8th April 2010, 06:57 PM
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Yep, way too much.
This has been a bugbear of mine for many years and it's only getting worse.
It is (almost) becoming impossible to maintain the error filled data.
Almost 60 tracks with multiple track codes, jockey claims not appearing, jockey names random:
Can be ...
John Bell
J Bell
John R Bell
J R Bell
Only if there's a Justin Bell, you've got go go right through the bleeding lot to make sure J Bell is John or Justin etc etc etc.
Then you 've got D Miller Jr. and D Miller Snr.
Surely it's simple to put R S Dye, J R Bell.
My proposal is simply to associate jockeys, trainers, horses, tracks, track condition and race class a simple code, so that there can never be two of the same entities clashing or confusing.
The power that be do not care at all about this, they want the printouts generated and in the TABs and Racebooks regardless of errors.
They want bums on seats and sponsorship.
We've had the Fosters Melbourne Cup, the Emirates Melbourne Cup, the Toohey's Melbourne Cup, I can live with that, but next it will be the Toyota Cup, and all prestige and heritage will mean little and be lost in the quagmire of confusion.
Such a pity.
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