The Melbourne Cup has stopped the nation every November for well over 160 years now, with the inaugural race held way back in 1861.
Here, we will take a look at the history of the race and its past results. Can that history provide any guide into how the cards will fall in 2023?
Five horses have won the Melbourne Cup more than once and only one — the legendary Makybe Diva — has notched three successive wins (2003, 04, 05).
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Melbourne Cup Historical Results
| Year | Winner | Weight | Second | Weight | Third | Weight | Race Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Without A Fight | 56.5kg | Soulcombe | 53.5kg | Sheraz | 51.5kg | 3:18.37 |
| 2022 | Gold Trip | 57.5kg | Emissary | 51.5kg | High Emocean | 50kg | 3:24.04 |
| 2021 | Verry Elleegant | 57 | Incentivise | 57 | Spanish Mission | 57 | 3:17.42 |
| 2020 | Twilight Payment | 55.5 | Tiger Moth | 54 | Prince Of Arran | 54.5 | 3:17.34 |
| 2019 | Vow And Declare | 52 | Master of Reality | 55.5 | Prince Of Arran | 54 | 3:24.76 |
| 2018 | Cross Counter | 51 | Marmelo | 55 | A Prince Of Arran | 53 | 3:21.17 |
| 2017 | Rekindling | 51.5 | Johannes Vermeer | 54.5 | Max Dynamite | 54 | 3:21.19 |
| 2016 | Almandin | 52 | Hearbreak City | 53 | Hartnell | 55 | 3:20.58 |
| 2015 | Prince of Penzance | 53 | Max Dynamite | 55 | Criterion | 57 | 3:23.15 |
| 2014 | Protectionist | 56.5 | Red Cadeaux | 57 | Who Shot Thebarman | 55 | 3:17.71 |
| 2013 | Fiorente | 55 | Red Cadeaux | 56.5 | Mount Athos | 54 | 3:20.30 |
| 2012 | Green Moon | 53.5 | Fiorente | 53.5 | Jakkalberry | 55.5 | 3:20.45 |
| 2011 | Dunaden | 54.5 | Red Cadeaux | 53.5 | Lucas Cranach | 53.5 | 3:20.84 |
| 2010 | Americain | 54.5 | Maluckyday | 51.0 | So You think | 56.0 | 3:26.87 |
| 2009 | Shocking | 51.0 | Crime Scene | 53.0 | Mourilyan | 54.5 | 3:23.8 |
| 2008 | Viewed | 53.0 | Bauer | 52.0 | C’est La Guerre | 54.0 | 3:20.40 |
| 2007 | Efficient | 54.5 | Purple Moon | 53.5 | Mahler | 50.5 | 3:23.34 |
| 2006 | Delta Blues | 56.9 | Pop Rock | 53.0 | Maybe Better | 50.0 | 3:21.42 |
| 2005 | Makybe Diva | 58.0 | On A Jeune | 51.0 | Xcellent | 54.0 | 3:19.17 |
| 2004 | Makybe Diva | 55.5 | Vinnie Roe | 58.0 | Zazzman | 52.5 | 3:28.55 |
| 2003 | Makybe Diva | 51.0 | She’s Archie | 50.0 | Jardine’s Lookout | 55.5 | 3.19.90 |
| 2002 | Media Puzzle | 52.5 | Mr. Prudent | 52.0 | Beekeeper | 53.5 | 3.16.97 |
| 2001 | Ethereal | 52.0 | Give the Slip | 55.0 | Persian Punch | 57.5 | 3.20.43 |
| 2000 | Brew | 49.0 | Yippyio | 52.0 | Second Coming | 52.5 | 3.18.68 |
