Melbourne Cup tips

[mightytiges]

Who are you guys tipping?

I've gone for

6. Eye Popper
22. Leica Falcon
7. Railings

I would like to see the Diva win but it's going to be hard with 58kg and a dry firm track .

[WilliamPowell]

I have the following 3 horse in the cup sweep at work:

3
17
18

Who ever they are

I am tipping

the Diva if they don't scratch her - which I think they will now it's going to be 31 degrees
 But if they do...

7- Railings
23 - Mr Celebrity
4 - Greys Inn because it's in the Tiger Colours 

[Fishfinger]

I'm backing no6 Eye Popper.
If there was a Toe Curler I'd back that too.

[Bulluss]

I too am backing Railings as i got on it in the Caulfield Cup and am following it through.

The firm track is also bound to suit a horse like Leica Falcon also.

I currently have a key boxed trifecta on which includes:

To run 1st,2nd or 3rd

Makybe Diva, Railings, Eye Popper, Leica Falcon and Portland Singa

To run 2nd or 3rd

Vinnie Roe and Demerger

To run 3rd

Xcellent, Umbula and Strasborg

This cost $120 for a half unit(50 cents) and it give you 240 possible combinations for the trifecta.

I have thrown in 2 roughies for third in Umbula and Strasborg. Generally one pops up and these 2 horses are stayers who should be running out the trip.

Fingers crossed

[Razorblade]

Don't be suprised if no.5 Franklin Gardens sneaks in for a place!

I always look for value with my cup bets!

Also for anyone betting early, Flemington Race 3 No.2 (11:45am) Southern Crown is definetly worth having some dollars on him, currently $19!

[Jackstar]

I am praying for Leica Falcon. Took 80-1 about it 6 weeks ago.
Best roughly is last years Brisbane cup winner Portland Singa.

[Moi]

wouldn't have a clue lol

Makybe Diva
Mr Celebrity
Greys Inn, not only because of the colours, but he's South African (me mum's South African and she only bets on grey horses, althugh this is not a grey i believe 

[Razorblade]

Also for anyone betting early, Flemington Race 3 No.2 (11:45am) Southern Crown is definetly worth having some dollars on him, currently $19!

Ran a close 2nd and payed $4.60 a place, hope some of you had a sprinke on it! 

[Bulluss]

How good is the mighty Diva?

Huge effort to get up again. Big run from On a Juene also, flashed home and nearly knocked it off.

[mightytiges]

How good is the mighty Diva?

Yeah just a freak of a horse! The odds were against her but she still won comfortably.

This Diva vs Phar Lap comparison talk is a bit ridiculous. It's like comparing Royce Hart vs Wayne Carey (on-field lol) in footy. Both just the best in their respective era.

[the_boy_jake]

How good is the mighty Diva?

This Diva vs Phar Lap comparison talk is a bit ridiculous. It's like comparing Royce Hart vs Wayne Carey (on-field lol) in footy. Both just the best in their respective era.

There shouldn't even be a comparison IMO.

Diva is a great horse, but she wasn't weighed out of it by 8 kgs like Phar Lap in 1931. I think that it is entirely possible that if Phar Lap had of carried no more than 60 instead of 68, stayed in Australia and not died aged 5, he would have won multiple cups. People are going on about Diva backing up from the Cox Plate, but Phar Lap won on all 4 days of the carnival in 1930.

I would have liked to have seen Diva go overseas for all of this year to prove herself on foreign ground.

Isn't it a sad coincidence that on a day when one of the worlds greatest horses was triumphant, another, Best Mate, had a heart attack and died.

[Razorblade]

Comparing the two is like comparing Jack Titus (who IMO looks like an alien on the Richmond "past greats" section) and Richo!

Both champion goalkickers for the club, but played generations apart.

Horseracing has changed much over the past 70 years, as has footy.

A fairer comparison would be to Sunline, even though Sunline was more of a 1600/2000m horse.