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https://www.racingandsports.com/news/breeding/news/2019-05-13/wa-welcomes-jimmy-choux/483591
The Waller trained runner Lady Cuvée 3rd was around $160 on tote and the runner up around $250!
Remarkably - if you read their form it's not too bad. The favoured runners in the race went terribly. Very rarely would a Chris Waller trained horse not have some chance in a main race and Lady Cuvée was no exception.
The runner up at 250/1 was not far off winning. It's recent form was ok. The dividends blew up the tote board!
The trifecta in nsw paid 10k. So received over 100k back for $60
The other states paid at least 10 times that for obvious reasons so it looks to be true.
How they boxed those 3 numbers I couldn't tell you.
He/she needed a national tote pool. ( With lesser takeout rate of course ).
It's probably just me but still reckon fave's start way too short in several races, reason being so many tipsters on tv/radio/net - and its mostly the fancies being backed more heavily than ever, with the reality being there actually enormous risks!
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Melbourne Cup worth $8m
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The Melbourne Cup is back as being the richest race of the week of spring racing at Flemington with the race worth $8 million this November.
In a clear response to Racing NSW’s move on Flemington’s spring territory with the inaugural $7.5 million Golden Eagle (1500m) to be run at Rosehill on Victoria Derby day, the increase of just $700,000 on last year’s purse ensures the world’s richest handicap remains the country’s richest race for the first week of November.
Victoria Racing Club chair Amanda Elliott told the Herald Sun the Melbourne Cup remains the race participants desire most.
"It is the race every Australian owner, trainer and jockey wants to win, and internationally, has become one of the most sought-after prizes in world racing," she said.
Elliott also took aim at Racing NSW’s $14 million The Everest – which is to be run on Caulfield Cup day.
"Connections cannot buy a place in the Lexus Melbourne Cup, it has to be earned."
https://www.racenet.com.au/news/melbourne-cup-weights--it-s-now-harder-for-europeans-to-win-20190621
Ben Dorries
After rolling out the Melbourne Cup red carpet for international raiders for many years, Victorian officials are now making it harder for northern hemisphere three-year-olds to win the great race.
Racing Victoria's Executive General Manager of Racing Greg Carpenter has revealed an “extensive and exhaustive review” means northern hemisphere three-year-olds will “automatically be more highly weighted (in the Melbourne Cup) in 2019.”
Joseph O’Brien and Charlie Appleby have hit upon a winning formula with the past two Melbourne Cup winners Rekindling and Cross Counter, both European three-year-olds when they won the famous handicap in 2017 and 2018.
Rekindling carried 51.5kg while last year’s winner Cross Counter carried 51kg.
But Carpenter says those results have forced a rethink.
“We have done an extensive and exhaustive review of the weight-for-age scale in Europe and in Australia,” Carpenter told ABC Radio.
“Victoria Racing Club and the Melbourne Racing Club, with the Melbourne and Caulfield Cups this year, have actually altered the benchmark weight for these northern hemisphere three-year-olds.
“So they will actually automatically be more highly weighted in 2019.
“I need to have a look at the success rate of these horses now and make a judgment on – other than the implementation of a higher weight-for-age weight for them – whether or not their form also needs additional weight.
“We don’t stand still when we provide the handicaps for the Melbourne Cup, it's an evolving art, but certainly on the results of the last two years with Rekindling and Cross Counter there has been a review and a change to the way we treat northern hemisphere three-year-olds in the Melbourne and Caulfield Cups going forward.”
Carpenter told the ABC it could also impact the entire Australian racing industry and they way it treats European three-year-olds.
“We have put forward a proposal to Racing Australia to change the allowances under the Australian Rules Of Racing and the weight-for-age scale so that northern hemisphere three-year-olds are not more generously treated here in Australia than they would be if they were actually racing on the same day over the same distance in Europe,” he said.
https://www.racenet.com.au/news/melbourne-cup-weights--it-s-now-harder-for-europeans-to-win-20190621
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Scales Of Justice - 2019
Vega Magic - 2017
Black Heart Bart - 2016
Nice win by Scales Of Justice.
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