Mark Read offers a service to the Hotels of his top chances with a price ,so as to bet the overs or bet the quinellas, one can have this service phone texted to them if required ,for a fee, he stated some time ago in one of his mail outs that Uni TAB commission his Wt. Rating service .

Anyway , who cares who supplied what , it is of use to someone or it`s not & it`s free.
Would it make any difference to anyone as to who supplied what.
Inracing have a similar service as does Wizard racing form guide as do a number of other services.

Mark Read is not just a bookmaker , he is considered one of the more progressive operators around.
He was the first to have a designated Hotel purely for betting on horses.With live vision from the track, before Fox was heard of.
He was one of the first to have online betting.
He set up in Darwin so as to get around the strange betting regulations in NSW. They saw something wrong with him using a mobile phone on course
He was the first to offer laying the Fav.
He was the first to offer best price fluctuations.
He was one of the first to use computers on course.
He was one of the first to display price aswell as odds on his boards.

He was the first bookie to supply legitament ratings information & the other Bookies thought he was crazy for doing that for Punters.
He saw nothing wrong about that because his book is set regardless of the outcome which is what real Bookies supposed to do.

I could go on.

Yes , it might appear unusual for a Bookie to do other things beside bookmaking to the average people .
But Mark Read is no average thinking chap , he is one of those types who tries to think outside the square.

He is not just "very good at sums and stuff."

Look at the DFS ratings as per NSW TAB , they pay for that service from an outside supplier .

The prices in the pre-post market as shown in the newspaper come from an outside bookmaker or service, not the newspaper people themselves.

Cheers.

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Cheers.