| 1999 | Rogan Josh | 50.0 | Central Park | 57.5 | Zazabelle Lahar |
49.0 50.0 |
3.19.6 |
| 1998 | Jezabeel | 51.0 | Champagne | 51.0 | Persian Punch | 56.5 | 3.19.6 |
| 1997 | Might And Power | 56.0 | Doriemus | 57.5 | Markham | 52.5 | 3.18.3 |
| 1996 | Saintly | 55.5 | Count Chivas | 57.0 | Skybeau | 50.0 | 3:18.8 |
| 1995 | Doriemus | 54.5 | Nothin Leice Dane | 47.5 | Vintage Crop | 59.0 | 3:27.6 |
| 1994 | Jeune | 56.5 | Paris Lane | 55.5 | Oompala | 52.5 | 3:19.8 |
| 1993 | Vintage Crop | 55.5 | Te Akau Nick | 56.0 | Mercator | 54.0 | 3:23.4 |
| 1992 | Subzero | 54.5 | Veandercross | 54.5 | Castletown | 57.0 | 3:24.7 |
| 1991 | Let’s Elope | 51.0 | Shiva’s Revenge | 53.5 | Magnolia Hall | 52.5 | 3:18.9 |
| 1990 | Kingston Rule | 53.0 | the Phantom | 54.5 | Mr. Brooker | 53.0 | 3:16.3 |
| 1989 | Tawriffic | 54.0 | Super Impose | 56.0 | Kudz | 52.5 | 3:17.1 |
| 1988 | Empire Rose | 53.5 | Natski | 55.0 | Na Botto | 51.0 | 3:18.9 |
| 1987 | Kensei | 51.5 | Empire Rose | 50.0 | Rosedale | 56.0 | 3:22.0 |
| 1986 | At Talaq | 54.5 | Rising Fear | 53.0 | Sea Legend | 49.0 | 3:21.7 |
| 1985 | What A Nuisance | 52.5 | Koiro Corrie May | 51.5 | tripsacum | 49.0 | 3:23.0 |
| 1984 | Black Knight | 50.0 | Chagemar | 54.5 | Mapperley Heights | 51.0 | 3:18.9 |
| 1983 | Kiwi | 52.0 | Noble Comment | 50.5 | Mr. Jazz | 50.0 | 3:18.9 |
| 1982 | Gurner’s Lane | 56.0 | Kingston Town | 59.0 | Noble Comment | 49.5 | 3:21.1 |
| 1981 | Just A Dash | 53.5 | El Laurena | 52.0 | Flashing Light | 49.0 | 3:21.2 |
| 1980 | Beldale Ball | 49.5 | My Blue Denim | 53.5 | Love Bandit | 51.0 | 3:19.8 |
| 1979 | Hyperno | 56.0 | Salamander | 55.5 | Red Nose | 51.5 | 3:21.8 |
| 1978 | Arwon | 50.5 | Dandaleith | 50.5 | Karu | 48.0 | 3:24.3 |
| 1977 | Gold And Black | 57.0 | Reckless | 56.5 | Hyperno | 52.0 | 3:18.4 |
| 1976 | Van Der Hum | 54.5 | Gold And Black | 50.0 | Kythera | 51.0 | 3:34.1 |
| 1975 | think Big | 58.5 | Holiday Waggon | 50.0 | Medici | 46.0 | 3:29.6 |
| 1974 | think Big | 53.0 | Leilani | 55.5 | Captain Peri | 52.0 | 3:23.2 |
| 1973 | Gala Supreme | 49.0 | Glengowan | 56.5 | Daneson | 48.0 | 3:19.5 |
| 1972 | Piping Lane | 48.0 | Magnifique | 52.5 | Gunsynd | 60.5 | 3:19.3 |
| 1971 | Silver Knight | 8.9 | Igloo | 8.3 | Tails | 9 | 3:19.5 |
| 1970 | Baghdad Note | 8.7 | Vansittart | 8 | Clear Prince | 6.12 | 3:19.7 |
| 1969 | Rain Lover | 9.7 | Alsop | 7.7 | Ben Lomond | 9.3 | 3:21.5 |
| 1968 | Rain Lover | 8.2 | Fileur | 8.7 | Fans | 8.6 | 3:19.1 |
