Thanks for the reply Robert.
That is absolutely incredible. How in the world can the PMU expect US customers to wager into the French pools when there is no data available? It took them nearly 3 years to get the point where they can co-mingle for this??
If anyone has figures available they’d be willing to sell or any ideas they would like to discuss privately I can be reached at grantchandlerrewards@yahoo.com.
I could make figures if I had to but it wouldn’t be this year anymore. While I have a great deal of experience making figures both domestically and internationally, alas I lack the ability to build a database program that would allow me to print out pp’s easily once figures are created. I am in the process of creating figures for Hong Kong and have the same issue with not having the ability to create a program to print pp’s with my figures.
Grant
In essence, France has an effective monopoly on racing, betting and its data. Private companies pay very high fees and taxes to try to join in. So data provision remains primitive. I would expect they could not care less whether comingling is a success or not – they are a protected, self serving, monopoly authority, awash with cash – more like the old Soviet Union than customer friendly EU countries. The big advantage with France is that you are betting against even less informed people than is normal.
If you can do time figures then database work should be a doddle. MySQL is a common database that is fast and free. It does not require any programming as such you just ask it questions in a simple query language and it prints out the answers. I can send you a chapter from my professional racing tutorial to show how or you can just hire excellent software programmers in Philippines or India to do it for you.
Hong Kong has the sectional and "speed" rating data already on the HKJC website – it is done for you.