Melbourne Cup

02/11/2010

The Melbourne Cup came around on 2nd November. We didn't know much about it other than it was a big annual Horse racing event down in Melbourne but we decided to muscle in on it too and place a bet. Sar got told the favourites were number 3,8 and 11 so we decided we would bet $20 on 5 horses. I had heard good things about number 13 (surprisingly!) so we put our money on numbers 3, 7, 11, 13 and 21....We got back with our bet placed so all we needed was any of those horses to get 1st, 2nd or 3rd and we won, too easy....We watched it in our lounge cheering on the horses and...none of them won, number 3 came 3rd so we got a about $3 back! wooooo
13 was a terrible decision, hardly worth racing, and who won....number 8!!! we spent hours kicking ourselves!! we had got told to put money on 3, 8 and 11 and decided we knew better and left number 8 off!! we would have won $100!!!! just to run it in, we should have known...8 is my lucky number, not 13!!!...maybe next year. Tom had put his money on 8 and won $70 back...just to rub it in!