The six television stations in Sydney and Melbourne combined to make the telecast possible through a series of microwave relays. Sydney's three television stations showed the running of the Cup. Cameras placed at key points on the course gave viewers splendid close-up and long-distance shots of every moment of the race. The telecast opened at 2.25 p.m. with the cameras showing the grandstand scene. A glimpse of some eye-catching women's fashions followed and then the horses began moving on to the track, led by Tulloch.

In NSW, the power load dropped by 186,000 kilowatts as factory machines were shut off and then jumped by 50,000 kilowatts as television sets went on. At Flemington, the cameras played on the preliminary difficulties of getting the horses into the starting-boxes. As the race began, three and a half minutes late, the official race-caller, Joe Brown, began his description. Dow Street falls in 1960 Centenary Melbourne Cup, 1 November 1960. Credit:Staff Television viewers saw Dow Street lose his rider, apprentice jockey R. McCarthy and the great Tulloch well back in the field for most of the race. Then they saw Hi Jinx and Howsie flash past the post. The telecast conveyed not only the picture, but the atmosphere of the Cup. In the tense moment of uncertainty about which horse had won, viewers saw the container carrying a print of the photo-finish slide down to the judge's box. Cheers, groans echoed

An ATN Channel 7 technician, Mr Bert Stephenson, assembles a parabolic microwave antenna at Epping in preparation for the direct telecast of the Centenary Melbourne Cup from Flemington on Tuesday, October 28, 1960. A few seconds later the cheers and groans of Flemington were echoed in hundreds of Sydney buildings as Hi Jinx's number - 16A - went up. Then came the presentation of the Cup by Lady Dunrossil and interviews with the owner and jockey. Many of the engineers and technicians who made the telecast possible had the most uncomfortable view of the race. They sat on the top of bitterly cold mountains watching picture monitors, while gale-force winds whipped around the repeater stations. Snowploughs had to clear the track to Black Jack in the Snowy Mountains for one crew to get their equipment in. Last night viewers in Sydney and Brisbane saw a videotaped recording of the telecast. The tapes were rushed by air to Brisbane after recording at ATN, Channel 7, studios. Most Melbourne people last night also had their first look at the race on television.

Yesterdays telecast was Sydney's second Sydney-Melbourne link. ATN pioneered the first early last with a telecast of an England-Australia Test match. In Sydney, the city came up to its customary standstill as Cup time approached. A minute before race time the usually bustling Town Hall intersection was almost deserted. A lone policemen on point duty had two cars to direct. In Pitt and Park Streets the only active pedestrians were disinterested women and children. A double decker bus double-parked in mid-block in George Street while the driver watched the race. Opposite, a delivery truck also double-parked and only a single lane was open for traffic. The win of 50-1 outsider Hi Jinx in the Centenary Melbourne Cup stunned the 101,478 spectators at Flemington yesterday. Hi Jinx was almost unbacked, and gave bookmakers a "skinner."

The Caulfield-Melbourne Cups double of llumquh and Hi Jinx was almost unsupported - it was quoted at 10,000 to 1 in most charts. Hi Jinx, a New Zealand five-year-old mare, was the fifth longest-priced Melbourne Cup winner in history. Hi Jinx winning the Centenary Melbourne Cup, 1 November 1960. Credit:Staff Rimfire won at 66 to 1 in 1948, and The Pearl (1871), Wotan (1936) and Old Rowley (1940) at ,100 to 1. Champion Tulloch, who started favourite, at 3 to 1 was given a great ovation - and jockey Neville Sellwood was all smiles - as he led the field of 32 in the pre-race parade.

But Tulloch found his 10-1 and the big field too much. He finished seventh, the first time in his 41 races he had been out of a place. A few people remained loyal to Tulloch. They stood near the fence to clap as he returned to scale, but Sellwood looked straight ahead. Hi Jinx gave her Victorian jockey W. A. Smith his first Melbourne Cup victory. The trainer and part-owner of Hi Jinx, Trevor Knowles, gave up farming to become a trainer of his own - and share - racehorses.