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  • #1 by jonargo on 17 Jun 2013
  • Hi All,

    Does anyone know where you can get historical data of races that have happened in the past couple of years?

    Specifically I am interested in the UK Greyhound and UK All Weather Horse races.

    This is the information I am looking for on each runner:

    date / time / course / Betfair Starting Price (Win Odds) / Betfair Starting Price (Place Odds) / Betfair Starting (Lay Odds) / Betfair Starting Price (Lay Odds) / Result (what position did each Horse or Dog finish)

    So far I have been able to copy a screen shot from Timeform (horses only) into and Excel document. From there I have to reformat the data using Text To Columns on a day-by-day basis. However, this is quite time-consuming as you can imagine!

    If anyone knows of a good, reliable resource - paid for or free - please do let me know as copy and pasting is excel is driving me insane!

    thanks all round
    J
  • #2 by MarkV on 17 Jun 2013
  • Hi
    http://data.betfair.com/
    but you need > 100 Betfair points
  • #3 by rubold on 18 Jun 2013
  • You will still need to carry out a lot of data crunching to get anything out of the free Betfair data files.  Also I'm not certain if SP data are included.  Here is a post I wrote a while ago giving some information about extracting the Greyhound data:
    http://community.welldonesoft.com/general-discussion-12/value-graphing-of-raw-betfair-data/




  • #4 by LarpHager on 18 Jun 2013
  • Hi.

    I got this link from betfair. It wasn't quite what I needed but I think it might be of help to you.

    newbielink:https://promo.betfair.com/betfairsp/SP_history.html [nonactive]
    • LarpHager
  • #5 by mcbee on 18 Jun 2013
  • hi
    you could wait for the time machine to be released, then you would have any amount of data that you need.


    mcbee
  • #6 by LarpHager on 18 Jun 2013
  • can I expect that machine in the next version of mfpro
    • LarpHager
  • #7 by mcbee on 18 Jun 2013
  • hi
    i don't know the exact release date, but we are beta testing until the end of june, so if there are no major problems, then maybe it will be in july.


    mcbee
  • #8 by jonargo on 18 Jun 2013
  • Hi All,

    many thanks for your comments and suggestions - it seems as though there is still a bit of data manipulation to be done, especially if I want to get the lay odds for any race.

    useful tips that I am sure will come in very handy so thanks all round.

    I was using a site called UK Horse Racing as my bank of results for the horses, but they have now restricted access to a full year of past results to members only...and the subscription service is full.

    thanks again
    j
  • #9 by peleus on 12 Dec 2013
  • By the way guys, for this year, do we need to pay extra to get those historical results?
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