[QUOTE=go4it]You can access all that info about leaders,on pace runners and backmarkers thru the Sportsman much cheaper than subscrining to any kind of rating service.
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Yes, the sportsman will give you that info for Sat. runners and Wed. runners too [if it still sells a mid-week paper]. Not all meetings are covered and the cost is greater than a decent form service and you have to get on ya bike and go and buy the damn thing and end up with pages all over the place doing the form.

The Sportsman doesn't cover every meeting in Aust [and NZ] 7 days a week, nor supply adjusted times for the last 10 starts and a lot of other missing info. like live 3 tab odds at the click of a mouse and a heap of other things. It's a terrible waste of trees too!