[Dallas4lr]

Ted,

I really want to take the time to thank you for sharing this program with all of us. Ever since shanta/rich showed me a few screen shoots from the program last year on paceadvantage, I just couldnt wait to get a copy of it.

This program is so clean and functional its quite amazing, I can really see where I could prorbably get to a level where I could handicap a race in less then 5 minutes. To me thats saying something!!!!!!

The layout, workflow, and presentation are awesome, the type versus background doesnt make me visually fatigued (one of the problems I had with HTR). There isnt this mass overload of information, each screen has the necessary information - even though its probably going to take me a Loonnnggg time to understand what all the numbers are actully telling, how particular ratings affect others, and what ratings will assit me in my handicapping. All and all a great job.

I didnt have a lot of time so I only worked three races on the Sunday card at Hollywood (3,4,9) using the matchup. I was quite amazed even though I only won 1 out of the three (I only bet on 2 out of the three).

I won my very first race using the match up, rdss, and one of your angles (OTE when you have 3 or more no dominate earlies). In minutes I had narrowed the race to the #3 which ended up paying $37.50. The 4th race I got beat by a first time starter, and the 9th race I didnt bet because the #5 Lady gamer just looked to be unstoppable. I rarely bet against horses that have the ability to run on the lead and or come off the pace and she does both quite well. She won took the field wire to wire.

All and all it was a good day as far as I was concerned. I just have a few questions.

Is there anyway to flag horses so your alerted when the next time they race. The FTS that beat me in the 4th will probably come back and win the next race easily. So it would be nice to be able to have some type of "live horse" indicator. Second, do you have any plans on incorporating bloodstock breeding info especially for FTS, like %W from the stud/dam. Also, can we expect some modeling down the road - I guess this can actually be done in excel if the data can be exported (but I havent figured out a good system for modeling in excel).

All in all a great programming job, and I will certainly get to do more races later this week.


Thanks for all of your hard work.

Carl