The Victoria Racing Club is offering a million dollars if anyone can guess the correct finishing order of all horses in the Melbourne Cup.
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7 Nov 2006 - 12:00 AM  UPDATED 24 Feb 2015 - 12:17 PM

However it's tougher than you might think.

While it costs nothing to enter the VRC challenge -- the odds are still pretty ordinary.

Your chance of picking all 23 remaining horses in the correct order are roughly one in 26 billion trillion.

You are more than 470 trillion times more likely to see your Powerball numbers come up than to win the VRC's competition.