[AusRace] Thorocom Form Sorters - calculators in racing

[Tony Moffat]

Thorocom were/are Spanish with factory(s) in Brazil (which is Portuguese) -
their calculators are colored green and yellow and are small (thus fiddly
for those of us with passion fingers!)

The display runs the full length of the case, so not across the top but up
the rhs and there are 5 columns although each line is info for one horse,
you scrolled down from there, and wrote your choices down because you cannot
return to re-calculate, review, or renew except *.

 It does save data and you re-enter  caballo xx (there is a key for it) to
get back to the start of the display, and caballo xx is now part of your
data inclusion for this race, at this point you can continue to add data for
sorting.

They offer 3 ranges -
(a) sorting the best from last four starts*
(b) sorting the best from prize money earnings
(c) weight over minimum (WOM) & barrier & last start form

You hold down 9 then press enter which purges the memory - the thing seems
to be on always. 

You choose the program you want to sort for you (either a or b or c) then
chose the sorting defaults (see more below) and enter the data for a race
which you identified as SR5 or MR7 or you left it at the default 0 and
entered as much horse data as you wanted and the calculator sorted as if it
was one big race. Not convincing yet?

After entering the identifying data- eg MR7H1 means Melbourne Race 7 Horse 1
then it asks for data to sort

The prize money earning requires
 (i) total prizemoney
 (ii) number of wins
 (iii) number of 2nds and 3rds 

from this it calculates the winning prizemoney (total entered * .55), and
the place prizemoney (total entered * .45) - you can enter alternate values
for the ratios, it doesn't have  to be 55/45 but that is the default. After
each entry it asks three questions 'decidir', 'tamiz', 'cont traba?' which
Google says is decide, sieve(sort), more work.

It goes off to sort if sieve is selected then displays the results, best
first.

You select the display, there is a key for that, then the down arrow, and
the id of each runner and its value is displayed. The selection is based on
the best rank of the win field (total prize money * .55 * number of wins)
added to the rank for this runner for its place value. The horse ranked
first on winnings alone may be selected fourth on place earnings - this
runners final value will be 5 (1+4).

If prizemoney is your form criteria it is possible to enter wins only,
places only, places including wins - what is needed is a form guide with
this data displayed for each runner to be considered -which is stating the
obvious. It is possible to enter data for, say, the quaddie, all races, and
have the sorter treat it as one race, be careful with your id entries.
That's 40 runners at least, that's 40 minutes at least and there is no
scratching feature or allowance, except yourself.

The booklet is written in Spanish - thanks to Google translation it is
known, expected, concluded or suggested that runners to be selected should
be ranked 1 on place, and 1  on win earnings, then 2nd on both criteria, no
more than 4 runners (contendiente). From 08/07/2019 the results are

Mildura R5 - 1& 10, 5 & 11 - result LOSS - places
Mildura R6 - 7 & 5,  8 & 9 - result WIN - places
Mildura R7 - 1 & 13, 8 & 3 - result WIN - places
Mildura R8 - 2 & 8, 12 & 2 - result LOSS - 0 place
Wagga R5 -  7 & 9, 2 & 12 - result WIN - places
Wagga R6 - 11 & 4, 12 & 9 - result WIN - places
Wagga R7 -  1 & 5, 10 &13- result LOSS- 0 place
Wagga R8 -  6 &2, 1 & 10 - result LOSS- 0 place

Wins summed to (13.20 + 3.80 + 3.90 +  2.70) 23.6 outlay $36

My copy came from a stall at White City (UK) where a punter was selling
items after the dogs. 

Ola (I think)

Tony





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