Half Yours is the reigning Melbourne Cup champion — and one of the most popular winners in the race's history. The locally bred stayer won the 2025 Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup in the same spring, ridden by Jamie Melham, who became the first female jockey to complete the famous Cups double. His dominant Flemington victory in the Cup's first $10 million edition earned him Victorian Horse of the Year honours.
Tony and Calvin McEvoy's charge faces a different assignment in 2026: history says Cups are brutally hard to win back-to-back (think Makybe Diva's three-peat as the towering exception), and the handicappers will load him with topweight. He went winless in four autumn runs at middle distances — the market still makes him the $10 favourite, banking on the spring spark returning. Everything about his 2026 campaign builds toward one question: can the people's champion do it again?