Shocking has won the 2009 Melbourne Cup. Coming in second was Crime Scene followed by Mourilyan.
| TAB | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Weight | Barrier |
| 1 | Viewed | Bart Cummings | B Rawiller | 58 | 9 |
| 2 | C'est La Guerre(NZ) | John Sadler | N Hall | 55.5 | 7 |
| 3 | Fiumicino(NZ) | Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes | Steven King | 55.5 | 24 |
| 4 | Master O'Reilly(NZ) | Danny O'Brien | V Duric | 55 | 16 |
| 5 | Mourilyan(IRE) | Herman Brown | G Schofield | 54.5 | 14 |
| 6 | Roman Emperor(NZ) | Bart Cummings | H Bowman | 54 | 15 |
| 7 | Ista Kareem(NZ) | Colin Little | L Nolen | 53.5 | 23 |
| 8 | Crime Scene(IRE) | Saeed Bin Suroor | K McEvoy | 53 | 11 |
| 9 | Munsef(GB) | Ian Williams | Z Purton | 53 | 5 |
| 10 | Zavite(NZ) | Anthony Cummings | M J Zahra | 53 | 3 |
| 11 | Alcopop | Jake Stephens | D Tourneur | 52.5 | 12 |
| 12 | Harris Tweed(NZ) | Murray & Bjorn Baker | C Newitt | 52.5 | 20 |
| 13 | Kibbutz(NZ) | Jarrod McLean | C D Symons | 52.5 | 8 |
| 14 | Newport | Paul Perry | P Wells | 52.5 | 18 |
| 15 | Warringah(GB) | Chris Waller | D Oliver | 52.5 | 17 |
| 16 | Gallions Reach(NZ) | Richard Yuill | D Dunn | 52 | 6 |
| 17 | Spin Around | Steven Cooper | M R Du Plessis | 52 | 4 |
| 18 | Basaltico(IRE) | Luca Cumani | D Nikolic | 51.5 | 10 |
| 19 | Capecover(NZ) | Alexander R Fieldes | N G Harris | 51.5 | 19 |
| 20 | Daffodil(NZ) | Kevin Gray | C Munce | 51.5 | 21 |
| 21 | Shocking | Mark Kavanagh | C Brown | 51 | 22 |
| 22 | Allez Wonder | Bart Cummings | Michelle Payne | 50.5 | 13 |
| 23 | Changingoftheguard(IRE) | David Hayes | G Boss | 50.5 | 1 |
| 24 | Leica Ding | Darren Weir | C Williams | 50.5 | 2 |