| 1967 | Red Handed | 8.9 | Red Crest | 8.6 | Floodbird | 7.7 | 3:20.4 |
| 1966 | Galilee | 8.13 | Light Fingers | 9.1 | Duo | 8.1 | 3:21.9 |
| 1965 | Light Fingers | 8.4 | Ziema | 8.6 | Midlander | 6.11 | 3:21.1 |
| 1964 | Polo Prince | 8.3 | Elkayel | 8.7 | Welltown | 7.7 | 3:19.6 |
| 1963 | Gatum Gatum | 7.12 | Ilumquh | 8.12 | Grand Print | 9.3 | 3:21.1 |
| 1962 | Even Stevens | 8.5 | Comicquita | 7.1 | Aquanita | 9.4 | 3:21.4 |
| 1961 | Lord Fury | 7.8 | Grand Print | 7.12 | Dhaulagiri | 9.5 | 3:19.5 |
| 1960 | Hi Jinx | 7.1 | Howsie | 8.6 | Ilumquh | 8.6 | 3:23.7 |
| 1959 | Macdougal | 8.11 | Nether Gold | 7.6 | White Hills | 8 | 3:23.0 |
| 1958 | Baystone | 8.9 | Monte Carlo | 9.6 | Red Pine | 7.5 | 3:21.2 |
| 1957 | Straight Draw | 8.5 | Prince Darius | 7.6 | Pandie Sun | 8.7 | 3:24.5 |
| 1956 | Evening Peal | 8 | Redcraze | 10.3 | Caranna | 8.12 | 3:19.5 |
| 1955 | Toparoa | 7.8 | Rising Fast | 10 | Sir William | 7.1 | 3:28.2 |
| 1954 | Rising Fast | 9.5 | Hellion | 7.11 | Gay Helios | 6.13 | 3:23.0 |
| 1953 | Wodalla | 8.4 | Most Regal | 7.7 | My Hero | 9 | 3:23.7 |
| 1952 | Dalray | 9.8 | Welkin Sun | 7.12 | Reformed | 8.5 | 3:23.7 |
| 1951 | Delta | 9.5 | Akbar | 8.6 | Double Blank | 7.6 | 3:24.2 |
| 1950 | Comic Court | 9.5 | Chicquita | 8.1 | Morse Code | 7.6 | 3:19.5 |
| 1949 | Foxzami | 8.8 | Hoyle | 7.11 | Benvolo | 7.9 | 3:28.5 |
| 1948 | Rimfire | 7.2 | Dark Marne | 8.11 | Saxony | 7.7 | 3:21.0 |
| 1947 | Hiraji | 7.11 | Fresh Boy | 6.11 | Red Fury | 7 | 3:28.0 |
| 1946 | Russia | 9 | On Target | 7.13 | Carey | 7.8 | 3:21.2 |
| 1945 | Rainbird | 7.7 | Silver Link | 7.5 | Leonard | 7 | 3:24.2 |
| 1944 | Sirius | 8.5 | Peter | 7.9 | Cellini | 7.2 | 3:24.5 |
| 1943 | Dark Felt | 8.4 | Counsel | 7.5 | Claudette | 7.5 | 3:23.2 |
| 1942 | Colonus | 7.2 | Phocion | 7.5 | Heart’s Desire | 7.3 | 3:33.5 |
| 1941 | Skipton | 7.7 | Son Of Aurous | 6.1 | Beau Vite | 9.1 | 3:23.7 |
| 1940 | Old Rowley | 7.12 | Maikai | 9.4 | Tidal Wave | 7.1 | 3:26.0 |
| 1939 | Rivette | 7.9 | Maikai | 7.11 | Pantler | 7 | 3:27.0 |
| 1938 | Catalogue | 8.4 | Bourbon | 7.12 | Ortelle’s Star | 7.11 | 3:26.5 |
| 1937 | the trump | 8.5 | Willie Win | 8.1 | Sarcherie | 8.9 | 3:21.5 |
| 1936 | Wotan | 7.11 | Silver Standard | 7.8 | Balkan Prince | 8 | 3:21.2 |
| 1935 | Marabou | 7.11 | Sarcherie | 7.13 | Sylvandale | 9.4 | 3:23.7 |
| 1934 | Peter Pan | 9.1 | Sarcherie | 7.2 | Latrobe | 7.2 | 3:40.5 |
| 1933 | Hall Mark | 7.8 | Shadow King | 8.9 | Topical Gaine Carington |
8.7 9.0 |
3:27.5 |
| 1932 | Peter Pan | 7.6 | Yarramba | 7.3 | Shadow King | 8.12 | 3:23.2 |
