Jockey Corey Brown riding Shocking wins the 2009 Emirates Melbourne Cup during the 2009 Melbourne Cup Day meeting at Flemington Racecourse on November 3, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Mark Dadswell/Getty Images)

1996 Melbourne Cup winner Saintly takes part in the 2011 Melbourne Cup Parade on October 31, 2011 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Mark Dadswell/Getty Images)

Racehorse, Think Big, ridden by jockey Harry White, is led by part-owner Tunku Abdul Rahman (1903 - 1990) after winning the Melbourne Cup at Flemington race course in Melbourne, Australia, 4th November 1975. Rahman is former Prime Minister of Malaysia. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Jockey Jim Johnson hold up the trophy after riding Rain Lover to victory in the Melbourne Cup at Flemington race course in Melbourne, Australia, 4th November 1969. With him are the horse's owner, Clifford A Reid, and trainer, Mick L. Robins. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Australian race horse Phar Lap, regarded by many as the greatest race horse ever, ridden by jockey Jim Pike at the AJC Derby in Randwick, 5th October 1929. They won the race by 3 1/2 lengths in a new record time. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Barb 1866 Australian Racing Museum

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