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The five races that will shape this year’s Cup
Lead-up form matters more than ever. We map the path every serious contender has to travel between now and the first Tuesday in November.
Industry
Wagering reform: what the next round of changes means for punters
Advertising, inducements and point-of-consumption tax are all on the table. A plain-English guide to what could change and when.
Country racing
Country cups worth the drive this spring
Picnic races, a proper local pub and a feature race everyone in town has an opinion on. Our pick of the bush meetings.
Weekend review
Ten things we learned on Saturday
The runs to follow, the rides to forget and the one horse every form student will have in their blackbook this week.
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From the Archive
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151 years of results, records and the stories behind them. We’re digitising the archive one edition at a time.
From the archive
How an 80-page pamphlet became the Australian racing bible
In 1875 J.J. Miller printed a guide for punters betting on the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. It outlived him by a century.
People
J.J. Miller: gold, bookmaking and a printing press
The man behind the masthead, from the Castlemaine goldfields to the first president of the Ferntree Gully Shire.
1978J.J. Miller’s Sporting Annual 
2011/12Sky Channel edition 
2014/15One of the final print years 2025The 150th year
1875
J.J. Miller publishes the first guide for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups
1880s
The pamphlet grows into a thick annual of results and records
1922
Miller dies at Hampton, aged 91. The guide carries on
2016
The 2015/16 edition is meant to be the last in print
2019
Miller’s Guide is revived in print
2026
The racing bible returns as a daily newsroom