Rarely sighted Williams wins fifth Cup
Horse racing is equally the weakness of those with too much money and those with none, and they were well met at Flemington on Tuesday.
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Why it's hard to get excited about Williams winning another Cup
The property tycoon has won a record fifth cup ... but who cares?
Eagle Farm goes dark for the Melbourne Cup
Thousands of Brisbane racing fans have been left in the dark after a power failure at Eagle Farm Racecourse threatened to ruin their Melbourne Cup.
Handicap coup for track tycoon Lloyd Williams
Winning Cup owner Lloyd Williams says Almandin 'beat' the handicapper with its light weight.
Runner-up owner gives hilarious interview
His horse might have finished second, but that didn't stop Aidan Shiels from celebrating.
Melbourne Cup 2016 live: Almandin wins in thrilling finish
We're live from Flemington, bringing you news, tips, betting and live form, fashion highlights and everything you need to make Melbourne Cup day a great one.
How Lloyd Williams and friends 'saved' the Melbourne Cup
Lloyd Williams says he helped reinvent the Melbourne Cup into the world class event it is today.
Cup Day win has Olive dreaming of bigger things
Nick Olive loves winning any race, but the Canberra trainer admits having a winner home on Melbourne Cup Day does make him dream of one day getting a runner in the race that stops a nation.
McEvoy keeps Cup in family as Payne hails one of her biggest supporters
Kerrin McEvoy's second Melbourne Cup win kept Australia's most coveted racing trophy in the family as Michelle Payne's older sister Cathy had to dash to do the afternoon school pick-up minutes after her husband won Australia's great race for a second time.
Williams deserves his bunch of five
The Melbourne Cup is now on the world stage and Lloyd Williams is the star performer, according to Pat Hyland, the jockey who scored on What A Nuisance for him in the 1985 chapter.
McEvoy's boys help stoke fire for second Cup win
Kerrin McEvoy only needed to speak to his three boys on Melbourne Cup morning to realise what a second win in Australia's great race would mean.
18 years on, Godolphin still no great shakes when it come to the Cup
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, one of the world's richest men, has been trying to win Australia's richest race for years. This year he got another third place from Hartnell, the pre-race favourite.
Sheikh Mohammed's billion-dollar Melbourne Cup failure
Despite devoting the best part of two decades, and a billion dollars, to winning the Melbourne Cup Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum still couldn't crack the big race.
Hickmott focuses on the details as Williams takes centre stage
In the racebook, Robert Hickmott goes down at the trainer of the horses that run in the navy blue, white armbands and white cap of Team Williams, the silks carried to such a stirring Melbourne Cup victory by the German import Almandin who gave Lloyd Williams a record fifth Cup win as an owner.
Almandin winis third Flemington first for sire Monsun in four years
The first place for Almandin gave his sire Monsun his third win in just four years at Flemington on Tuesday.
Jockey thrilled despite horse's bleed
Rarely does someone finish last on an injured horse and still enjoy the best experience of their life, but that was the fate of jockey Ben Thompson on Tuesday.
'I know music, but you leave this to the experts'
A collection of high-powered businessmen rode Lloyd Williams' coat-tails to a Melbourne Cup win. And they knew not to bother the most successful owner in the history of Australia's great race.
What the jockeys thought of the big race
What the jockeys said, in the order they finished.
How one Cup punter turned $10 into $241,000
Bookmakers were left ruing Lloyd Williams' record fifth Melbourne Cup winner with most reporting Almandin, the one-time broken down stayer, ripped millions out of their bags before swiftly installing him favourite for next year's race.
Melbourne Cup 2016 results: Finishing order
Where your horse finished in the Melbourne Cup 2016.
Almandin wins 2016 Melbourne Cup
Almandin has won the 2016 Melbourne Cup ahead of Heartbreak City and Hartnell at Melbourne's at Flemington racecourse.
This year's Cup Day colour is tomato - it's the red that can't be beet
Every Melbourne Cup has a dominant colour - this year it was tomato.
Macquarie tips most undervalued horses
After analysing 40,000 runners in 4000 races, Macquarie Bank has found the undervalued and mispriced ponies.
Mathematician's guide to the Melbourne Cup
A mathematician's advice for betting on the race that stops the nation.
The corporate guide to winning the Melbourne Cup
Having a hard time making your Melbourne Cup pick? Maybe you need a bit of corporate knowledge to give you that winning edge.
Interactive form guide and odds comparison tool
Follow all the pre-race action with our interactive form guide and odds comparison tool.
How to always look your best on Cup Day, even when the going gets wet
Cup Day is set to be grey and drizzly but that doesn't mean abandoning your plans to lead the style stakes, if you take a few small steps to weather-proof your look.
Biggest punting day in Australia's racing history
Over $250m is expected to be wagered across world on this year's $6.2m Melbourne Cup in what will be the biggest gambling splurge on a horse race ever staged in Australia.
'No chance and 50-1 at best': one of Australia's biggest punters pans top Cup hope
One of the Melbourne Cup's rank outsiders has been the subject of a mammoth bet at the annual Call of the Card as punters swarmed to back two of the favoured runners on Monday.
Max Presnell rates the Melbourne Cup field
Max Presnell runs his eye over every runner.