Melbourne Cup 2022 winner and full results revealed: Gold Trip storms to victory

Gold Trip has stormed home to win the 2022 Melbourne Cup at Flemington in a gut-busting, furious sprint to the finish line.

The Maher and Eustace import ran a close second at the Cox Plate and went one better to claim Australia’s greatest race. 

Gold Trip emerged with the best turn of pace at the end of the endurance race to win by over two lengths ahead of Emissary and High Emocean with favourite Deauville Legend failing to make the placings. 

Jockey Mark Zahra said he just let Gold Trip go down the stretch and struggled to put the emotion of the win into words.

‘I can’t. I feel like crying. It’s unbelievable. What a day,’ he said.

‘He’s a horse that when you go, you don’t give him a chance to think about it. I was hoping no-one would come near he. It’s just elation when I crossed the line,’ he said.

‘Mum used to give us the day off so I could watch it. It’s surreal.

‘My wife is here. And all the folks back in Western Australia, what an amazing feeling.’

Earlier on race day, a self-admitted ‘problem gambler’ broke into Flemington racecourse to pour an oily substance on the track.

Alarming footage showed at least two people running onto the famous track at about 6am on Tuesday to spray a dark liquid over the course in apparent protest against the Victoria Racing Club.

The substance has not officially been identified but was labelled ‘oily’. One person has surrendered themselves to police.

The VRC confirmed officials cleaned a section of the track around the 1500 mark on Tuesday morning and said it was safe for the race to continue.

A statement issued by the protester cited as motivation the building of a wall which was designed to keep potential floodwaters from the neighbouring Maribyrnong River from getting into the racecourse and damaging the turf.

Some local residents had been angered by the construction of the wall, saying it diverted water toward their homes and increased the likelihood of future floodwaters inundating their streets.

Later on race day, climate change protesters descended on the Cup, using a van to block a main road outside the track while they stood on its roof and screamed at punters.

Protesters on the roof were filmed by a fellow activist yelling at people walking into Flemington Racecourse.

‘Eat your pheasant, drink your wine, your days are numbered, bourgeois swine,’ the protester on the roof could be heard yelling.

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