The Australia-trained gelding Knight’s Choice has won the US$5.6 million Melbourne Cup, Australia’s premier horse race at odds of 80-1.

The 2024 Melbourne Cup has finished in a dramatic photo finish across all the placings, but $81 roughie Knight’s Choice has claimed the win. Melbourne Cup day has come to an end in dramatic circumstances with a protest lodged against winner Bel Air by the third-placed Warnie.

Knight’s Choice claimed Lexus Melbourne Cup gold as the European raiders failed to fire in the Flemington feature.Ireland and Britain appeared to have a strong challenge for the two-mile contest with Harry Eustace’s Bendigo Cup winner Sea King and the Brian Ellison-trained Geelong Cup hero Onesmoothoperator joined by Willie Mullins’ pair of Vauban and Absurde,