<div dir="auto">It's handy to know that APM is available in both regular and bonus forms and should only be used as a guide to determine class in conjunction with handicap ratings and consistency (win% place%).<div dir="auto">Add fitness and fresh record if applicable and you are a long way towards working out the strength of a race and the possible finishing order. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 Jul 2017 16:04, "Mike McBain" <<a href="mailto:mikemcb@southcom.com.au">mikemcb@southcom.com.au</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">For those Punters that may consider comparing horses Career
Earnings or the API derived from Prizemoney please be very aware of the
following.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">AAP form information includes all the various bonus earnings
that some horses collect simply from being registered for Owners & Breeders
incentives and often paid for running a place as well as winning. AAP form is
widely distributed to Newspapers, TAB's and Subbies like Bestform.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Racing & Sports do not include VOBIS, SuperVOBIS, SABOIS
or other Bonuses in their Online form.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The problem that I see is that not all horses in a race are
eligible for these bonuses and so any comparisons using Horse Prizemoney or API
are not truly apples with apples.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We had a race at Geelong last Saturday where AAP had Prince
Of Venice with Earnings of $18415 while R&S showed the same horse with
$8815 from its four starts with a formline of 7th-6th-2nd-3rd. You can imagine
the difference those numbers made to the API? 2.2 compared to 4.6!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There have been many such anomalies and in my opinion it
makes those particular form criteria useless numbers.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am not aware if the same problem applies outside
Australia?<u></u><u></u></p>
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