The Melbourne Cup 2025 is in the books, and full results and payouts are published for the "race that stops the nation."

It is the first Tuesday in November, which means it is time to run the Melbourne Cup and we have all the details you need to pick a winner in the big one.

Half Yours strapper James Rayner wondered why he had so many missed calls and texts, as a dream Melbourne Cup reality set in.

Meanwhile, three other jockeys copped suspensions on an eventful day at Flemington. Jye McNeil was lashed with an 18-meeting suspension for his ride on Valiant King in the Melbourne Cup, after an incident at the 2500m mark.

The biggest day on the Australian racing calendar is finally here! Not sure who to back? Not to worry, as we take you through the best selections and some value runners in Tuesday's 10-race card at the glorious Flemington racecourse.

The event recalls an infamous episode from December 1971 in Montreux, Switzerland, at the Montreux casino’s theater. Frank Zappa and the Mothers were performing when a fan fired a flare gun at the ceiling, igniting the building, which was totally destroyed.

Melbourne Hospitality Holdings is proposing a 160-room hotel along with a 542-space parking garage in the Eau Gallie Arts District.

The race that stops the nation has been run and won in historic scenes by Jamie Melham aboard Half Yours. Melham becomes the new queen of Aussie racing having completed the rare Caulfield Cup-Melbourne Cup double. But the one thing everybody wants to know is where did my horse finish?