Astonishing scenes at Call of the Card today.
JP McManus and Paul Byrne staked A$1 million on Hopewell Rock to win the Melbourne Cup, including the A$530k shown here at 9-1. The rest was later accepted at 17-2 and 8-1.
In total they had around A$2m of bets on the race.
Rumours of a shock Zeljko Ranogajec appearance added fresh intrigue to the Melbourne Cup Call Of The Card, where heavyweight punters are set to unleash. @bendorries76
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Great interview @JaseRicho . Pikey is a champion. Very high strike rate. He's probably happiest riding at home., but be aware when he crosses the border
Big shoutout to our man @lochietaylor_ who gave us an "absolutely warth-moutering" future bet with Cosmic Crusader for the Cox Plate on August 20th at $11 #GetOn
The AIU has provisionally suspended reigning World and former Olympic champion, Peres Jepchirchir, after an out-of-competition sample, collected in Kenya prior to her recent Sydney Marathon victory, returned an adverse analytical finding for EPO. 1/2
Coops, unfortunate situation but we simply cannot guess in these situations - we were advised officially at 6.08pm by Stewards.
We cannot guess or assume in matters of life and death - we have to wait for the information before we can broadcast it.
I understand your angst & anger
@Morcsonly@docturf Thatβs just not true
We went off air at 6pm and before that we gave all the information we were provided by stewards
Would you like us to guess on what the outcome could be? No
We deal in facts
Absolute garbage mate - we broadcasted all the information provided to us by the stewards.
Would you like us the guess? No
Would you like us to assume the best or the worst? No
@XanderMcGuire7 followed the story until we went off air at 6pm and gave our audience all the information we were provided.
Was he βout of his depthβ? No
Sorry mate - your anger is misdirected on this one
The lack of information, the misinformation and the absence of opinion following the dreadful fall at Caulfield today highlighted how out of their depth both 7 and RDC broadcasters are when incidents of this nature occur. All in an attempt to sanitise what we had just witnessed