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Speaker 1: Safe to say that town was absolutely pumping over the weekend,

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Speaker 1: Darwin pumping with the Darwin Cup, Carnival underway and plenty

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Speaker 1: of other amazing events. But we know in what were

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Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic scenes, it was pretty emotional. I've finished to

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Speaker 1: the day yesterday with the Dick Leech trained to Write

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Speaker 1: your Name. I should say winning the Darwin Cup yesterday

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Speaker 1: was incredible stuff. Now joining us on the line to

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Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about the win and the

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Speaker 1: celebrations afterwards, I've got Kim Britton, who is.

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Speaker 2: One of the owners. Good morning to you, Kim, Good

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Speaker 2: morning Katie. How are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm very good, Kim. You guys must be absolutely pumped.

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Speaker 2: We are certainly pumped over the moon.

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Speaker 1: He talked me through the group that owns Write your Name.

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Speaker 2: I go, well, she said, it's trained by Dick Leech,

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Speaker 2: and there's myself and my husband we are in britt

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Speaker 2: and racing, and then there's Gavin McMahon and Alicia Shephard

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Speaker 2: are all in the horse and we're all out celebrating

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Speaker 2: last night.

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Speaker 1: How wonderful. And before I get to the celebrations, like

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Speaker 1: what did it feel like when Write your Name crossed

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Speaker 2: And you knew that he won. We're over the moon.

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Speaker 2: We're just like, my god, we've won. We couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 1: Would have been so phenomenal. I can't even imagine what

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Speaker 1: it would feel like. Then you went out to celebrate,

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Speaker 1: You're out for a few hours having dinner together.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we went up to the Dragon Court. They looked

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Speaker 2: after beautifully up there. Dinner was amazing, everything was friendly.

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Speaker 2: There was people coming up congratulating us from all over

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Speaker 2: the place. And yeah, we just were having a wonderful time.

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Speaker 2: And then we thought we'd start doing the brag and

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Speaker 2: right and gofl walk through the casino.

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Speaker 1: So tell me at this point in time, Kim, did

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Speaker 1: you have the actual Darwin Cup with you.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's why we were going to go for the

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Speaker 2: walk through the cup through the casino, so we'd show

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Speaker 2: everybody we won the cup.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it would have been an incredible experience. But unfortunately

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Speaker 1: you didn't get very far.

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Speaker 2: No, we did, and we had a security guard. He

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Speaker 2: said to us, we can't take the cup into the

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Speaker 2: casino because it's a lethal weapon.

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Speaker 1: What did you guys say?

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Speaker 2: He could he could have said you're too drunk, So

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Speaker 2: he said no, you've got a lethal weapon. You're not

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Speaker 1: Oh no, so Kim, what did you do you obviously

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Speaker 1: you couldn't go through.

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Speaker 2: We tried to talk him out of it. My husband,

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Speaker 2: now there was a group of us. We tried talking down.

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Speaker 2: He said nope. And even another security guard come over.

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Speaker 2: Tried to say to the DAR when captaincas An cares not

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Speaker 2: going in there for ethel weapon, he could have walked

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Speaker 2: around with us to make sure nothing happened. Oh, he

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Speaker 2: didn't want to, but he just said, no, you're not

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Speaker 1: You must have been spewing. You would have been so disappointed,

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Speaker 1: because you know, it is a bragging.

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Speaker 2: Right, and it ruined a really really good night. Although

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Speaker 2: we're on such a high and we have one person

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Speaker 2: they wanted to show his power of power of being

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Speaker 2: to ruin a night for us.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's really that is a shame to hear, particularly

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Speaker 1: after you'd been really well looked after previously. And then

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Speaker 1: you've got another security guard saying, go on, just let

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but he said no, he refused to let us

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Speaker 2: go through. He stood his ground. He said, you're not

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Speaker 2: coming in there with that, and it's a cup.

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Speaker 1: Though, like it's it. I mean, you wouldn't think it

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Speaker 1: was a lethal weapon. I know that we have argued

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Speaker 2: One and only Darwin Cup was in our hands, and like,

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Speaker 2: I was not going to let anybody hurt that cup. No, why, Kim.

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Speaker 1: You would have been hard pressed to get it out

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Speaker 2: Oh No, No one was getting out of my hands.

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Speaker 2: I was holding on for dear life.

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Speaker 3: Oh what a shame, and it would have been that

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Speaker 3: would have been disappointing, because I bet you just wanted

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Speaker 3: how you must be so incredibly proud of it.

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Speaker 2: Oh we are, and we're so incredibly plowed of the

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Speaker 2: group here, Dick and the girls, Rain and Emma. They've

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Speaker 2: done an amazing job getting him ready. So yeah, and

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Speaker 2: we're on a pretty high. We are on a pretty

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Speaker 1: Oh that is incredible And Kim, I know that this,

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Speaker 1: you know it was a downer, But can I ask

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Speaker 1: the Darwin Cup. I mean, talk us through it, talk

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Speaker 1: us through how much does go into to winning such

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Speaker 2: Well, actually I'm the wrong person who asks about that,

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Speaker 2: but I know it's like there's training the guys rough

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Speaker 2: at four o'clock every morning, training. They're doing everything in

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Speaker 2: it just goes on for weeks and weeks and weeks

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Speaker 2: and yeah, and at the end of the time, at

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Speaker 2: the end of the day, it's just you win, you lose. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And for us this year we won.

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Speaker 3: Ah, how wonderful.

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Speaker 1: And it's like I say, it's disappointing to hear that

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Speaker 1: you couldn't do that lap of honor, you know, last

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Speaker 1: night after your dinner. But I reckon the whole of

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Speaker 1: the Northern Territory will we I'd love to see the Cup.

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Speaker 1: I reckon it must be pretty awesome and I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be Yeah, I wouldn't describe it as a lethal weapon.

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Speaker 3: I would be like, can I drink out of this?

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Speaker 2: Yes? You can drink out of it?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, so definitely had to drink out of there. Kim.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we definitely had to drink out of it. How

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Speaker 2: the heads today in there?

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Speaker 1: How are you all feeling today?

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Speaker 2: Oh, we're all a little bit dusty. I'm just about

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Speaker 2: to start re celebrating. O. Good on you.

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Speaker 1: What's the plan for today?

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Speaker 2: Then we're all at the stables at the moment, just

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Speaker 2: having a celebratory drink and yeah, we don't know what

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Speaker 2: we're going to do.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: I think we're all going out for dinner tonight. I

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Speaker 2: thing we're going down to Frustrations for dinner. So hop

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Speaker 2: feel us take the cup.

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Speaker 1: There, hopefully they do well. A big congratulations to all

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Speaker 1: of you. It sounds like you know, well, it was phenomenal. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: write your name.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely phenomenal. Oh, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, Thank you, Kim, and thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for telling us about your celebrations last night.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Do you see