In Australia, every year on the first Tuesday of November.
Ladies would wear trendy suits and glamorous hats.
People who don't know will think that they have mistakenly entered the catwalk scene, and friends who understand Australian culture will smile.
The place where these beautifully dressed girls appear is not the catwalk you imagine, but the scene of a fierce and wild horse race—
Melbourne Cup.
Founded in 1861, this horse racing competition is known in Australia as "a race that takes the breath of the whole country".
This day of the year is a legal citizen holiday, the whole country rejoices, and the whole people gamble on horses.
On this day, men dress in traditional horse racing costumes or crisp suits, while ladies dress up in full costumes and the racecourse is full of sideburns.
But of course the most exciting thing is the race on the racecourse.
As the event progressed, spectators tightened their hearts.
Especially those who have placed bets, their eyes are fixed on the horses they bought, watching with bated breath.
If you are lucky enough to buy a cold win, you can make a lot of money and even have the opportunity to become a millionaire.
Among them, the winner of the upset includes the legendary battle of the Melbourne Cup.
In the 2015 Melbourne Cup, a jockey who made a new history was born.
Michelle Payne.
In that match, the odds were as high as 1 to 100.
Some of your friends may not understand this concept.
The lower the odds, the more favored the horse is, and it is the favorite to win the championship.
The higher the odds, the worse the horse.
but! Got the point.
Once the upset wins, the prize money will be much higher than the horse with low odds.
Like Michelle Payne, the odds are as high as 1 to 100, which is a proper big cold.
It was in this unpopular situation that MichelLe Payne broke the legend and won the 2015 Melbourne Cup.
It also made history, becoming the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup in 155 years.
The story of this legendary jockey has also been adapted into a movie —
"Horse Racing Girl"
Michelle was born into an equestrian family with 10 children and 8 jockeys.
The youngest of 10 children, Michelle, influenced by her father and older siblings, has had a dream from an early age.
She wanted to be a jockey.
Ambitions are not small, to win the Melbourne Cup, Australia's most famous horse racing competition.
But this dream is extremely difficult.
In the more than a hundred years of melbourne Cup history, no female jockey has ever won the title.
To put it bluntly, there are very few jockeys who can enter the Melbourne Cup, and one finger can count them.
So few that even children understand that there are no girls in the Melbourne Cup, which is a sport monopolized by men.
This may have something to do with what has been called the most dangerous sport in the world.
The racecourse is cruel, and it is common for jockeys to fall off their horses and stomp to death.
And horse racing also requires strength, which is not good for women who are already physically weak.
Therefore, female jockeys are generally not optimistic about society.
"Men dominate the racecourse" has almost become a tacit concept.
In Michelle's family, her sister Bridge was the best.
She rode faster than everyone else, and better.
At the racecourse, Bridge won the championship several times.
However, none of this rivaled the reality that she was a woman, and despite winning the title, Bridge was still eliminated from the Melbourne Cup.
Michelle saw What happened to Bridge in her eyes, both sad for Bridge and more determined to break into the Melbourne Cup.
The road to becoming a jockey is tough.
Michelle's first game was beaten by reality.
She ran a last place.
Father regretfully told her that you might just not have talent.
But Michelle wasn't discouraged, and she decided to give herself a fight.
Temporarily suspended from school, followed his father to learn equestrianism, continued to work hard, and finally broke into the group stage.
After starting her career, Michelle also experienced the difficulty of her sister Bridge as a female jockey.
A horse, in addition to the jockey, there is also the owner and trainer.
The trainer is responsible for training the horses and matching the jockeys for the horses.
Therefore, Michelle had to ride a horse and first get the consent of the trainer.
However, her request was ridiculed by individual trainers.
Even vulgar harassment.
It's hard to find an opportunity to get on the field, and the differences between these genders are still everywhere.
In regular racing, jockeys have locker rooms.
Male jockeys dress up in spacious, bright special dressing rooms.
Michelle, in the warehouse of a fast food store next to the arena, changed.
On the door was a small piece of paper with the words "Non-employees are not allowed to enter" on the front.
The reverse is the "jockey locker room".
The hand-painted little girl holding the horse whip, just as Michelle was in a comical mood at the moment.
Michelle complained to her brother that she had clearly won the first place in the group, but she was always discriminated against and was always squeezed by men on the field.
The brother did not take Michelle's frustration to heart and comforted her lightly:
"No, every apprentice has been squeezed down, and I've been squeezed about 10 times."
Michelle smiled coldly:
"Try it 100 times!"
Despite repeated group results and a ticket to the Melbourne Cup, Michelle suffered the same fate as her sister Bridge.
The owners did not agree to Michelle riding his own horse to the race.
They don't believe that a jockey has enough strength, skill and ambition to survive this 3200-meter obstacle course.
Even after overcoming many difficulties to persuade the owners to board the Melbourne Cup, Michelle is still not optimistic.
Odds are as high as 1 to 100.
Almost no one thought she was going to win.
In the melbourne cup in the last scene, the competition was fierce and made people's blood boil.
Michelle did not run in the front after starting the race, and the dozen horses in front of him were crowded together, making it more difficult to counterattack.
But Michelle, with skill and patience, waited for the opportunity, and finally found a gap in the horse and sprinted back.
Become a dark horse on the field, punch the audience in the face, and win the championship.
The title's ride like a girl can also be translated into another meaning:
You ride like a.
You don't have to say it, you'll think it's a very impolite remark.
It is always assumed that men with a strength advantage dominate the racecourse, but in fact, strength alone is not enough.
It also requires wisdom, skill, and patience.
And these abilities, as a woman Michelle does not do worse than a male jockey, or even better.
But in fact, Michelle's problem is not just a problem on the racecourse.
Women often encounter this kind of unfair treatment in the workplace and in life.
On the one hand, these people are trying to belittle the ability of women, and on the other hand, they are full of vigilance and hostility towards women.
In fact, equal rights is not a thing that needs to be guarded against, and I like a dialogue in the movie "Ruan Lingyu".
Tang Jishan, a wealthy businessman, joked:
"You women stand up, we men fall."
Director Fei Mu, who was listening, replied gently:
"Women stand up, does not mean that men must fall, everyone can stand together, the world is big enough." 」
The world is wide enough for boys to have great dreams and girls to prove themselves.
It's like Michelle, who won the Melbourne Cup with her achievements, slapped those who laughed at her.
Ride like a girl, who can also win the championship, is equally proud.
Bluestone Film Editorial Department 丨leslie