Dunaden, winner of the 2011 Melbourne Cup.

Form guide for the 2013 Melbourne Cup

Once you learn to interpret form guides it should be easy to pick a winner! But that's where most punters lose because there are other variables to consider than just past race form or speed. Professional punters try to pick a value horse, one that offers high odds but fair chance of winning.

In regards to the Melbourne Cup, it is a race that is notoriously difficult to pick using just past form. The reason being that these are some of the top stayers, many of which have won several races in Australia and overseas. All are presumably in excellent form. Think of it this way - the horse owners and trainers wouldn't ship their prized runners thousands of miles to Melbourne and spend tens of thousands in all sorts of fees and expenses just to have a run around Flemington. They are all here to win it.

Hopefully you will be able to separate the contenders from the pretenders with my user friendly guide. Remember that with 24 runners it is a big field and favourites don't usually fair that well. My suggestion is to look for a horse with odds in the mid tens to mid twenties.

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2013 Melbourne Cup Picks

Click on the name for form guide. The jockeys are now final.

Some of my picks did not make the final field. A huge disappointment for Gatewood needing a win in the Lexus Stakes (was sixth). Despite winning the Geelong Cup he did not make the cut. Other contenders that I picked earlier in the year did not make the final field include Brigantin, Shahwardi and Manighar.

Runner
Weights/kg
Jockey
Trainer
n/a
G Boss
Darren Weir
55.5
M Rodd
Ed Dunlop
58
D Oliver
Alain de Royer Dupre
57
L Nolen
Peter Moody
53.5
J B McDonald
Gai Waterhouse
53.5
B Prebble
Robert Hickmott
53.5
P J Smullen
Dermott Weld
54
R Moore
Luca Cumani
53.5
C W Brown
Luca Cumani
55
Michael Rodd
Mark Kavanagh
53.5
O Dolueze
Alain Lyon
52.5
John Gosden
William Buick
53
Christophe Lemaire
A De Royer-Dupre
53
Pierre-Charles Boudot
Andre Fabre
55.5
C O'Donoghue
Marco Botti
59
Craig Williams
Mikel Delzangles
53.5
T Berry
Glencadam Gold
55
Nicholas Hall
Robert Hickmott
53.5
R McLeod
Pat Carey
53.5
J A Cassidy
Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes
53.5
Nicholas Hall
Robert Hickmott

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