Trainers Sheila Laxon and John Symons take Racing Victoria to court for prizemoney share over Melbourne Cup 2024 winner Knight’s Choice

RV did not reveal who now controls the old bank account.

The husband-and-wife team of Symons and Laxon helped deliver one of the stories of the 2024 spring carnival.

Their shock winner, Knight’s Choice, was bred to be a sprinter not a 3200m stayer and was ridden by part-time karaoke singer Robbie Dolan who first met Laxon on a Melbourne Cup-themed cruise ship.

“We knew that he had an amazing sprint from the Extreme Choice side,” Laxon said after the race. “So I think you need to have sprinters and teach them to be stayers. That’s my theory anyway.”

It was Symons’ first Melbourne Cup victory, but Laxon’s second as she had become the first woman to train a winner in the great race with Ethereal in 2001.

After meeting at Macedon Lodge, the pair set up a training base in Seymour before moving to the Sunshine Coast seven years supposedly to retire. They have about horses in work.

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