It is the moment every probester, patriot, pilgrim and punter will long remember as, overcome by grief, HG Nelson breaks down weeping over the loss of Bruce to the Melbourne Cup. You’ll be heart-broken as you hear the tears splattering his boots as HG demands Sco-Mo issue a Prime Ministerial-decree to move Bruce McAvaney to Channel 10 so he can call next year’s Melbourne Cup. Agreeing with his partner, Rampaging Roy Slaven predicted that without such an order ‘this is the end of the Melbourne Cup as a significant part of the Australian landscape.’ Pulling himself together HG goes on to exclusively reveal how Hughie Bowman packed on an extra kilo as he rode Marmello to second place in the Cup (Hint: eating a big bowl of pasta while riding can do that.) Another issue The Sporting Probe unpacks in-depth is Australian cricket (Hint: Should Shane Warne or Viv Richards manage Cricket Australia?) Also big news in this week’s podcast is news from the Horn V Mundine fight that a reality-style TV show is in the offing featuring the Fighting Primary School Teacher struggling to put on weight as Mundine wrestles with shedding kilos. It’s exclusive. As is every other insight and revelation in this week’s podcast. And, what about them Wallabies? Yeah, what about them except, can they beat Italy? Sheesh.