The 2013 Melbourne Cup is set to run at Flemington Racecourse on Tuesday 5 November 2013 and the best Melbourne Cup betting indicator for punters is the race form guide.
The Melbourne Cup form guide comes in many formats from the brief field, jockey and trainer listings to more comprehensive previews listing all the Melbourne Cup Facts & Statistics you need to know to place a well-informed wager on the ‘race that stops a nation’.
The Melbourne Cup form guide is almost a holy text to punters on Melbourne Cup Day. Forms are a statistical study of a horse’s previous career race performance, so getting your hands on a Melbourne Cup form guide is vital to placing a well-informed bet.
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What is in a Melbourne Cup Form Guide?
The basic kind of info found in a race form guide includes the horse and barrier numbers, jockeys, trainers, weights and recent runs by the horses.
More detailed form guides go further listing the track and distance records of the horses, their Win and Place percentages, last six runs, and stats on their performances on different ground track conditions.
What to look for in a Melbourne Cup Form Guide?
When studying the Melbourne Cup form guide, it is important to delve deeper into a horse’s recent form and consider factors including its fitness, class, jockey, barrier, and trainer. The more time spent on analyzing a race the better the chances of success for a punter. Taking just a bit more time studying the Melbourne Cup form guide could end up making you hundreds of dollars on your bets.
As with any horse race the kind of facts you are looking for in the Melbourne Cup form guide to uncover the potential Melbourne Cup winner include:
- Horses with a good record over the distance
- Gallopers that have run and won in Group company before
- Fast late sectional times
- Hopefuls prepared by a previous Melbourne Cup winning trainer or jockey
- Stayers that have run well against similar class fields, or over longer distances
- Horses the right age and sex to win the Melbourne Cup based on the historical data
Where to find the best Melbourne Cup Form Guide?
Australia boasts a number of racing publications dedicated specifically to the sport. These include the Sportsman, the Winning Post, Best Bets and Practical Punting Monthly. The Sportsman is considered to be Australia’s punting bible. It is an authoritative thoroughbred horse-racing guide, committed to providing comprehensive form analysis with the latest information. The Sportsman is a national publication produced twice a week with extra issues produced during major events including the Melbourne Cup
Many online bookmakers also offer good general form guides on the Melbourne Cup closer to the race day.
The best online Melbourne Cup form guide offered on a betting site we have come across is at bookmaker.com.au.
This Australian-owned bookmaker also offer the hottest Melbourne Cup odds and betting options, including generous futures markets open right now.
Also the team here at Races.com.au works hard each Melbourne Cup Carnival to provide our readers with the top Melbourne Cup coverage, including an all-inclusive Melbourne Cup Form Guide that we publish on the site after the capacity 24-horse Melbourne Cup field is announced on Victoria Derby Day.
