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One of them just won the $1 million Oaks, a victory that came five days after Ballarat trainers Tony and Calvin McEvoy won the Melbourne Cup. It was a David versus Goliath moment at Flemington on Thursday before a crowd of 51,239 people. Strictly Business is part-owned by a group of Irish expats. They beat home a horse prepared by training giant Chris Waller – The Pearls which finished second – and gave windburn to odds-on favourite Getta Good Feeling, which is owned by billionaire Jonathan Munz. “I was found wanting late,” Getta Good Feeling’s jockey Mark Zahra said after his filly faded to finish sixth. “I think she probably didn’t stay the 2500 metres and two runs in five days on good 3s [firm tracks] probably paid a toll today.”
