Normally I’d do this a lot earlier in the day, so if you’ve been waiting all day to see who I’m tipping so that you can avoid them at all costs…well hurry to your preferred betting outlet now!
My tips for the great race today are:
8. Americain
12. Harris Tweed
Good luck!
Samuel
November 2nd, 2010 at 02:40pm
Continuing my spectacular run of not picking a Melbourne Cup winner since 1994, my tips today did just as poorly as can be expected:
Master O’Reilly came 4th
Roman Emperor finished 21st
Spin Around finished in 20th place.
On the bright side, I did slightly better than Maritz.
Fiumicino was 22nd past the post.
Samuel
November 3rd, 2009 at 03:56pm
This story is now complete. Final update 3:47pm.
Final Supertab Dividends
1st: (21) Shocking
Win: $9.90 Place $3.60
2nd: (8) Crime Scene
Place: $10.80
3rd: (5) Mourilyan
Place: $8.20
4th: (4) Master O’Reilly
Quinella: $230.10
Exacta: $401.70
Trifecta: $9,320.50
First Four: $85,428.50
Other TAB results: UniTAB | NSW Tab
Correct Weight has been declared at 3:19pm. All dividends are final and are now paying.
Finishing order
1st: Shocking
2nd: Crimescene
3rd: Mourilyan
4th: Master O’Reilly
5th: Harris Tweed
6th: Alcopop
7th: Viewed
8th: C’est La Geerre
9th: Kibbutz
10th: Newport
11th: Daffodil
12th: Munsef
13th: Gallions Reach
14th: Leica Ding
15th: Ista Kareem
16th: Allez Wonder
17th: Capecover
18th: Basaltico
19th: Zavite
20th: Spin Around
21st: Roman Emperor
22nd: Fiumicino
23rd/Last: Warringah
Did not run: Changingottheguard (scratched)
Samuel
November 3rd, 2009 at 03:07pm
For the benefit of those of you who find yourself in a place where you can not watch the race on television or hear it on the radio, here is a list of webstreams which are known to be broadcasting the race live at 3pm Melbourne time (GMT+11).
Sport 927 (Melbourne): Windows Media
SKY Sports Radio (Sydney): Flash Player
ACTTAB Radio (Canberra): Winamp/iTunes
2CC (Canberra): Windows Media
RadioTAB (Brisbane): Windows Media
Bigpond are allegedly streaming live video of the race at 3pm. I’m not sure how accurate this is though, as the other times I’ve seen live video streams offered of the race, they have not been live, but rather delayed until after the completion of the race, due to Seven’s rights to the live video.
Full results will be posted here at the completion of the race, including TAB dividends as they come in, and the full list of finishers in the order that they pass the post.
Samuel
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:14am
With the usual disclaimers about how I haven’t picked a Cup winner since 1994, here are my top three tips for this year:
4: Master O’Reilly
6: Roman Emperor
17: Spin Around
Maritz provided a lengthy and hard to follow tip, however she has condensed it to:
3: Fiumicino, because of the number 859.
As usual, results will be posted as they come in, including the full list of finishers in their order of finishing.
If you have a gambling problem, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14, or the relevant support group in your jurisdiction.
Samuel
November 3rd, 2009 at 09:00am
As usual I’ll be providing results as they happen
Or I might be sleeping. Sorry, but I slept through most of the day.
Anyway, the results:
1st: 10 – Viewed. Win $45.50. Place $14.00
2nd: 12 – Bauer. Place $6.50
3rd: 4 – C’est La Guerre. Place $7.80
Quinella $553.20. Exacta $1156.30. Trifecta $22,324.20
Full list of finishers:
1st: Viewed
2nd: Bauer
3rd: C’est La Guerre
4th: Master O’Reilly
5th: Profound Beauty
6th: Moatize
7th: Mad Rush
8th: Nom du Jeu
9th: Zipping
10th: Newport
11th: Ice Chariot
12th: Guyno
13th: Littorio
14th: Varevees
15th: Boundless
16th: Red Lord
17th: Prize Lady
18th: Septimus
19th: Barbaricus
20th: Alessandro Volta
21st/Last: Honolulu
Did not finish: Gallopin
Scratched: Yellowstone, Zarita
And that means that, as usual, the owners of the horses that I tipped should have just packed up their bags and gone home:
Nom Du Jeu: 8th
Littorio: 13th
Alessandro Volta: 20th
Samuel
November 4th, 2008 at 09:29pm
It’s that time of the day on the first Tuesday in November when the owners, trainers, jockeys and other connections start refreshing the page on this blog constantly, waiting to see if their horse is one of the three which might as well go home. Yes, it’s time for me to tip three horses which I think are likely to come first, second and third in the Melbourne Cup.
My tips:
Nom Du Jeu
Alessandro Volta
Littorio
If you can’t be near a TV or radio at 3PM, but still want to hear the race, then there are a number of webstreams available. As usual I’ll link to a few because they’re likely to hit their listener limits around race time and if you can’t get on to one, you may be able to get on to another one.
