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Premium Content Subscriber only A Melbourne Cup-winning jockey has announced plans to expand their stables to the Sunshine Coast in a major coup for the region's racing industry. Michelle Payne, the first woman to win the Melbourne Cup in its 155-year history in 2015, will set up a satellite stable on the Coast to add to her Nottingham Farm, Ballarat, operation. "I'm so excited - it's going to be so much fun," Payne told the Daily. "It's a new venture and new challenge but moving up north and being in Queensland it's obviously a great place to be so I can't wait to be honest."

Link to Share The crowds were back at Flemington on Saturday, but you could have heard a pin drop in the mounting yard after the longest-priced Group 1 winner in Australian history, Lunar Fox, prevailed in the Australian Guineas at the odds of $301. Thousands of mouths were open wide all across the course as Lunar Fox put paid to the favourite Tagaloa inside the 200-metre mark then fought off the flying finish of Cherry Tortoni to register a win that few could fathom. 1986 Caulfield Guineas winner Abaridy ($251) had been the titleholder of the longest-priced G1 winner. The First 4 on the race...