Swooper (Gary),

First off you will need to be a competent programmer. I use VB.NET, but I am sure you could get by on other languages. The sales and, where necessary, the technical staff at WA TAB were extremely helpful in providing some basic programming routines for fetching data and posting bets.

Basically to fetch detail, look at the screens in their web site and where there is a download prompt, press it and note the http address of the output screen. This gives the address which you have to embed in your program. You can pretty easily identify the bits you must substitute (Date, Meet, Race) indeed you can try it out manually first.

You then have to deconstruct the text output which is very straightforward do your calculations and post your bet.

The bet has to be wrapped in their expected proforma transmission. Again not hard.

I make one call at the start of day to fetch all races which I hold in an Access table. I read the table in time order and as the race becomes due I check previous bets, do my calcs and place the current bet.

I would be happy to provide the 'bits' needed to write your program but be aware it may take some effort on your part. My email address appears earlier in this thread; if you want more detail contact me there.