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Howdy,

I've been reading this forum for a while and playing around with various systems and just wanted to get some info and share some things with you all. (Try and stick with me, this post is a little long)

Firstly, I'm a programmer by trade and I've written code that has sucked down 3 years worth of horse racing data for all races covered by TABOnline. This gives me information such as Horse, Jockey, Win Odds, Place Odds, Barrier, Weight, Rating, Last three starts and Form (D, W, T, C etc).

I've also now written code that will automatically place bets for me. The code works by scanning the daily TABOnline web page and when a race gets close to starting (less than 2 minutes) this race is then monitored. There are settings I can use to determine how long to wait (in seconds) after the race goes to 0 TO GO before I put the bet on. The program then checks the rules that I have (explained below) and if any horses satisfy the rules it places the bet (using the Netbet Pro software which allows for this kind of thing).

The Rules will accept the following parameters:

Win Odds Range
Place Odds Range
Horses in Race Range
Barrier Range
Rating Range
Weight Advantage Range
Favourite Order Range
Last Start
Favourite Win Odds Range
Bet Size

For example, if I have a rule where I want to bet on Horses paying more than $5 to win for races with 8-12 horses only if the horse is in Barriers 1-4 and the favourite is paying less than $3 than I can easily do this using the parameters. These rules are stored in an Access database so can be easily changed, added, disabled, etc. and all bets placed are also stored in the database so that I have a full history of bets made and can monitor how I'm going. The software will also check any bets placed and update the database with final odds and whether the bet won or not.

The code also automatically logs on to NetBet Pro which I find handy as TABOnline usually doesn't let you log on at 7am which is when I go to work. This way, I just start my program running and it logs on at it's own convenience.

Is this kind of software freely available? Being relatively new to this whole thing I'm not sure what software options exist to help people in placing bets.

The second reason I'm posting is that I'm looking for some systems to load into my software but I don't plan on being a complete leech. My idea was to trade the software for some useful rules if anybody is interested.

I'm more than happy to provide more details of what the software does if anybody is interested. Simply e-mail me and we can discuss further. I'm also more than happy to look at expanding the software if people are interested (such as adding more parameters, etc).

Looking forward to a response.