Hi Raven and thanks for your comments, gives me something more to think about. Over the last 4 or so years I followed sectional times very closely (sydney and melbourne). Looked at the tempo of the race etc but towards the end of last year the TVN site where I obtained them from kept letting me down.

I doubt it was TVN's fault, more due to the equipment at the track just not working and needing a repair. So from late 2010 I kind of forgot about them, not sure how the equipment is now functioning.

Just quickly, speaking of TVN, I've now cancelled my austar connection, dont have paytv at all, and went with the Telstra T Box bundle package. I now get TVN streamed via my phone line along with 6 other bigpond channels, amazing..!! If you just want sydney and melbourne racing that is. No big austar payments every month anymore.

I'll continue to play with these speed ratings, see how it all goes,

Regards, Paul