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Winners and Placegetters of the Previous Melbourne Cups.
| Year | Melbourne Cup Winner | Wgt | Second | Wgt | Third | Wgt | Time |
| 2023 | Without A Fight | 56.5 | Soulcombe | 53.5 | Sheraz | 51.5 | 3:18.37 |
| 2022 | Gold Trip | 57.5 | Emissary | 51.5 | High Emocean | 50.0 | 3:24.04 |
| 2021 | Verry Elleegant | 57.0 | Incentivise | 57.0 | Spanish Mission | 57.0 | 3:17.43 |
| 2020 | Twilight Payment | 55.5 | Tiger Moth | 52.5 | Prince Of Arran | 54.5 | 3:17.34 |
| 2019 | Vow And Declare | 52.0 | Prince Of Arran | 54.0 | Il Paradiso | 52.5 | 3:24.76 |
| 2018 | Cross Counter | 51.0 | Marmelo | 56.0 | A Prince Of Arran | 53.0 | 3:21.17 |
| 2017 | Rekindling | 51.5 | Johannes Vermeer | 54.5 | Max Dynamite | 54.0 | 3:21.19 |
| 2016 | Almandin | 52.0 | Heartbreak City | 54.0 | Hartnell | 56.0 | 3:20.58 |
| 2015 | Prince Of Penzance | 53.0 | Max Dynamite | 55.0 | Criterion | 57.5 | 3:23.15 |
| 2014 | Protectionist | 56.5 | Red Cadeaux | 57.0 | Who Shot Thebarman | 55.0 | 3:17.71 |
| 2013 | Fiorente | 55.0 | Red Cadeaux | 56.5 | Mount Athos | 54.0 | 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 | 3:23.87 |
| 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 | 56.0 | 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 Leica 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 | 8.0 | 3:52.0 |