Sport 927 Melbourne
2KY 1017 Sydney
ACTTAB Radio Canberra 88.7FM
As usual I’ll be providing results as they happen, and will have the full list of finishers from first to last as soon as it’s published (I’m usually ahead of the news websites and Channel Seven with that one!) so if you’re running a sweep and need that list to see who came last, don’t change the page, just refresh it!
If you’re betting today, good luck, and please bet with your head, not over it. If you need help with a gambling problem, give Lifeline Canberra a call on 13 11 14 or your local gambling helpline.
Samuel
November 4th, 2008 at 05:08am
Official results:
1st: 6 – Efficient – Win $22.40 – Place $7.00
2nd: Purple Moon – Place $1.80
3rd: Mahler – Place $4.00
Quinella $76.10
Exacta $176.90
Trifecta $1431.00
Dividends are Super TAB dividends which are used by ACTTAB, the Victorian TAB and a few others. Dividends may vary in your area.
Where they all finished:
1. Efficient
2. Purple Moon
3. Mahler
4. Zipping
5. Dolphin Jo
6. On A Jeune
7. Blue Monday
8. Master O’Reilly
9. Sculptor
10. Lazer Sharp
11. Douro Valley
12. Sirmione
13. Princess Coup
14. Tawqeet
15. Eskimo Queen
16. Scenic Shot
17. Black Tom
18. Sarrera
19. Blutigeroo
20. Railings
21. Tungsten Strike
Scratched: Gallic, Maybe Better, The Fuzz
If you need help with a gambling problem call Lifeline on 13 11 14 in the ACT, or your local gambling support service.
Samuel
4 comments November 6th, 2007 at 02:52pm
As I’ve said half a dozen times in various places already in the last twelve hours, I’m usually quite hopeless at picking Melbourne Cup winners, so I was going to let the computers at ACTTAB pick three random horses instead, but then I had a nap and woke up with three numbers stuck in my head for no apparent reason, and therefore my tips are:
1 – Tawqeet
3 – Blutigeroo
15 – Scenic Shot
I will be putting these three numbers in as one of ACTTAB’s $15 cup packs which will provide me with a $1 win and place bet on each horse, and a boxed quinella and trifecta with all the horses. The bottom line with this is that I will get some of my outlay back if one of the horses comes first, second or third, and I will get more for combinations of first, second and third.
If you decide to have a punt, do so with care, only bet what you can afford to lose, and all the best with it.
The race takes place at 3pm Melbourne time (GMT +11) and will be broadcast live on the Seven Network and affilliates, Sky Channel, most radio stations (in Canberra 2CC and 2CA have access to the official radio feed of the Melbourne Cup from the official radio partner Southern Cross/Macquarie/Fairfax Broadcasting (depending on who owns that bit of the company right now)), and will also be live on the various webstreams such as ACTTAB Radio, 2KY Racing Radio and Sport 927. All the webstreams will sound the same but I expect some of them to hit capacity, which is why I provided multiple options.
The race results will also be published here, just like they are every year.
If you have a gambling problem call Lifeline in the ACT on 13 11 14, or the relevant gambling helpline in your jurisdiction.
Samuel
10 comments November 6th, 2007 at 06:42am
Updated and rewritten for “correct weight” final dividends
1st: Polar Bear (Win: $3.00) (Place: $1.50)
2nd: Lancettier (Place: $6.40)
3rd: Dr. Nipandtuck (Place: $3.20)
Quinella: $35.80
Exacta: $53.50
Trifecta: $613.40
Running Double on the Melbourne Cup and Race Eight: $47.50
Unfortunately I took a quinella in this race and got first and third…oh well.
Correct weight, results now paying! Gambling problems? Contact your local gambling support service, in Canberra that’s Lifeline on 13 11 14
Samuel
6 comments November 7th, 2006 at 03:59pm
Here is the complete rundown of who came where in the Melbourne Cup
1st: DELTA BLUES
2nd: POP ROCK
3rd: MAYBE BETTER
4th: Zipping
5th: Land ‘n Stars
6th: Mahtoum
7th: Yeats
8th: Activation
9th: Mandela
10th: Glistening
11th: Kerry O’Reilly
12th: Railings
13th: Headturner
14th: Short Pause
15th: Dolphin Jo
16th: Art Success
17th: Dizelle
18th: Geordieland
19th: Tawqeet
20th: On A Jeune
21st: Demerger
22nd: Ice Chariot
23rd: Zabeat.
Scratched: Efficient
Samuel
November 7th, 2006 at 03:48pm
I hope you had a grain of salt handy, because my tips did nothing!
Update 3:24pm: Correct Weight! Results now paying! End Update
2: Delta Blue (Win: $17.50) (Place: $5.50)
12: Pop Rock (Place: $2.10)
23: Maybe Better (Place: $3.90)
Quinella: $41.30
Exacta: $91.80
Trifecta: $1100.40
Results are interim and are SuperTAB results (Victoria TAB, ACTTAB etc), NSW TAB and UNITAB results may vary.
If you have a gambling problem, contact your local gambling support service, which in the ACT is Lifeline on 13 11 14.
