03/11/2026
This was the most insane Melbourne Cup that I ever photographed. I was assigned to head down to shoot the start. Well I stuffed that up as I accidentally cropped out the number 1 gate. The gate Prince of Penzance jumped from. 🤦‍♀️ I then ran like hell to jump in the van with the barrier boys and we hightailed it through the middle of the track (being momentarily held up by a bus in front of us 🙄). We did a skid turning into the otherside of the track with the field on their way down the straight. Just before the post we stopped as the boys had to attend to an incident and I was on the inside rail to snap the moment in history where Michelle Payne became the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup 🏆
