Kem,
Welcome! You can switch to various example databases for study and educational purposes using the Database Mgmt Tool accessible from the RDSS Desktop. First watch the video on that topic here:
http://paceandcap.com/forums/showpos...92&postcount=6
I recommend you watch
all the videos currently available in that RDSS2 Videos section, but especially the
Data Centre video which explains how to download new data from TrackMaster.
I also recommend you download from the Example Databases section the
RDSS Teaching Forum and Example Races database (in the Example databases section). You can then use this to follow along with every thread posted in that RDSS Teaching Forum by For The Lead and by Bill V and other teachers. This will familiarize you with Sartin Methodology guidelines (some of them) for line selection and contender identification - also some of the factors we use to analyse the horses.
After you have done at least some of that - let me know and we can schedule a remote computer hookup and I will give you a further one-on-one tutorial of RDSS, configuring it optimally and some 'best practices'.
Please let us know if this advice was helpful.