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Melbourne Cup Stats

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Various Stats for the Melbourne Cup

Gold Trip carried a big weight
Gold Trip carried a big weight Picture: Jonathan DiMaggio/Getty Images

Melbourne Cup winners Sex (last winner in brackets)

Entires - 71 (Gold Trip 2022)

Geldings - 55 (Without A Fight 2023)

Colts - 20 (Skipton 1941) / (Rekindling  2017)

Mares - 14 (Verry Elleegant 2021)

Fillies - 3 (Sister Olive 1921)

First initial Melbourne Cup winners

A-11, B-11, C-9, D-9, E-5, F-2, G-11, H-5, I-0, J-3, K-5, L-6, M-12, N-4, 0-1, P-14, Q-0, R-10, S-12, T-17, U-0, V-5, W-9, X-0, Y-0, Z-1

Melbourne Cup winners - Words in Name:

Number of words Latest Winners
One word 89 (Rekindling 2017)
Two words 66 (Gold Trip 2022)
Three-words 8 (Without A Fight 2023)

Melbourne Cup winner - Registered colour of horse

Color Winners
Bay 75
Brown 38
Chestnut 35
Grey 6
Black 3
Bay or Brown 4
Brown or Black 2

Winning Melbourne Cup Weights:

Highest-weighted winner was Carbine with 66.5kg in 1890. The lightest-weighted winner Banker with 33.5kg in 1863.

Weights Wins
59.5+ 12
59.0 0
58.5 3
58.0 4
57.5 2
57.0 3
56.5 4
56.0 7
55.5 4
55.0 6
54.5 8
54.0 3
53.5 3
53.0 9
52.5 8
52.0 7
51.5 5
51.0 8
50.5 4
50.0 3
49.5 7
49.0 6
48.5 3
48.0 7
47.5 2
47.0 7
46.5 3
46.0- 25

Winning Melbourne Cup Odds

Favourites have won 25 Cups and equal favourites 7 Cups. Horses at 10-1 have won 15 Cups and there have been 14 winners at 8-1.

Odds Wins
8-11 1
7-4 1
2-1 1
5-2 3
3-1 4
7-2 5
4-1 12
9-2 2
5-1 10
11-2 4
6-1 7
13-2 2
7-1 9
15-2 1
8-1 14
9-1 4
10-1 16
11-1 1
12-1 9
14-1 7
15-1 5
16-1 11
17-1 1
20-1 8
25-1 7
30-1 1
33-1 6
40-1 3
50-1 3
66-1 0
80-1 1
100-1 4

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