Can someone post the rules to this as I have forgotten them.

It relied on leader up races that placed in the 1st 3 .

Many thanks if some one could enlighten me.

Cheers.
Darcy.

Darcy,

There are a few of these going around. There is one in the Horse Racing Austrlaia Magazine from last year which was similar in that it concentrated on the Caulfield Cup and Cox plate races. Think it was within 5 lengths in these races then there were some other rules around it like recent win, barrier, age, weight, etc.

I am not home this week but when I go home I will try and find it for you.

Maybe someone else hasa copy and can postthe rules.

Good Luck.

An Old Melbourne Cup System was (from memory)

Qualifiers must be placed 1st, 2nd or 3rd in the Caulfield Cup or in the MV Cup (If winner of MV cup gets a penalty then ignore this horse and take the 4th placed horse). Further qualifiers from finishing 1st, 2nd or 3rd in MacKinnon Stakes or SAAB (is it still called this as it seems to change every other year?).

Ignore any 3yo or aged horses.

This will give you a list of horses to consider. Obviously it will eliminate most overseas horses as they do not start before the MC.

Another piece of information worth considering is ignore any horses listed at >$21 as I believe the last was Tawriffic in 1989 (30/1).

Good luck to all that try to back the winner!

Thank you.

The trb has an interesting article that may interest,

Hope propun is rating it.

Cheers.
darky

The trouble with all old MC formulas for picking a winner , none of them had 9 OS horses to deal with!

crash,
yeah, you're right mate..I believe that system appeared in either Turf Monthly or very early editions of PPM.
At the time it had secured the winner of the Cup in about 8 out of 9 years.
Hope that helps.

haveagoodun.