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Bookmaker price reportFlemingtonSaturday 24 October 2026Race 8, 2040 m

Cox Plate 2026bookmaker prices at the close

Cosmic Crusader won the Cox Plate 2026. Its best closing price was $10.00, at BetGold, BetRight, BoostBet and TAB: 7.5% above the average of the 15 bookmakers' closing prices ($9.30) and level with TAB ($10.00). TABtouch was top price on 5 of the 12 runners, more than any other bookmaker.

Winner · No. 5

Cosmic Crusader

Closing win price at 15 bookmakers

  1. $10.00 4 bookmakers · best price BetGold · BetRight · BoostBet · TAB
  2. $9.50 2 bookmakers Ladbrokes · Neds
  3. $9.00 8 bookmakers bet365 · BetDeluxe · Betr · NextBet (formerly PlayUp) · Palmerbet · Sportsbet · TABtouch · Unibet
  4. $8.50 1 bookmaker PointsBet
Best
$10.00
Average
$9.30best +7.5%
TAB
$10.00best +0.0%
Lowest
$8.50
Open → close
$8.50 → $9.00median, 13 books

The margin in each bookmaker’s closing prices

At the close, BetRight carried the least margin (113.9%) and BoostBet the most (125.6%), across the 9 bookmakers that priced every runner. Taking the best price on every runner, from whichever bookmaker held it, gives 106.6%.

  1. Best price on every runner 106.6%
  2. BetRight 113.9%
  3. bet365 116.2%
  4. TAB 117.1%
  5. NextBet (formerly PlayUp) 118.1%
  6. BetDeluxe 118.2%
  7. Betr 118.5%
  8. PointsBet 119.5%
  9. BetGold 125.2%
  10. BoostBet 125.6%

Book percentage is the sum of 1/price over the field at the close. Each bar starts at 100%, a book with no margin, so its length is the margin. Only bookmakers with a closing price on every runner that started are drawn; the table below lists every bookmaker. BetGold and BoostBet take their prices from one source, so they usually show the same price.

Top price and book percentage, by bookmaker

A bookmaker is top price on a runner when its closing price equals the highest closing price any served bookmaker held for that runner; joint top counts for every bookmaker at that price, so the counts do not sum to the field. Only runners with closing prices from at least three bookmakers are counted. Book percentage is the sum of 1/price over the field at the close: 100% would be a market with no margin. It is shown only for a bookmaker with a closing price on every runner that started.

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Bookmaker Top price on Sole top Closing prices Book % at close
TABtouch 5 of 12 3 10 of 12 —
NextBet (formerly PlayUp) 3 of 12 2 12 of 12 118.1%
BetRight 2 of 12 1 12 of 12 113.9%
PointsBet 2 of 12 1 12 of 12 119.5%
Unibet 2 of 12 1 11 of 12 —
Ladbrokes 2 of 12 0 11 of 12 —
Neds 2 of 12 0 11 of 12 —
BetGold 1 of 12 0 12 of 12 125.2%
Betr 1 of 12 0 12 of 12 118.5%
BoostBet 1 of 12 0 12 of 12 125.6%
Palmerbet 1 of 12 0 11 of 12 —
TAB 1 of 12 0 12 of 12 117.1%
bet365 0 of 12 0 12 of 12 116.2%
BetDeluxe 0 of 12 0 12 of 12 118.2%
Sportsbet 0 of 12 0 11 of 12 —
Best price on every runner ——— 106.6%

A dash in the last column: the bookmaker did not hold a closing price on every runner that started, so its book percentage would understate. The last row takes the best closing price on each runner, from whichever bookmaker held it. BetGold and BoostBet take their prices from one source, so they usually show the same price.

Every runner at the close

Closing win price by bookmaker, in finishing order. The shaded cell is the top price for that runner (joint top shades every bookmaker at that price). A bookmaker's closing price is the last win price PuntersEdge archived for that runner, counted only when that observation fell within 300 seconds of the scheduled jump. A bookmaker with no observation that late shows a dash for the runner.