| 1931 | White Nose | 6.12 | Shadow King | 8.7 | Concentrate | 8.1 | 3:26.0 |
| 1930 | Phar Lap | 9.12 | Second Wind | 8.12 | Shadow King | 8.4 | 3:27.7 |
| 1929 | Nightmarch | 9.2 | Paquito | 8.5 | Phar Lap | 7.6 | 3:26.5 |
| 1928 | Statesman | 8.0 | Strephon | 7.6 | Demost | 6.12 | 3:23.5 |
| 1927 | trivalve | 7.6 | Silvius | 7.7 | Son ‘o Mine | 8 | 3:24.0 |
| 1926 | Spearfelt | 9.3 | Naos | 7 | Pantheon | 9.3 | 3:22.7 |
| 1925 | Windbag | 9.2 | Manfred | 7.8 | Pilliwinkie | 8.13 | 3:22.7 |
| 1924 | Backwood | 8.2 | Stand By | 8.8 | Spearfelt | 7.6 | 3:26.5 |
| 1923 | Bitalli | 7.0 | Rivoli | 9.1 | Accarak | 6.9 | 3:24.2 |
| 1922 | King Ingoda | 7.1 | the Cypher | 6.12 | Mufti | 7.9 | 3:28.2 |
| 1921 | Sister Olive | 6.9 | the Rover | 8.4 | Amazonia | 7.11 | 3:27.7 |
| 1920 | Poitrel | 10.0 | Erasmus | 7.0 | Queen Comedy | 7.0 | 3:25.7 |
| 1919 | Artilleryman | 7.6 | Richmond Main | 7.6 | Two Blues | 6.12 | 3:24.5 |
| 1918 | Night Watch | 6.9 | Kennaquhair | 9 | Gadabout | 8.7 | 3:25.7 |
| 1917 | Westcourt | 8.5 | Lingle | 8.1 | Wallace Isingla | 8.11 | 3:26.7 |
| 1916 | Sasanof | 6.12 | Shepherd King | 8.3 | St Spasa | 9.1 | 3:27.7 |
| 1915 | Patrobas | 7.6 | Westcourt | 7.4 | Carlita | 8.5 | 3:28.5 |
| 1914 | Kingsburgh | 6.12 | Sir Alwynton | 8.5 | Moonbria | 7.4 | 3:26.0 |
| 1913 | Posinatus | 7.10 | Belove | 7 | Ulva’s Isle | 6.8 | 3:31.0 |
| 1912 | Piastre | 7.9 | Hallowmas | 7.4 | Uncle Sam | 7.6 | 3:27.2 |
| 1911 | the Parisian | 8.9 | Flavian | 7.5 | Didus | 7.6 | 3:27.7 |
| 1910 | Comedy King | 7.11 | trafalgar | 9.2 | Apple Pie | 7.5 | 3:27.7 |
| 1909 | Prince Foote | 7.8 | Alawa | 9.3 | Aberdeen | 6.9 | 3:27.2 |
| 1908 | Lord Nolan | 6.10 | Tulkeroo | 8.9 | Delaware | 6.9 | 3:28.7 |
| 1907 | Apologue | 7.9 | Mooltan | 7.11 | Mountain King | 7.6 | 3:27.5 |
| 1906 | Poseidon | 7.6 | Antonious | 7.9 | Proceed | 7.9 | 3:31.5 |
| 1905 | Blue Spec | 8.0 | Scot Free | 7.7 | Tartan | 9 | 3:27.5 |
| 1904 | Acrasia | 7.6 | Lord Cardigan | 9.6 | Blinker | 6.12 | 3:28.2 |
| 1903 | Lord Cardigan | 6.8 | Wakeful | 10 | Seaport | 7.2 | 3:29.2 |
| 1902 | the Victory | 8.12 | Vanity Fair | 7.9 | Abundance | 7.6 | 3:29.0 |
| 1901 | Revenue | 7.10 | San Fran | 9.7 | Khaki | 7.11 | 3:30.5 |
| 1900 | Clean Sweep | 7.0 | Malster | 7.11 | Alix | 6.12 | 3:29.0 |
| 1899 | Merriwee | 7.6 | Voyou | 8 | Dewey | 7.4 | 3:36.2 |
| 1898 | the Grafter | 9.2 | Wait-a-bit | 8 | Cocos | 7.1 | 3:29.7 |
| 1897 | Gaulus | 7.8 | the Grafter | 7.7 | Aurum | 8.6 | 3:31.0 |
