2020 Melbourne Cup Odds – The Early Favorites of This Year

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People have been betting on horse-races as for as long as the horses were racing. It’s safe to say that horse-racing for the westerners was invented so that people can bet on it. If it’s not, how can this event that takes less than five minutes from the start to the end can attract an audience as large as it is now? Melbourne Cup is one of the most important horse-races in Australia. As with any other race, the wagers start looking for the betting odds as soon as the last one is over. That’s why even though the actual race is still over wight months away, the 2020 Melbourne Cup odds are already out. All of the odds below are taken from bet365. Visit our site to read a review about bet365 sportsbook. 

This year’s Melbourne Cup is going to take place on the 3rd of November. The tradition of holding the Melbourne Cup on the first Tuesday of November has been the same ever since its first race in 1861. It’s a thoroughbred race for over three-years-old horses. The original length of the path was over 2 miles. When Australia adopted the metric system, the length has been decreased to 3200 meters. The Melbourne Cup race is the featured tournament of the four-day Melbourne Cup Carnival.

Due to the ever-growing audience and interest of the media, the festival is getting more and more popular. The prize pool has been increasing by hundreds of thousands of dollars to reach $8.000.000 last year. Last year’s champion Craig Williams has won $4.400.000 with his horse Vow and Declare. On top of that, they win a Melbourne Cup trophy worth $250.000. Despite the wartime, the prize has only been increasing and has reached 1 million for the winner in 1985 for the first time.

Surprise Baby and II Paradiso are the favorites in the 2020 Melbourne Cup odds

According to bet365, the 2020 Melbourne Cup odds favorite to win is the Surprise Baby with 17.00 odds.  He came to fifth place in last year’s Melbourne Cup. His trainer Paul Preusker has claimed that his run was worthy of the trophy. That’s why he has been saving him for this year’s cup and keeping him out of the races until late spring.

After the protests of the stewards of Victoria, the II Paradiso got the third place in last year’s cup. The judges have ruled that jockey of the Master of Reality has interfered in the II Paradiso’s run. That relegated the Frankie Dettori ridden Master of Reality into the fourth place. Online gambling sites in Australia were claiming at the time that if he weren’t interrupted, he would’ve won the race. However, since the trainer of II Paradiso is the son of Master of Reality’s trainer, the jockey of II Paradiso didn’t file an official complaint. Now II Paradiso has a betting odd of 17.00 in 2020 Melbourne Cup odds, giving them the first place to share with Surprise Baby.

 Last year’s champion is racing again this year

In 2019 Melbourne Cup, Vow and Declare came in the first place, giving Australia its much-wanted win. Ever since 1910, when the first foreign horse raced in the Cup, the race has been open to foreign horses. However, locals were having a hard time hiding their disappointment when they were dominating the race year after year. Vow and Declare’s both the trainer- Danny O’Brien and jockey- Craig Williams are Australians.

Vow and Declare is standing at the third place in the 2020 Melbourne Cup odds. According to bet365, he has a winning odd of 21.00. Only five horses have won the race twice in the long history of the Melbourne Cup. However, as of the words of his trainer Danny O’Brien that last year’s race was not tough for him.  Considering that he’s turning only five years old this year, it’s safe to say that he’s reaching his peak age. He has a great promise of coming back stronger this year.

Several horses share the fourth place in the 2020 Melbourne Cup odds

Horse racing is always unpredictable to say the least. Even for the long races like the Melbourne Cup, the length of the track is usually not long enough to test the horses’ endurance. Since most of the horses are trained to their best, thus have similar form and strength, predicting the outcome is not easy.

In the fourth place of 2020, Melbourne Cup odds Shared Ambition, Mer De Glace, Master of Wine and Search for a Song stands together with 26.00 betting odds. Shared Ambition was a relatively young horse with a promising future. This year is going to be his Melbourne Cup debut. His trainer Chris Waller is claiming that only the sky is the limit for him. As for Mer de Glace, he had quite a time in racing last year. He was suspended from attending the Victoria Derby Day meeting and fined $20.000 after his win in the Caulfield Cup. His 2020 Melbourne Cup odds went lower because of the 1 kg handicap penalty.

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