Original article by James Thomson
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 6-Nov-24

About 90,000 spectators were at Flemington on Tuesday to see 80-1 outsider Knight’s Choice win the Melbourne Cup in a photo finish. The owners of Knight’s Choice paid just $85,000 for the five-year-old gelding, which exceeded all expectations by winning the race and $4.4m in prizemoney. Winning trainer Sheila Laxon had urged owner Cameron Bain to accept an offer from Hong Kong interests to buy Knight’s Choice for $2.3m in 2023. Laxon has now trained two Melbourne Cup winners from two attempts, having won with Ethereal in 2001. The winning jockey, Robbie Dolan, made his Melbourne Cup debut on Knight’s Choice.

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