About Racing Developer Notes

Build race records that survive name changes, duplicate names and corrected meetings.

Our focus

Names are useful to people and risky as database identifiers. A horse can share a name with another horse in a different context, and supplier spelling can change. Keep the supplier ID, your internal ID and the mapping provenance. A race entry should connect a horse to a specific race rather than overwrite the horse record with race-day attributes.

Our publisher

Part of Past The Post Technolgies Pty Ltd

Racing Developer Notes belongs to the collection of racing, AI and technology publications described in our website directory. Each publication focuses on a specific research question, practical method or product requirement.

Racing research

For horse racing ratings, form and related racing resources, visit PTPTips.

Editorial approach

Our guides distinguish recorded facts from interpretation, explain their assumptions and use clearly identified hypothetical scenarios for worked examples. Changing race information and commercial product details should be checked at their source.

For a question or correction, use the contact options on PTPTips and include the publication name and article URL.