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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Mike,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I must say I don’t use career earnings nor prizemoney in any of my methods, but if you go to the RISA site, it will tell you the splits e.g. $8815 plus $9,600 in bonuses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Lindsay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Racing [mailto:racing-bounces@ausrace.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike McBain<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 21 July 2017 4:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> racing@ausrace.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [AusRace] API & Prizemoney Earnings are useless numbers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<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>
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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.<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>
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