Michelle Payne

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Michelle Payne
Michelle Payne on Yosei.jpg

Michelle Payne on Yosei after winning
the Australian 1000 guineas , 2010

nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
birthday September 29, 1985
Weight 50.5 kg
Career
discipline jockey
Important successes
Toorak Handicap (2009)
Australian 1000 Guineas (2010)
Melbourne Cup (2015)
last change: May 9, 2017

Michelle Payne (born September 29, 1985 ) is an Australian jockey . They won with Prince of Penzance the Melbourne Cup of, 2015.

Life

The youngest daughter of Paddy and Mary Payne grew up on a farm in Miners Rest, near Ballarat , Victoria , Australia. Her mother Mary died in a car accident when Payne was six months old, leaving her father Paddy to raise his ten children alone. As a child, Payne dreamed of winning the Melbourne Cup one day. She attended Loreto College near Ballarat and started riding races when she was 15. She was the eighth Payne child to go into racing. She has Irish ancestry.

The 2019 Australian film Ride Like a Girl is based on the life of Michelle Payne and her historic Melbourne Cup victory in 2015.

Racing career

She won her first race in Ballarat with Reigning , a horse her father trained. In March 2004 Payne had a serious fall while racing at Sandown Racecourse in Melbourne, in which she fractured her skull. Due to the long convalescence, during which she also broke her wrist, her apprenticeship as a racing rider was extended by three months.

Payne won her first Group I race, the Toorak Handicap at Caulfield Racecourse in the saddle of Allez Wonder on October 10th, 2009 and coach Bart Cummings offered her to ride at the Caulfield Cup the following week. Payne was the third woman to take part in the Caulfield Cup.

When she first participated in the Melbourne Cup in 2009, she again rode Allez Wonder from coach Bart Cummings, weighing 50.5 kg. They reached 16th place out of 23 starters. 2010 Payne won with Yosei in the Australian Thousand Guineas at Caulfield Racecourse.

She gained national attention when she won two races at the Melbourne Cup carnival at Flemington Racecourse in 2015. One was the Hilton Hotels Stakes and the other was the Melbourne Cup . In May 2016, Payne suffered serious abdominal injuries from a fall while racing in Mildura . A ruptured liver had to be treated, it is not yet known if she will be racing again.

In October 2016, Payne received the Don Award from the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.

Melbourne Cup 2015

Payne won the Melbourne Cup on November 3, 2015 on Prince of Penzance , a six-year-old gelding that she had ridden for a long time. Payne became the first woman to win the Melbourne Cup in its 155-year history. Coincidentally, their racing colors matched the colors of the suffragettes : purple, green, and white. She hopes her victory will help other "female jockeys" in the future. Payne's win surprised the bookmakers . Prince of Penzances , who had been bought for the comparatively modest amount of $ 50,000, was considered a blatant outsider with a odds of 100: 1. His victory was all the more sensational. The victory in the Melbourne Cup 2015 was endowed with 3.6 million Australian dollars. Of this, the jockey receives 5%, the trainer 10% and the owner 85%.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrew Eddy: Payne gets El of a birthday surprise . In: The Age , September 29, 2009. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
  2. ^ A b c Peter Hanlon: Passion & Payne . In: The Age , October 17, 2009. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
  3. ↑ Michelle Payne: From nasty falls to Cup ecstasy . Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  4. ↑ Local heroes home with Cup . Retrieved November 11, 2015.
  5. ↑ Virginia Trioli celebrates Michelle Payne's triumph . In: The Weekly Review , November 5, 2015. Archived from the original on June 29, 2017 Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theweeklyreview.com.au 
  6. ^ Andrew Eddy: A life of pleasure and Payne . In: The Age , July 15, 2005. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
  7. ↑ Max Presnell: Shocking truth is Flemington on a Tuesday's no place for learners . In: The Sydney Morning Herald , November 3, 2015. Retrieved November 7, 2015. 
  8. ↑ Yosei wins Thousand Guineas at Caulfield . In: The Australian , October 13, 2010. Retrieved November 3, 2015. 
  9. ↑ Michelle Payne and Darren Weir team up again to win Springtime Stakes at Flemington . In: The Sydney Morning Herald , November 7, 2015. Retrieved November 8, 2015. 
  10. ↑ Power Trip wins Maribyrnong Plate . In: The Sydney Morning Herald , November 7, 2015. Retrieved November 8, 2015. 
  11. ↑ Michelle Payne in hospital after fall . smh.com.au.
  12. ↑ Michelle Payne unveils scar from career-threatening fall . smh.com.au.
  13. ↑ King Wally becomes a Legend as Michelle Payne rides off with the 'The Don' . Retrieved October 13, 2016.
  14. ↑ a b Melbourne Cup: Michelle Payne lauds 'incredible' Prince Of Penzance after historic win . Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 3rd November 2015.
  15. ↑ Ray Thomas: Melbourne Cup 2015: Michelle Payne scores historic win on $ 101 outsider Prince Of Penzance . In: The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) , November 3, 2015. Retrieved November 7, 2015. 
  16. ↑ Bridie Jabour: 'Get stuffed': how Michelle Payne and family beat odds to win Melbourne Cup . Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  17. ^ While Michelle Payne was winning the Melbourne Cup, the male jockeys were mauling . In: The Sydney Morning Herald , November 3, 2015. 
  18. ↑ Melbourne Cup 2015: Michelle Payne first woman to ride winner as long shot Prince of Penzance wins . In: Guardian Australia . 
  19. ↑ Melbourne Cup trophy , Just Horse Racing. Retrieved September 21, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Payne, Michelle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian jockey
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1985