[Ted Craven]

Carl,

First off, I thank you for taking the time to express your initial impressions - it turns out to be an even better bonus (in the inspiration department, for me) that your comments are so positive! This project has been going on so long (I can't believe it's almost 2008 and it still isn't ready...), that sometimes I can get a little discouraged, or shall we say, a little peeved at how long it's taking me. So when folks give me feedback, either positive or negative, but at least constructive, it really does mean a lot to me. (And thank you to everyone else who has also shared their encouragement over the last while!)

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.

I haven't thought of a tracking system per se, but I do have a design and space in the database to permit you to enter and store your own comments about either a horse or a race, so you could make such a note and have it display the next time you happen to encounter that horse. As to tracking, don't Equibase and BRIS have such services already? You could enter that horse on a horses-to-watch list. As it stands, unless you download every race and load them into the database (which you certainly can do - I do), you might miss it by relying on RDSS alone.

Second, do you have any plans on incorporating bloodstock breeding info especially for FTS, like %W from the stud/dam.

No, not any time soon. The only prospect might be, as RDSS becomes successful for both me and for TrackMaster, that we could use an expanded data file of theirs (Platinum variety) which includes much more breeding, jockey, trainer, combo angles, etc. If there were enough demand, that might happen. The foregoing were never high on the list of impactful factors in the Sartin Methodology.

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).

Absolutely - it is lurking just beneath the surface now, waiting for me to get to it. The RDSS PP+Charts bundle (including real-time mutuel results) will automatically update models on about a 5 minute delay to real-time, although you can certainly flag results manually in your Analysis mix as you watch races and get the same thing without downloading Charts. Every factor should get modeled (emphasis on short-term) for rank, range, deviation, as appropriate, and given mutuel results, a ROI impact value and $Net provided as well.

Thanks for your interest Carl and for your advance work during this testing stage. Any further comments, bugs or suggestions, please always feel free to let me know!

yours,

Ted