I see UniTAB has a new site.
However, it now seems I can only view results from this year.
That is a shame, was the best site out there for back testing.

edit: looking at it more, its terrible for back testing. You cant just flick through a race card like you used to be able, need to go back and forward on your browser to select the next race.

Boo UniTAB, give me back the old site!

It has some nice features, adjusting to your local time is nice, expanding just the race code you want.

Maybe they are still updating the results pages and yes i would like to see the old race selection at the bottom.

Also the tips are normally on the page by this time

Hi Thorns,
I have emailed the webmaster and offered some feedback, including your reservations on the new site.
I don't expect it to have any effect but I thought they should know we are not overly impressed. Made me feel better anyway.
Gnarkley

I agree with all the above.
Also I find Web Queries are now much more difficult to use than the old site.

For actual betting, it does look alot nicer and is probably a better design.
I just (used to) like there site for backtesting, and playing with there 100 raters.

Was the XML feed there before? That's a nice feature with lot's of uses for developers. Thank you UniTAB

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Pixie

"It's worth remembering that profit isn't profit until it's spent off the racecourse." -- Crash

I might have to learn how to use this XML feature.

I also emailed them asking for a race number selector at the bottom when viewing previous dates racing like they used to have. If they add that, and some previous years results like they used to have, I will be a happy camper once more.

The first thing that came to mind was how much easier it'll be to automatically update the start time in your Betfair bot to cater for rescheduled races.

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Pixie

"It's worth remembering that profit isn't profit until it's spent off the racecourse." -- Crash

Is the XML feed something you can use to grab all the results and fields off the site, to use in creating a database of sorts?

Yes looks like you can grab fields, UniTAB ratings, tipsters, scratchings, riders, weather and track conditions, pool sizes etc. Results maybe too I guess.

http://unitab.com/data/racing/2010/2/1/VR2.xml

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"It's worth remembering that profit isn't profit until it's spent off the racecourse." -- Crash