourne Cup because I trained really, really

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Speaker 3: hard myself physically, but Prince vanz Ends was a strong horse.

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Speaker 3: You know, you'd have to sit there and really hold him,

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Speaker 3: and every muscle in my body restraining just sitting there

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Speaker 3: holding him into a rhythm, making sure he's breathing and

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Speaker 3: comfortable and even like all the muscles down here at

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Speaker 3: Donald's and everything. So I'm sitting there thinking, thank god

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Speaker 3: I did all of that training. Yeah, you've just got

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Speaker 3: to sit there like a mouse. Really, you just want

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Speaker 3: to be a part of them all.

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Speaker 2: Right before you go, Michelle, who's going to win? And

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Speaker 2: also give us a rouffie as well. For anyone out

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Speaker 2: there who doesn't know much about the Melbourne Cup.

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Speaker 3: Well, I can't go past the favorite in bull band

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Speaker 3: with He's got the best, I think one of the

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Speaker 3: best riders in the world, Ryan Moore riding him. Everything

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Speaker 3: just looks like it's lining up beautifully for him and

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Speaker 3: I Roughie, I'm with more felons right down the bottom

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Speaker 3: number twenty. He's got Jamie Carr, the star female jockey. Yes,

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Speaker 3: at fifty and a half kilos, so he's really coming

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Speaker 3: in on a lightweight drawn barrier twenty four which is

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Speaker 3: the outside barrier, so she will need a bit of

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Speaker 3: luck sliding in. But he's running the Gelong Cup in

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Speaker 3: the lead up to today's race was outstanding, so definitely

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Speaker 3: I think have a little bit on him each way.

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Speaker 3: I think he's around thirty dollars or so.

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Speaker 2: Good Sydney horse as well with Chris Waller training that

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Speaker 2: one as well well. Michelle, thank you so much. That

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Speaker 2: was I love chatting about that.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 4: And next time we talk to you, I need to

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Speaker 4: ask when you're horse riding lessons. When we're having horse

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Speaker 4: riding lessons, I need to talk to you about ekwin

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Speaker 4: therapy because a horse I've had a little bit of

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Speaker 4: it and I just want to hear Michelle's thoughts on it.

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Speaker 4: But we can do that off air, and you know

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Speaker 4: when we're riding around the track, when you're.

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Speaker 2: Riding around the track, I have a great call today.

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Speaker 2: Catch Michelle on Channel tens the Lexus Melbourne Cup Day

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Speaker 2: Live from ten am. Have a great call and thanks

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Speaker 2: for joining this, Michelle.

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