Ride Like a Girl (2019) on Netflix

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ride Like a Girl (2019)

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• Ride Like a Girl is based on the true story of Michelle Payne, who in 2015 became the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.
• Michelle Payne's victory speech after her Melbourne Cup win was televised live across Australia, and in it she told all the people along the way who had said she could not do it to "get stuffed".
• Rachel Griffiths watched that televised speech at a Cup day barbecue and it inspired her to make the film.
• The film is book-ended with documentary footage: at the start Payne appears as a small girl saying she wants to win the Melbourne Cup, and at the end as a young woman winning.