Data suppliers?

[MrChameleon]

Hi all

I want to study +- 3 years of historical metropolitan race data (prices, weights, margins etc).

Can anyone advise me how to get such data effectively (and as cheaply as possible)?

Thanks

Mr Chameleon

[Equine Investor]

The only reliable one I know of is http://www.aapracing.com.au
I don't know what they charge, sorry.

Oop, sorry, they charge $434.00 for one year and you can get info like the Sportsman on individual horses only...will keep searching

STANDBY....

Try this it is FREE http://www.matouka.com I think they give past results.
Let me know if it was what you're looking for.
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[MrChameleon]

Thanks for the prompt reply, EI.

The AAP data looks good, but is quite expensive.

I came across "South Coast Database" in a search. Have you heard of them?

What do you professionals do about data collection and collation?

Thanks

MC

[becareful]

MC,

Tabcorp (www.tabracing.com.au) and QLD TAB (www.tabonline.com.au) both have their results for last few years freely available (back to 1997 or 1998 I think from memory) which includes barrier, weight, final approximate win/place div and results. Unfortunately they don't have margins, times, etc but it could be a good starting point. NSW TAB only has the results but you can buy a CD containing the full approximates, etc for each year for around $9 I think - last time I checked they only had up to end of 2000 so I don't know whether 2001 is available yet.

I actually wrote a program to download all the results from the TABCORP and Qld websites and purchased the 2000 CD from NSW to get some dividend history (I am a computer programmer by trade). My program now downloads all the data from these websites live each day so that I can get additional info that the TABs do not provide in their history files. This is supplemented by my own manual research from newspapers, websites, etc.

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[Equine Investor]

Any chance of getting a copy of that program?

....or is that pressing a friendship a bit far?
:grin:

[MrChameleon]

Thanks BC

Could you point me towards the link where I might buy the NSW tab CD? I've wandered around nswtab.com.au but haven't come across it.

Thanks

MC

Tabcorp is good.

Where could you obtain pre-race form - like in the newspaper???
Good having the results, but one needs pre-race form to help identify factors that the winners had in common.

I could do individual searches on ozeform - but that would take forever.

[becareful]

MC,
The CD's are 8.80 each for account customers and are available for 1995-2000. The details on the CD are at:

http://www.racetab.com.au/promos/CDPromo/CDRomPromo.asp

EI: Hmm - not at the moment! Currently that program has all my selection logic in it and some other stuff that I don't want to give away. If I get good enough at this investing to give up my other job then I might have the time to split out the data collection/statistics from my selection stuff and then we can talk :smile: Also the database file is now about 300MB so it is a bit big to email around!

[MrChameleon]

Thanks for your help, EI and BC

I'll check out the alternatives and report back to this forum.

MC