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2024 Lexus Melbourne Cup Discipline, Obstacles & Betting Replace

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The 2024 Melbourne Cup is about to be an exhilarating contest, with a area of 24 top-class stayers able to deal with the enduring two-mile journey at Flemington Racecourse on Tuesday November 5.

2024 Lexus Melbourne Cup Discipline, Obstacles & Betting Replace

Buckaroo is favorite to win the 2024 Lexus Melbourne Cup at Flemington on Tuesday. Photograph: Final Racing Photographs.

Chris Waller Dominates the Discipline

Coach Chris Waller has a powerful hand on this 12 months’s race, with 5 runners within the official Group 1 $8.56 million Lexus Melbourne Cup (3200m) area together with the favorite, Buckaroo main the markets at $5.50 by Ladbrokes at time of publish.

The Caulfield Cup runner-up and emphatic 3.5 size Underwood winner earlier is prep is a proficient stayer with a lightweight weight of 54.5kg who’s out to show he can see out the 3200m regardless of 1800m being his longest distanced win so far.

Different Waller-trained runners embrace Kovalica, Land Legend who ran third within the Caulfield Cup which has been the superior Melbourne Cup kind race all through latest historical past, Valiant King, and late inclusion Manzoice whose final win was the 2022 VRC Derby.

Worldwide Contenders

The worldwide contingent consists of a number of intriguing runners regardless of the attrition price ruling out various early hopes. Willie MullinsVauban, the topweight with 55.5kg, returns to Australia after a disappointing run final 12 months because the overwhelmed favorite. Absurde, one other Mullins runner, additionally returns, hoping to enhance on his seventh-place end in 2023 and has three-time Melbourne Cup profitable jockey Kerrin McEvoy aboard this season. Different worldwide contenders embrace Warp Velocity from Japan who’s out to atone for his Caulfield Cup failure, Harry Eustace‘s good Bendigo Cup winner Sea King from the UK, and the Brian Ellison-trained Ladbrokes Geelong Cup Onesmoothoperator who overcame a heel reduce to be handed match to run.

Native Hopes

The Australian contingent is led by Buckaroo, however different sturdy contenders embrace the autumn’s Sydney Cup winner Circle Of Hearth, skilled by Ciaron Maher with twin defending jockey Mark Zhara chasing his third win on as many horses in as a few years, and the Godolphin-raced former VRC Oaks profitable mare Zardozi skilled by James Cummings and drawn a deal with in barrier 4. Golden Ticket holder The Map and Positivity are additionally price maintaining a tally of, as they each have proven potential in latest runs representing the feminine horses on this 12 months’s race.

A Vast-Open Race

With a aggressive area and a number of other unpredictable components, the 2024 Melbourne Cup is shaping as much as be an exhilarating race for punters regardless of having misplaced a number of the key contenders.

Buckaroo is the early favourite, however the worldwide runners and different native contenders might upset the percentages.

The race is about to be a memorable occasion, with loads of drama and pleasure anticipated on Tuesday in Flemington Race 7 at 3:00pm (AEDT).

Click on right here for the most recent Melbourne Cup 2024 odds on-line courtesy of Ladbrokes.

2024 Lexus Melbourne Cup Discipline

No Final 10 Horse Coach Jockey Barrier Weight Possible Weight Penalty Hcp Score
1 11x0x24312 VAUBAN (FR) Willie Mullins William Buick 11 55.5kg 115
2 5356×81122 BUCKAROO (GB) Chris Waller Joao Moreira 21 54.5kg 117
3 3x4411x890 CIRCLE OF FIRE (GB) Ciaron Maher Mark Zahra 24 54.5kg 112
4 x414x325x0 WARP SPEED (JPN) Noboru Takagi Akira Sugawara 3 54.5kg 113
5 95365×3426 KOVALICA (NZ) Chris Waller Damian Lane 17 53.5kg 113
6 x3669x0203 SHARP ’N’ SMART (NZ) Graeme & Deborah Rogerson Michael Dee 15 53.5kg 110
7 0x85x05010 JUST FINE (IRE) Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Jye McNeil 13 53kg 0.5kg 110
8 755x1x0613 LAND LEGEND (FR) Chris Waller Zac Purton 18 53kg 1.0kg 110
9 1x7P41x41x ABSURDE (FR) Willie Mullins Kerrin McEvoy 7 52.5kg 109
10 x6442x8001 ATHABASCAN (FR) John O’Shea & Tom Charlton Zac Lloyd (a) 2 52kg 109
11 24234×9005 KNIGHT’S CHOICE John Symons & Sheila Laxon Robbie Dolan 6 51.5kg 108
12 13x00x8021 OKITA SOUSHI (IRE) Ciaron Maher Ms Jamie Kah 10 51kg 1.0kg 107
13 64282×1741 ONESMOOTHOPERATOR (USA) Brian Ellison Craig Williams 12 51kg 1.0kg 107
14 132×665245 ZARDOZI James Cummings Andrea Atzeni 4 51kg 114
15 04x10136x1 SEA KING (GB) Harry Eustace Ms Hollie Doyle 1 50.5kg 0.5kg 106
16 212256×009 VALIANT KING (GB) Chris Waller Craig Newitt 22 50.5kg 105
17 x58610x536 FANCY MAN (IRE) Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald Ron Stewart 19 50kg 104
18 916×000862 INTERPRETATION (IRE) Ciaron Maher Teo Nugent 14 50kg 103
19 88520×2307 MANZOICE Chris Waller Declan Bates 8 50kg 102
20 x23622x440 MOSTLY CLOUDY (IRE) Trent Busuttin & Natalie Younger Karis Teetan 16 50kg 105
21 81291×2178 POSITIVITY (NZ) Andrew Forsman Ms Winona Costin 20 50kg 103
22 31123×8495 SAINT GEORGE (GB) Ciaron Maher Tyler Schiller 9 50kg 102
23 12211×9056 THE MAP Dan Clarken & Oopy MacGillivray Ms Rachel King 23 50kg 104
24 1626×63044 TRUST IN YOU (NZ) Bruce Wallace & Grant Cooksley Mark Du Plessis 5 50kg  

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Desk Credit score: Racing Australia


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