Melbourne Cup LIVE: Stewards order Cup runner to be scratched; Why Birdcage guests won’t be getting their make-up touched up this year; main race at 3pm

It’s Melbourne Cup Day, and we will bring you all the news, colour, analysis and action from the track, the Birdcage, the movers and shakers and much more. Follow it live.

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