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Speaker 1: Donald Jamayo is our Australia correspondent, Dona the Melbourne Cup.

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Speaker 1: Who should we well, who do we want in now?

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Speaker 1: Sweepsteak at the office here?

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Speaker 2: Oh, such a good question. I did my research. There's

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Speaker 2: three New Zealand horses. One of them has my lucky

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Speaker 2: number twenty four. So there's trusting you. There's positivity and

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Speaker 2: sharp and smart if you want to back a New

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Speaker 2: Zealand horse. But as you know, do you know how

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Speaker 2: much the price money is for if you win the

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Speaker 2: Melbourne Cup?

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Speaker 1: I don't. What is that?

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Speaker 2: It's nearly five million dollars, So that's that's not that's

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Speaker 2: a pretty penny right. It's going to be run for

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Speaker 2: the one hundred and sixty fourth time this year. There

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Speaker 2: are four women trying to join Michelle Payne, who nine

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Speaker 2: years ago became the first female jockey to ever win

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Speaker 2: the Melbourne Cup. So we have Jamie Carr, we have

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Speaker 2: Rachel King, Wenona Coston and Holly Doyle. So you could

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Speaker 2: possibly want to back a female jockey for a change,

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Speaker 2: a quirky reason to you know, find a backer there,

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Speaker 2: back there, and then we've got a little bit of

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Speaker 2: celebrity at the track today. We have Liz Hurley coming

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Speaker 2: to Flemington to check out the races. We also have

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Speaker 2: Nicki Hilton and Sir Bob Geldoff is a late addition.

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Speaker 3: And they couldn't get Paris Hilton. They just stuck with

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Speaker 3: Nicky instead of the B team, isn't it. But I

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Speaker 3: tell you what, Liz Hurley always looks great, doesn't she.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, everyone's going to be looking at what everyone's wearing,

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Speaker 2: but particularly Liz Hurley. I do agree. And the person

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Speaker 2: that's singing the national anthem, I thought this was a

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Speaker 2: lovely touch. The granddaughter of Sir Donald Bradman will be

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Speaker 2: singing the Australian national anthem at Flemington just before the

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Speaker 2: big race, which I thought was a lovely touch.

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Speaker 1: Hey, very quickly. The leading football umpire that's been forced

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Speaker 1: to apologize for wearing a controversial fancy dress costume. What

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Speaker 1: was the costume?

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh? The theme for this end of season gathering

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Speaker 2: was characters from the two thousands. How many people could

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Speaker 2: he have chosen from? What does he do dressed up

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Speaker 2: as a sam I've bin laden? Oh my goodness me.

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Speaker 2: The costume has been deemed inappropriate, offensive and im poor

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Speaker 2: taste and the afl Umpire has been forced with well.

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Speaker 2: He has apologized. He says it was an error of

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Speaker 2: judgment and never intended to offend. He has been subsequently

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Speaker 2: suspended for a short period.

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Speaker 1: When will they learn? Thank you so much for that,

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Speaker 1: Donna Donald to Moto Australia correspondent.

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