It was an Irish 1-2 at the Melbourne Cup Down Under overnight.
Joseph O'Brien has trained his second Melbourne Cup champion, with Twilight Payment winning at odds of 25 to 1.
Under Jye McNeil, Twilight Payment produced a frontrunning display to win from Tiger Moth - trained by Joseph's father Aidan - into second.
More glory for @JosephOBrien2 in the big one! Twilight Payment is the 2020 Lexus Melbourne Cup winner! pic.twitter.com/NkmrX2Kg6V
— At The Races (@AtTheRaces) November 3, 2020
It was Joseph O’Brien's second winner of the Lexus Melbourne Cup.
O’Brien claimed the two-mile event with Rekindling in 2017.
The horse - Twilight Payment- has been looked after and ridden by Seán Corby over the past 18 months who is part of O'Brien's team.
Seán has strong connections with Tramore with his mother Pauline O'Shea living in the town, and his grandfather the late Joe O'Shea.
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Charlie Fellowes’ British raider Prince Of Arran, placed in the last two Melbourne Cups, again finished with a flourish to take third.
However, the race was marred by a fatal injury to last year’s Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck, who was euthanised after fracturing a fetlock.
Thank you so much for all the tweets. We can’t believe it! Thank you to Lloyd and @NCW717, @markepower and all the lads that have looked after the horses in Australia for the last six weeks and everyone here at home. Days like this are what we dream about. #twilightpayment pic.twitter.com/V0RG4Ki4g6
— Joseph O'Brien (@JosephOBrien2) November 3, 2020
