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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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Racing & Sports do not include VOBIS, SuperVOBIS, SABOIS
or other Bonuses in their Online form.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<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!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>There have been many such anomalies and in my opinion it
makes those particular form criteria useless numbers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I am not aware if the same problem applies outside
Australia?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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