GREG MILES, OAM
Broadcaster
Greg Miles is the race caller who is known Australia-wide as the voice of Victorian racing. 
Miles has been calling the horses since the early 1980s; first on the ABC but also at the city's racetracks, on racing radio and with broadcaster TVN.
He is now to be heard on racing.com and Channel 7, broadcasting the races from Melbourne's city venues and major provincial meetings. He called his first Melbourne Cup as a 22-year-old in 1981 - when Just A Dash won - and described a record 35th Cup this season, when when Michelle Payne saluted on 100-1 outsider Prince of Penzance to become the first female Cup-winning jockey.
His Medal of the Order of Australia is a fitting tribute to the man who has become an integral part of the narrative of his sport - coining one of its best-known phrases as he described Makybe Diva's historic third Cup win in 2005 as the moment when "a champion becomes a legend".