The Melbourne Cup is done and dusted for another year, with Verry Elleegant taking out the top spot. 

See our full wrap of the race HERE.

Tune in from 1.45pm EST today to hear our live coverage of the race that stops the nation.

Sofie Formica will cross to our reporters at Flemington and Brisbane from 1.45pm.

From 2pm, hear the main event as it unfolds.

Will one of the Melbourne Cup’s shortest favourites since Phar Lap, Toowoomba-bred gelding Incentivise, take out the top spot and keep $8 million in Australia?

Is the second-favourite Spanish Mission in with a chance?

Or will Twilight Payment be the first horse to win consecutive cups since Makybe Diva?

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