Melbourne Cup 2020 tips, odds, horses, form guide, best bets

How to pick the Melbourne Cup winner? Sounds like the impossible task right? Follow the form, like a name or have lucky silk colours? Check out our experts’ advice.

How to pick the Melbourne Cup winner? Sounds like the impossible task right?

Follow the form, like a name or have lucky silk colours?

We have asked out experts for their take on this year’s race.

Happy punting.

ULTIMATE CUP GUIDE: HOW TO FIND WINNER

CUP BARRIER DRAW: WINNERS AND LOSERS

LEO SCHLINK

1. Tiger Moth

2. Anthony Van Dyck

3. Master Of Reality

4. Verry Elleegant

Roughie: Stratum Albion

STEPHEN BRASSEL

1. Tiger Moth

2. Sir Dragonet

3. Russian Camelot

4. Anthony Van Dyck

Roughie: Miami Bound

BRAD WATERS

1. Prince Of Arran

2. Anthony Van Dyck

3. Tiger Moth

4. Stratum Albion

Roughie: Steel Prince

BEN DORRIES

1. Verry Elleegant

2. Sir Dragonet

3. Miami Bound

4. Finche

Roughie: Persan

CLINTON PAYNE

1. Tiger Moth

2. Ashrun

3. Surprise Baby

4. Sir Dragonet

Roughie: Mustajeer

MITCH COHEN

1. Anthony Van Dyck

2. Verry Elleegant

3. Tiger Moth

4. Finche

Roughie: Warning

CHRIS VERNUCCIO

1. Tiger Moth

2. Sir Dragonet

3. Prince Of Arran

4. Russian Camelot

Roughie: Twilight Payment

SIMON MOY

1. Prince Of Arran

2. Russian Camelot

3. Anthony Van Dyck

4. Finche

Roughie: Persan

RAY THOMAS

1. Finche

2. Prince Of Arran

3. Tiger Moth

4. Verry Elleegant

RON DUFFICY

1. Surprise Baby

2. Tiger Moth

3. Sir Dragonet

4. Finche

LIZZIE JELFS

1. Anthony Van Dyck

2. Tiger Moth

3. Prince Of Arran

4. Russian Camelot

DARREN PRENDERGAST

1. Prince Of Arran

2. Sir Dragonet

3. Surprise Baby

4. Tiger Moth

Roughie: Miami Bound

KATELYN MALLYON

1. Prince Of Arran

2. Surprise Baby

3. Tiger Moth

4. Sir Dragonet

NICK QUINN’S CUP DAY TIPS AND PREVIEW

THE BANKER

$100 the win

AIN’TNODEELDUN

(Flemington Race 5, No.2)

A lovely progressive three-year-old who followed a five-length win at Sale with an emphatic Morphettville victory last start.

Connections decided to take the softer path and contest this race instead of the Group 1 Victoria Derby and that conservative move should provide a Cup day bank builder for punters.

Has world-class hoop Damian Lane on board and simply should win.

EACH-WAY ALL DAY

$50 each-way

ONE MORE JACK

(Flemington Race 10, No.16)

I love this horse. Not just because my first-born child is named Jack, fortunately the child is six and the horse is five so my wife can’t accuse me of naming the child after the horse.

And not just because he has saved my bacon by winning in Adelaide late in the day on numerous occasions.

This horse is proof that the more you win, the better the odds seem to be next start.

The South Australian sprinter has won seven of his past nine starts and is remarkably double-figure odds to win at his first Flemington attempt.

He will be the each-way play on Cup day.

GET OUT STAKES

For many punters the most important race at Flemington on Tuesday isn’t the Melbourne Cup, it’s the final race on the program.

On this unique day where instead of 100,000 at the track, anybody wanting to follow the races will be huddled around a television, radio, or watching the action live through a mobile phone, the last race is vital.

For many punters it’s the last chance to back a winner and salvage something from the fire.

I am keen on a runner at double-figure odds to in the last named One More Jack (see above).

And while we will miss patrons wildly celebrating on the front lawn, we can still hopefully cheer home a winner remotely.

TUGGING AT THE HEART STRINGS

On Wednesday a horse named Princess Jenni won the Bendigo Cup and on Tuesday a filly named Pride Of Jenni will contest Race 2 at Flemington.

The racehorses are not related, although they wear the same colours and both are trained by David Brideoake at Mornington.

The common theme is the name Jenni, and why owners Lynn and Tony Ottobre include the name Jenni in all of their good horses name.

“The good horses we do call Jenni after our daughter who passed away in 2015 from cancer and we hope to keep her memory alive by naming horses after her,” Tony Ottobre said.

Hopefully Princess Jenni can run well and she would prove a popular winner.

MOST SUCCESSFUL CUP BARRIERS

Barrier 5 – 8 wins, last in 2013

Barrier 11 – 7 wins, last in 2010

Barrier 10 – 6 wins, last 2014

Barrier 14 – 6 wins, last in 2005

Barrier 8 – 5 wins, last in 2008

LEAST SUCCESSFUL CUP BARRIERS

Barrier 18 – 0 wins

Barrier 7 – 2 wins, in 1924 and 2015

Barrier 15 – 1 win, in 1973

WHEN IS THE 2020 MELBOURNE CUP

Like every year, the running of the Melbourne Cup takes place on the first Tuesday in November. This year it’s on November 3 with the race to be run at 3pm (AEDT).

HOW TO WATCH THE 2020 MELBOURNE CUP

Network 10 will broadcast live from Flemington from 10am until 5.30pm. Coverage will also be streamed on 10 Play.

2020 MELBOURNE CUP PRIZE MONEY

The same prize money is on offer in 2020 as it was in 2019 with a total of $8 million dollars on the table. The breakdown for horses in the race is as follows:

1st $4.4 million, 2nd: $1.1 million, 3rd: $550,000, 4th: $350,000, 5th: $230,000, 6th-12th: $160,000

FINAL FIELD

1. Anthony Van Dyck – H Bowman 58.5kg

2. Avilius – J Allen 57kg

3. Vow And Declare Mott 57kg

4. Master Of Reality – B Melham 56kg

5. Sir Dragonet – G Boss 55.5kg

6. Twilight Payment – J McNeil 55.5kg

7. Verry Elleegant – M Zahra 55.5kg

8. Mustajeer – M Rodd 55kg

9. Stratum Albion – J Childs 55kg

10. Dashing Willoughby – M Walker 54.5kg

11. Finche – J McDonald 54.5kg

12. Prince Of Arran – J Kah 54.5kg

13. Surprise Baby – C William 54.5kg

14. King Of Leogrance – D Lane 53.5kg

15. Russian Camelot – D Oliver 53.5kg

16. Steel Prince – W Pike 53.5kg

17. The Chosen One – D Stackhouse 53.5kg

18. Ashrun – D Bates 53kg

19. Warning – L Currie 53kg

20. Etah James – B Egan 52.5kg

21. Tiger Moth – K McEvoy 52.5kg

22. Oceanex – D Yendall 51.5kg

23. Miami Bound – D Moor 51kg

24. Persan – M Dee 51kg

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