As a child, Michelle Payne dreamed of lifting the Melbourne Cup, and she finally achieved that on Tuesday - despite horrific injury, chauvinism and a horse that was listed at 100-1. In doing so ...

GROWING up on a farm as the youngest of 10 siblings in rural Australia, Michelle Payne had big dreams ... Michelle says he was treated "just like another child" in their family, because there ...

[Michelle is the 11th and youngest child of Ballarat horse trainer Paddy Payne]. My other brother, Stevie, helps Patrick and I when needed. My sister Cathy is married to Kerrin McEvoy who has won ...

3. Michelle is the youngest of 10 kids. She has racing blood running through her veins and is the eighth Payne child to become a jockey - five of her older sisters and two brothers have also spent ...

Cathy is expecting her and McEvoy's fourth child next Tuesday and has manned ... his sister-in-law Michelle Payne.Credit: Getty Images And she couldn't dodge the school duties back home in Sydney ...

GROWING up on a farm as the youngest of 10 siblings in rural Australia, Michelle Payne had big dreams. At the age of five she vowed to one day become the first woman to win the Melbourne Cup ...