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Understanding the odds
Exercise 3 – Picking the Cup winner
Melbourne Cup trivia
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Here is some Melbourne Cup trivia. As of 2008, 148 Melbourne Cups have been run.
JOCKEYS’
COLOURS:
17 cup winning
jockeys have worn
black as their main
colour. Last being
George Podmore on
Evening Peal in 1956.
Navy blue and royal
blue with 14 wins
AGE OF
WINNERS:
3 year old - 23
4 year old - 43
5 year old - 43
6 year old - 28
7 year old - 10
8 year old - 2
The last three-yearold
to win the Cup was
Skipton in 1941
WINNING
BARRIERS:
Barrier 11 – 6 winners
Barriers 5, 6 and
19 – 5 winners
Since the barrier stalls
were first used in the Cup
in 1924, no horse has won
the race from barrier 18. In
that year (1924), the winner
Backwood started from
barrier 7. In the 83 years
since, no other winner has
started from it.
ODDS:
10/1 - 14 Times
8/1 - 13 Times
70 Cup favourites have
finished in the first
three placings.
The favourite has
won 33 times.
MOST WINNING NUMBER:
No 4 with 11 wins
No 12 with 10 wins
No. 1 with 11 wins
No. 8 with 8 wins
No. 11 with 7 wins
Makybe Diva winning in 2005
wearing no.1. The last horse
carrying no.1 prior to that was
Rising Fast in 1954.
The least successful number is 21
which hasn’t been worn by a Cup
winner since Bitalli in 1923.
TAB numbers 3, 6 and 8 have
won nine of the last fifteen Cups.
TAB numbers to win only two
Cups are 7, 16, 18, and 23.
Some people try to select Melbourne Cup winners by using information such as that shown above.
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