Puntz,
Besides Aunt Nelly and her bowling club betting on a runner with a nice name I often wonder if some race prices are not partially computer driven.

There are just so many programs around these days that work by selecting shorteners. So you get the effect of one computer program with multiple users selecting a shortener which starts the betting roll and all other computer programs lock onto it through the drop in the TAB price.

It is a problem I believe that they had at one time with programs monitoring stock exchange prices.

Kenchar,
Thanks for your response.

It's horses for courses I suppose. Some people get along well without need of a computer program, others find it useful in their style of betting.

The bottom line for anyone that is going to buy a program: look around on the net, certainly don't pay thousands of dollars and make sure you don't get fleeced.