Melbourne Cup 2024 start time, date, field, horses, prizemoney, who is the favourite, when is it on?

The Melbourne Cup — the race that stops the nation — is here again with a field of 24 local and international horses racing over 3200m for a whopping $8 million in prizemoney. Here are the key things you need to know ahead of the 164th running of the great race. START TIME: WHEN IS IT ON? As always, the first Tuesday in November — this year falling on the 5th.

This year’s race will start at 3pm AEDT. So that’s 3pm for Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Hobart. The race begins at 1.

30pm if you’re in Darwin, 2pm in Brisbane and 2.30pm in Adelaide. HOW CAN I WATCH THE MELBOURNE CUP? Channel 10 broadcasts the Melbourne Cup Carnival including the feature race itself.

You can also live stream the race, Saturday’s barrier draw, and much more via Racing.com on Kayo, or watch via the racing channels on Foxtel. Watch Spring Racing and the Melbourne Cup LIVE on Kayo Sports.

Join now and start streaming instantly > WHO IS IN THE FIELD? That’s still to be finalised but you can check out the latest order of entry here . According to Racenet the final field could look something like this: 1 – VAUBAN (Trainer: Willie Mullins; Jockey: William Buick) 55.5kg 2.

– BUCKAROO (Chris Waller; Joao Moreira) 54.5kg 3 – CIRCLE OF FIRE (Ciaron Maher, Mark Zahra) 54.5kg 4 – WARP SPEED (Noboru Takagi; Akira Sugawara) 54kg 5 – KOVALICA (Chris Waller, Damian Lane) 53.

5kg 6 – SHARP ‘N’ SMART (Graeme & Deborah Rogerson, Michael Dee) 53.5kg 7 – JUST FINE (Gai Waterhouse & Adrian B.