Melbourne Cup Tips

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Best 2010 Melbourne Cup Tips

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Melbourne Cup Tips from the Trends

If you want to work out the Melbourne cup winner for yourself then we can help you out by looking at the past Melbourne Cup winners.

See what the trends are from past winners and use them to put yourself onto the winner of this years race.

Melbourne Cup Odds Trends

Shocking the 2009 winner had been supported Ante Post and was strong on the day. The 4 year old was drawn in stall 21.

The last ten years have been a mixture of fancied horses and outsiders. In 2008 Viewed trained by Bart Cummings hung on from the fast finishing English raider Bauer.

Viewed was a big outsider and the bookies were relieved that all the favourites were unplaced.

The 2007 winner the grey Efficient returned at generous odds of 16/1 and he was the first horse to complete the Victoria Derby Melbourne Cup double since the legendary Phar Lap.

In 2006 Delta Blues won at 18/1, bigger prices should not be discounted when looking down the list of runners. There have been 3 winning favourites in this period. Generally you should stick to runners under 20/1 on the day of the race.

Melbourne Cup Tips and Draw Bias Trends

The most successful Melbourne Cup draw is 11 with seven wins, draw 14 has six. It is a widely held view that the extremes are bad and that somewhere low to middle are the best, although the draw does tend to polarise opinion with many saying it makes no difference.

Dont be put off by the draw but have more confidence if your Melbourne Cup runner is drawn in the middle.

Melbourne Cup Tips - Age

There is nothing between five-year-olds (43 wins) and four-year-olds (43 wins). There have been 10 seven year old winners and 28 six year olds.

The full list of Melbourne Cup Winners ages below.

3 year old - 23

4 year old - 43

5 year old - 43

6 year old - 28

7 year old - 10

8 year old - 2

Dont go for an oldie or one too inexperienced. A four or five year old is your best bet.

Melbourne Cup Tips - Sex

The Sex Status of Melbourne Cup Winners

Entire 64

Gelding 50

Colts 19

Mares 13

Fillies 3

The ladies have a poor record so stick to a male horse. Experienced ones fair better

Melbourne Cup Tips - Prep Races

The Caulfield Cup, Cox Plate and Mackinnon Stakes are the most important prep race for the Melbourne Cup.

11 horses have achieved the Caulfield Cup/Melbourne Cup double and many more have been placed in the Caulfield Cup before winning the Melbourne Cup.

The Caulfield Cup is normally run mid October and its a natural progression for the winner to compete in the Melbourne Cup. A horse who wins the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne cup will win the famous cups double.

Ethereal was the last horse to complete that cups double, in 2001.

The Cox Plate over 10 furlongs is held in late October and six horses have acheived that double with the Melbourne Cup. The last being Makybe Diva in 2005. The huge purse is very tempting for trainers and is considered to be the weight for age championship of Australasia.

The Mackinnon Stakes is another race to keep an eye on when looking to find a selection at Flemington.

The Mackinnon stakes is normally held on the Saturday before the Melbourne Cup, so a winner of that race may well be on a good racing weight for the Melbourne Cup.

This race was often used to get Melbourne Cup horses spot on for the big day. However it is ten years since Rogan Josh truimphed in both.

Melbourne Cup Trainers

David Hayes, Lee Freedman, Peter G Moody, Mick Price, Danny OBrien, Darren Weir, Gai Waterhouse, Bart Cummings and Graeme Rogerson are some of the top Aussie Trainers who will aim suitable handicap candidates for the 2009 Melbourne Cup.

Foreign trainers are aiming better horse at Melbourne, Luca Cumani second in 2007 and 2008 will again be a trainer looking to land the Melbourne Cup.

Dermot Weld and Aidan O'Brien in particular are sending European Group horses to run in albeit a fantastically valuable horse race but a handicap nevertheless.

Trainers with the most Melbourne Cup wins.

Bart Cummings 12 Etienne De Mestre 5 Lee Freedman 5 John Tait 4 Walter Hickenbotham 4 Richard Bradfield 4 Jim Scobie 4 George Hanlon 3 Frank Mcgrath 3

Melbourne Cup Jockeys

Many of the above trainers will of course be looking for a top pilot for their charges. Australian jockeys are some of the best in the world, and of course are at home riding the Flemington track which will be an advantage in the hurly burly that is the Melbourne Cup.

Make a note of the following jockeys rides. These are currently to the fore in the Australian Jockey standings.

C.Williams, C.Munce, J.Bowman, K.Mcevoy, D. Oliver. M. Rodd. B. Rawiller. C. Brown. C.Newitt. L. Nolen.