The Informant

The Informant - now online at www.theinformant.co.nz

It’s been something our readers have been calling for, and now we’re delivering!

Thoroughbred Publications is pleased to announce the launch of The Informant Online, a comprehensive racing and breeding website that offers readers a free daily news service, an in-depth punting service run by respected form analyst Garry Cossey, and of course, the full content from each week’s issue of The Informant newspaper available by subscription.

The website has been designed to broaden the current reader base of The Informant. The free daily news service and paid content from the weekly newspaper will satisfy the increasing demand for the paper from overseas while also catering for those in New Zealand more attuned to reading news and studying racing online. The website’s punting service is also an exciting new addition and should be closely followed by keen punters.

Heading the punting section will be highly regarded form analyst Garry Cossey - assisted by fellow analyst Mike Brown - who will be offering subscribers a brief preview of every New Zealand race meeting, plus his Best Bets for each meeting. Garry’s role will be to simply identify winners on raceday, and whether he’s selected half a dozen Best Bets for the meeting, or just the one, you can be assured many hours of research and analysis will be going in each week to make his selections. He’ll be doing the study you don’t have time to do!

In addition to selections, Garry will also be running a «late mail» service on the website, which will give up to the minute information on raceday for subscribers. Whether it’s some info he’s heard from a jockey, or a horse he’s noticed sweating up in the birdcage, the late mail service will be a welcome addition to the punter’s arsenal.

Trackwork summarys, raceday trainer comments and Jockey Challenge previews will all be part of the subscriber punting service available from just $4.50 per week, or from $2.00 per week for current subscribers to the newspaper.

The overall design of the website is very simple and easy to navigate, something we thought was important with our broad range of readers. The website has been designed using Responsive Design, meaning the website will rescale to whatever screen size you are viewing it on, whether it’s a desktop computer, iPad or Smartphone. The way in which the website scales down to fit any smart phone is something we’re particularly proud of, no apps need to be downloaded, just bring up the website on the internet on your phone and save the site to your homepage - the website recognises the screen size of your phone and scales automatically.

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