New Southcoast Database
Version
5.2+ Software
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Improved and updated to what users really want -
We recently wrote to our clients and asked them what they would like to see in the way of changes and improvements to our popular database program. We’ve received an excellent response to this request, with 88 suggestions received in all. I’d like to thank those who took to time to respond.
Our programmer and I have now been through these responses in detail, and I’m happy to say that we can incorporate most of them into the next release of the database software, which will be known as Versions 5.21 and Versions 5.25. This will be a major Upgrade which will take a considerable amount of programming time to complete, more in fact than the original design.
We’ve prepared a summary of the proposed changes for your information. This is an outline only to help you see what we have in mind, and there may be some variations to this in the finished products, but it will be pretty close to the mark. I think when you’ve read this you’ll agree that it is a very extensive change, and the good news is that it represents the collective wishes of the clients who responded.
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Existing Features |
New
Comments System
A new comments system will be available that will allow you to
- record comments about a specific run for a particular horse, the same as today
- record comments about a race
- record general comments about a horse, not linked to a specific run
These comments can be entered, viewed and changed from a variety of different screens with the click of a mouse
New
Big Report
Includes Days since last run, Dow or week, 1st Up and 2nd Up form, Barrier
Number, Positions in Running, Today’s BN, Average Track Time Variation,
Pre-Post Market, and
Barrier Trials (optional – refer later).
Barrier
Trials
A facility will be introduced which will allow you to include Barrier Trials
in the previous form of the horse. For this to work, you’ll need to subscribe
to our’Barrier Trial download service. All such data downloaded
from will be kept on your computer and made available to the Previous
Runs screen, new Big Report, etc. Barrier Trials will not be used however
to compute KwikPik ratings.
RateMaker
– Optional User Rating System
We’re developing a new rating system that puts YOU in control. Under
this system, you can assign the values you think are appropriate to such variables
as class, age, sex, day of week, metropolitan vs country, prize money, etc,
and build up your own class rating system, which can be used as an alternate
to the Southcoast ratings that come automatically when you run the Updates.
Supertune
The popular Supertune program from the old DOS version of the database programme,
will be updated and included in the Windows version for the first time, giving
you he opportunity to manually change certain data such as weight ratings
for a particular run which you feel deserves a different rating to the standard
calculated value.
KwikPik
“Previous”
Calculate KwikPik ratings AFTER the race has been won, and compare the actual
results with the KwikPik calculations.
Pre-Post
Market
The daily files will soon contain Pre-Post Market prices for most races.
Edit
the Horse Name in FLX files
Occasionally a horse name will be changed and the change slip through our
extensive error trapping systems designed to pick up such changes. A facility
will be added so that you can manually edit the FLX file yourself if you find
one of these, and re-run KwikPik with the new horse name.
Betting
Fluctuations
Betting fluctuations will be included in the updates for all meetings where available
Kwik
Breeding
Enter a horse name, and the system will search the database for all horses
which have been sired or dammed from this horse, and summarise the performance
results of the offspring.
Jockey
Statistics On The Fly
Jockey statistics will be available on the fly from various screens, based
on your choice of number or rides or period of time.
Jockey
Rating System
We’ve developing a system which will allow you to create and maintain
a system of bonuses for jockeys, and feed these bonus values automatically
into the KwikPik calculations.
Graph
a Horse’s Previous Form
Click on a button from the Previous Runs screen, and a window displaying the
previous form of the horse in graphic form will pop up.
Function
Keys
Function keys will be assigned to some of the more frequently used functions
as a quick alternative to the mouse.
Print
Jockey Tables
You’ll now be able to print off the results of your Jockey Table queries.
User
Defined Age Improvement Scale
Don’t agree with the standard age improvement scale? Then create your
own and use that in all the KwikPik calculations.
Trainer
Program
Now you’ll be able to view Trainer statistics just like you can for Jockeys.
We’ll track back through the last few years data and update your system
to show the trainer’s name for each horse in every race, and this data
will be used for you to query and sort.
Chart
Report
The Chart Report will be extended to include Barrier Numbers.
KwikPik
Changes
· select your own base run (manual option only)
· show last 4 ratings for each horse
· extra Stat calculations including 1st and 2nd up, plus Win and Place % for last 12 months for currently calculated items such as Track, Distance, Career, etc. – many of these will appear as columns on the Field screen, in the Stats window, and also on the top of the Previous Runs screen
· link to MS Word so that you can capture the image of the computer screen and print it out
· add some extra columns in Fields screen, which you can size and move to suit your needs before printing screen as above – useful for making notes on your printout when you’re at the track
· the stable that the horse currently trains on will be shown on the Fields screen
· sort the Barrier Numbers each way
· a new column to show the calculation of the rating required for each horse to win today’s race
· change the system so you can set the Track Condition for today’s races for the whole meeting instead of each race
· show Today’s race class figure on Field screen
· show WON margin as a negative beaten margin value
· add extra columns for columns for Wides, Checks, Starts so you can enter values for these occurrences
· add extra columns to allow you to comment upon Bias and Pace
· show prize money earned at top of Previous Runs screen
· emergency runners will appear Scratched by default, which you can change if any of these horses are used.
· we will identify Night meetings (eg MV,MVN) and Inner track (eg RAND,RWIT)
· you can set the criteria for API (average prize money) calculation, by setting such parameters as number of starts, period, distance, etc
· Subsequent runs will now be summarised in the column heading, if you have selected this option from the Configuration Options screen
· Set your own number of days for Spells and Letups when they are displayed on the Previous Runs screen (does not affect Auto calculation of KwikPik ratings)
· the Fields and Races fields will display the class figure for Today’s race
Fully integrated system of disseminating between Australian and New Zealand
horses with the same name - no duplicate horses with wrong breeding etc
Data fully error corrected to the .05 level using a host of our own checks and normalisations after we get it from our data source, before you update it. Eg you can carry out the most extensive jockey queries with confidence, knowing the jockey isn't spelt six different ways in the database. The pre-race jockeys also match the past data in the database.
Fully automatic updating procedure after download
Rate races retrospectively - drill down into the form with unlimited amount of cross checks between form lines. See how many winners came out of each race
Download via our bulletin boards in the office or over the internet
All positions in running for city meets, including provincials and more obscure TAB meets such as Bathurst, Wellington, Sunshine Coast, Port Lincoln etc
Database now in excess of 3.2 million records…..the biggest of its' kind available to our knowledge.
On line programmer available to talk to you about customisations.
Superior querymaker program allows you to enter in a host of variables and "and or" statements to carry out the most elaborate queries of the past data.
Make up your own form guides and chart reports for any race or meeting.
Enter your own comments and keep your own list of "black bookers", and be alerted when the ones you have flagged next race.
All fields and jockeys supplied pre-race, including New Zealand fields and jockeys.
Data sits in .DBF format
enabling easy export to Excel, Access etc. You can use our lightning fast
indexes or open the databases according to your own.
View Details and Samples of the Latest Version of the Southcoast Database
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