Hi Folks,
I'm only a recent recruit but I've had a lot of pleasure from reading the threads on these forums and would like to make a contribution.
I have an idea for a system for trifecta betting which I would like to test out over several months of Saturday racing. The trouble is I have to enter all the data for sometimes 16 - 18 horses for 6 or 7 races per meeting for four meetings per weekend all in longhand as it were into Excel. After entering just a few weeks of data I'm starting to go cross eyed. Does anybody out there have an easier way to get this data from a database to Excel to test my theories? Obviously if every member of the forum were to have access to the system(should it prove to be any good) the tri divi would disappear through the floor, so I would rather restrict distribution of my idea for this system to just one or two, preferably one.
I would like to stress that this system was not created by fitting results into a pattern and then trying to repeat them as most of my previous inglorious failures have been. Rather, I had an idea, created a system based on that idea and tested it.
So far in the 8 weeks that I've looked back at it has found:
13/11/04 Bris R3 $14732 for $60,
18/09/04 Syd R8 $11147 for $60
plus several smaller divs ranging from a few dollars to a a couple of grand but to be honest, an awful lot of races where I didn't even get a placed horse.

If anyone can help I'd be pleased to hear.
Cheers