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Speaker 1: Not about the office for Knight's Choice and its connections.

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Speaker 1: Irish jockey Robbie Dolan brought home a rank outside of

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Speaker 1: the Melbourne cap as. I'm sure you're well and we're

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Speaker 1: co trained, of course by the legendary Sheila Lexan, who's

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Speaker 1: with us from Melbourne. Sheila, Good morning, Good morning, wreg

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Speaker 1: How are you? I'm sure, jeez, you still sound happy.

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Speaker 1: How happy did you get? Did you get happier than

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Speaker 1: you've ever been?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Well, you know what was so special My children

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Speaker 2: came out with their children and it was a great

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Speaker 2: moment to share with the family. So it was an

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Speaker 2: extra special Melbourne Cup win. I must say it.

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Speaker 1: Going into the day. Did you give yourself any real

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Speaker 1: chance or not?

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Speaker 2: Well? The funny on the way down John said to me,

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Speaker 2: what do you think of his chances of winning? I said,

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Speaker 2: I hear wins and I said that I did say

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Speaker 2: that a bit differently, I must admit, but you know,

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Speaker 2: I just he'd done exactly the same as the serial done.

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Speaker 2: He's got the most electric sprint finish and Robbie was

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Speaker 2: so on song with him. You know, everything worked together

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Speaker 2: really well and that's so proved to be. But messimate

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Speaker 2: the odds. His odds were so big because he had

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Speaker 2: been racing on wet tracks and he is an absolute

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Speaker 2: duffer on wet tracks. So he's deceived to be hopeless

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Speaker 2: in this campaign down in Victoria, but in actually fact

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Speaker 2: he's running at Bendigo was really good on this first

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Speaker 2: you know, drive track, and he probably could have gone

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Speaker 2: close in that race had he not met some traffic

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Speaker 2: problems up the straight.

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Speaker 1: What's it like as you a one hundreds ago he's

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Speaker 1: coming up, There's two of them coming up through the

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Speaker 1: middle and they're moving and at that point you must

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Speaker 1: know it's on Potentially it must be like no other

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Speaker 1: feeling in the world.

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Speaker 2: Ah, that's right, you know, I had a serm coming

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Speaker 2: up up the straight. I just so he's going to

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Speaker 2: win it, because that was exactly what the theorial did.

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Speaker 2: You know, he gathered the momentum and you know, I

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Speaker 2: was quite confident he was going to win. But it

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Speaker 2: was interesting watching the replay when that Japanese hors came

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Speaker 2: very close to heading him at the post.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, did you think you're headed as they crossed the line,

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Speaker 1: because it was real close.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I did, you know, and I was I spent.

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Speaker 2: I was watching the television screen at that point, because

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Speaker 2: we're the owners and trainers stand it's it's by the

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Speaker 2: clocktail that you can't really see the side on the post.

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Speaker 2: But you know, I looked up at the screen and

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Speaker 2: that was yeah. He was quite clear.

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Speaker 1: One yeah, and a lot of the credit and I

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Speaker 1: think rightly. So I went to Robbie Dolan.

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Speaker 2: Who wrote it was one hundred and twenty one hundred ride.

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Speaker 2: You know, what he did was perfection, and he knew,

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Speaker 2: you know, he started going back, you know, going down

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Speaker 2: the back of the back straight for the first time,

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Speaker 2: the only time. He started losing his position a little bit,

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Speaker 2: but he said they all started going quicker then and

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Speaker 2: he wanted to you know, he just decided to wait,

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Speaker 2: which was just intuition, you know. Fantastic, fantastic it was.

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Speaker 1: It was fantastic to watch too. Congratulations Sheila, I mean

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Speaker 1: two times all history, first woman ever to do it

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Speaker 1: with Ethereal, the only woman ever to have done it twice,

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Speaker 1: I mean, records, it's just and so far from the

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Speaker 1: outside it's ridiculous. So it was one of those magical,

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Speaker 1: magical days.

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