The New Zealand jockey Cory Parish has ridden Boom Time to victory in the 3.3 million dollar Caulfield Cup in Melbourne.
Cory Parish Photo: PHOTOSPORT
Boom Time paid 44 dollars for the win.
Parish moved to Australia in 2013.
It was his first group one winner.
Boom Time's upset win meant Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig have added their names to their family's rich history in the Caulfield Cup.
Both Hayes and Dabernig are grandsons of the late Colin Hayes, an Australian hall of fame trainer who won the 1976 Cup with How Now.
Ben Hayes and Dabernig now train in partnership with David Hayes, himself a hall of fame trainer who enjoyed success in the Cup in 1993 with Fraar and again with Tawqeet in 2006.
He has added a third, this time in partnership with his son Ben and his nephew Tom.
Of the New Zealand horses Jon Snow was ninth and Bonneval 14th.
Parish said "I couldn't ask for any more. I've been here five years now (from New Zealand). I've been working for David (Hayes) and he owns the whole horse and he had the faith to put me on today, and I said I just want to repay him and I have. It's been fantastic."
"This horse went super last start in the Herbert Power, he was the only horse able to finish off and I thought if he could relax today, he'd do it, and he did just that. It's just an amazing thrill, first Group One and for it to be a Caulfield Cup, you beauty!"
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