Are Don Scotts' class figures still relevent for this eras racing even after 25 years since last published , and is there anyone still using his figures instead of the ones put out by VRC or AJC ( i dont know if AJC have finished there updated figures yet !) , I would be interested to know if there any other class rating figures around or formulas to arrive at a class fig . Can anybody enlighten me on this .

Regards ,
Ingust

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Why would you want to invent the wheel when there are now class figures available both from Racing Victoria, Racing NSW & the WATC that are an excellent base from where to start. These class ratings are provided and updated by professional handicappers and are as good as they get.

Hi, La Mer,

Would you be abel to point me and others that are interested toward the source of this information?
By that I mean where I could get these ratings?

Thank you
Michal

Go to: http://www.racingvictoria.net.au/in...d=114&Itemid=16

and:

http://www.racingnsw.com.au/page.asp?parm=han.main

or:

http://www.waturf.org.au/html/racing/race_news.asp

look for rating based handicapping & the various policy documents which are similar but different according to local racing conditions.

Either one is a very good base to formulate personal ratings.

I think La Mer misunderstood your question ['where could I get these ratings'?]. You won't get 'ratings' from any of those sites.

A good class guide is prize money contested [in most cases]. A horse that has won a $40k race is useually a better horse than one who's best effort is a $20k race etc. For the average punter who doesn't realize that a horse winning a C3 dosn't nessasarily mean that it is a classer horse than one that has only won a C1, as that would depend on where those races where won. Recent race prizemoney contested and won [in a race I mean, not a horses whole carreer] is always a pretty good class guide. Class ratings in Aust. are a massive road accident. 'Average earnings' arn't a bad class guide either.

Crash, you might be right I may have misunderstood, but in fact, as well as the handicapping policies & class tables, the actual handicappers ratings are available from all these sites.

La Mer,

Thank you, I have found what I needed.

Michal

Thanks to everyone who took interest in the topic , i still havent found what iam after , which is a shortcut to the class figure , i have looked at the VRC figs which i suppose i will use , must be getting lazy in my old age , i like everything easy ,

Regard good punting to you all

Ingust

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Hi ingust,

Scotts ratings have been updated to current race classes
in his "Winning in the 90's". I just go a copy from a second hand book store. I suppose they are the latest update on a system that will never be updated again.

Michal

thank you for your interest Michal , i have a copy of that book , But is anyone still using these figures with success ?

Regards
Ingust

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