OZ PUNTER.
Thank you for your kind comments.
I guess there are many ways to skin a cat in this game.

LA MER.
I am from the "old school".Nothing like being out there mixing with paupers and kings/elbowing old priests out of the way to get a bet on /snipping a better price here and there.
Ah.The excitement of it all.

Cheers.
darky.

You ARE obviously from the 'old school' Darky, a dying breed indeed. I used to attend every Saturday metro meeting and a good deal of the midweekers as well, but those days are long gone and not likely to return. I've only been to the track on maybe three or four occasions this year and probably won't go again until the spring.

There is not much to attract the punter to the track anymore, costs of entry, racebooks and food/drink have risen, the bookies bet to too large an overround and the attraction of staying home any playing off the corporate bookies against Betfair is far greater.

I'm sitting here now in my lounge room watching the races on TVN and was amused by the comments of Andre Kassay who is the form guru covering the meeting @ Geelong. He mentioned that the bookies were betting to a 170% overround and I thought that's why I don't go to the track anymore.

Best of luck and watch out for the little old lady with the brolly.

LA MER.
The little old ladies with Brollies are still out there and still not afraid to use them either, priests still hog the betting ring/touts are missing prefering I think to use the internet these days/dreamers are still there marking down TAB prices looking for the holy grail.
Gees.Nothing has changed really for 40 years except the crowds getting smaller and smaller.
I dread the day when the racetracks will become like NZ.
You could fire a shotty on there tracks and not hit a soul.
Cheers.
darky.

******************** have now added ratings to their horse history section. It looks very good. Don't know if it's in response to Ozeform dropping theirs, but that has to be a possibility.

Yep the ******************** ratings are launched now. Remember I told everyone that ******************** consider them the best ratings in the country? Well, you can now test them out. Sportz the Ozeform ratings being gone is just a happy (for ********************) co-incidence.

And they've added the ratings to more than just their horse history section. It's also in every formguide, and in every race search (ie you bring up any past race, all their ratings are there too).

Do the form using them tomorrow, then why don't we start a discussion about how they were.

Found out it's only a free trial until the start of August.

Don't get me wrong here guys,have found this thread interesting reading compared to some of the other stuff,but I must admit to being somewhat bemused that management have not knocked it on the head before now.Isn't it part of forum terms of use not to advertise or promote any other service on here???And as far as ratings go,the ratings on this site have been very good to me over the past 4 years,and yes,they are free!!Now that I've said that,they will disappear!!

LOL. The EF ratings service isn't in comp with this site though. And yep, the ratings on this site are great, to be honest. In order to come up with ratings though, you need ratings, if you follow me!