And we’re off. We’re going to reveal the winner to this year’s Melbourne Cup as quick as Nicolas Cage can steal a car.
It might be even quicker given we only have 23 horses left after KING OF LEOGRANCE was scratched on the morning of the race.
Let’s get started by quickly taking an axe through the roughies.
Only two horses in the past 30 years – Prince Of Penzance ($101 in 2015) and Viewed ($41 in 2008) – have won the race at odds higher than $20.
So you can feel pretty safe in removing AVILIUS ($51), VOW AND DECLARE ($61), STRATUM ALBION ($41), MUSTAJEER ($101), DASHING WILLOUGHBY…
