Payne said she was "floating on the cloud and it's a nice feeling".
One of them was the Hilton Hotels Stakes and the other was the Melbourne Cup itself. In 2015, she gained national attention when she rode the winning horse in two races at Melbourne Cup carnival at the Flemington Racecourse. In 2010 Payne rode Yosei to victory in the Thousand Guineas at Caulfield. The horse was placed 16th in the field of 23. As a first-timer in the 2009 Melbourne Cup, she rode Cummings' Allez Wonder with a riding weight of 50.5 kg. Payne was the third female jockey to ride in the Caulfield Cup. Payne won her first Group One race, the Toorak Handicap at Caulfield Racecourse aboard Allez Wonder on 10 October 2009, and trainer Bart Cummings offered her the ride at the Caulfield Cup the following week. As a result of her prolonged recovery period-including a further fall where she fractured her wrist-Payne was granted a three-month extension to her apprenticeship to allow her time to ride out her claim. In March 2004, Payne fell heavily at a race in Sandown Racecourse in Melbourne, fracturing her skull and bruising her brain. She won in her first race at Ballarat, aboard Reigning-a horse trained by her father. She attended Our Lady Help of Christians primary school and Loreto College, Ballarat, and entered racing aged 15, the eighth of the Payne children to do so. Payne dreamt of being a winning jockey as a child, and, aged seven, told friends she would one day win the Melbourne Cup. Her mother Mary died in a motor vehicle crash when Payne was six months old, leaving her father Paddy to raise their ten children as a single father. The youngest child of ten of Paddy and Mary Payne, Payne grew up on a farm at Miners Rest, a locality near Ballarat in central Victoria, Australia. She won the 2015 Melbourne Cup, riding Prince of Penzance, and is the first and only female jockey to win the event.
Payne OAM (born 29 September 1985) is an Australian jockey.
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