{"id":259079,"date":"2025-11-03T05:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/259079\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T05:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:48:08","slug":"melbourne-cup-2025-field-horses-numbers-jockeys-weights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/259079\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Cup 2025 field, horses, numbers, jockeys, weights"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2025 Melbourne Cup will be run and won on Tuesday, with 24 local and international horses vying for a whopping $10m in prizemoney.<\/p>\n

So who is in the field this year? See below for the full list of horses numbers, jockeys.<\/p>\n

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TREVOR MARSHALLSEA\u2019S FORM GUIDE: Every runner rated<\/a><\/p>\n

JIMMY CASSIDY\u2019S CUP FORM GUIDE: Legendary jockey\u2019s verdict on every runner<\/a><\/p>\n

ULTIMATE GUIDE: Everything you need to know<\/a><\/p>\n

WEATHER: Flemington forecast as rain looms<\/a><\/p>\n

LATEST ODDS: Who is the favourite?<\/a><\/p>\n

ORDER OF ENTRY: Who made the cut, and who didn\u2019t<\/a><\/p>\n

MELBOURNE CUP BARRIER DRAW: How every horse fared<\/a><\/p>\n

DUMMIES\u2019 GUIDE: How to put on a bet<\/a><\/p>\n

START TIME: What time does the race begin in my state?<\/a><\/p>\n

(Saddlecloth No. – Horse (Barrier) – Trainer – Jockey – Weight)<\/p>\n

1 AL RIFFA (19) – Joseph O\u2019Brien – Mark Zahra – 59kg<\/p>\n

2 BUCKAROO (12) – Chris Waller – Craig Williams – 57kg<\/p>\n

3 ARAPAHO (15) – Bjorn Baker – Rachel King – 56.5kg<\/p>\n

4 VAUBAN (2) – Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott – Blake Shinn – 56.5kg<\/p>\n

5 CHEVALIER ROSE (5) – Hisashi Shimizu – Damian Lane – 55.5kg<\/p>\n

6 PRESAGE NOCTURNE (9) – Alessandro Botti – Stephane Pasquier – 55.5kg<\/p>\n

7 MIDDLE EARTH (13) – Ciaron Maher – Ethan Brown – 54.5kg<\/p>\n

8 MEYDAAN (22) – Simon & Ed Crisford – James McDonald – 54kg<\/p>\n

9 ABSURDE (4) – Willie Mullins – Kerrin McEvoy – 53.5kg<\/p>\n

10 FLATTEN THE CURVE (17) – Henk Grewe – Thore-Hammer Hansen – 53.5kg<\/p>\n

11 LAND LEGEND (16) – Chris Waller – Joao Moreira – 53.5kg<\/p>\n

12 SMOKIN\u2019 ROMANS (11) – Ciaron Maher – Ben Melham – 53.5kg<\/p>\n

13 CHANGINGOFTHEGUARD – Kris Lees – Tim Clark – 53kg<\/p>\n

14 HALF YOURS (8) – Tony & Calvin McEvoy – Jamie Melham – 53kg<\/p>\n

15 MORE FELONS (23) – Chris Waller – Tommy Berry – 53kg<\/p>\n

16 ONESMOOTHOPERATOR (6) – Brian Ellison – Harry Coffey – 53kg<\/p>\n

17 FURTHUR (7) – Andrew Balding – Michael Dee – 52kg<\/p>\n

18 PARCHMENT PARTY (3) – William Mott – John Velazquez – 52kg<\/p>\n

19 ATHABASCAN (1) John O\u2019Shea & Tom Charlton – Declan Bates – 51.5kg<\/p>\n

20 GOODIE TWO SHOES (20) – Joseph O\u2019Brien – Wayne Lordan – 51.5kg<\/p>\n

21 RIVER OF STARS (14)- Chris Waller – Beau Mertens – 51.5kg<\/p>\n

22 ROYAL SUPREMACY (21) – Ciaron Maher – Robbie Dolan – 51kg<\/p>\n

23 TORRANZINO (18) – Paul Preusker – Celine Gaudray – 51kg<\/p>\n

24 VALIANT KING (10) – Chris Waller – Jye McNeil – 51kg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 Melbourne Cup will be run and won on Tuesday, with 24 local and international horses vying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-259079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}