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Finish · No. · Runner Best Avg bet365BetDeluxeBetGoldBetrBetRightBoostBetLadbrokesNedsNextBetPalmerbetPointsBetSportsbetTABTABtouchUnibet Move
Won5Cosmic Crusader $10.00 $9.30 9.009.0010.009.0010.0010.009.509.509.009.008.509.0010.009.009.00 +12%
2nd6Birdman $14.00 $12.46 12.0012.0013.0012.0012.0013.0012.0012.0013.00—12.0012.0013.0014.00— 0%
3rd10Aeliana $4.40 $4.09 4.204.203.704.204.203.60——4.004.204.204.204.00—4.40 -8%
4th1Ceolwulf $9.00 $8.40 8.508.507.508.508.508.009.009.008.008.508.508.008.509.008.00 +7%
5th9Saint George $26.00 $21.60 23.0020.0021.0021.0026.0021.0020.0020.0021.0020.0023.0021.0021.0023.0023.00 +24%
6th3Sir Delius $6.00 $5.21 5.505.504.405.005.754.404.804.805.005.505.005.005.506.006.00 +9%
7th11Warwoven $5.00 $4.74 4.604.804.604.804.804.604.804.804.804.804.504.804.605.004.80 -9%
8th8Middle Earth $91.00 $85.29 81.0081.0081.0091.0081.0081.0091.0091.0091.0091.0091.0081.0081.00—81.00 -11%
9th4Attrition $71.00 $60.73 61.0061.0061.0061.0061.0061.0061.0061.0071.0061.0067.0061.0061.0051.0051.00 -14%
10th12Blind Raise $14.00 $12.14 13.0011.0012.0012.0012.0012.0012.0012.0013.0011.0012.00—12.0014.0012.00 -8%
11th2Light Infantry Man $26.00 $22.40 23.0021.0021.0023.0021.0021.0023.0023.0023.0021.0026.0021.0023.0023.0023.00 +15%
12th7Land Legend $61.00 $47.33 51.0041.0051.0041.0051.0041.0051.0051.0061.0051.0041.0046.0041.0041.0051.00 +11%

A dash in a bookmaker's column: no price observed within 300 seconds of the jump. A dash for finish: the result lists the runner as a starter without a finishing position. Move = median open-to-close change (see below).

How the market moved in the last hour

Winner

Cosmic Crusader

$8.50 → $9.00 +12%

Median of 13 bookmakers.

Biggest steamer

Attrition

$71.00 → $61.00 -14%

Finished 9th. Median of 15 bookmakers.

Biggest drifter

Saint George

$17.00 → $21.00 +24%

Finished 5th. Median of 15 bookmakers.

Opening price is the earliest archived price up to 60 minutes before the jump. A runner's move is the median, across bookmakers, of closing price divided by opening price, counting a bookmaker only when it was observed at least three times over at least 20 minutes and held a closing price, with at least three bookmakers qualifying (the /market-report rules).

How this was measured

Source
The PuntersEdge closing-line archive: every served Australian bookmaker's archived win prices for each runner, joined to the race result. Bookmaker prices only; exchange prices are not included.
The race
Ladbrokes Cox Plate, Flemington race 8, 2040 m, track GOOD (4). Scheduled jump 5:10 pm AEDT (2026-10-24T06:10:00Z). Result status: final.
Closing price
A bookmaker's closing price is the last win price PuntersEdge archived for that runner, counted only when that observation fell within 300 seconds of the scheduled jump. A bookmaker with no observation that late shows a dash for the runner. The last closing price in this race was captured at 2026-10-24T06:09:59Z.
Average and TAB
The average is the arithmetic mean of the bookmakers' closing prices for the runner; the TAB figure is TAB's own closing price.
Bookmakers
bet365, BetDeluxe, BetGold, Betr, BetRight, BoostBet, Ladbrokes, Neds, NextBet (formerly PlayUp), Palmerbet, PointsBet, Sportsbet, TAB, TABtouch, Unibet: the 15 served Australian bookmakers with a closing price in this race. BetGold and BoostBet take their prices from one source, so they usually show the same price.
Measured
7 Nov 2026 11:53 UTC, from the archive as it stood then.

Cite this

Source: PuntersEdge, puntersedge.online/reports/cox-plate-2026

Machine-readable twin: https://puntersedge.online/reports/cox-plate-2026.json (same figures, UTC and local times side by side).

The figures on this page and in its JSON twin are released under CC BY 4.0, the licence of the open dataset: reuse them, commercially too, with the credit above. The licence covers PuntersEdge's compilation; bookmaker names are trademarks of their owners, and this report is not affiliated with or endorsed by any bookmaker or racing body.

For developers

The rows behind this page come from GET /v1/racing/closing-lines?race_id=d14cf043-9bf4-4736-a75b-c0e5f4127a6a on the PuntersEdge API, and a free monthly sample of the same archive is at /datasets.

Or rebuild the margin chart from this page’s JSON twin, no key needed:

import requests

rep = requests.get("https://puntersedge.online/reports/cox-plate-2026.json").json()
for b in rep["bookmakers"]:
    prices = [ru["prices"].get(b["key"]) for ru in rep["runners"]]
    if all(prices):  # a closing price on every runner
        print(f'{b["name"]:28} {sum(1 / p for p in prices):.1%}')

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