Melbourne Cup Horse Owners
The Melbourne Cup is Australia’s most prestigious horse race, known as “The race that stops a nation”, and is held at Flemington racecourse on the first Tuesday in November. The two-mile race is a Group 1 handicap for three-year-olds and older, and is the richest two-mile handicap in the world. As such, it attracts entrants from all over the world, including Japan, Britain, Ireland and France.
The most successful horse in the race – which was first run in 1861 – is Makybe Diva, who won it a remarkable three times in a row from 2003 to 2005. Despite several Irish raiders having returned to the Northern Hemisphere with the spoils – most recently Rekindling for Joseph O'Brien in 2017 – we were yet to see a British-trained winner of the race until the 2018 renewal. Having reportedly had the race in their sights all season, Charlie Appleby's Cross Counter finally broke the Brits' curse, when coming from well off the pace to win for Godolphin in emphatic style.
The 2018 Lexus Melbourne Cup Tour visited the factory of starting gate manufacturer Steriline Racing this month. It seemed only fitting that the 18 carat gold, $200,000 trophy presented to the. The Melbourne Cup Horse Race 2014. Two drunk racegoers passed out on the lawn surrounded by rubbish during the Emirates Melbourne Cup Day held at. It's 'The Race That Stops A Nation' - the Melboune Cup 2018 takes place on Tuesday 6th November, and the traditional classic car parade sees fans, owners.
Melbourne Cup Top Trainer in recent times
Bart Cummings – 12 wins
Light Fingers (1965), Galilee (1966), Red Handed (1967), Think Big (1974 & 1975), Gold and Black (1977), Hyperno (1979), Kingston Rule (1990), Let’s Elope (1991), Saintly (1996), Rogan Josh (1999), Viewed (2008)
Melbourne Cup Top Jockey in recent times
Harry White - 4 wins
Think Big (1974 & 1975), Arwon (1978), Hyperno (1979)
Rekindling (pink cap) winning the Melbourne Cup for trainer Joseph O’Brien in 2017
Melbourne Cup Racecard
The Melbourne Cup almost literally stops a nation, and there are ten races on the card at Flemington, including:
380 Stakes – a Group 3 race for two-year-old fillies held over five furlongs
Flemington Fling – a race for three-year-olds over five furlongs
Lexus Hybrid Plate – a listed race for three-year-old fillies held over seven furlongs
Melbourne Cup – the feature race on the card.
Premium Stakes – a listed handicap race held over nine furlongs
Sprint – a listed handicap held over six furlongs
Jockey Club Stakes – a Group 3 race for four-year-old mares held over seven furlongs
Flemington Racecourse
Melbourne Cup Betting
The race may go off in the early hours of the morning on UK time, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a big interest in betting on the race. There is normally a huge field heading to post, which means there’s usually a highly competitive betting market. There is a large number of bets placed on the Melbourne Cup, both in the UK and Ireland, as well as in Australia. The Melbourne Cup is shown live on At The Races, but in recent years it has also been available to watch live on Twitter.
Melbourne Cup Free Bets & Betting Offers
As with any big race, the top online bookies like Paddy Power and Betfairwill have Melbourne Cup Free Betsand Melbourne Cup Betting Offers. Often the bookies will give you an enhanced price on one of the favourites, or they may offer a Bet Through The Card – get free bets when you bet on the first race of the card at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day. Either way, we have you covered here with the best sign-up offer and betting specials for the Melbourne Cup.
Melbourne Cup Runners & Form
Timeform is your best bet for finding the winner of the Melbourne Cup. When the race card for the Melbourne Cup is available over on our Races page, you will be able to find the latest form and insight on all of the Melbourne Cup runners from the team of expert tipsters at Timeform. Our Melbourne Cup runner-by-runner guides will be available on our website and on our mobile app.
Melbourne Cup Tips
Want to know which horses the expert Timeform Tipsters are backing on Melbourne Cup Day? You can get free tips for the Melbourne Cup either on the Timeform website or app. However you like to bet, Timeform has you covered withMelbourne Cup betting tips.
Melbourne Cup Latest News, Odds & Results
Follow all the build up to the Melbourne Cup on the News pages at Timeform. Whether you are after the latest betting odds, market movers, going updates and non-runners, plus the latest from the stables of the top horses for the Melbourne Cup, you’ll find it right here. Simply want to know which horse was first past the post? Then go to our Results page to get the latestMelbourne Cup results.
