Jockey Imprint Zahra has won consecutive Melbourne Cups, directing Easily to win the Melbourne Cup at Flemington.
Soulcombe, who missed the beginning, raged home to require a second.
Sheraz got back home third and Ashrun fought hard for fourth.
It was one more victory for Zahra, who rode Gold Outing to win last year's Melbourne Cup.
He turned into the principal jockey since Glen Supervisor on Makybe Diva to win back to back Melbourne Cups.
The last time a rider won consecutive Melbourne Cups on various ponies was Harry White on Arwon in 1978 and Hyperno in 1979.
The outcome justified Zahra's choice to get off the ride on Gold Excursion, who came out on top in last year's race and completed seventeenth, for Easily.
"Your most memorable [Cup win] is genuine delight — you can't actually accept that you've really gotten it done — and this year it's comparative happiness however you realize you can make it happen," Zahra said.
"You go in with significantly more certainty.
"It's as yet perhaps of the best inclination on the planet however when I went too far I was like, 'no real surprises there. I realized I picked the right pony and I let you know I could win it'."
Zahra had picked Easily only 10 days before the Cup, hours after he directed Gold Outing to fifth in the Cox Plate.
He uncovered racegoers were "giving it to me" about the choice even as he passed on the mounting yard to make a beeline for the hindrances on Tuesday
"I was on a pony you can sit on. He has an electric turn of the foot and he pulled me the whole way to the line," Zahra said after the success.
"The powers of providence arranged in perfect order for Gold Excursion last year and adjusted for this pony this year.
"Only a couple of things and the manner in which he won the Caulfield Cup, I was certain he would run it."
Zahra recognized he let his fervor get to him with his festival which went somewhat astray.
"Giving the two fingers [signal] for two victors. I don't have the foggiest idea what I was thinking. Simpleton!" he said.
Easily solidified as a Cup competitor in the wake of winning the Caulfield Cup the month before.
No pony beginning around 2001 had finished Melbourne-Caulfield Cup twofold, when Ethereal won both.
Irish thief Vauban — prepared by Willie Mullins — had begun number one for the huge race, yet completed back in the field subsequent to approaching as an opportunity around the turn.
Three of the primary possibilities had been drawn together close to within, with Vauban in boundary three, Gold Excursion in hindrance two and Soulcombe in obstruction four.
The last option proceeded with his propensity for missing the beginning, this time by somewhere around three lengths, yet he came gradually into the race under jockey Joao Moreira.
There were a gathering of ponies who started to lead the pack right on time, with Serpentine pushing forward from within obstruction, alongside Bowman Stakes victor Kalapour, Future History, Enchanted Mission and 2019 champ Commitment and Pronounce.
Zahra held his nerve when those pioneers went out hard at the midway imprint.
At the point when they got to the turn there were a lot of expectations, with Vauban coming around the beyond Future History, with Promise and Pronounce and Absurde.
Be that as it may, Easily descended the focal point of the track, coordinated flawlessly by Zahra, to come clear with 100m to go.
Eventually, it was a strong success, with Soulcombe an enormous entertainer dashing home for the second.
The French-reproduced Chris Waller-prepared horse Sheraz again showed his capacity at the 3,200m with a fine third.
The Ciaron Maher — David Eustace-prepared Right You Are followed home in last spot. It was checked by vets, and viewed as intensity pushed with no critical medical problems.
Right You Are, Alenquer and Gold Excursion apparently pulled up weak after the race.
The success was the first for father-and-child coaches Anthony and Sam Freedman, the sibling and nephew of five-time Cup victor Lee Freedman.