How did the Tassie horse go? Melbourne Cup results here.

Melbourne Cup Results:

FIRST: 11. Knight’s Choice. $63.50, $17.80. Jockey: Robbie Dolan

SECOND: 4. Warp Speed. $9.30. Jockey: Akira Sugawara

THIRD: 12. Okita Soushi. $4.80. Jockey: Jamie Kah

4th: 14. Zardozi

5th: 9. Absurde

6th: 3. Circle Of Fire

7th: 17. Fancy Man

8th: 8. Land Legend

9th: 2. Buckaroo

10th: 5. Kovalica

11th: 1. Vauban

12th: 13. Onesmoothoperator

13th: 16. Valiant King

14th: 15. Sea King

15th: 18. Interpretation

16th: 6. Sharp ‘N’ Smart

17th: 24. Trust In You

18th: 20. Mostly Cloudy

19th: 19. Manzoice

20th: 21. Posivitity

21st: 23. The Map

22nd: 22. Saint George

23rd: 7. Just Fine

Scratched: 10. Athabascan

Quinella: $887.80 Exacta: $1986.80 Trifecta: $22,576.80 (S-TAB dividends)

EARLIER: 

It's a long shot but a Tasmanian horse is in the running to win the 2024 Melbourne Cup.

To be ridden by Rachel King, and starting from barrier 23, the 6yo mare is at long odds, paying $71 (at time of posting) - but she manages to place at nearly half of her outings and can't be ignored.

The Map was born at Armidale Stud at Carrick on November 1, 2018, the daughter of Alpine Eagle and This Moment.

She was put through the 2020 Adelaide Magic Millions Sale and was purchased for $35,000 by South Australian trainer Oopy MacGillivray.

She was named by one of her owners, from Hobart, as a tribute to the state where she was born and Tasmania being left off the map during the 1982 Commonwealth Games.

Armidale Stud Managing Director David Whishaw said The Map is a Tassie product through and through.

“It's so hard these days for the smaller breeders to have runners in the biggest races, but it's stories like hers that give this industry romance," he said.

The Map will be the first South Australia-trained horse to run in the Cup since Alcopop in 2009.

The last Tasmanian galloper to win the Melbourne Cup was Piping Lane in 1972.

According to experts, there’s a bit more than underdog status to the horse.

She won on Cup Day last year, in the 2800-metre Maccas Run, and followed it up this year with a win in the Listed JRA Plate (Morphettville), second in the Group 3 Lord Reims (Morphettville), second in the Adelaide Cup, a win in the Group 3 Queen Elizabeth II Cup (Morphettville) and the win in the Ramsden. Add solid showings in the Herbert Power and the Geelong Cup more recently, The Map deserves respect.

The Map and her mother This Moment were both recognised at the recent Tasmanian Thoroughbred Racing awards being named best brood mare and leading Tasmanian mare for 2023-24.