This game isn’t rigged but i still lost – Melbourne Cup!

Today the Emirates Melbourne Cup was on. I put money on Railings, and guess what, it came 2nd…. last. I wasn’t very disappointed, because it wasn’t my money. Overall I am happy because it didn’t come last, I didn’t even know the odds. I just said, ‘Put money on number 5′. It was 201:1 so basically, it had no hope anyway.

Update: I also just found out that someone put money on Tawqeet for me, I chose it because it was the first one I saw on the form guide and thought that I’d regret it if I didn’t choose it.

Here’s the table of results off the official Melbourne Cup website.

placing	horse	margin	starting Price	weight	jockey	trainer	barrier	time	prize money
1st	Efficient(NZ)		$17	54.5	M Rodd	Graeme Rogerson	9	3-23.34	0
2nd	Purple Moon(IRE)	0.5	$5.50	53.5	D Oliver	Luca Cumani	13		0
3rd	Mahler(GB)	3	$10	50.5	S Baster	Aidan O’Brien	6		0
4th	Zipping	3.4	$7.50	54	D Nikolic	Graeme Rogerson	20		0
5th	Dolphin Jo	4.4	$61	51.5	C Lindop	Terry & Karina O’Sullivan	1		0
6th	On a Jeune	4.6	$31	52.5	K McEvoy	Andrew J Payne	4		0
7th	Blue Monday(GB)	6.35	$31	56	N Rawiller	David Hayes	12		0
8th	Master O’reilly(NZ)	8.35	$3.80	53.5	V Duric	Danny O’Brien	15		0
9th	Sculptor(NZ)	9.6	$31	52	L Cropp	Peter Mckenzie	7		0
10th	Lazer Sharp	10.35	$51	52.5	B Shinn	David Hayes	14		0
11th	Douro Valley	10.45	$41	51.5	J M Winks	Danny O’Brien	11		0
12th	Sirmione	10.55	$14	51.5	P Mertens	Bart Cummings	18		0
13th	Princess Coup	12.05	$14	51	N Harris	Mark Walker	8		0
14th	Tawqeet(USA)	15.55	$61	57	D Dunn	David Hayes	3		0
15th	Eskimo Queen(NZ)	18.3	$26	51	C Newitt	Michael Moroney	5		0
16th	Scenic Shot	18.5	$101	52.5	C Williams	Daniel Morton	17		0
17th	Black Tom	21	$201	53.5	P A Hall	David Hayes	19		0
18th	Sarrera	22.5	$101	52	S Murphy	Michael Moroney	21		0
19th	Blutigeroo	22.7	$61	55.5	L Nolen	Colin Little	10		0
20th	Railings	28.7	$201	55.5	S W Arnold	Roger James	16		0
21st	Tungsten Strike(USA)	53.7	$31	54	Darryll Holland	Amanda Perrett	2		0
Scratched	Gallic(NZ)						0
Scratched	Maybe Better						0
Scratched	The Fuzz(NZ)						0