Read Rating
What is Read Rating?
Read Rating is a detailed form analysis service developed by Australia’s foremost bookmaker and punter, Mark Read.
Read Rating combines the very latest technology, sophisticated communications software and an elite stable of leading racing analysts.
So remember, when you see the information on the Blue Screen at your favourite Read Rating venue that you are benefiting from years of racing acumen!
Read Rating offers you the three most valuable punting requirements in today’s market – it’s live, can be seen on-screen and it is relayed in a concise, bottom line, easy to follow format.
Success Stories
Sporting Life - The Age November 2001
It’s become a bit of a trait of ours, having a gentle dig at the so-called racing “experts” for their seemingly combined inability to come up trumps when it really matters, and that’s tip us the Melbourne Cup. Alas, begrudgingly, we have to concede this year that three members of the Melbourne daily press, among them The Age’s Shelley Hancox, tipped Ethereal on top, Shelley even picking the eventual third placegetter Persian Punch in her trifecta.
But as far as “experts” go, we reckon Darwin-based bookmaker Mark Read deserves a special mention today because on his website ozeform.com, and his distributed newsletter Read’s Ratings, he not only tipped the winner but chillingly forecast the minor placings would be between two of the three United Kingdom Imports, Persian Punch, Give The Slip (which ran second) and Marienbard (which wasn’t far behind in seventh spot).
Mind you, it’s no good having all this information if you don’t actually go out and make some money out of it – and that’s where the good folk at, and frequent, the Caloundra RSL in Queensland come in. In the lead-up to the cup these self-confessed fans of Read’s racing service had a $10 whiparound and used most of their pool of $5200 to combine the four horses in a cup trifecta and ended up striking it 21 times for a total collect of $130,800. “Yeah, and we almost won another $300,000 on the First Four (a Queensland-only service),” the club’s marketing manager, Jim Darcy, said yesterday. “We had first to seventh correct, except the fourth, so just missed out on having an enormous day. But we’re still very happy. Mark Read is much respected up this way. This cup result will make him even more so.”