{"id":508875,"date":"2025-10-18T07:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/508875\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T07:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:33:12","slug":"melbourne-and-sydney-prepare-for-massive-race-day-all-the-odds-predictions-start-times-and-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/508875\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne and Sydney prepare for massive race day; all the odds, predictions, start times and results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clutching their dresses, tears welling in their eyes, the europhia from the crew backing Half Yours was palpable.<\/p>\n<p>Lily Biasin, the daughter of co-owner Jason Biasin, was so overcome it appeared that she may have jumped on someone\u2019s foot in the mounting yard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so good. So happy for the whole family and everyone involved. It\u2019s very people-oriented,\u201d she said.<br \/>Only minutes after the race, back in the throng near lawn, ladies were already shoeless, some limping towards the exit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ruby Tsiakis has her dress released from a rogue escalator at Caulfield.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6db064c25ac2c124a3bb3678810a1971c17bc55a58dc30342033a481d53b719e.jpeg\" height=\"425\" width=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ruby Tsiakis has her dress released from a rogue escalator at Caulfield.<\/p>\n<p>For 18-year-old Ruby Tsiakis, she wasn\u2019t limping, but her dress was torn up.<\/p>\n<p>The Glen Iris teen who was wearing a Pepper Mayo dress said she spent 30 minutes stuck in an escalator from 4.30pm, and missed the race she had hoped to watch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was sitting like this for half an hour,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had to unscrew the escalator to get me out. My legs were shaking from being in a squat for so long.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that it\u2019s been a pretty good day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her friend Bronte Fisher said she\u2019d loved the fashion, \u201clots of colour, beautiful fascinators. Chunky jewellery, very on trend,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clutching their dresses, tears welling in their eyes, the europhia from the crew backing Half Yours was palpable.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-508875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115394013734654334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}