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Don Scott Questions

Hi Guys

Just a quick couple of questions if I may:

* Just wondering that like neurals, do the DS ratings change from time to time?
* Do they change once final scratching are announced?

*What "filters" have you found to be beneficial once applied to the DS rating?

....after 5 years with neurals, I've found something else to occupy my time with :D

Thanks very much in advance

Hi Stix,

scratchings do change his prices but I can't be certain if this is done immediately. However, if a scratching is still shown as a runner in his market, one can manually load that scratching(s) on the worksheet by clicking-on to the Dinc column (right hand side of the screen) for any horse. This will immediately remove the horse(s) from his market and recalculate an updated price for all remaining horses.

I think the most important filter/factor in his market is that horses resuming from a spell can generally be heavily penalised.

Good luck with it.

Thanks Michael.

Anyone have an easy way to save your customised form guide to excel?

Right clicking the page to export to excel doesnt work

I get an error: "Web query returned no data. To change the query, click Ok, click the arrow....."

Thanks guys, much appreciated.

Stix,
here is a way of downloading to excel:

1. right click on the window and select "Select All"
2. Copy & paste to Excel
3. Save the file in ".CSV" format
4. Open the ".CSV" file with Excel & you get this (Ballarat Race 1)

Quote:

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8


Ballarat 27 October
Race 1	Ballarat Bakery Mdn Plate
13:00 (local)	Age:3yo+ WT:SW Cls:Maiden API:0.32	$15,000
13:00		1000m
	Race Record: 0:57.57 Anquetil 18/02/2010 RST62 SOT:G	SLOW 6
INC	TAB	HORSE	JOCKEY \| TRAINER	WT	NR	HCP	PR	BP
	1	Blatherskite	Michael Walker	58.0	82.0		$11.00	1
	2	Happy Moments	Ashley Thompson	58.0	90.5		$8.50	8
	3	Meet Me Halfway	Lisa Cropp	58.0	53.5		$26.00	6
	4	Quick Shakes	Stephen Vella	58.0	60.0		$19.00	5
	5	Tarcoola Sunshine	Lincoln Coffey	56.0	54.5		$26.00	2
	6	Cape Canaveral	Mark Zahra	55.5	147.5		$4.60	3
	7	Instant Camera	Ben Melham	55.5	82.0		$11.00	7
	8	Flash Of Doubt	Ivan Culliver	53.5	283.5		$2.05	4
[Set Preference Scaling]

TAB	HORSE	NR	HCP	CP	CF	TIM	JA	TA	JT	BP	WET	CRS	D	$	DLR
8	Flash Of Doubt	283.5		18	81	85	5	8	10	13	0	14	14	18	18
6	Cape Canaveral	147.5		50	0	1	8	25	10	11	0	25	15	2	1
2	Happy Moments	90.5		1	0	1	18	3	8	13	0	14	14	3	17
1	Blatherskite	82.0		3	5	1	8	3	10	14	0	10	14	1	14
7	Instant Camera	82.0		0	0	0	8	25	8	13	0	14	14	1	0
4	Quick Shakes	60.0		0	0	0	8	5	8	11	0	14	14	1	0
5	Tarcoola Sunshine	54.5		7	0	1	3	3	3	13	0	9	14	2	1
3	Meet Me Halfway	53.5		1	0	1	3	3	3	13	0	14	14	2	1
The numbers shown in each individual column are integer value of actual number. Them may not add up to the exact NR value.

You can then extract what you require (copy /paste) and save as in excel format.

A bit fiddly - but easy to do (the data can be downloaded automatically if you have the programming skills)

cheers

cheers

Thanks Elk, much appreciated. I've been doing that, it's OK,, but I'd love a friendly member to help out.....Shaun please? :D

I might post the manual Selections here and see if I can "WIN" some interest: :p

Canterbury R1-1 Golden Feima
Canterbury R5-2 Midnight At Ascot
Ipswich R3-1 Castle Express
Ipswich R7-1 All Taken
Moonee Valley R3-2 Reuben Percival
Moonee Valley R4-1 Definitely Ready
Moonee Valley R6-4 Beallantina
Northam R5-1 Doutable
Northam R7-5 Digital Blackout
Stawell R6-4 Sirius About You

Watch it fall over... :cool:

OK, have found the following to be helpfull when using the DS ratings:
* no Dead tracks
* no Apprentices
* no Metro
* >=55kg
* no Mares

These appear to be your "usual suspects" when assessing races, but seem to be effective.

Anyone else like to share their findings would be appreciated, or dorp me a line at stix_hotcopper @ aanet com au

Cheers

Often find talking to myself helps too....... :o

Stix,

I do read these. I just haven't had time to folow these angles up.

Stix
Your writings do not fall in front of blind eyes. Some of us do not have anything worthy of contribution. Given time we may but in the interim it would be insulting to put something into the mix for just to be heard. I was always taught if you cannot constructively contribute then shut up. But when you are after a response and don't get one, then it bites.