• David Polkinghorne

Canberra trainer Nick Olive will use what he's learnt at Caulfield to go to another level.

• Patrick Bartley

One-time decorated Irish equestrian rider Lisa Coffey wasn't surprised in the slightest that trainer Aidan O'Brien began cheering for his son Joseph's horse over the last 50 metres of the Melbourne Cup, despite him preparing the runner-up.

• David Polkinghorne

For a late bloomer, Highly Geared's doing pretty blooming good.

• Patrick Bartley

Despite having won his sixth Melbourne Cup on Tuesday, Lloyd Williams was looking to next year's race and urging senior racing executives and Australia's most powerful wagering arm Tabcorp to allow emergencies into next year's $6.2 million handicap.

• Chris Roots

Aaron Purcell knows racing doesn't always go to script, he wasn't expecting to be there on VRC Oaks day at Flemington with star filly Aloisia a couple of months ago.

• Patrick Bartley

Senior Victorian racing investigators are refusing to be drawn on the breadth and scope of an investigation into the race day treatment of the Robert Smerdon-trained Lovani.

• Patrick Bartley

Aidan O'Brien has never won a Melbourne Cup, but he admitted he was hoping his runner in the 2017 edition, Johannes Vermeer, would be run down in the final stages of Tuesday's race.

• Adam Pengilly

Singapore was suffocating Corey Brown. His family had been there, then they hadn't. Skype can do only so much. The phone bills were piling up. The rides drying up. Then they told him it was time to come home.

• Michael Lynch

Joseph O'Brien is used to making headlines and he did so again at Flemington on Tuesday when he became one of the youngest trainers to win the Melbourne Cup when his first runner in Australia, Rekindling, became the first northern hemisphere three year old to win Australia's greatest race.

• Robyn Grace

A TAB customer has finished the day $1 million richer after winning a Melbourne Cup account-holder promotion.

• Adam Pengilly

A horse which broke down while racing on Melbourne Cup day forcing superstar jockey Joao Moreira to be stood down from the $6 million race has died.

• Chris Roots

Apprentice Ben Allen expected to be home to watch the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday, instead the apprentice was front and centre in Cup day dramas at Flemington, pre and post race.

• Michael Lynch

Owner Lloyd Williams wrote another chapter in his astonishing Melbourne Cup record when the northern hemisphere trained three year old Rekindling triumphed to give young Irish trainer Joseph O'Brien a Melbourne Cup winner at his first attempt.

• Patrick Bartley

Despite reaffirming his vice-like grip on Australia's greatest horse race, Lloyd Williams has already put plans in place to win a record-breaking seventh Melbourne Cup.

• David Polkinghorne

It wasn't the result they'd dreamed of, but Single Gaze's owners are adamant this is only the beginning for the Canberra mare.

• Michael Lynch

Joseph O'Brien rode group 1 winners all over the word in a career that flashed like a comet but burnt out in his early twenties when he lost to the enemy that is the jockey's constant foe, the weighing scales.

• Andrew Wu

If you can't have a runner in the great race, having one start on the first Tuesday in November at Flemington is not a bad consolation.

• Chris Roots

For the first time in history, Australia's biggest race was a family affair, with the winner and second-placegetter being trained by a father and son from the other side of the world.

• Greg Baum

Some days, it feels that the Melbourne Cup has become the race that bypasses a nation.

• Peter Ryan

One punter won $1 million as $90 million was splurged on Tuesday's Melbourne Cup with Rekindling landing big bets in the hours leading up to the race

• Andrew Taylor

For a few brief minutes on Tuesday, the world turned its attention to Melbourne.

• Adam Pengilly

Michelle Payne's Melbourne Cup was the story the Melbourne Cup craved, but the Lloyd Williams plot is the one it has become used to.

• Max Presnell

Rekindling, the baby of the field in the 157th chapter, had little in common with the hero of my first Melbourne Cup in 1965, taken by Light Fingers when Bart Cummings had hair as dark as black boot polish.

• David Polkinghorne

Single Gaze pulled up lame, has a black eye and got smashed in her first Melbourne Cup.

• Staff reporters

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• Tony Wright

It is this way every year. The only thing that changes is the order at the end of the long, long race.

• Andrew Garvey

Former star shuttle stallion High Chaparral achieved the rare feat of siring the winners of Melbourne's big spring treble after his son Rekindling scored a tough win in the Melbourne Cup.

• Connie Maturana

"Hats off to those punters, Rekindling was an unlikely hero but no doubt they'll celebrate their wins for a long time to come."

• David Polkinghorne

Kathy O'Hara and Single Gaze were going to land in the perfect spot. Then Frankie Dettori struck.