Samuel
11 comments November 7th, 2006 at 03:20pm
Have you got your grain of salt ready? Yes? Good! You might need it considering what I said last year before the Melbourne Cup.
I have to agree with most experts who say that Makybe Diva will not win. It was fairly obvious in my view that she wouldn’t be scratched, but she won’t win. Don’t get me wrong, I think she is a very good horse, but I just don’t think she will win.
Perhaps that is best forgotten…I did manage to pick the horse which came second, so it wasn’t a complete disaster.
This year I am tipping four horses in no particular order, hopefully they will be the first four across the line.
3: Railings
5: Geordieland
11: On A Jeune
20: Glistening
I’ve also picked up Yeats in John Kerr’s New Day Australia sweep, I’m in a sweep at work and don’t know which horse I have yet, and will probably be in another sweep by mid-morning.
I also have three tips for the race following the Melbourne Cup
1: Roman Arch (Update 9:25am: It’s Scratched…sorry)
2: Polar Bear
13: Dr Nipandtuck
Update 9:25am: On my way into work today I stopped at an ACTTAB agency (Hello Margaret…good to see you again after all these years) and put a two dollar boxed quinella on both races, costing $12 for the Melbourne Cup and $2 for the next race (I’ll explain that if you like). I also placed a 50 cent place bet on the Melbourne Cup costing $2. This is where I found out that Roman Arch is scratched, and running on my policy of not changing a bet, continued the bet with the remaining horses.End Update
Channel Seven will have full coverage of every race and associated events at Flemington, hosted by my favourite television sport personality Bruce McAvaney. Southern Cross Syndication are the exclusive distributor of the Melbourne Cup to commercial radio (other than the racing stations) and I will probably listen to 2CC’s relay of it, possibly while watching Channel Seven and checking the delay.
For those of you who are nowhere near a radio or a television, Sport 927, 2KY, ACTTAB Radio, 2UE, 2GB and many others all have webstreams and will all be covering the race, which gets underway at 3pm. Of those, 2UE and 2GB will likely have a surrounding program, whilst the others will have mahy other races to cover before and after the Cup.
If you have an account with the NSW or Victorian TAB, you can watch the race live online via Sky Channel.
And of course, if you have a gambling problem, contact your local gambling support service, which in the ACT is Lifeline on 13 11 14. Of course the best advice is to avoid a gambling problem in the first place by following the simple rule of “only bet what you can afford to lose”. Lifeline also have a bunch of information and advice on gambling problems here.
Good luck!
Samuel
17 comments November 7th, 2006 at 01:35am
This has to be the most number of posts on one subject I have ever posted that doesn’t have a category of it’s own. Anyway, let’s have a look at how the Melbourne Cup went.
Firstly congratulations must go to Makybe Diva and my mum who tipped Makybe Diva.
I checked to see what the various Canberra radio station did for the Melbourne Cup, and I noticed that the ABC appeared to have their own coverage, the two major FM stations shared another coverage, and 2CC and 2CA both used a direct feed from race caller Greg Miles (presumably from the Southern Cross Syndication coverage).
2CC went to the news at about eight to three and then went to Welshy who then took us to Flemington, interupted to tell us there was a delay, played about 15 seconds of music and took us back to Flemington.
2CA ran a delayed version of 2CC’s news at five to three (or maybe it was pre-recorded and the stations played it when they were ready), At the end of the news Gregg Easton provided the weather report and then joined the Melbourne Cup coverage.
At this point in time I noticed that 2CC & 2CA were about 5 seconds ahead of Channel 7, who also used Greg Miles. At this time I turned off the radio and watched the race unfold on Channel 7.
As for my tips, well…
On A Jeune came 2nd
Leica Falcon came 4th
Railings came 14th
Nattie’s tip, Strasbourg came 18th.
I have added my quote of “I have to agree with most experts who say that Makybe Diva will not win” to the random quote list with the subtext “Samuel a few hours before Makybe Diva won the 2005 Melbourne Cup”. I suppose I had a 23 in 24 chance of being right about that!
Samuel
1 comment November 1st, 2005 at 08:32pm
Alrighty then, time for the top eight from the Melbourne Cup
1. Makybe Diva
16. On A Jeune
8. Xcellent
22. Leica Falcon
13. Lachlan River
14. Portland Singa
19. Envoy
2. Vinnie Roe
And last was Franklins Gardens which walked across the finish line.
For the record, Xcellent was the first horse in history to start the Melbourne Cup with a name starting with the letter X.
Update:
Full finishing results:
MAKYBE DIVA
ON A JEUNE
XCELLENT
Leica Falcon
Lachlan River
Portland Singa
Envoy
Vinnie Roe
Kindjhal
Rizon
Dizelle
Eye Popper
Demerger
Railings
Vouvray
Kamsky
Greys Inn
Strasbourg
Distinction
Umbula
Hugs Dancer
Bazelle
Mr Celebrity
Franklins Gardens
Whilst Channel 7 tell us that Franklins Gardens did finish the race, other sources say it didn’t…as Channel 7 provided that information after the other sources I am more inclined to believe Channel 7.
END UPDATE
Samuel
November 1st, 2005 at 03:58pm
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