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Breach a bitter pill, but Payne's reputation is untarnished
The vision of Michelle Payne sweltering with only head and shoulders coming out of a stable dung pit, an accepted form of jockey weight reduction before pills and flash saunas, is hardly splendid. Obviously, it was also an appetite suppressive, a situation that created a month's suspension for the Melbourne Cup-winning hero.