Melbourne Cup Past Winners – this century
Elyse Knowles chats with Kim Wilson ahead of the Melbourne Cup at Flemington...
Elyse Knowles chats with Kim Wilson ahead of the Melbourne Cup at Flemington
Damian Lane rides Mer De Glace. (AAP Image/Vince Caligiuri)Source:AAP
No international horse has won the Melbourne Cup twice and Frankie Dettori has not won the race at all.
But both Cross Counter, to be ridden by William Buick, and the flamboyant Dettori aboard Master Of Reality, will bid to rewrite the record books at Flemington on Tuesday.
And they won’t be alone.
Vow And Declare, Surprise Baby and Youngstar are the patriotic favourites as the only horses with a local trainer, a local jockey and solely local form.
Along with another nine Australian-trained runners, the trio has the task to stop the flow of Melbourne Cup trophies overseas with five of the past nine winners, and the past two in succession, trained internationally.
As the defending titleholder, Cross Counter has to overcome a 6.5kg weight rise to become the first dual Cup winner from the northern hemisphere while Dettori must beat a Melbourne Cup hoodoo that spans more than 25 years.
Having ridden in Australia’s most famous race 16 times, with his best results seconds aboard Central Park (1999) and Max Dynamite (2015), one of the world’s most celebrated jockeys is desperate to add the Melbourne Cup to his resume.
“I know him well and I can tell you this race at this point of his career means more to him than any race in the world right now because it’s probably one of the few things he hasn’t been able to win,” Nick Williams, part owner of Master Of Reality said.
Frankie Dettori. (Photo by Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images)Source:Getty Images
Also trying to snare the Cup for the first time is Craig Williams on Vow And Declare after missing the winning ride on Dunaden in 2011 through suspension.
Vow And Declare’s trainer Danny O’Brien says his charge is the quintessential Melbourne Cup horse and can keep the trophy in Australia.
“He is owned by an Australian, trained by an Australian and ridden by an Australian,” O’Brien said. “Every part of him is Australian.
“It would be nice to turn the tide back a little bit on what’s been going on for the last decade and show we’ve still got the ability to have a Melbourne Cup horse born, bred and trained in Australia.”
29 FACTS ABOUT THE MELBOURNE CUP
FIRST run in 1861 under the banner of the Victorian Turf Club and won by the Etienne de Mestre-trained Archer who beat the favourite Mormon by six lengths. The prize was 1420 pounds and the trophy a gold watch.
ARCHER came back the following year to beat Mormon, this time by eight lengths, a record margin that still stands (it was equalled in 1968 by Rain Lover).
DE MESTRE would go on to train three other winners of the Melbourne Cup – Tim Whiffler (1867), Chester (1877) and Calamia (1878).
BART Cummings claimed the first of his 12 Melbourne Cups in 1965 with Light Fingers. The following year stablemate Galilee was the only horse to prevent Light Fingers making it back-to-back Cups and in 1967 Red Handed gave the legendary trainer his third straight victory.
CUMMINGS’ other winners were Think Big (1974, 1975), Gold And Black (1977), Hyperno (1979), Kingston Rule (1990), Let’s Elope (1991), Saintly (1996), Rogan Josh (1999) and Viewed (2008).
Racehorse trainer Bart Cummingsydney.Source:News Limited
OTHER trainers to have multiple Cup wins include: 5 – Lee Freedman: Tawrrific (1989), Subzero (1992), Doriemus (1995), Makybe Diva (2004, 2005); 4 – John Tait: The Barb (1866), Glencoe (1868), The Pearl (1871), The Quack (1872); Richard Bradfield: Patron (1894), The Victory (1902), Night Watch (1918), Backwood (1924); James Scobie: Clean Sweep (1900), King Ingoda (1922), Bitalli (1923), Trivalve (1927); W S Hinkenbothem: Mentor (1888), Carbine (1890), Newhaven (1896), Blue Spec (1905).
IN 1972 the race was altered to the metric distance of 3200m, 18.7 metres or 61.5 feet short of two miles.
KINGSTON RULE holds the metric race record of 3:16.30.
THE YEAR 1985 marked the dawn of a new era for the Cup with prize money raised to $1 million. The owners of What A Nuisance received $650,000 and a $23,000 Cup.
THIS YEAR the race is worth $4.4 million to the winning owners.
