Irish Racing, Declarations and Results

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Within Proform, Irish results are in the database back to January 1st 2009 

There are a few differences within Irish Racing when compared to UK Racing, as follows :-

Euro's

Firstly Irish race prize money is in Euro's, so on the racecard and results headers in dataview you will see the Euro symbol, see screen image below.

Class of Irish Races
Secondly, there is no equivalent class numbering system for Irish Races other than for class 1 races, so we have created the classes for all Irish races based on the type of race it is and the prize money of the race when compared to similar races in the UK.

The calculation is fairly straight-forward and takes account of the difference between Euro's and Pounds Sterling and also takes account of the Official Rating ranges in handicaps.

The calculated classes give us an equivalent class system to UK races and allow us to create speed ratings etc


Ratings for Irish Races
Although the Irish races start on January 1st 2009 most of the ratings for Irish races do not start until much later, here are the dates for ratings within Irish Racing.

The following ratings all start from the Dundalk meeting on 28th October 2010, 
Main, 
Stats, 
Main+Stats, 
Tissue, 
PFR, 
Stats Trn, 
Stats Jky, 
Stats Trn/Jky, 
Stats Horse, 
PRC Avg, 
PRC1, 
PRC2 and 
PRC3 Ratings.


The following ratings all start from the beginning of Irish Racing in the database on 1st January 2009, 
Speed, 
Pace and 
Official Ratings.

Non Runner and Going Updates

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The non-runner tool allows you to manually or automatically remove non-runners and make going changes as they happen.

Previously this feature was a separate application but in this software release we have now re-integrated this tool back into the software. 

You can access the non-runner tool from the options menu

When the tool starts it looks like this

To manually remove a horse(s), select the date, meeting and race from the drop down menu, then tick the check box next to the horses name then select “Remove Selected Non-Runners” button.

You can set up the non-runner tool to auto update every 5 minutes via the “Auto Mode” check box. Selection this box will remove non-runners and change the going automatically.

If you don’t want the tool to manage going updates and non-runners for you, you can close the non-runner tool or untick the auto box and it will then only remove runners when the “Auto Mode” box is checked.

You can change the behaviour of the window by selecting the “Stay on Top” checkmark in the bottom right corner. 

Notifications

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In this release we have added a notifications feature:

  • When the results are available for download into the software.
  • For non-runners and offical going changes.
  • When the 24/48 hour declarations are available for download.
  • When the race guides are available on our web site.
  • When the power ratings are available for download into the software.

Every minute Proform checks for any new notifications which are displayed in the box with the most recent at the top and they are timestamped per the example below: 

You can click on the yellow or green status lines to open the notification screen or you can also open this screen from a new feature button from the main menu or from the menus on the left.

When opened, the notifications screen looks like this:

The window defaults to “Stay On Top” which you can alter when you open Proform however your choices are not saved so you will need to set your preference each time you open Proform.

If you untick stay on top and turn off notifications then the window will not display but notifications will still be shown on the main screen in yellow and green etc, you can click either notification type to bring the notifications box back up again.

  • NOTE: Notifications don’t remove non-runners or change the going, you have to use the integrated non-runner tool to do this.

 

Original Number of Runners

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We have added the original number of runners in brackets next to the number of runner’s label on the race cards and results.

This will allow you to determine whether there were non-runners in the race because the two values will be different.

Pace

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The pace ratings and Pace % are a guide as to how a race will be run. They are calculated as follows :- we store pace abbreviations for each horse for every run it has, they can be either L for Led, P for Prominent or H for Held Up. Then to calculate a pace rating for an upcoming race we look at the last 3 runs the horse had and allocate points based on the pace abbreviation given as follows :- 4pts for Led, 2pts for Prominent and 0pts for Held Up, so for instance if a horse Led in all of it's last 3 runs it would get a points total of 12pts or if it was Held up in one race, led in another and was prominent in the third race then it would get 6pts. The pace rating column on the race card screen contains this total for each horse and from these the pace percentage column is calculated. To use these two columns is then simple, if a horse has a percentage of higher than 33% then it is more than likely that it will lead and could even get a soft lead. If there are two or 3 well clear of the rest then one of these will likely lead. Using these in conjunction with the pace details that are carried for each course and distance along with the draw stats is a powerful tool.

PosVsSPRank

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This set 1 if the finishing position was better than the horse’s SP (Industry) rank and 1 if it wasn’t.  This can be used as an indicator of a horse running better than the odds expect. 

 

Pounds LTO

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The pounds in weight carried, Last Time Out. It is filtered to the same type of racing code (i.e Jumps/Flat) as the race you are looking at and only looks at form prior to the race you are viewing.