Son beats father in thrilling finish to Melbourne Cup

By Michael Lynch
Updated November 7 2017 - 8:18pm, first published 8:13pm

Joseph O'Brien is used to making headlines and he did so again at Flemington on Tuesday when he became one of the youngest trainers to win the Melbourne Cup, and his first runner in Australia, Rekindling, became the first northern hemisphere three-year-old to win Australia's greatest race.

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