FOUR-YEAR-OLDS (45) and five-year-olds (44) have the best record of any age group. Other age groups are three-year-old (23), six-year-old (32), seven-year-old (10) and eight-year-old (2).
THE OLDEST oldest horses to win the race were the eight-year-olds Toryboy (1865) and Catalogue (1938).
THE LAST three-year-old to win was Skipton (1941), who gave champion jockey Billy Cook his first Cup win. (Technically 2018 winner Cross Counter was three but considered four in the southern hemisphere).
THERE HAVE been no dead-heats for first in the race but Topical and Gaine Carrington dead-heated for third in Hall Mark’s 1933 Cup and Lahar and Zazabelle also dead-heated for third in the 1999 Cup won by Rogan Josh.
BOBBY LEWIS and Harry White are the most successful jockeys. In 33 rides in the Cup Lewis saluted the judge four times with The Victory (1902), Patrobas (1915), Artilleryman (1919) and Trivalve in 1927. He was also runner-up four times and finished third on Phar Lap in 1929.
HARRY WHITE steered the Bart Cummings-trained Think Big to successive victories in 1974 and 1975. He was back in the winner’s circle again with Arwon in 1978 and another Cummings’ runner Hyperno in 1979.
Think Big ridden by jockey Harry White.Source:News Limited
THINK BIG failed to win a race between his two Melbourne Cup wins.
MAKYBE Diva is the only horse to win the Cup three times in 2003, 2004 and 2005.
PERHAPS the unluckiest of all Melbourne Cup runners was Shadow King who ran in six Cups between 1929 and 1935 finishing third to Phar Lap in 1930, second to White Nose in 1931, third to Peter Pan in 1932 and second again behind Hall Mark in 1933.
THE LONGEST-PRICED horses to win: Four horses have won at 100-1: The Pearl (1871), Wotan (1936), Old Rowley (1940) and PrinceOf Penzance (2015).
THE SHORTEST-PRICED are Archer 2-1 (1862), Tim Whiffler 5-2 (1867), Revenue 7-4 (1901), Phar Lap 8-11 (1930), Even Stevens 3-1 (1962), Let’s Elope 3-1 (1991) and Makybe Diva at 5-2 in 2004.
MELBOURNE CUP winners to produce other Melbourne Cup winners: Grand Flaneur (1880) sired Bravo (1889) and Patron (1894); Malua (1884) sired Malvolio (1891); Comedy King (1910) sired Artilleryman (1919) and King Ingoda (1922); Spearfelt (1926) sired Dark Felt (1943); Marabou (1935) sired Skipton (1941); Silver Knight (1971) sired Black Knight (1984).
SURPRISE Baby is a son of 2009 winner Shocking.
HEAVIEST weights carried in the Cup: Winners – Carbine 10.5 (65.5kg), Archer 10.2 (64.5kg), Poitrel 10.0 (63.5kg), Redcraze 10.3 (65kg). Others: Rising Fast 10.0 (65.5kg) 2nd, Eurythmic 10.5 (65.5kg) broke down, Phar Lap 10.10 (68kg) in 1931 8th, Peter Pan 10.6 (66kg) in 1935 15th.
Melbourne Cup Horse Owners List
Vintage Crop winning the 1993 Melbourne Cup.Source:News Limited
Melbourne Cup Horse Owners Forum
IN 1993, Vintage Crop became the first northern hemisphere-trained horse to win. The Irish stayer was trained by Dermot Weld and ridden by Mick Kinanne and is credited with putting the race on the world stage.
IN 2015, Michelle Payne became the first woman to ride the winner of the Melbourne Cup when she steered the Darren Weir-trained Prince Of Penzance to a famous victory.
CRAIG WILLIAMS and Damian Lane both need a Cup win to become the eighth jockey to complete the Grand Slam of Australian racing – Golden Slipper, Caulfield Cup, Cox Plate and Melbourne Cup.
LANE, who rides Mer De Glace, can complete the grand slam in a calendar year after wins in the Golden Slipper (Kiamichi), Caulfield Cup (Mer De Glace), Cox Plate (Lys Gracieux). Williams rides Vow And Declare.
Melbourne Cup Horse Owners Club
TRAINER Lee Freedman completed the big four in the same season, 1992/93 with Mannerism (Caulfield Cup), Super Impose (Cox Plate), Subzero (Melbourne Cup), Bint Marscay (Golden Slipper).