please noted updated placings
Australia's race that stops the nation, the Melbourne Cup has run for the 159th time, and this time the result has gone Australia's way with
local chance Vow and Declare taking the cup, denying all the international entries. Master of Reality was Second past the post, with Prince of Arran
third, however following a protest which was upheld, Master of Reality was dumped to fourth, with Prince of Arron taking second, and Paradiso third.
Here's how Matt Hill called the last 30 seconds of the race on
Australia's Network Ten.
IN: "Vow and Declare back to the inside..."
OUT: "....a classic cup"
DUR: 31 sec
CLIP: http://fsnradionews.com/feeds/1105melbcup.mp3
AUDIO COURTESY AIR NEWS MEDIA - AUSTRALIA