MELBOURNE CUP BETTING TRENDS

Andy Newton loks at the great Australian race

Run each year on the first Tuesday in November, the Melbourne Cup is dubbed as ‘the race that stops a nation’. Run over 2 miles it’s the richest handicap over that distance in the world.
Staged at Flemington racecourse in Melbourne, Australia, the race always attracts runners from all corners of the globe, but there are also many key pointers on ‘how to bet on the Melbourne Cup’.
Being a big-field handicap the bookmakers will offer standard places of one, two, three and fo...