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Donna Demaio: Australia Correspondent ahead of the Melbourne Cup · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Donald Jamayo is our Australia correspondent, Dona the Melbourne Cup.
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  Speaker 1: Who should we well, who do we want in now?
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  Speaker 1: Sweepsteak at the office here?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, such a good question. I did my research. There's
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  Speaker 2: three New Zealand horses. One of them has my lucky
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  Speaker 2: number twenty four. So there's trusting you. There's positivity and
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  Speaker 2: sharp and smart if you want to back a New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand horse. But as you know, do you know how
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  Speaker 2: much the price money is for if you win the
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  Speaker 2: Melbourne Cup?
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  Speaker 1: I don't. What is that?
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  Speaker 2: It's nearly five million dollars, So that's that's not that's
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  Speaker 2: a pretty penny right. It's going to be run for
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  Speaker 2: the one hundred and sixty fourth time this year. There
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  Speaker 2: are four women trying to join Michelle Payne, who nine
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  Speaker 2: years ago became the first female jockey to ever win
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  Speaker 2: the Melbourne Cup. So we have Jamie Carr, we have
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  Speaker 2: Rachel King, Wenona Coston and Holly Doyle. So you could
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  Speaker 2: possibly want to back a female jockey for a change,
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  Speaker 2: a quirky reason to you know, find a backer there,
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  Speaker 2: back there, and then we've got a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: celebrity at the track today. We have Liz Hurley coming
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  Speaker 2: to Flemington to check out the races. We also have
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  Speaker 2: Nicki Hilton and Sir Bob Geldoff is a late addition.
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  Speaker 3: And they couldn't get Paris Hilton. They just stuck with
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  Speaker 3: Nicky instead of the B team, isn't it. But I
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  Speaker 3: tell you what, Liz Hurley always looks great, doesn't she.
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  Speaker 2: Oh look, everyone's going to be looking at what everyone's wearing,
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  Speaker 2: but particularly Liz Hurley. I do agree. And the person
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  Speaker 2: that's singing the national anthem, I thought this was a
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  Speaker 2: lovely touch. The granddaughter of Sir Donald Bradman will be
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  Speaker 2: singing the Australian national anthem at Flemington just before the
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  Speaker 2: big race, which I thought was a lovely touch.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, very quickly. The leading football umpire that's been forced
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  Speaker 1: to apologize for wearing a controversial fancy dress costume. What
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  Speaker 1: was the costume?
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  Speaker 2: Oh gosh? The theme for this end of season gathering
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  Speaker 2: was characters from the two thousands. How many people could
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  Speaker 2: he have chosen from? What does he do dressed up
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  Speaker 2: as a sam I've bin laden? Oh my goodness me.
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  Speaker 2: The costume has been deemed inappropriate, offensive and im poor
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  Speaker 2: taste and the afl Umpire has been forced with well.
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  Speaker 2: He has apologized. He says it was an error of
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  Speaker 2: judgment and never intended to offend. He has been subsequently
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  Speaker 2: suspended for a short period.
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  Speaker 1: When will they learn? Thank you so much for that,
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  Speaker 1: Donna Donald to Moto Australia correspondent.
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