Racing Melbourne Cup 2021 - Dedicated Raceday thread

[BuddysBiggestFan]

Mate she was mentioned by some of us at $34 at about page 2 of the thread

and by Cup Day who was on her?

 

[NYRB]

16.50 Very Elleegant pre-race price

 

[The Cryptkeeper]

Fair play to the winner. She’s a superstar and she brained them. I couldn’t see any real excuses for the beaten horses.

 

[Chism]

and by Cup Day who was on her?

Does it matter?

It is a horse race and whoever was good luck to em and if not move on. If it was a natural science none of us would need full time jobs.

 

[iluvparis]

and by Cup Day who was on her?

Hopefully some as she was pretty obvious value if you wanted to play around the fave as i said multiple times

 

[Fat Nyfe]

and by Cup Day who was on her?

Me

Literally the first Melbourne Cup that I’ve actually won anything

 

[Milanista28]

What the tri pay?

 

[NYRB]

i think given there were 506 possibilities for the exacta,

a $46 exacta , indicates it was a race dominated by the short odd favourites

 

[Veer Right]

Nobody won. One person picked it in the poll. Lots of hindsighters floating around. Standard.

We can't congratulate the performance of the horse/trainer?

 

[year of the cat]

Was worth dropping a bit to watch history being made with VE going from champion to legend status. Well, that’s what I’m trying to tell myself atm…

 

[offtherails9]

Guess it was just screaming out for 3200 this whole prep then? Haha

First time I've ever backed the Cup winner lol.

 

[Chism]

What the tri pay?

$430 odd.

Smallest tri for a while on the cup from what I can remember.

 

[Reveen]

16.50 Very Elleegant pre-race price

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Fair play to the winner. She’s a superstar and she brained them. I couldn’t see any real excuses for the beaten horses.

Craig Williams was riding one of them!

That is a fair excuse!

 

[HeavyPop]

Wonder if the Cup was the plan all along instead of the Cox.

 

[Chism]

My roughie of the day comes up in the next!

Wanalirri at 100-1! $5 E/W special and has group level form.

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

This Aussie campaigner must be loaded owns the derby winner/incentivise and very elegant also owned the dragon

 

[NonPhixion]

pretty terrible Trifecta pay... WTF is that

 

[plays tall 1]

Apparently the Japanese are unlikely to come due to a COVID restriction that would make it hard for their grooms to attend, presumably quarantine or something.

Verry Elleegant’s run was huge last year. If she gets in around the weight this year she’ll give it a huge shake. $26 looks like value to me.

Incentivise a query to run 2 miles on pedigree, looks unders.

Delphi possibly worth a dabble at $41, at least he’s here.

Hard to get enthused about it this year given the uncertainty over who’ll travel and, of those, who’ll survive Werribee and pass the new scans.

What a horse she is! The irony is she started nearly the same price on the day.

 

[HeathySure]

Had no early speed and got buried. Was never a chance 200m in

he actually jumped ok and they didnt even bother trying to lead. Was very strange

 

[toxic]

What happened to promise of success

 

[iluvparis]

pretty terrible Trifecta pay... WTF is that

All the big divvies would have been with Incy missing the placings

 

[Chism]

All the big divvies would have been with Incy missing the placings

This.

You never getting big exotics when the hot pot runs 2nd. They would of been even lighter had it won.

 

[Veer Right]

he actually jumped ok and they didnt even bother trying to lead. Was very strange

nah, was ridden to improve out of the gates, couldn't quicken, then got shuffled back, tried to make a three wide run but was labouring a long way out. Never looked happy at any stage and was race over after 200m as Jug pointed out.

 

[NYRB]

I might look into the TAB Exacta odds for next year.....pretty decent margins. I had this weird thinking that TAB prices were terrible on horse day, but its very competitive for Exactas anyway........


TAB (506 exacta possibilities):
25% bookmakers margin
Median Odd: 1091/1
Mean Odds: 1430/1
Lowest Odds: $20.30 (2- 3 exacta)
Highest Odds: 7211/1