Nyngan’s racegoers celebrated the Melbourne Cup by gathering at the RSL Club on Tuesday.
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Crowds turned to face the television to see Cross Counter end his two decades of Melbourne Cup frustration, winning Australia’s greatest horse race.
On a rain-affected track and ridden by Kerrin McEvoy for trainer Charlie Appleby, Cross Counter defeated Marmelo and A Prince Of Arran in an all-northern hemisphere finish.
One of the most influential racing operations in the world, the Sheikh Mohammed-backed Godolphin stable has been trying to win the Melbourne Cup since 1998.
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