Melbourne Cup 2013: Times, Race Schedule, Order of Entry and Preview

This Tuesday will see Victoria play host to the Melbourne Cup, the biggest event of Australia's horse racing calendar this year.

Flemington Racecourse will once again call together some of the finest thoroughbreds in the sport for what will be one of the must-watch races of the year, boasting a winning prize purse of more than $6 million.

Owners, trainers and runners alike will all court a raft of interest as we head into "the race that stops a nation," one of the biggest annual rides. Read on for all race details to ensure you don't miss a minute.

Date: Tuesday, Nov. 5 2013

Time: 3 p.m. Local Time (AEDT)/4 a.m. GMT/ 11 p.m. ET (Nov. 4)

Venue: Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Victoria

NO. DRAW	Horse	Age	Weight	Trainer	Form Guide
1	Dunaden	7	9-3	M Delzangles	-43228
2	Green Moon	6	9-1	Robert Hickmott	1-4459
3	It´s A Dundeel	4	8-11	Murray Baker	111241
4	Red Cadeaux	7	8-13	Ed Dunlop	389624
5	Sea Moon	5	8-13	Robert Hickmott	8-0021
6	Manighar	7	8-11	Peter G Moody	426500
7	Super Cool	4	8-8	Mark Kavanagh	113493
8	Voleuse De Coeurs	4	8-7	Michael Moroney	-21321
9	Fiorente	5	8-9	Gai Waterhouse	2-3614
10	Tres Blue	3	8-0	Gai Waterhouse	513211
11	Royal Descent	4	8-3	Chris Waller	123205
12	Hawkspur	4	8-6	Chris Waller	171457
13	Brown Panther	5	8-9	Tom Dascombe	38-115
14	Foreteller	6	8-9	Chris Waller	228102
15	Ethiopia	5	8-8	Pat Carey	40-050
16	Dandino	6	8-8	Marco Botti	7-2212
17	Verema	4	8-5	A De Royer-Dupre	-32511
18	Fawkner	6	8-8	Robert Hickmott	-37531
19	Mourayan	7	8-8	Robert Hickmott	884178
20	Puissance De Lune	5	8-8	Darren Weir	-11272
21	Seville	5	8-8	Robert Hickmott	2-0091
22	Mount Athos	6	8-7	Luca Cumani	0-1582
23	Royal Empire	4	8-7	Saeed bin Suroor	220112
24	Masked Marvel	5	8-7	Robert Hickmott	48-032
25	Waldpark	5	8-7	Anthony Freedman	228050
26	Simenon	6	8-6	W P Mullins	5-4223
27	Mr O´Ceirin	6	8-4	Ciaron Maher	612100
28	Brigantin	6	8-4	Pat Carey	3-7807
29	Jet Away	6	8-5	David Hayes	2-1174
30	Moudre	8	8-4	Ciaron Maher	-36783
31	Ibicenco	5	8-5	Peter G Moody	451801
32	Precedence	8	8-5	Bart & James Cummings	685190

Horses To Watch

Brown Panther

Having made a name for himself in Premier League football, Michael Owen is more than your average happy-go-lucky ex-pro now taking at swing at things in horse racing.

In fact, it's this week's stayer, Brown Panther, that has been responsible for a great deal of his racing success, not least of which was this year's Goodwood Cup.

Trained by Tom Dascombe, the five-year-old bay horse stands a fine chance of staging a claim for silverware in Australia this week, where Owen will be a fish in untested festival waters.

On top of that Goodwood victory is the 2011 King George V Stakes triumph that Brown Panther earned at Ascot.

Tres Blue

Trained by the famous Gai Waterhouse, Tres Blue is unique in that it is the only three-year-old set to compete in Tuesday's Melbourne Cup, the youngest of any to have made it to this stage.

The Waterhouse name courts a certain amount of respect in racing circles, around the world and not just in Australia. That being the case, it will be likely that she has at least one of her runners competing for the lead come Tuesday's Cup climax.

Tres Blue has won three of her last five rides, placing in the other two, and the colt holds great promise despite being the lesser-known of its trainer's two runners.

It's a Dundeel

Winning six of his last 12 races, four of which came in his last six outings, It's a Dundeel looks to be one of the most in-form assets coming into this week's festival.

Despite being just four years of age, the bay colt is maturing at a rapid rate and could well live with the pressure of its five-, six- and seven-year-old peers in the Melbourne Cup.