Sons and Lovers is news.com.au's Melbourne Cup pick

The outlet's elimination formula narrows the field using odds, age, distance experience and even supposed saddlecloth curses.

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Why this story? One of news.com.au's most watched videos since yesterday, with 23,219 views.

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Sons and Lovers gets the final nod in news.com.au's Melbourne Cup preview, after a process that mixes historical racing patterns with a little superstition.

The race takes place at Flemington in Melbourne on Tuesday. Rather than assess every runner individually, the short video crosses horses off in groups, starting with longer-priced outsiders, then older runners, mares and fillies. Each cut rests on the narrator's reading of past Cup results.

The more unusual filter comes next: what the narrator calls "saddlecloth curses". Certain numbers are ruled out before the video turns to experience over the Cup distance. Hopewell Rock then loses its place because of the historical record the report assigns to its starting barrier.

That leaves Juja Kibo and Sons and Lovers. The narrator chooses the latter, pointing to trainer Joseph O'Brien's two previous Melbourne Cup victories and the horse's top-weight status. "Sons and Lovers is our pick for the Melbourne Cup," he concludes.

The preview has drawn about 23,000 views since yesterday. It offers a pre-race selection, not a result: its final graphic puts Sons and Lovers alone at the end of the elimination process.

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The numbers

The Melbourne Cup preview drew the most views since yesterday among news.com.au's uploads from the past two days.

subscribers

1,400,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,520,300,342

views per day

2,424,059

typical day: 1,167,249

the video

views

23,219

likes

46

comments

16

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

People

1,550,000

LBC

1,550,000

TalkTV

1,470,000

news.com.au

1,400,000

Times Radio

1,320,000

Times Now World

1,300,000

As of November 3, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.