Becareful,

I encourage you to develop your program further. I am certainly interested in such a program. Like others, I'm working with pen and paper, race by race. Personally, I'd be happy with a database of, say, 1000 past race results with which to test selection ideas. If the TAB owns coipyright on their data, there are obvious legal problems.

So much of racing is about the control of information. I was subscribing to a coimmewrcial selection package. It was based on three simple factors and produced great results. It was all readily available data, but buried in the racing pages. I was paying for someone else to collect it, time being the crucial thing.

I gather that the TAB (with all their number crunching power and research) knows very well that some data is more relevant than others in tipping winners - but they're not about to codify the relevant data on their website. Instead, the TAB website offers low-grade, general data.

Information is big business in this game. If you could market it somehow, becareful, I'm sure punters would go for it.

Hermes