Races.com.au. An avalanche of foreign raiders have returned to Melbourne for the $10m Race That Stops a Nation, cementing its position as one of the world’s most prestigious races. Jim Cassidy was revered as a master in the saddle, a champion jockey who won 103 Group 1s including two Melbourne Cups - on the barnstorming Kiwi in 1983 and the great front-running Might And Power.