Can Just Fine win the 2024 Melbourne Cup?

Just Fine will run in the 2024 Melbourne Cup. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Racing Photos)

Just Fine will be the lone runner to represent the Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott stable in the 2024 Melbourne Cup.

Thanks to his tough all-the-way victory in the Group 3 Bart Cummings at Flemington, the seven-year-old gelding secured his place in the Cup. However, that was only his first win in the last 12 months.

Will Just Fine appreciate returning to Flemington for the 3200m classic, or will that victory just be an outlier in the form guide?

When will Just Fine run in the Melbourne Cup

A full field of 24 is set to gather before a sold-out crowd at Flemington Racecourse on the first Tuesday of November, competing for an impressive $8.56 million prize pool.

Just Fine will take to the track alongside 23 other contenders, each striving to make their mark in history by winning Australia’s most prestigious handicap.

Just Fine (13)

T: Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott

J: Jye McNeil

Age: 7YO
Color: Bay
Sex: Gelding
Sire: Sea The Stars (IRE)
Dam: Bint Almatar

Just Fine 2024 Melbourne Cup Odds

Win: +4000

Place: +675

Best odds at Neds

Career stats for Just Fine

Career: 25: 7-1-2
Flemington: 1: 1-0-0
Distance: 0: 0-0-0
Wet: 6: 2-1-1
Good: 19: 5-0-1
Group 1: 4: 1-0-0
Win %: 28%
Place %: 40%

Melbourne Cup results for Just Fine

Just Fine will be having his first attempt at the Melbourne Cup in 2024.

Recent Form for Just Fine

Date	Race	Track	Distance	Placing	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Odds	Margin
Oct 25	Moonee Valley Gold Cup	Moonee Valley	2500m	10/10	Jordan Childs	10	58kg	$9	10.62L
Oct 5	Bart Cummings Stakes	Flemington	2520m	1/16	Jordan Childs	3	57kg	$21	–
Sep 21	Naturalism Stakes	Caulfield	2000m	10/15	Jordan Childs	10	58.5kg	$11	4.48L

Can Just Fine win the 2024 Melbourne Cup?

Just Fine booked his spot in the Melbourne Cup when running his rivals off their feet in The Bart Cummings (2520m) two runs ago when just hanging on and will look to do lead from the outset once again. He then backed it up with a stinker in the Moonee Valley Gold Cup when failing to beat a runner home. He is proven at 2400m and did win at 2520m two starts back, but the 3200m against some top-class stayers looks a stretch too far for Just Fine in the 2024 Melbourne Cup.