Robbie Dolan won the Melbourne Cup as a mother of two pocketed a life-changing amount
Irish jockey Robbie Dolan helped a mother of two land an astonishing windfall from a bet on Tuesday's Melbourne Cup .
READ MORE:Melbourne Cup results: Irish jockey with double life wins race that stops a nation on 100/1 shot Knight’s Choice The money was in the bank within an hour after the race and the woman, who has chosen to remain anonymous, immediately paid off the mortgage. "I had my eye on two horses – number 14 kept coming up on TikTok, so I thought, ‘It has to be something. I chose 14, but also 12, because I was folding washing on Saturday, watching Derby Day. The female jockey, Jamie Kah, had broken her nose, won the Derby, and I thought, ‘She's going to go out hard this time'.""My husband said, ‘Number 11 is going to get this'.
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