Agree with you crash, however I was intending to run some test cases through SPSS and see what correlation barriers with particular conditions effect the finishing place and speed of the winner. If the correlation isnt strong for any of my test conditions then i'll throw it away but ive got a feeling that it does have a slight correlation, enough to at least consider.

(for example: One test case could be Caulfield 1400m on good going - in my database that gives me a sample size of ~1500 separate events.)