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Speaker 1: We are less than an hour away now from the

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Speaker 1: big Melbourne Cup race at five o'clock. There's ten million

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Speaker 1: dollars up for grabs for the winner. Celebrities and punters

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Speaker 1: have been flooding into Flemington. One of them is our

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Speaker 1: Melbourne Cup correspondent, Donna de Mayo.

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Speaker 2: Who's with us? Now? Hey, Donna?

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Speaker 3: Hello? Am I a celebrity or a punter? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Mate? One hundred percent of celebrity If somebody else. If

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Speaker 2: I was talking to somebody else, I'd say, who did

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Speaker 2: you spot? That's a Donna? And then they tell me

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Speaker 2: what you're wearing.

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Speaker 3: So it's so nice to speak with you.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I am at Flemington and I have been coming

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Speaker 4: to the races for I've plopped up decades, to be honest,

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Speaker 4: so it's pretty lovely to be back here. I tried

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Speaker 4: to find a quiet spot. As you know, tens of

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Speaker 4: thousands of people come in to be trackside for the

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Speaker 4: big event what they call the cultural institution, that is

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Speaker 4: the Melbourne Cup, which has been running since eighteen sixty one.

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Speaker 4: So we're up to it's one hundred and sixty five

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Speaker 4: one hundred and sixty fifth iteration. Now it's look, it's

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Speaker 4: a wet track. Now I know nothing about racing, just quietly,

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Speaker 4: so I can tell you that it's a wet track

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Speaker 4: and it's the first time since twenty nineteen that there

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Speaker 4: hasn't been a late scratching. So there's going to be

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Speaker 4: twenty four horses racing. And there's a couple of very

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Speaker 4: interesting little insights that I can give you, and that

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Speaker 4: is that Jamie Melham is a jockey that won the

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Speaker 4: Corefield Cup. Now she is absolutely desperate to beat her husband,

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Speaker 4: who is also a jockey and is.

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Speaker 3: Also racing and running in the Melbourne Cup. Would you believe?

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Speaker 4: His name is Ben Malham and he's on a New

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Speaker 4: Zealand horse. Would you believe called Smoke in Romans?

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Speaker 3: How's that?

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Speaker 2: That's cool? What's the weather doing?

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Speaker 3: Though?

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Speaker 2: Because it was forecast abay.

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Speaker 4: That wit oh, Look has never asked a Melburnie to

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Speaker 4: talk about the weather because I could just go go

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Speaker 4: on and on and on. So the weather yesterday it

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Speaker 4: was absolutely teeming. It was virtually torrential and we had

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Speaker 4: many many millimeters of rain and it was awful and

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Speaker 4: the Weather Bureau said, look, it may even rain during

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Speaker 4: the race. Now, thankfully, up until this moment that i'm

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Speaker 4: speaking to you, there has been Oh my gosh, you're

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Speaker 4: not gonna believe it. It's just started spitting. As I

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Speaker 4: said it.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm gonna have to run for cover.

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Speaker 4: I'm actually wearing a head piece that is going to

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Speaker 4: not do well in the rain that was made for

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Speaker 4: me by Melbourne milliner lovely Renee Anderson.

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Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go. I'm literally running for cover as

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Speaker 3: I speak to you. There you go.

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Speaker 4: It started spitting. You heard it first from the Melbourne Cup. Look,

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Speaker 4: hopefully it doesn't get torrential though it's Look, it's very dark.

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Speaker 4: I'm looking up to the sky. There's little patches of blue.

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Speaker 4: But unfortunately, yes, and look, I am fortunate, Heather that

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Speaker 4: I am in an area where all the fancy marquees,

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Speaker 4: the Birdcage marquees, so I can pop into Lexus, which

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Speaker 4: has got to let this triple story amazing space. Mind you,

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Speaker 4: that's a rooftop bar that no one will want to

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Speaker 4: be on it from now. And there's also the gh

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Speaker 4: Moom Marquee, which I tell you is fancy as and

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Speaker 4: as you know, people do like a shampas or seventeen

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Speaker 4: at the Melbourne Cup, so so I do have some

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Speaker 4: where to run to after I stopped speaking with you.

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Speaker 2: Okay, now, Donna, have you seen anybody famous?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Okay, look, I'm gonna say it. It's a little bit

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Speaker 4: light on celebs this year and it's a very interesting thing.

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Speaker 4: So on Saturday for Derby Day, we had Michelle Monahan.

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Speaker 4: Who's Michelle Monahan. She's a Hollywood star. She was in

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Speaker 4: Mission Impossible three. She was in White Lotus, which we

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Speaker 4: all love. I don't know if you do, but it

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Speaker 4: was fantastic, fantastic show. So we had Michelle monahtane Now

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Speaker 4: sadly today on Melbourne Cup Day, the biggest name that

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Speaker 4: I've spotted is Ossie tennis starf a Fanassi cockon Arcus.

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Speaker 3: Are you familiar with him?

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Speaker 2: No? No idea what you're talking about?

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Speaker 3: There you go there, point made.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, it's.

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Speaker 3: A little bit lighter.

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Speaker 4: It's a little bit light on in regard to celebs,

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Speaker 4: but I think it ramps up again for Oaks Day

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Speaker 4: and the weekend of the Saturday Race day. So there's

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Speaker 4: actually four days in the Melbourne Cup carnival and so

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Speaker 4: they kind of spread spread them out a little bit

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Speaker 4: thin lately.

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Speaker 1: How you're part of the world of the weekend and

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Speaker 1: was briefly tempted to go to Ricky Martin on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: and then my concert club friends were like, nah, he's lame.

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Speaker 2: What was it like because you went, how.

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Speaker 3: Was it come on?

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Speaker 4: Well, actually, Ricky Martin was supposed to perform at the Races,

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Speaker 4: but there was a little rumor that went around that

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Speaker 4: he wanted to sing all his songs in Spanish.

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Speaker 3: Now I don't know.

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Speaker 4: If that's true, but it was reported as such, and

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Speaker 4: then he didn't perform. But I'm thankful that I went

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Speaker 4: to his consot because he was absolutely brilliant.

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Speaker 3: He's still got it, He's got all the moves.

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Speaker 4: He came out and it was everyone was up dancing

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Speaker 4: for that ninety minutes. The only criticism is he only

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Speaker 4: played for nineteen minutes, and I don't know, do you

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Speaker 4: think that's a little bit short for a concert?

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Speaker 2: No, I think I think I think that's actually about

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Speaker 2: bang on. I don't think o Asis win.

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Speaker 1: For much longer than that. Donna, it's good to talk

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Speaker 1: to you, mate. Go and look after your fascinator or

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Speaker 1: your hat or whatever it is. Donna de Mayo, our

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Speaker 1: Melbourne Cup correspondent.

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