OK now I get how to link them properly.

You see I already have a DB where I have been putting all the race data for quite a while now, the Horse DB is the one I have been needing, basically as we said for general comments re a horse etc.

This is my query - what if now when my query in Excel queries the two tables, one horse is not yet contained in the new Horse DB? Example tomorrow's race Alinghi is of course in my race DB but I have just designed the Horse one and there is as yet no info.

Won't this mean it will return no info for Alinghi at all?