| 1896 | Newhaven | 7.13 | Bloodshot | 8.12 | the Skipper | 8.1 | 3:28.5 |
| 1895 | Auraria | 7.4 | Hova | 8.1 | Burrabari | 7.8 | 3:29.0 |
| 1894 | Patron | 9.3 | Devon | 7.12 | Nada | 7 | 3:31.0 |
| 1893 | Tarcoola | 8.4 | Carnage | 7.7 | Jeweller | 7.7 | 3:30.5 |
| 1892 | Glenloth | 7.13 | Ronda | 6.7 | Penance | 7.7 | 3:36.2 |
| 1891 | Malvolio | 8.4 | Sir William | 8.7 | Strathmore | 7.6 | 3:29.2 |
| 1890 | Carbine | 10.5 | Highborn | 6.8 | Correze | 7.3 | 3:28.2 |
| 1889 | Bravo | 8.7 | Carbine | 10 | Melos | 8.12 | 3:32.5 |
| 1888 | Mentor | 8.3 | tradition | 6.12 | the Yeoman | 7.8 | 3:30.7 |
| 1887 | Dunlop | 8.3 | Silvermine | 8.3 | the Aust. Peer | 7.5 | 3:28.5 |
| 1886 | Arsenal | 7.5 | trenton | 9.5 | Silvermine | 7.1 | 3:31.0 |
| 1885 | Sheet Anchor | 7.11 | Grace Darling | 7.12 | trenton | 7.13 | 3:29.0 |
| 1884 | Malua | 9.9 | Commotion | 9.12 | Plausible | 6.13 | 3:31.5 |
| 1883 | Martini-henri | 7.5 | First Water | 8 | Commotion | 10.1 | 3:30.7 |
| 1882 | the Assyrian | 7.13 | Stockwell | 7.5 | Gudarz | 7.7 | 3:40.5 |
| 1881 | Zulu | 5.10 | the Czar | 6.9 | Sweetmeat | 9 | 3:32.0 |
| 1880 | Grand Flaneur | 6.10 | Progress | 5.1 | Lord Burghley | 7.5 | 3:34.5 |
| 1879 | Darriwell | 7.4 | Sweetmeat | 7.1 | Suwarrow | 6.5 | 3:30.7 |
| 1878 | Calamia | 8.2 | Tom Kirk | 7.8 | Waxy | 6.11 | 3:35.7 |
| 1877 | Chester | 6.12 | Savanaka | 6.2 | the Vagabond | 7 | 3:33.5 |
| 1876 | Briseis | 6.4 | Sibyl | 6 | Timothy | 7 | 3:36.0 |
| 1875 | Wollomai | 7.8 | Richmond | 6.3 | Goldsbrough | 9.9 | 3:38.0 |
| 1874 | Haricot | 6.7 | Protos | 8.9 | the Diver | 6.1 | 3:37.5 |
| 1873 | Don Juan | 6.12 | Dagworth | 9.9 | Horatio | 7.13 | 3:36.2 |
| 1872 | the Quack | 7.10 | the Ace | 8.4 | Dagworth | 7.12 | 3:39.7 |
| 1871 | the Pearl | 7.3 | Romula | 7.1 | Irish King | 7.1 | 3:39.0 |
| 1870 | Nimblefoot | 6.3 | Lapdog | 7.0 | Valentine | 6.4 | 3:37.0 |
| 1869 | Warrior | 8.1 | the Monk | 7 | Phoebe | 7.1 | 3:40.0 |
| 1868 | Glencoe | 9.1 | Strop | 7.1 | Shenandoah | 7.5 | 3:42.0 |
| 1867 | Tim Whiffler | 8.11 | Queen Of Hearts | 5.12 | Exile | 7.1 | 3:39.0 |
| 1866 | the Barb | 6.11 | Exile | 7.1 | Falcon | 8.2 | 3:43.0 |
| 1865 | Toryboy | 7.0 | Panic | 10 | Riverina | 7.7 | 3:44.0 |
| 1864 | Lantern | 6.3 | Poet | 8.2 | Rose Of Denmark | 8.3 | 3:52.0 |
| 1863 | Banker | 5.4 | Musidora | 8.5 | Rose Of Denmark | 5.9 | 3:44.0 |
| 1862 | Archer | 10.2 | Mormon | 9.12 | Camden | 8.7 | 3:47.0 |
| 1861 | Archer | 9.7 | Mormon | 10.1 | Prince | 8 | 3:52.0 |
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