Facebook formguide: The Melbourne Cup carnival has everybody talking A perfect spring day greeted race fans as the 18-carat-gold winner's cup joined former racing champions for the 30th annual Melbourne Cup parade. FIORENTE may be the favourite at the betting outlets, but Super Cool has pulled ahead as a firm favourite in the Melbourne Cup social media stakes. The Mark Kavanagh-trained gelding is generating the most buzz among Facebook's 12 million Australian users in the race that stops the nation - and Facebook. Despite experts putting the horse well behind the expected winner tomorrow at $41, Super Cool leads the field for online buzz, while the French are receiving the least love online with Gai Waterhouse's Tres Bleu being the least talked-about horse. 1.Super Cool 2.Fiorente 3.Seville 4.Dear Demi 5.Dandino 6.Brown Panther 7.Fawkner 8.Green Moon 9.Mount Athos 10.Simenon 11.Sea Moon 12.Royal Empire 13.Ibicenco 14.Dunaden 15.Ruscello 16.Masked Marvel 17.Verema 18.Hawkspur 19.Foreteller 20.Red Cadeuax 21.Mourayan 22.Voleuse De Coeurs 23.Ethopia 24.Tres Bleu Interest in the race has spiked significantly since the field was announced on Saturday night, with the top mentions dominated by the action off the track, with "heels," "racing," "horses" and "Melbourne Cup" among the trending topics. This photo of Jennifer Hawkins, Melina Bagnato, Kris Smith and Angela Kennedy was part of one the most popular posts on the Facebook page. "Sport is inherently social and of all sports, the Melbourne Cup is perhaps the most social in Australia," a Facebook spokesperson said. The race that stops the nation brings us all together to talk about the fashion, the racing and how we are celebrating this key annual event in the nation's calendar. Inr the past week we have seen over one million Melbourne Cup carnival related mentions and tens of thousands of images shared on Instagram. READ: Dos and don'ts: The mug's guide to Victoria's Spring Racing Carnival The social network has also developed a Social Racing Form Guide, for users to follow and share their Melbourne Cup carnival experiences on Facebook and Instagram. The top Facebook hashtags for the event are #MelbourneCup2013 and #MelbCupCarnival and you can track the top fashions on Instagram for Fashion On The Field and the Marquees with #MyerFOTF, #myermarquee, #lavazzalook, #emirratesmarquee.