{"id":521448,"date":"2025-10-23T05:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/521448\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T05:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:49:13","slug":"rising-jockey-celine-gaudray-books-first-melbourne-cup-ticket-after-riding-torranzino-to-geelong-cup-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/521448\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising jockey Celine Gaudray books first Melbourne Cup ticket after riding Torranzino to Geelong Cup win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Jockey Celine Gaudray is on cloud nine after riding Torranzino to Geelong Cup glory on Thursday, in doing so booking a berth in the <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/sport\/melbourne-cup\" rel=\"noopener\">Melbourne Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Gaudray is set to make her first appearance in the Flemington classic next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">She rode Torranzino to victory in Geelong with a burst at the 100m mark and said the six-year-old \u201creally deserves his spot\u201d in the Melbourne Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-178igh4-StyledParagraph e1s06mna1\">Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a class=\"css-cvgehw-StyledContextualLink e1s06mna0\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/app?utm_source=7NEWS&amp;utm_medium=contextual-link-app&amp;utm_campaign=7news-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download today <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/static\/media\/right-red-arrow.92bca5db.svg\" alt=\"Download today\" height=\"14\" width=\"20\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cIt\u2019s so surreal,\u201d Gaudray told Racing.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cEver since I was a little girl I obviously watched the Melbourne Cup, as does everybody else, and to get a ride is unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThe whole race I was actually giggling to myself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cHe was travelling really well and I thought around the 600 (metres to go) I\u2019d pop out and let him come into it. I had so much horse underneath me and he just took me through the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Asked how she\u2019ll feel waiting for the Melbourne Cup, Gaudray was succinct: \u201cExcited (laughs).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Torranzino, a six-year-old trained by Paul Preusker, entered the Geelong Cup on the back of a runner-up finish in the Group 3 Bart Cummings at Flemington earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cSuper excited to get another go (in the Melbourne Cup), that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about for me,\u201d Preusker said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cCeline\u2019s got that job done for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jockey Celine Gaudray is on cloud nine after riding Torranzino to Geelong Cup glory on Thursday, in doing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[288,388,106472,1071,10292,93,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-521448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-horse-racing","9":"tag-lifestyle","10":"tag-melbourne-cup","11":"tag-racing","12":"tag-sponsored-content","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115421916771967787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521448","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=521448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}