Wallaby sprayed after $141k Melbourne Cup win

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Former Wallaby Morgan Turinui has shared the epic communicative of his 2003 Melbourne Cup triumph that earned him an all-time lingua lashing from his manager Eddie Jones.

On the debut occurrence of Between Two Posts connected Stan Sport, equine racing enthusiast Turinui took a travel down representation lane from his clip with the Test squad astatine the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

The Wallabies had conscionable edged Ireland successful a 17-16 thriller and were preparing for their quarterfinal against Scotland.

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But successful betwixt pugnacious grooming sessions, the squad gathered to ticker the contention that stops a nation, camera crews and all.

Already a savvy punter astatine 21-years-old, Turinui had bid $2000 for an astatine the clip "unknown horse" named Makybe Diva successful the team's Calcutta.

"I had to spell to Jeremy Paul afterwards and accidental 'look, mate, my Commonwealth Bank Dollarmite account, my maximum withdrawal is $800 truthful tin I wage tomorrow?'

"He looked aft me," Turinui said.

Turinui had besides dabbled connected a trifecta and archetypal 4 stake portion making a travel to the Coffs Harbour TAB with teammates Chris Whitaker and Nathan Grey that day.

"I spell 'boys, springiness maine immoderate cash, I'll enactment 1 on.'

"Tight arses, they spell 'no, no.' Greysie, inactive choky and Whits, nary idea, they spell 'no, no, don't interest astir it, we don't privation to discarded our money.' I said 'are you sure?' Nope, nary good."

Bad decision: Turinui's selections were Makybe Diva, She's Archie, Jardines Lookout, Pentastic and Frightening.

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"Makybe Diva comes through, I'm conscionable moving around, I've won $16,000, it's astir apt my full declaration astatine the Waratahs," Turinui recalls.

"The trifecta pays $12,000, 1.66 times truthful astir $20,000. So I've won $36,000, Jeremy Paul says 'mate, archer Beaver (Jones), springiness him $500 and spell down to the pub, conscionable miss grooming and wage the fine.' And I said 'oh, my archetypal 4 tickets are live, I've inactive got 2 horses present for archetypal four.' No-one knew what was happening, they're interviewing the trainer, everyone's cheering."

But with truthful overmuch going connected Turinui didn't rather cognize however overmuch helium had won arsenic Jones came to clang the party.

"Eddie Jones gets up and goes 'Morgan mate, it's clip to commencement grooming mate, we truly request to absorption now, preparing for Scotland this play mate. So you've had a bully win, truly important mate that you bid well. Train well, beryllium mature astir it mate.'

"So alright, Beaver goes done the team, the team's announced, I didn't adjacent perceive the squad announced, we're each laughing up the back, no-one cares," Turinui said.

"I could consciousness the value successful my pockets already, the cash. And past the large Wallaby manager Phil Thomson steps outside, comes backmost in, we're acceptable to train.

"He goes 'oh Morgs, what did you have?' I said 'I've got Pentastic and Frightening I deliberation it is for fourth.' And helium goes 'are you sure?'

"I said 'yeah' and helium goes 'well Pentastic's tally 4th and the archetypal 4 has paid $105,000.' And truthful the country has conscionable gone bananas."

But portion astir Australians successful that concern would beryllium shouting the bar, the Wallabies bash person the tiny substance of a World Cup quarterfinal to hole for.

Turinui "somehow" gets done the league earlier Jones lines the blessed punter up erstwhile more.

"He comes up to maine and goes 'mate, you trained that badly, I thought you had 120 expansive successful your pockets, mate. You're a disgrace mate. Mate, the players don't adjacent privation you here, mate. If you're not superior astir rugby spell and beryllium a nonrecreational punter, mate. No-one present cares.'

"But the bully happening astir Beaver is that fractional an hr aboriginal helium forgets astir it and has a brew with you."

Turinui didn't uncover what helium spent his winnings on, different than to say: "that's astir 1 word of Sydney's backstage schoolhouse fees."