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Up at the crack of dawn (ouch!)
PERILS OF THE VIDEO WATCHER
Phil Purser edits the Just Racing website (www.justracing.com.au) which contains a number of sections on various aspects of racing, including an excellent ratings guide to finding potential wet-track winners.Videos are like sectional times…they have to be interpreted by a person with an eye for a horse.
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Use the camera chart to spot those elusive winners
STRIPS FOR ACTION
All involved in that never-ending war against 'the percentages' are constantly looking for the fresh angle. The angle that might turn the tide. This magazine, in fact, devotes much research time to endeavouring to discover new angles.
As most of you know, I am a video watcher and an addict of formguide 'camera charts', those turn-and-finish strip photos published in the Sportsman, Sporting Globe and some daily and weekend newspapers. I've been doing it for a long time and yet I am still not convinced that I've tracked down every angle!
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Michael Kemp looks at photoform
TURN THE CORNER!
It's easy these days to convince yourself that by looking at video replays and turn-and-finish photoform you can, suddenly, transform yourself into a winning punter. Oh that it were that easy!To win at the races, as most P.P.M. readers will know (!), is a hard and rocky path. What succeeds one week will fail the next. And vice-versa. There are no clear-cut ways to take the cream off the cake.
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Video winners
FORM YOUR OWN GUIDE (Part 2)
For as long as Mark Shean can remember, he has been going to the races. His grandfather was the great jockey Fred Shean while Mark's father Jim also rode with success.
As an eight-year-old, Mark Shean can recall he used marbles as substitutes for horses to call races. "I always wanted to be a race-caller," he said.
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Glenn Robbins interviews video racing expert Mark Shean
WINNER VIDEO! (Part 1)
As a racing enthusiast, they don't come any keener or more qualified than Mark Shean. After all, the 32-year-old is grandson of the former great jockey Fred Shean, who, rode the 1938 Caulfield Melbourne winner Catalogue in the great double.
With that type of blueblood pedigree, Mark was always destined to become tangled in the sport of kings. These days his first love-race calling-takes a lonesome back seat because of lack of opportunities as only one Sydney radio station gives a fulltime TAB service.
