Can a female jockey win the 2023 Melbourne Cup?
You would have to be ignorant to all things racing to not know that Michelle Payne became the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup when she rode bolter Prince Of Penzance to win the 2015 Melbourne Cup.
Now a winning trainer, Michelle Payne was the only female to have a ride in the race that year but she wasn’t the first. Maree Lyndon became the first female jockey to ride in the Melbourne Cup, when she partnered Argonaut Style in the 1987 Melbourne Cup won by Kensei.
The 2023 Melbourne Cup field has brought together an elite field of 24 horses and jockeys, but only one jockey will get the chance to raise the cup at the end of the race. Could this be the year another female jockey can make it into the history books?
Rachel King, Jamie Kah and Hollie Doyle are the two female jockey to have secured a ride in this years 2023 Melbourne Cup.
Female Jockeys In The 2023 Melbourne Cup
Military Mission
- Age: 6YO
- Color: Grey/Brown
- Sex: Gelding
- Sire: Mastercraftsman (IRE)
- Dam: Atlantic Isle (GB)
Military Mission 2023 Melbourne Cup Odds
Career stats for Military Mission
- Career: 27: 7-5-3
- Flemington: 0: 0-0-0
- Distance: 0: 0-0-0
- Wet: 12: 3-3-2
- Good: 14: 4-2-1
- Group 1: 1: 0-0-0
- Win %: 26%
- Place %: 55%
More Felons
- Age: 5YO
- Color: Bay
- Sex: Gelding
- Sire: Churchill (IRE)
- Dam: Pivotalia (IRE)
More Felons 2023 Melbourne Cup Odds
Career stats for More Felons
- Career: 14: 4-2-0
- Flemington: 0: 0-0-0
- Distance: 1: 0-0-0
- Wet: 5: 1-2-0
- Good: 8: 2-0-0
- Group 1: 1: 0-0-0
- Win %: 29%
- Place %: 43%
Future History (13)
- Age: 6YO
- Color: Bay
- Sex: Gelding
- Sire: Showcasing (GB)
- Dam: Likelihood (USA)
Future History 2023 Melbourne Cup Odds
Career stats for Future History
- Career: 16: 6-4-1
- Flemington: 1: 1-0-0
- Distance: 0: 0-0-0
- Wet: 9: 3-2-0
- Good: 6: 3-2-1
- Group 1: 0: 0-0-0
- Win %: 38%
- Place %: 69%
