What's New November 2, 2021

Melbourne radio stations at the starting gates for Cup coverage

The Melbourne Cup will host around 10,000 fully vaccinated spectators at Flemington, the biggest crowd Melbourne has seen in three months after lockdown rules have been eased this month.

It’s a particularly exciting day for racegoers who were not allowed to attend last year due to the pandemic.

At this year’s event they won’t need to wear masks outdoors. Race goers will be checked and signed in to their sections of the course for contact tracing purposes.

A range of Melbourne radio stations will broadcast the race, which will be run at 3pm today:

3AW 693 AM

RSN Racing & Sport 927 AM

ABC Grandstand DAB+

Triple M 105.1 FM

SEN 1116 AM

Sky Sports Radio

RadioTAB

What are the hot tips?

The first female Melbourne Cup winning jockey Michelle Payne chatted with KIIS’ Jase and Lauren ahead of the big race and gave her tips for the race.

On ABC Melbourne, traffic reporter Brad Arnoldt moonlights as a phantom race caller. In his phantom race call this morning the horses had some very familiar names like Sammy J, Virginia Trioli, Raf Epstein and Libbi Gorr.

Who wins in a photo finish? Listen here.

Here’s the barrier draw for the big race.

TAB NO	Horse	Barrier	Trainer	Jockey	Wgt
1	Twilight Payment	2	Joseph O’Brien	Jye McNeil	58
2	Incentivise	16	Peter G Moody	Craig Williams	57
3	Spanish Mission (USA)	14	Andrew Balding	Craig Williams	57
4	Verry Elleegant(NZ)	19	Chris Waller	James McDonald	57
5	Explosive Jack(NZ)	4	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	John Allen	54
6	The Chosen One(NZ)	5	Murray Baker & Andrew Forsman	Damian Lane	54
7	Delphi(IRE)	3	Anthony & Sam Freedman	Damien Oliver	53.5
8	Ocean Billy(NZ)	13	Chris Waller	Damien Thornton	53.5
9	Selino(GB)	24	Chris Waller	Ron Stewart	53.5
10	Johnny Get Angry(NZ)	22	Denis Pagan	Lachlan King (a0)	53
11	Knights Order(IRE)	9	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Daniel Stackhouse	53
12	Persan	11	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Luke Currie	53
13	Carif	8	Peter & Paul Snowden	Blaike McDougall	52.5
14	Master Of Wine(GER)	6	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	Fred Kersley	52.5
15	Pondus(GB)	1	Robert Hickmott	Rachel King	52.5
16	Grand Promenade(GB)	21	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Kerrin McEvoy	52
17	Miami Bound(NZ)	17	Danny O’Brien	Patrick Moloney	52
18	Port Guillaume(FR)	23	Ben & JD Hayes	Harry Coffey	52
19	She’s Ideel	20	Bjorn Baker	Craig Newitt	52
20	Future Score(IRE)	15	Matt Cumani	Dean Yendall	51.5
21	Tralee Rose(NZ)	12	Symon Wilde	Dean Holland	51
22	Floating Artist(GB)	10	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Teodore Nugent (a0)	50
23	Great House(IRE)	7	Chris Waller	Michael Dee	50
24	Sir Lucan(IRE)	18	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Glen Boss	50