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Almost $132 million was wagered on the Melbourne Cup meeting at Flemington across the Tabcorp-owned NSW and Victorian TABs.

Revenues were $25 million, up 12.4%.

There was $86.9 million in TAB turnover on the Melbourne Cup itself, down 3.7% on 2013, made up of:-

• $46.2 million in NSW totalizator betting;

• $31.4 million in Victorian totalizator betting;

• $9.3 million in TAB Fixed Odds betting.

These figures exclude turnover from Tabcorp’s Luxbet business and its international gateway, PGI.

In addition, there was $2.4 million in ACT TAB betting on the Melbourne Cup meeting. ACT TAB became part of the Tabcorp group in October this year.

Tabcorp Managing Director and CEO David Attenborough said the iconic TAB brand was once again a trusted part of the Melbourne Cup day experience for hundreds of thousands of customers.

“TAB is pleased to have facilitated another outstanding Melbourne Cup day across our multi-channel network,” Mr Attenborough said.

“TAB customers placed their Melbourne Cup bets across almost 3,000 TAB outlets in NSW, the ACT and Victoria, as well as via tab.com.au, the TAB app and our call centre. On-course betting was also a big part of the day, especially at Flemington where 600 operators were taking bets.

“At peak, our systems were processing a record 3019 transactions per second.”